Welcome to Volume #10 of the Master Trump Russia Corruption Timeline which seeks to unravel the massive Gordian knot of corruption by laying out day by day, week by week all of the relevant frackery of this semi-silent coup against Democracy which has been slowly growing ever since Trump decided to run for the White House with Russia’s illegal help, an event which former Director of National Security James Clapper says swung the election for Donald Trump.
You can easily tell just how badly things have gone over the last year since this series began simply by looking at how many people have pleaded guilty to various crimes.
Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying about his illegal contacts with Russians — because he told the FBI that he had met them previously before joining the campaign instead of during — including members of the Kremlin after he was specifically authorized by Trump himself to reach out to them in a one-on-one meeting. This means that Trump and Papadopoulos together were deliberately conspiring to collude with Russia in violation of the Logan Act and/or Sanctions over Crimea from the very beginning of the campaign and then to cover-up that secret conspiracy, which is precisely why George lied about it and Trump continues to falsely claim “There was no collusion.” During his contacts Papadopoulos was told that the Russians had “thousands of Hillary’s emails” and rather than report this obvious international cyber crime to the FBI or other authorities he was instructed by Jeff Sessions to find out “everything he could” about them which is again conspiracy and potentially Misprision of Felony.
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Now, that alone makes the case that Trump was personally involved in collusion, but there’s much much more.
Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has also pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak where he discussed potentially ending sanctions which had been imposed because of Russia’s cyber hacks and social media fracking during the election. Flynn took this plea rather than being prosecuted for illegally taking $67,000 from Russian companies, another $530,000 from Turkey, plotting to kidnap and rendition an ex-pat Turkish Cleric, secretly meeting with Qatar Investment Fund (QIA) manager Ahmed al-Rumahai during the transition, falsifying his SF-86 Security forms and getting paid another $25,000 while trying to broker at $100 Billion joint US/Russia Nuclear Power plant construction deal for Saudi Arabia.
Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates has pleaded guilty to bank fraud which was connected to payments that were made to him and his business partner Paul Manafort by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska while they worked as unregistered lobbyists for Vladamir Putin and for deposed Ukrainian dictator Victor Yanakovych over several years.
Lawyer Alex Van der Zwaan, who had worked with Manafort and Gates in support of Yanakovych, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about knowing that Gates had been in contact with an active member of Russian Military Intelligence [GRU] — Konstantin Kilimnik — during the campaign. Kiliminik had apparently acted as a go-between for Manafort and Gates with Oleg Deripaska when they offered to give him a private status briefing on the internals of the Trump campaign. Van der Zwaan also happens to be the son-in-law of Russia Oligarch German Khan who is one of the board members for Russian investment firm Alfa Group.
Richard Pinedo Jr. has pleaded guilty to identity fraud in attacking online digital payment companies where “hundreds of bank account numbers” where involved and Pinedo personally collected tens of thousands of dollars. His lawyer, Jeremy Lessem, claims he “made a mistake” but had “no knowledge” of who was paying for the information he stole. [Could it be, Russia?]
Paul Manafort’s former son-in-law Jeffrey Yohal has signed a guilty plea deal over his own shady financial transactions and became a cooperating witness with Mueller’s investigation.
Evgeny Friedman, a Russian immigrant and business associate of Michael Cohen’s who managed his various taxi medallions, had been facing multiple charges including $5 Million in tax fraud and grand larceny which potentially meant 25 years in jail for each charge; he has now pleaded guilty to a single charge of just $50,000 in tax evasion in exchange for just 5 years of probation and agreeing to cooperate with the New York State Attorney General’s office.
All of these people, along with UAE representative George Nader, who had met in Trump Tower with Erik Prince to pitch Joel Zamel’s online fake news operation Psy Group’s to Don. Jr to help them in the election, and also joined Prince — who may have lied to Congress — in the Seychelles when he met sanctioned Russian sovereign investment fund Kirill Dmitriev, are all cooperating witnesses in this investigation.
That is, if we’re counting, seven guilty pleas and convictions so far with people who’ve all agreed to cooperate, and there are certainly several more already potentially in the pipeline.
There are two pending cases against former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort for his part in various bank fraud schemes, just like Rick Gates, and also a growing case against Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen which involves the fact he really did travel to Prague just before Russian hacker Yevgenly Nikulin was arrested there while on vacation. Cohen who along with his lifelong pal Felix Sater have family links to the Russian mob, had attempted to put together a Trump Tower Moscow deal right up until his nomination, and then after the election tried to broker a “Peace deal” with the Ukraine that would have given illegally annexed nation of Crimea over to Russia and ended international sanctions. Cohen’s shell company LLC was used to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels in order for her to keep quiet about her allegations of having a one night stand with Trump, and he also accepted over a $Million in payments from various companies, including AT&T, Novartis and Russian linked investment firm Columbus Nova to influence Trump on their behalf without registering as a Lobbyist, after having a personal meeting with sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg who is a cousin of the CEO of Columbus Nova, runs his own investment firm Renova, and happens to be in business both with Alfa Group Oligarch German Khan and also sanctioned Oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Coincidence? I think not.
Roger Stone also appears to be a potential Mueller target since he was trying to get Hillary’s State Dept. emails by trying to contact Julian Assange via Radio Host Randy Credico, and also communicated with Guccifer 2.0 who has been revealed to be an operative of the GRU.
Sessions lied to Congress about not meeting any Russians while being a Trump surrogate — while in reality he met Kislyak three times — and lied about knowing that any other surrogates met Russians, because he knew exactly what Papadopoulos was doing and even encouraged it.
And then there’s Don Jr. who may have lied to Congress when he said there was “no follow up” to his meeting with Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, because there was. Veselnitskaya followed up with an email to the Trump campaign asking again about the future status of the Magnitsky Act, and there was another email from Rob Goldstone — who had arranged the original Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting — to Trump’s assistant Rhona Graff that included a document by Aras Agalarov about the Magnitsky Act, which Rhona eventually forwarded to Steve Bannon. Goldstone also emailed Graff and said that Emin Agalarov could arrange for Trump to meet Putin. Don Jr. also had a sketchy meeting with Russian Gangster and politician Alexander Torshin — who may have funneled money into the election to support Trump via the NRA and was trying to setup a one-on-one between Trump and Putin. Junior also lied to Congress about Russia being the “only foreign assistance” they were offered, because he also took another secret meeting with UEA and Saudi reps in Trump Tower during the election.
Trump himself remains personally at risk for his conspiracy with Papadopoulos, his trying to get Comey to drop the case against Flynn, falsifying the justification for firing Comey, falsifying the real reason for Junior’s meeting with Veselnitskaya, signing a letter of intent on the Trump Tower Deal which happened to include funding from a sanctioned Russian bank and also falsifying his 2017 financial disclosure form by leaving out his payments to Michael Cohen which re-imbursed him for the Stormy Daniels payoff.
That covers the Americans, then you have the Russians:
In addition to hacker Yevgenly Nikulin who has now been extradited from Prague to the U.S., Mueller has issued indictments against 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies who are are all linked to the St. Petersburg Troll Farm. One of those companies, Concord Management and Consulting which is owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin — who is reportedly Putin’s personal chef — has pleaded not guilty and is now facing trial in Virginia. Concord’s lawyers have filed a motion demanding that the U.S. Government divulge each and every attempt or effort by America to meddle in the elections of other nations going back to 1945, which is just classic Russian what-about-ism. They’ve also tried to claim that Mueller has indicted them on a “made up crime.”
Concord Management and Consulting said in a court filing Monday that foreign interference in the election is a "make-believe crime." The company accused Mueller of trying to "justify his own existence" and needing "to indict a Russian -- any Russian" for political reasons.
Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 22, a Canadian national and resident, pleaded guilty today, to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. Baratov and three other defendants, including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s domestic law enforcement and intelligence service, were charged with computer hacking and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy to access Yahoo’s network and the contents of webmail accounts that began in January 2014. Baratov’s co-defendants, all of whom remain at large in Russia, are Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and resident; Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, a Russian national and resident; and Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan, aka Magg, 29, a Russian national and resident.
And he's not the only one; one of the hackers who infiltrated the DNC has been arrested and convicted In Russia.
As reported by The Bell:
As it became known to The Bell, Konstantin Kozlovsky, a hacker from Yekaterinburg, one of the main defendants in the Lurk case , stated about his involvement in the crackdown of the committee of the Democratic Party of the United States .
Now Kozlovsky is in custody in SIZO "Matrosskaya Tishina". On August 15, the court considered the extension of the measure of restraint. At this meeting, Kozlovsky said that he "performed various tasks under the supervision of FSB officers, in particular," hacking "of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA and electronic correspondence of Hillary Clinton, and also" hacking "very serious military enterprises of the United States and other organizations."
And there have been other raids against Russian hackers in Europe, including Nikulin.
Five Russians accused of being hackers have been arrested in a series of American-led raids over the last nine months – all of them grabbed while on vacation across Europe.
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According to Axios, the arrests also come as Russian security services struck a deal with the country’s cybercriminals that allow them to work as long as they also conduct state-ordered missions.
The five men have been identified as: Pyotr Levashov, 36; Evgeny Nikulin, 29; Alexander Vinnik, 38; Stanislav Lisov, 31; and Yury Martyshev, 35. They were all grabbed outside of their homeland, which has no extradition agreement with the United States.
The fact is we know exactly who these hackers are because the Netherlands had them under surveillance while they were breaking into our systems.
The United States was first alerted to Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee offices in Washington in the summer of 2015, when the Dutch security services told it they’d had the hackers under surveillance since the middle of the previous year.
In an extraordinary counterintelligence coup against the Russian hacking group known as Cozy Bear or APT 29, the Dutch were able to pass data about their intrusions, as well as footage from a CCTV camera in the hackers’ Moscow offices, to the US National Security Agency and the CIA.
The center of the DNC hack appears to have been implemented by FSB Major Dimitri Dokuchaev — who has since plead guilty in Russia for sharing intelligence with foreign powers— using criminal hackers like Kozlovsky who were caught by members of Kaspersky Labs such as Rulan Stoyanov, then given immunity in exchange for doing tasks for the FSB. Dokuchaev and his boss FSB Colonel Sergei Mikhailov as well as Stoyanov have all been arrested in Russia for supposedly giving information to the CIA, which happened right after the U.S. Intelligence Assessment blamed Russia for the hacks.
All this shows that it’s not a “Hoax”, not with this many people going to jail. This is not a “Witch Hunt” because obviously — thar be Witches in the hills and hinterlands.
Daily updates to the Timeline are as follows:
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May 20th —
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In response to the Sante Fe shooting Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick proposes arming teachers — which is already legal in TX and also they had TWO SRO’s on duty at Santa Fe — closing down school access to just 1 or 2 entrances, but he doesn’t support requiring gun owners to safely secure their weapons so other members of the family can’t just grab them and go on a killing spree. Security experts respond and say that this 1 door idea would trap the students and create a "Killing field.” Patrick’s comments drive Fred Guttenberg who lost his daughter Jamie at Parkland over the moon with rage.
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NRA President Oliver North says we need 5 Metal detectors at every school — [So then how are the “good guys” with guns going to get in?] and blames school shootings on prescriptions of Ritalin.
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Treasury Sec. Mnuchin says we’re putting the Trade War with China “On Hold.”
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Trump tweet rants that the NYTimes has proven that the Russia probe has “exonerated” him of collusion — but nobody knows what fracking NYTimes article he's talking about. He also dismisses the NYTimes report that his campaign conspired with the UAE and Saudi crown Princes during the election.
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WSJ interviews Giuliani who claims Trump has a “right to know any incriminating information provided by the ex-professor informant" via Page, Papadopoulos and Clovis. [That’s funny, I thought they were the "coffee boys” who didn't know anything or do anything?] He also says that Mueller said he might finish his Obstruction investigation by Sept 1st, but that was dependent on getting in interview with Trump done.
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Trump tweet spews: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration” [Yeah, that’s just such bullshit, they were conducting a CRIMINAL and COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION OF YOUR CAMPAIGN for very good god-damn reasons you dolt. This is what we get when people elect a fucking conspiracy nut into office.]
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Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein calls to have the Inspector General investigate if “improper reasons” where involved in the use of the informant.
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Fox News outs the FBI informant as Cambridge Professor Stephen Halper. because of course they have.
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Roger Stone says he’s prepared for a Mueller Indictment. [Are you? Are you really?]
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Iran begins to say the continued support from the EU for the Nuclear Deal is not sufficient.
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Kelly Clarkson tearfully opens the Billboard Music Awards saying “Sorry, I’m a Texas Girl and we’ve suffered. I’m sick of a moment of silence, why don’t we have a moment of action, instead?”
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Former CiA Officer Bob Baer says Trump demanding the FBi investigate itself is like “That time he said that Trump Tower was wire tapped.” He also says in response to the news about the “informant” that “this is what the FBI does when you have a Russian spy on staff.”
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WaPo reports that the RNC has paid $500,000 worth of Hope Hick’s legal fees.
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After Venezuelan President won re-election yesterday, the U.S. State Dept says they will not recognize the election due to voting irregularities. [Too bad they didn’t do that over 2016!]
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Former FBI agent Clint Watts suggests that the informant inside the Trump Campaign just might be Felix Sater who has previously been an FBI and CIA informant. [But Fox has already claimed that it’s a professor from Cambridge.]
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Credico emails Roger Stone in response to his threats: “You should
have just been honest with the house Intel committee . . . you’ve opened yourself to perjury charges like an idiot.” STONE responds, “You are so full of shit. You got nothing. Keep running your mouth and I’ll file a bar complaint against your friend [the attorney who had the ability to contact Assange].”
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Former prosecutor Nelson W. Cunningham writes in Politico that Manafort will soon pleaded guilty once his “Hail Mary” motions to disqualify the Mueller investigation run out.
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates says that Trump is engaged in an “All out War against the Rule of Law” and is targeting Mueller.
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Trump swears in Gina Haspel at CIA Headquarters in his first visit since his embarrassing speech before the Wall of the Fallen and then praises Devin Nunes as a “courageous man.”
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Meghan McCain slams Kelly Clarkson’s gun speech and gets blasted by her View co-hosts.
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Oliver North says School Shootings are the result of a “culture of violence” even though he used to star in ads for “Call of Duty.”
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One of Nunes’ Four Horsemen of Frack Rep. Matt Gaetz claims that Jeff Sessions has ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ making him ‘sympathetic to his captors in the deep state’.
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The Dow rallies by 300 points after Treasury Sec Steve Mnuchin claims that there has been a deal with China struck over tariffs.
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Ben Wittes and Scott Anderson, Brookings Institution fellows and the editors of Lawfare, filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the release of a report on FBI morale since Comey was fired last year.
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Former Fox Host Andrea Tantaros’ lawsuit alleging she was harassed and surveilled by Roger Ailes is dismissed by a Federal Judge.
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WH releases a report on the “horrific crimes of MS-13” in their third attempt to prove that Trump didn’t say that immigrants were “animals” — except that literally he did. Their report however fails to mention that MS-13 is a gang that actually originated inside the U.S. and includes many members who are U.S born citizens.
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Trump retweets a 2 day old WSJ editorial which asks “Where in the world was Obama?” when the FBI was trying to surveil Trump associates?” [Doing his job, while they did their job.]
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WaPo reports that some of Scott Pruitt’s rollback of environmental protections are being stalled by procedural and legal challenges.
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ABC News reports that today Trump will be meeting with Rosenstein FBI Director Wray and DNI Coates over his demand to investigate the “spy/informant” into his campaign.
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Netflix’s announces a deal with former President and MIchelle Obama to produce films and series and Conservo-crazies loose it : “Netflix works with terrorists.”
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MSNBC’s Katy Tur blows a Titanic sized hole in Trump’s political FBI plot against him: ““If this was a political investigation by the FBI … if you’re looking at it logically, wouldn’t that information have come out before the end of the campaign?”
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After his meeting with Trump in addition to expanding the IG investigation Rosenstein has agreed to offer classified briefings on this and other related subjects to Congress [Which of course will be immediately leaked by Devin Nunes and The Four Frackateers Gaetz, Jordan, Meadows and DeSantis.]
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Rep Ted Liu says that Trump’s behavior isn’t an act ‘of an innocent person’: ‘This shows consciousness of guilt’.
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Politico reports that Trump doesn’t have security measures on the phone he uses for Twitter because it’s “too inconvenient”. He uses a second phone for calls, which is occasionally rotated out for security reasons.
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In the third guilty verdict so far a judge find Daniel Borden, 19, guilty of assaulting DeAndre Harris during last August’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
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Thinkprogress reports that House GOPres want to crowdfund Trump’s $20 billion border wall.
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Axios reports that Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role in the Trump administration as an Ambassador in Asia.
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May 21st —
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May 22nd —
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U.S. and China approach a deal to allow ZTE to sell phones to America again despite the fact their phones are a security threat, and they’ve been violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea. [So European companies still working with Iran will obviously get a pass too or else they can complain about this bullshit!]
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ProPublica reports that after the chemical attack on Sergei Skripal in England, the State Dept had considered naming Russia as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”, but the Trump WH stopped them.
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Senate Candidate Richard Painter calls for Congressional hearings on Trump’s abuse of power and obstruction — “we have more evidence now than we did in 1973.’
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GOP Donor Elliot Broidy scored a meeting with Trump one day after his payoff to a playboy playmate over her abortion.
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Vox reports that Harley-Davidson is closing a U.S. plant in Kansas and moving jobs to Bangkok, Thailand after using Trump’s tax cut for a massive stock buy back.
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NRA’s Dana Loesch argues on Fox and Friends that we should take $500 Million from Planned Parenthood to stop school shootings by arming teachers.
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Trump’s attorneys file a motion in New York appeals court to have the Summer Zervos suit placed on hold claiming that Trump is “immune from State civil suits” while he is the WH resident. [That really didn't work in Jones v Clinton and it won’t work here.]
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Homeland Sec. Kirstjen Neilsen says she hasn’t seen the intelligence assessment that Russia helped Trump. [How exactly is that possible for someone in charge of protecting the nation?] Also, Trump deportation numbers for 2017 are down by 120k compared to Obama’s average over his entire 8 years.
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NYTimes reports that disbarred attorney Evgeny Friedman, a business associate of Michael Cohen’s who managed his various taxi medallions, had been facing multiple charges including $5 Million in tax fraud and grand larceny which potentially meant 25 years in jail for each charge, has now pleaded guilty to a single charge of just $50,000 in tax evasion in exchange for just 5 years of probation and agreeing to cooperate with the New York State Attorney General’s office.
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In response to pressure from Trump over the “FBI spy in their campaign” Rosenstein agrees to have the DOJ brief Congress on classified information connected to the Mueller investigation on Thursday (5/23/18); however, according to CNN and Politico, they decided to leave out every Democrat from the briefing. Huckabee-Sanders says “My understanding is they haven't been the ones requesting this information — it's unclear why Democrats would "consider themselves randomly invited to see something they never asked to." [Because it’s called “bi-partisanship!!” when it comes to intelligence matters.]
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Guardian reports that Mueller investigators were looking into the financial history of a bank based in Cyprus. The bank, owned by two Lebanese nationals, was suspected of money laundering. Bloomberg reported that the same bank did business with PSY Group, an Israeli company whose founder Joel Zamel reportedly met with Donald Trump Jr. ahead of the election. The company services include reaching target audiences with misleading information through web portals designed to look like news sites.
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Judge slaps Avenatti’s firm with a $10 Million judgement for failing to pay $2 Million in back taxes in a bankruptcy dispute.
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CBS News’ Lesley Stahl says Trump once told her that he attacked the press “to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.” [And for the 89% of the GOP that still supports him, it’s working.]
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Sports Illustrated reported Tuesday that owners have proposed imposing a 15-yard penalty on teams whose players protest during the anthem. Whether teams are required to come out on the field during the anthem would be left up to the home team. It’s unclear why a protest that takes place before the game would result in a penalty assessed during the game.
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A new report released the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) estimates that the drinking water of up to 110 million people across the country — almost seven times more than the group’s previous estimate — may be contaminated with a class of chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) only required water utilities to report chemical pollution at levels much higher than the sensitive levels lab tests can detect. When one of the labs that analyzed utilities’ water samples re-examined its data, it found that if the EPA had required a lower, health-protective reporting level, many more water systems would have shown pollution.
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EPA bans CNN, AP from covering summit on chemicals, ‘forcibly’ removes reporter.
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NRATV blames ‘progressive culture and media’ for school shootings.
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Giuliani tells the HuffPost that Trump needed the information about the informant before deciding whether to agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. “We can’t let our guy go in and be questioned without knowing this,” he said, this he says after claiming the point of the WH meeting with the DOJ was to make sure the “relevant members of Congress were informed.” [Since Dems aren’t invited to the briefing then they’re “irrelevant?”]
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May 23rd —
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Trump calls for changes to his communication team, asks Sadler and others to identify leakers.
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Boston Globe reports that former Harvard alums post “Shame on You Jared Kushner”, “Fascist” in protest.
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According to The New York Times and the Washington Post, Speaker Ryan reportedly lectured his colleagues about sticking together and behaving “as though they are in the majority,” said “crap” twice.
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Politico reports that GOP donor Elliot Broidy has subpoenaed the AP to turn over the names of sources who provided the outlet with hacked emails that served as the foundation for recent articles about his work undermining Qatar in favor of Saudi and UAE interests. The subpoena is part of a larger lawsuit against the government of Qatar, which Broidy accuses of hacking his emails. and against Republican operative Nick Muzin with his firm Stonington Strategies, who Broidy accuses of disseminating the emails.
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WaPo reports that Kim Jong-Un is concerned about meeting Trump in Singapore because there could be a coup while he’s gone. Then they call Mike Pence “ignorant, stupid and a political dummy” for his comments about Libya.
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WSJ reports that Joel Zamel’s Isreali Intelligence organization Psy-Group signed a memorandum of understanding in December of 2016 to join forces with Cambridge Analytica on contracts with the U.S.
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After meeting with Trump in the WH, Rosenstein, Wray and Coates agree to brief Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes about the FBI informant — but they don’t include any Democrats, who quickly complain. A second meeting with the Gang of 8 — and also Nunes and Gowdy again — is scheduled for after the Memorial Day Holiday, then is rescheduled for the same day as the Gowdy/Nunes briefing just a few hours later.
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Comey slams Trump, saying that his prying into the FBI’s informant process “could do lasting damage to the country” because nobody will be wiling to give them information without having their ID revealed. Trump denies that he’s “undercutting” the FBI and claims instead that we’re “cleaning everything up.”
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U.S. Judge Kimba Wood has postponed until next week a scheduled hearing concerning federal agents’ seizure of materials from Michael Cohen’s office and apartment.
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U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled Wednesday that the President may not block his critics on Twitter, dozens of whom have been barred from speaking in the virtual debate halls that unfold below his Twitter missives.
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EPA again blocks reporters from a summit on water pollution for the 2nd day in a row.
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Jared Kushner’s permanent security clearance is restored after being set to “Interim Secret” for 3 months, exactly why isn’t really explained although it may have to do with the fact that he’d been interviewed again by Mueller again for 7 Hours in April.
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Daily Beast reports that in August the FBI used a router by a private citizen which had been infected by GRU malware to gain access into their systems remotely.
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The NFL finalizes their new policy on protest during the anthem and establish that they will financially fine any team that has protestors. NY Jets owner Christopher Johnson says he’ll pay the fine on behalf of his players. This fine could be illegal in states where businesses are prohibited from punishing employees for their political speech.
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James Clapper appears on the The View and against says that the FBI didn’t “Spy” on the Trump campaign, although he does say that they were “spying” on the Russians — although he says he doesn’t like using he word “Spy.”
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West Hollywood celebrates Stormy Daniels Day — and gives her the Key to the City.
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Youtube/Fox bigot Tomi Lahren shows up for lunch with her mother and gets water thrown at her as the crowd of people cheer and chant “Fuck Dat Bitch.” Afterward she immediately plays the victim card.
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May 24th —
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Giuliani tells the WaPo “I guess I’d rather do the interview. It gets it over with. It makes my client happy,”
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Trump calls MS-13 “Animals” again, and claims Dems “are protecting Stone Cold Killers, who shouldn’t be in the country” [Yeah, that would be the Constitution, dumb ass.] He also says that NFL players who kneel during the anthem “maybe shouldn’t be in the country” either. [So we’re gonna have ICE gestapo raids inside NFL locker rooms now?]. He also completely distorts Clapper’s statements claiming that he “inadvertently admitted” that the FBI did “spy” [on THE RUSSIANS asshole.]. Maggie Haberman busts Trump for lying about Clapper “admitting” that the FBI spied on his campaign.
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Trump cancels the North Korea summit in Singapore because they hurt Mike Pence’s feelings and haven’t already caved to his demands to completely dump all their nuclear materials before they talk. Then he both threatens Nuclear War and begs for them to come back to the debate table.
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John Kelly is scheduled to attend both FBI informant meetings in order to report back to Trump on them.
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Clapper tells CNN that he’s “Offended, but not surprised” that Trump distorted his comments about the FBI.
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The Daily Beast reports that Michael Cohen’s book deal about being Trump’s “Fixer” has been put on hold since his business partner Evgeny Friedman pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
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Tucker Carlson whines about West Hollywood’s Stormy Daniels Day — “but no one involved in [her] story is gay?” [They don’t have to be gay for them to recognize injustice and bullshit.]
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Meghan McCain erupts “I’m still speaking” as The View audience boos her for supporting the Anthem demonstration fines by the NFL.
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Paul Ryan does a big speech decrying the problem of political tribalism which is actually exactly on point. [But somehow the tragic irony of the moment is completely lost on him.]
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Rep. Al Green (D-TX) draws up a new set of Impeachment Articles based on Trump’s Racism since his last set dramatically failed. “I’m basing my impeachment articles on his perfidy. On his insidious behavior,” Green told TMZ. “On what he’s doing to cause harm to the country. The Mueller investigation is separate and apart from this. All of the discrimination … all of his bigotry that he’s enshrined in policy is what this is all about.”
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John Kelly along with Trump’s personal lawyer Elliot Flood shows up at both of the classified briefings with Nunez/Gowdy and the Gang of 8 to proclaim that Trump “supports transparency” although they don’t stay for the classified portion — Flood can’t because he doesn’t have a clearance — and one GOP congressional staffer says it’s the “craziest shit I’ve ever heard.”
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WSJ reports that they obtained emails between Roger Stone and Radio host Randy Credico — who had been doing interviews with Julian Assange — which hadn’t been previously turned over to Congress. “Please ask Assange for any State or HRC e-mail from August 10 to August 30–particularly on August 20, 2011,” Credico directed Stone to the public Wikileaks website; Stone replied “Why do we assume WikiLeaks has released everything they have ???” Credico has said he was blowing Stone off, but this may mean that Stone lied to Congress.
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Putin encourages Europe to save the Iran Nuclear deal. “Certainly we can discuss Iran’s ballistic missiles. We can discuss Iran’s policies in the Middle East and its nuclear activities after 2025,” Putin said. “But we cannot make preserving the Iranian nuclear deal dependent on these three parameters because if we do, it means that we too are withdrawing from the accord because the deal that exists foresees no additional conditions.”
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CNN reports that Julian Assange may soon be booted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London at which point he may be extradited to face espionage charges.
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Investigator say that the missile that downed Ukrainian Flight MH17 was fired by Russian Forces.
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Tomi Lahren declares victory over NFL anthem protestors: ‘We have our football back… they can go pout in the locker room!’.
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Rep. Richard Schiff emerges from the Wray/Rosenstein classified briefing and announced that “Nothing in the briefing supported” Trump’s Spy-gate allegations about the FBI investigation of his campaign.
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Gunman in Oklahoma Restaurant shot dead by bystander. [Finally it happened!] But also, an unarmed Indiana teacher tackled and disarmed a Gunman.
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Trump tweets bullshit: “Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea,” [Right, they’re so totally into Nuclear Frack War!] Trump said. “Just like they are coming to the defense of MS 13 thugs, saying that they are individuals & must be nurtured [Yeah, Due Process Sucks!], or asking to end your big Tax Cuts [Yay, welcome back $1 Trillion Deficits!] & raise your taxes instead. Dems have lost touch!”
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Milwaukee Police discipline two officers who had violently battered and tased NBA Rookie Sterling Brown — whose father is a retired Illinois Police Officer — for a parking violation with two handicapped spaces in an empty Walgreen’s lot, claiming that he was “acting like a Dick”, but the body cam footage shows that he was perfectly reasonable and cooperative. “If the guy hadn’t been such a dick it would’ve been — ‘Hey, have a nice day,’ you know?” one officer says after the arrest. “But then I thought, ‘He’s being an ass. He’s trying to hide something.'”
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Giuliani says Mueller could hasten his interview with Trump “considerably” based on what the Trumpsters learned from yesterday’s Stupider-Pizzagate briefings. “We want to see how the briefing went today and how much we learned from it,” Giuliani told Politico. “If we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably.” [They learned Jack and also Shit!]
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WaPo reports that Trump doesn’t understand how immigration works and browbeats Homeland Sec. Kirtjen Neilsen when she tries to explain how it works to him. He imagines people can be thrown out without due process, “Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder,” the Post reported. “Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country — as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.”
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RNC spokes-shill Kayleigh McEnany says that Michael Cohen is still deputy finance chair for the RNC even while he’s under criminal investigation.
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NYTimes reports that Michael Cohen met personally in Trump Tower with Russian Oligarch Victor Vekselberg, chairman of investment firm Renova Group, on Jan 9, 2017, before his cousin paid Cohen $1.2 Million through his U.S. company Columbus Nova. They also met again during Trump’s Inauguration.
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NBC news reports that Sen Chris Coons (D-CT) has sent a letter to Chairman Grassley requesting that Don Jr. be brought back to testify to explain his apparent lies about “Russia being the only foreign government offering to help the Trump campaign” when he also had a meeting with George Nader who reps the UEA, Saudi Arabia and Joel Zamel’s Psy Group which features former Israeli Intel operatives.
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Huckabee-Sanders refuses to say whether the WH was also briefed on the FBI informant, even though John Kelly and Elliot Flood showed up at the start of both briefings. [And which is exactly what Giuliani is saying they want and need before an interview with Mueller.]
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Yahoo News reports that some months ago Spanish Police provided the FBI with wiretaps of the conversations of deputy governor of the Russian central bank and reported gangster Alexander Torshin who had met with Don Jr during an NRA event during the 2016 election.
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Robert Deniro essentially bans Trump from Nobu, the high-end restaurant chain that he co-founded.
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Trump tweets Chicago cops have a ‘right to legally protest’ their Mayor over a contract dispute because of the “record high rate of shootings and Murder” in the city — one day after telling kneeling black athletes to leave the country. However, murder in Chicago is down 22% from last year. Shootings are down 27%. Police say gun violence has been down year-over-year for 14 consecutive months.”
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Giuliani wants a “read out” of the classified Congressional briefings claiming “If the spying was inappropriate, that means we may have an entirely illegitimate investigation,” Giuliani said of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. “Coupled with Comey’s illegally leaked memos, this means the whole thing was a mistake and should never have happened.”
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Adult actress Jessica Drake confirms Stormy Daniels told her about the parking lot threat in 2011.
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Trump tweets he and Kim Jong-un may get back together just one day after calling off their summit.
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T-Mobile is paying Corey Lewandowski to lobby the Trump Administration.
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Trump reaches a deal to save China jobs at ZTE, which requires them to change their management team, pay substantial fines, and install a monitoring team.
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WSJ reports that in January there was a deal for an 2-6 hour interview between Trump and Mueller at Camp David that would have focused on the firing on Michael Flynn — but John Dowd objected and blew up the deal with a 20 page memo.
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LATimes reports that the Border Patrol Union says his deployment of National Guard Troops to the Border has been a “colossal waste” because they’re being kept out of sight, and not even used at lookout posts.
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NBC News reports that Elliot Broidy blames the hacking a leak of his emails to the AP — which show that he worked with George Nader and the UAE in their dispute with Qatar — on former CIA officer Kevin Chalker and his partner David Mark Powell at Global Risk partners arguing that they worked with the emir of Qatar after opening an office in Dohar in 2017.
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Rep Jerrold Nadler writes a letter to Wray and Rosenstein asking for an investigation of how Fox News learned the name of the FBI Informant who had been in communication with Papadopoulos and Page.
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Even though he cancelled his own North Korea summit — Trump says he’s still in talks with them.
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After his repeated whining about how much his lawyers cost him when he was interviewed by Mueller, Michael Caputo receives $300,000 in donations for his legal defense fund.
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NYTimes reports that Michael Cohen had discussed U.S.-Russia relations when he met with Victor Vekselberg at Trump Tower and during the 2017 Inauguration.
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LIndsey Graham shows guts and states that an “FBI Informant is not a Spy.”
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Politico reports that the EPA spent $3.5 Million on Scott Pruitt’s security during 2017.
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Trump uses Memorial Day to praise his own economy. “Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER” [Technically they should be praising Obama since HE BUILT THAT.]
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When Trump confronted Kelly Sadler over her saying John McCain’s opposition to Gina Haspel didn't matter because “he’ll be dead soon” — he said he wouldn’t fire her, but he wanted to know who leaked what she said. She blamed her boss Mercedes Schlapp and others in the Communication Office.
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Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley doubled down on Trump’s blaming Democrats for his cruel immigration bullshit, saying it’s all because of the Democratic Party’s “cruel and inhumane open borders policies” that are “responsible for encouraging mass illegal migration, enabling horrendous child smuggling, and releasing violent MS-13 gang members into American communities.” [This despite the fact that Obama was deporting 2-3 Times as many people as Trump has been, peaking at 400k in 2012.]
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May 29th —
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Rudy Giuliani gets booed at Yankee Stadium on his 74th Birthday.
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Rosanne Barr apologizes for her tweet with a “bad joke about Valerie Jarret’s policies and looks” — when it really said that she was a cross between the “Muslim Brotherhood and an Ape.” ABC fires her and cancels her hit show. in 2013 Rosanne had also tweeted that Susan Rice “was a man with giant swinging Ape balls.” She had dressed as a Nazi with a Hitler mustache and baked “Jew” cookies in her oven. She’s been a 9-11 Truther, A Vaxxer, a Birther and a great big Trump supporter.
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The New England Journal of Medicine reports that the death toll in Puetro Rico from Hurricane Maria is more than 70 times the official count of 64 casualties, adding a lowball figure of at least 4,645 unrecorded deaths.
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The GAO writes to House Oversight Committee Chair Trey Gowdy asking to holds hearing over the WH and NSC stonewalling their investigation of their conduct.
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Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), a candidate for governor of Tennessee, says that pornography is a “big part” of the impetus for school shootings, along with violent movies, “idle hands” and the “deterioration of the family.” [Someone should tell NRA CEO Oliver North, who used to do ads for Call of Duty. Also more porn is probably exactly what Incels probably need.]
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DHS and HHS answer to the 1,500 missing immigrant children is to fingerprint and do background checks on their sponsors. [Shouldn’t that have already been done?]
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Valerie Jarrett responds to Rosanne and says this is a potential “teaching moment" where everyday racism that affects the average person can be addressed.
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Rosanne’s pro-Trump son doubles down on her racist crap saying that it’s all “political correctness” because the only person you can say looks like an ape is Ron Perlman, “because he’s white.”
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Barbara Jones, the Special Master in the Cohen case says that Trump’s lawyers have made just 252 claims of “personal” information in what the government seized from his home and offices out of over a Million documents. 292,000 items were released to prosecutors on May 23rd.
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The NYTimes reports that Trump had scolded Sessions about his decision to recuses himself during a visit at Mar-A-Lago and had asked him to “un-recuse” himself from the Russia investigation. Sessions refused, and now Mueller is looking into this conversation.
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CBS news reports that Ivanka Trump walked away from a call with reporters when they asked questions she didn’t like such as why her companies just received a bunch of new trademarks in China, and about Trump’s fitness regimen after Dr. Ronny Jackson said he needed to lose 10 pounds.
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Trey Gowdy says that the classified briefing on the FBI Informant showed him that DOj had acted entirely appropriately. “I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with Trump,”
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NBC reports that the CIA has information that North Korea won’t give up their nukes, but they may be willing to open a Burger Franchise in Pyongyang. [No, that’s not from the Onion, it’s really NBC.]
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Roseanne blames her racist tweet attacking Valerie Jarrett on Ambien. Ambien’s makers respond and say that “racism isn’t one of their side-effects”, and still it doesn’t explain the “Jew” cookies, the 9-11 Trutherism or her support for Trump. Then she retweets others that say she wasn’t fired because of the Tweet, but because she supports Trump. [So does ABC — haven’t you ever watched the news, it’s all about Trump? And also that’s why the hired you in the first place]
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John Bolton after kicking out tons of NSC staff has hired the former VP of Frank Gaffney’s anti-Muslim hate group as his Chief of Staff.
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Trump tweets “I wish I did” in response to Trey Gowdy saying on Fox that he probably wished he’d picked a different person besides Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. He also tries to make the Roseanne flap about himself by saying that “ABC apologized to Valerie Jarret, but haven’t apologized for the HORRIBLE things they said about me.” [That’s because those things were all TRUE!] Rosanne retweets this.
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Whoopi Goldberg slams Roseanne — but not `for the Jarret tweet — she hits her for retweeting a faked photoshopped picture of Goldberg wearing a rude anti-Trump shirt during the women’s march, and trying to use it to deflect from why she got fired by ABC. “Don’t drag other people into your crap.”
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Judge Kimba Wood denies Cohen’s attempt to delay making all their attorney-client privilege claims on the seized documents until July, saying they have to be done by June 15th. Also prosecutors have presented the judge with shredded documents of Cohen’s that they’re reassembled. Former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa tweets: “I've watched people piece together shredded docs. It's amazing. This is not going to end well for the defense.”
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Avenatti releases emails between WSJ reporter Joe Palazollo and Daniels’ previous lawyer Keith Davidson which were written just 1 month after the payoff, the Journal denies that they buried the report for a year. He also asks for the release of audio tapes made by Cohen of conversations with Trump saying “those aren’t privileged” and also apparently conversations between Cohen and Davidson where attorney-client info from Daniels was discussed.
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Unnamed friends of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have set up a legal defense fund in his honor, claiming he needs help to combat special counsel Robert Mueller’s “smear campaign” against him.
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Judge Napolitano tells FOX that “Spygate is ridiculous.” [Yes, it is.] So does Jeffry Toobin.
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Trump publicly praised White Hero Jeff Seaman who stopped a gunman at an Indiana school while unarmed, but still hasn't praised Black Hero James Shaw Jr. who did the same thing at a Waffle house. He did however make a lackluster call to Shaw 3 weeks later.
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Huckabee-Sanders doubles down on Trump’s attack on ABC claiming that Bob Iger hasn’t apologized to him for things said by Kathy Griffin, Joy Behar, Jemele Hill and Keith Olberman — although Keith didn’t say it while he was working for ESPN while Kathy Griffin, Behar and Hill all apologized, Kathy had been fired by CNN and Hill had been suspended by ESPN.
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Former Film Producer Harvey Weinstein is indicted for Rape in New York by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.
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Former Deputy FBI Director McCabe has provided a memo to Mueller concerning a discussion he had wih Rod Rosenstein which indicates that Trump had told him to include a mention of the Russia investigation and the fact that Comey wouldn’t say that Trump wasn’t a target.
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The View responds to Trump’s apology demand and says : He doesn’t deserve one and doesn’t seem to know the difference between “criticism and racism. It’s the job — to take the criticism and learn from it.”
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Trump pardons serial racist liar Dinesh D’Souza for his FEC violations. WH also says he’s considering commuting the sentences for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart.
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NY Acting AG Barbara Underwood again calls for Albany to change the double-jepardy laws to allow people like Cohen to be prosecuted by the State even if he’s pardoned by Trump.
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Trump announces plans to slap tariffs on EU Steele and aluminum.
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TBS’ Samantha Bee says Ivanka is a “Feckless Cunt” for not intervening in the growing humanitarian crisis of dumping immigrant children into DHS detention camps, then she apologizes for using the C-word, but not the F-word. Sally Field says Ivanka isn’t a “Cunt” because those are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.
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CIvil Rights groups and activists have demanded that the FBI and DHS release their definition of “Black Identity Extremists” since they’ve apparently decided to treat them like potential terrorists as revealed by a document called the “Race Paper.”
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Hispanic groups sue the Trump Admin over including a citizenship question on the census.
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France’s Macron says that the proposed tariffs on the EU are illegal and a mistake, while Canada prepares to retaliate with $12 Billion worth of anti-U.S. tariffs on their own. The Dow Drops 250 points.
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Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones testifies that Trump intervened to influence the NFL decisions to fine teams if their players protested the anthem during the Kaepernick lawsuit.
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Trump claims he “didn’t fire Comey over Russia” and says the “corrupt media keeps saying it even though they know it isn't true.” [They frankly don’t know what’s true because he told Lester Holt that he was thinking about Russia, and everyone knows he didn’t do it to because Comey was mean to Hillary. It’s IMO becaus Comey wouldn’t violate DOJ protocols to publicly exonerate him, and wouldn’t give Flynn a pass. “Russia” was a bonus issue.]
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Axios reports that Trump told Sessions "he’d be a hero" if he undid his Russian investigation recusal [A hero in MOSCOW maybe.] And suggested they should yet again re-open investigations into Hillary Clinton even though she’d already been cleared on Benghazi, Email-Gate, Uranium One and allegations about the Clinton Foundation. Sessions told him that DOJ protocols required that since he was involved in the campaign he had to be recused for any investigations related to it, including coninued investigations of Clinton.
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Buzzfeed reports that emails sent during Fall 2015 during the campaign reveal that Ivanka Trump had offered to connect Michael Cohen former Russian Olympic weightlifter Dmitry Klokov in order to setup a meeting between Trump and Putin over the building of Trump Tower Moscow. Cohen and Klokov did communicate ultimately resulting in his offering to setup the meeting, but Cohen had refused it claiming he already had a “deal in place.”
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Speaker Ryan says that Gowdy’s “initial assessment [of the FBI informant not being a “spy”] is accurate.” Although he does say they have more documents to review. He also says “obviously he shouldn’t pardon himself, no one is above the law.”
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The Atlantic reports that Pruitt Aide Millian Hupp had resigned on Monday(5/4/18) [Which was the same day that reports that she had been performing personal errands for him.] EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox refused to comment other than to tell Atlantic reporter Elaina Plott, “You have a great day, you’re a piece of trash.”
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According to ABC News, the IG’s report will fault Comey for his decision to ignore DOJ recommendations and failing to consult with then AG Loretta Lynch [Although that was her decision after the Tarmac Talk with Bill Clinton] when it came to his decision to announce he would reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server eleven days before the 2016 presidential election.
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Andrew McCabe requests immunity in order to testify to Congress about the Clinton Email probe.
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As a result of his meeting with Kim Kardashian-West Trump pardons 63 year-old Alice Marie Johnson on drug possession charges which sent her to prison for life on her first offense after she’s served 21 years.
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Giuliani accuses the Mueller investigation of “trying to frame Trump” — which is nonsense since they haven’t yet made any accusations that directly involve him. “They can’t emotionally come to grips with the fact that this whole thing of Russian collusion didn’t happen, (and) they are trying to invent theories of obstruction of justice,”
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EPA staff say Pruitt and Trump are changing their mission from protecting human health.
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The Miami Herald reports that baseball coach Andrew Medina had seen the Parkland shooter arrive and alerted school security just before the shooting. He stated Cruz had been previously removed from the school because he was seen as a threat. ‘All the signs were there’.
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Trump tries to rationalize his tariffs on Canada by asking Trudeau “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?” [No, it was the British during the war of 1812 you dolt!]
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Stormy Daniels files yet another lawsuit, this one against her former lawyer Keith Davidson for “colluding” with Cohen and Trump saying that he had become their “puppet” based on text messages and conversations recorded by Cohen with Davidson where he may have revealed attorney-client privileged information about Daniels.
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The Guardian reports that former Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser had met with Wikileaks Julliane Assange to discuss the results of the 2016 election and had funneled cryptocurrency to them.
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HHS secretary Alex Azar lies to congress about familiies seeking asylum legally at the border being arrested and separated from their children, claiming that only happens to people who try to enter between established border crossings.
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Trump retweets a dumb reddit conspiracy theory that the Page-Strzok text reveal that the FBI was spying on Trump in December 2015 months beforethe Crossfire Hurricane investigation actually began in late July, 2016.
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Daily Beast reports that lawyers for President Trump’s 2016-2017 transition team are threatening to call for an inspector general probe into the conduct of the General Services Administration (GSA) for turning over their emails to Mueller and to have some officials at the agency sanctioned by the D.C. Bar. They also allege that FBI agent Strzok influenced the GSA to release the emails [which he probably did, that was his job] and that they should have been informed previously in order to identify “privileged emails”even though the GSA was the official custodian of the emails, not Trump. [Attorney-Client privilege only applies between an individual and their personal lawyer, not between potential government employees and their potential government lawyers so this is a bullshit storm.]
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Simona Papdopoulos goes on Jake Tapper and claims that George is a “victim” who simply made a mistake about the date(s) that he met with Mifsud. [Yeah, no — he met him more than once and was interviewed twice by the FBI about it and lied both times.] She also says he was threatened with FARA violations and that he deserves a pardon from Trump. [Ok, pardoning witnesses in his own case would be highly shady and neo-Impeachable.]
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Giuliani claims Trump is innocent of the Daniels allegations. “I respect women — beautiful women and women with value — but a woman who sells her body for sexual exploitation I don’t respect,” Giuliani said. “Tell me what damage she suffered. Someone who sells his or her body for money has no good name.” [Well, you sell your mouth for money so what “good name” do you have left now Rudy? Also the payment was still an FEC violation while the failure to report the payment meant Trump’s 2017 financial filings were illegally falsified regardless of whether Daniels has your “respect.”]
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Giuiiani also says that after Trump cancelled the Korea summit Kim Jong-Un “came begging” to continue negotiations, but SecState Pompea quickly slaps this idea down. “He doesn’t speak for the administration.”
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CNBC reports that Robert Mueller has successfully gotten multiple witnesses in his probe to turn over their phones so that he and his team can have access to messages that they sent and received over encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, Confide, Signal and Dust. This avoids him needing to subpoena their iCloud data as he did with Manafort.
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Ivanka Trump tweets empty clueless platitudes in response to the apparent suicide of NY fashion designer Kate Spade and Kathy Griffin responds with “You’re all talk feckless…. you're all talk.”
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Democrats on the House Hispanic Caucus including Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) call for a 9-11 styled commission to investigate Trump’s response — or lack thereof — to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
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Kellyanne Conway refuses to answer questions from CNN’s John Berman about the Veselnitskaya meeting statement, then attacks CNN for reporting on the Russia investigation.
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NBC news reports that a massive backlog of separated kids is growing at border patrol stations where at least 300 out of 550 of them have been held their illegally for more then 72 hours, half of whom are under the age of 12, due to Trump’s new policy.
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Foreign Policy reports that Trump is now 10 for 10 on the list of attributes that show that he’s a dictator.
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Trump tweets a new conspiracy that form congressional IT guy Irman Awan who has been charged with falsifying a loan application in order to send money to his family in Pakistan is somehow linked to the DNC server — although he didn’t work for the DNC, he worked for Congress and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz — and something, something. He also claims that the U.S. is “exporting energy for the first time" - when it’s just really not.
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Calling the Trump administration’s official policy of tearing kids from the arms of immigrant parents at the U.S./Mexico border “brutal” and “offensive,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw rejected the federal government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit launched by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of separated families:
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was enjoying the free and discounted food from the WH mess hall just a little too frequently. According to this report from Politico, they had to ask him to stop coming there every. single. day.
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Central Park 5 members says we shouldn’t get too excited that Trump pardoned Alice Marie Johnson because “he’s still a liar.”
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NYTimes reports that the DOJ has seized several years of email and phone records of one of their reporters Ali Watkins who had dated the recently retired head of Senate Intel Security James Wolfe who is under investigation for classified leaks. Normally the DOJ, under procedures created by Holder, would negotiate with the press for such records rather than just seize them although there are loopholes in that rule.
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WSJ reports that the same 31 year Senate Intel staffer James Wolfe who had dated reporter Ali Watkins is likely to be charged for leaking classified information.
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CNBC reports that after they attempted to contact Trump’s Architect for his Eastern European and former Soviet Union projects John Fotiadis, he shutdown his business and twitter account within 8 hours, then scrubbed his portfolio off his website and shut down his remote offices in Tbilisi and Kiev, Ukraine. He also worked for Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, who hired Paul Manafort in 2005 as the top consultant to his pro-Russia political party, and Silk Road Group, which is led by Georgia oligarch George Ramishvili.
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Michael Avenatti apologizes to pigs for comparing them to Rudy Giuliani.
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According to a report by the New York Times, two journalists — reportedly Alan Friedman and Eckart Sager.— who received more than $2 million from overseas accounts from ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort turned on the Trump confidante after he asked them, via phone calls and encrypted text messages [which may have been detected by the Mueller investigation] to lie to special counsel Robert Mueller in an attempt to bolster the reputation of Victor Yanakovych.
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The View points out the Giuliani’s attacks on Stormy Daniels for “selling her body” wih porn are somewhat blunted by the fact that Trump has appeared in several soft-core porn movies as himself.
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Melania’s spokesman says that she’s never “shared her private thoughts” with Giuliani. [Oh, Snap!]
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Politico reports that Fox’s Crazy Judge Janine has repeatedly told Trump she wants to be Attorney General and according to the NYTimes had once annoyed Trump with her screed over Uranium One that he eventually just walked out of the room. Both Jennifer Granholm and Rick Santorum on CNN state she has no chance at Senate confirmation, and that she’s previously run for NYAG but lost to Andrew Cuomo.
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NYTimes reports that Trump had been pushing Sessions to interview Judge Janine for Rod Rosenstein’s job, and that when he resisted WH staffers had threatened to put her on the Supreme Court.
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The “Make America Great Again” SuperPAC which had essentially shutdown in 2015 suddenly notifies the FEC that it had paid a $50,000 refund to Trump business associate Michael Dezertzov who had apparently helped broker the sale of several Trump condos to rich Russians. The refund had occurred August 18, 2016 just one day before Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign due to his scandal of taking $Millions under the table from Viktor Yanakovych.
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Trump says he doesn’t have to prepare much for his North Korea summit and claims “it's all about attitude.” Meanwhile it appears that his staff briefs him with books filled clippings of TV Chyrons.
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Reuters reports that ICE is temporarily transferring 1,600 detainees to be held in 5 Federal Prisons.
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EPA proposes changes to the “cost/benefit analysis” of regulation which is likely to reduce the previous Obama era inclusion of “lives saved” and conditions such as childhood asthma being reduced as a benefit.
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson supports a proposal to raise rents on those receiving housing assistance by as much as 26% as a supposed “path to self-sufficiency” [More likely a path to homelessness.]
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Ex-Fox New Analyst Lt. Col Ralph Peters slams Fox — again — as a “destructive propaganda machine” in the service of Trump.
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Trump says that Russia should be re-instated to reform the G8, meanwhile the other members are thinking about booting the U.S. — which would make it the G7 again. He also says that if “we’re unable to make a deal, we’ll terminate NAFTA” — [which shows apparently he’s master of the art of the deal breaker.]
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CNN Celebrity Chef Anthony Bordain is found dead of apparent suicide in his hotel room in France while taping a new episode of his show “Parts Unknown.”
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ex-Senate Staffer James Wolfe is arrested and charged for lying on forms where he denied sharing classified information, and for leaking.
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House Representatives vote 210-206 — with 187 Democrats and 19 Republicans against — to rescind nearly $15 billion in unspent funding that had previously been approved, including $7 billion for CHIP, as reported by the New York Times.
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Reuters reports that the DOJ Inspector General report on the Clinton email probe and whether leaks impacted James Comey’s decision to publicly announce the re-opening of the investigation, will be released next week on Trump’s birthday June 14th.
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Trump claims that he’s “thinking very seriously about pardoning Muhummad Ali” but Ali’s attorney responds back saying that he doesn't need a pardon because his conviction for draft dodging was overturned by the Supreme Court. [Which shows why having a vetting process for this, like the one Obama had setup which commuted and pardoned over 1000 people, is essential.]
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CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill points out that Trump’s offer to pardon Ali for his political protest is real ironic considering the fact he’s punishing current sports figures for their political protests.
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Trump also says he wants protesting NFL players to give him recommendations on who they think “were treated unfairly by the Justice system” so he can consider “releasing and pardoning them” — which is completely missing the point of fixing a structurally racist system, and the pointless for most of the people their protesting for who were either assaulted — like NBA player Sterling Brown and Tennis Pro James Blake — or killed like Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Anton Sterling, Laquan McDonald, Philando Castile, Kendrec McDade, Sean Bell, Jonathon Crawford, Amadou Diallo, Terrence Crutcher, Rekia Boyd, Ezell Ford, Jamar Clark, Remarley Graham and Darrien Hunt by police, or law enforcement wannabes, without facing consequences.
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Morning Joe claims that rapid smack down of Giuliani by Melania’s spokesmans shows that she believes Stormy Daniels.
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Daily Beast reports that Scott Pruitt routinely sends out his staff and security detail to fetch him protein bars, Greek yogurt, cookies, and pour-over coffee.
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U.S. lawyers urge judge to toss out the lawsuit of detained immigrant children.
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Trump states that he's not going to invite either of the NBA finalist Cavaliers or Warriors to the White House. [Not that they were coming, anyway.]
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French President Macron threatens to rebuke the US at the upcoming G7 summit by blocking him from the statement of unity that concludes the event.“The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be,” Macron wrote. “Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force.” Trump responds by continuing to complain about the EU’s $151 Billion trade surplus with the U.S. which is exaggerated by $50 Billion because he doesn’t include the trade surplus in services.
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House Democrats call for a criminal investigation of Scott Pruitt.
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Trump attends the G7 Summit by showing up late and arriving during a meeting about gender equality. He meets privately with Trudeau which goes well but cancels his meeting with Macron. He says again that Russia should be there “It would be an asset” then he leaves early for Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un during the discussions of climate change and clean energy before the final statement of unity.
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Canadian PM Trudeau blast Trump for his bluster over trade during a press conference and says they will retaliate against Trump’s new aluminum and steel tariffs.
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Trump tweet in response that Canada has a 240% tariff on U.S. dairy — however he doesn’t mention that the U.S. already has a 300% tariff on Canadian peanuts, and 350% tariff on tobacco.
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WH economics advisor Larry Kudlow blasts back at Trudeau claiming he “stabbed us in the back,” had gone “rogue” and “pour[ed] collateral damage on this whole Korean trip.” WH trade advisor Peter Navarro says about Trudeau “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad diplomacy with president Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab them in the back on the way out the door,” [Isn’t that what Ivanka said about Judge Roy Moore who was a reported Pedophile?]
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Sunday pointedly condemns Trump and his advisers’ “ad hominem attacks.” while Fench President Macron office says “We spent two days to obtain a text and commitments. We will stand by them and anyone who would depart from them, once their back was turned, shows their incoherence and inconsistency,”
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Trump tweet rants about “Fair Trade” when he clearly doesn’t know what it means and whines about foreign trade surplus, while again ignoring the U.S. trade surplus in services.
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Fox Host Steve Milton calls for Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross to be fired because of his sketchy investments in steel. [which tariffs was Trump calling for again?] “The American people also want to know that when business leaders serve in government they’re representing the interest of all American business and not just their own business,” Hilton explained, noting it was part of Trump’s “drain the swamp” agenda.
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Bloomberg reports that Konstantin Kilimnick’s indictment means Mueller has connected the Trump campaign to Russian Intelligence. [Wow, no kidding?]
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Parkland students state on AM Joy that Betsy Devos visit to their school was a “grotesque photo-op” where she spent most of it whispering to her staffers and intruding on the privacy of students going through grief counseling.
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Reuters reports that more than 2,400 immigrant families have been separated since late 2016.
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Robert Deniro at the Tony Awards: “Fuck Trump.”
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Politico reports that Trump rips up documents when he’s done with them which forces the Presidential records staff to have to piece them back together with scotch tape. Trump had been advised not to do it — because destroying public records violates Federal Law — but he won't stop. And the guy who complained about this — got fired.
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Trump and Kim Jung Un both arrive in Singapore for their upcoming summit. Fox Host Abby Huntsman apologizes [for getting something right] after saying the summit is “a meeting between two dictators.”
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June 11
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Former President Obama is quietly meeting personally with 2020 Democratic hopefuls.
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NYTimes reports that Top WH staff members are among the burned-out group, with Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly telling visiting senators that the White House is a “miserable place to work.
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Putin says “Thanks, but no thanks” to returning to the G7 [probably because that would mean giving up Crimea and pulling his troops out of Ukraine.]
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Former Belgium prime minister Guy Verhofstaft tweets to Trump: “Just tell us what Vladimir has on you. Maybe we can help,”
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls Trumps withdrawal from the joint G7 statement “of course sobering and a little depressing” in an interview following the summit.
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Art of the Deal Ghost-writer Tony Schwartz says Trump attacks our allies is because he’s mentally ill. “His interest is almost entirely about how he is seen or how he thinks he’s seen,” Schwartz explained. “And therefore his perspective is a very… it’s wearing blinders. All he cares about right now, particularly in light of what happened at the G7, is that he can restore in his own mind his sense of self. And what’s so fragile in Trump is his sense of self.” [Pathological narcissism.]
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McClatchy reports that in other Russians beside Alexander Torshin met with the NRA during 2016 including Dmitry Rogozin, who until last month served as a deputy prime minister overseeing Russia’s defense industry, and Sergei Rudov, head of one of Russia’s largest philanthropies, the St. Basil the Great Charitable Foundation,
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SCOTUS upholds the Ohio Voter purge policy in a 5-4 vote.
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The Daily Beast reveals that a group of white nationalists in Texas branch of Patriot Front are now getting trained in military tactics by Marine veteran Erik Sailors.
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The Atlantic interviews several of Trump’s friends and asks what his doctrine is, to which they answer “We’re America, Bitch!” and that they have a “Fuck Obama Doctrine.” [Which could better be described as “We’re ignorant racist assholes, Bitch!”]
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Steve Mnuchin’s Treasury department _ FINALLY_ issues sanctions against individuals and organizations linked the Russian cyber attacks against America.
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Trump former Fox and Friend spokes-shill for the State Dept Heather Nauert tries to troll CNN: “Hey @cnn where was @Potus today? Meeting with his national security team and greeting our dedicated embassy colleagues from US Embassy Singapore! Without them, #SingaporeSummit wouldn’t be possible” but Time points out that the event she complaining they didn't report about was closed to the press.
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California Sen Diane Feinstein and 30 Democrats introduce a bill to block DHS from separating families at he border.
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Sessions rules that domestic violence victims are “ineligible for asylum.”
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Trump meets with Kim Jong Un: There is much pomp, circumstance and lots of flags. The two talk privately for a few hours and eventually Trump emerges with a signed agreement for North Korean to move toward denuclearization without any specifics, timetable or a verification plan, while Trump promises to end joint South Korea-U.S. military operations and to consider removing 32,000 U.S. troops from the region. In a press conference after the meeting he talks about bringing condos and auto makers to North Korea.
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Larry “Stabbed in the Back” Kudlow suffers a heart attack and is admitted to Walter Reed Hospital.
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Dennis Rodman — who had appeared on Celebrity Apprentice — now in North Korea during the summit praises Kim Jong Un and Trump while trashing Obama for not giving him the time of day, then bawls over the death threats he had received for his friendship with Kim. “I couldn’t go to my own house.
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U.S. Net Neutrality rules expire. Court battles looms.
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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi slams Rep Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) as he lies claiming our economy is “great under Trump”. Velshi tells him “Congressman, I don’t understand what you’re saying. You’re making up facts in front of me. You know I’m a business journalist, right? I didn’t just fall off the Trump truck,” Velshi said. “Our economy was strong before the president came in. The U.S. economy was strong before Donald Trump became president. You’re not going to deny that to me now.”
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June 12th
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Trump says he has a “good relationship” with Trudeau, then slams him again and says “He’s going to pay a lot of money” which shows he doesn’t get how tariffs work. WE pay when tariffs on foreign goods are raised, not them. He also says the Otto Warbier’s death is what prompted the summit — although I think it would be North Korea successful nuclear and ICBM tests.
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Politico reports that Mueller has stated that Russian assets are looking to influence the mid-term 2018 elections in a letter to the court explaining why many of their current findings need to remain secret.
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CNN reports that the Pentagon says they’ll follow Trump’s order on South Korea once ‘they figure out what he’s talking about’.
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Manafort is to be arranged on his newest indictment on Fri, June 15th. Judge Amy Brennen rules that Mueller must also reveal the names of the foreign agents that Manafort worked with. [Deripaska, Yanakovych, Vekselberg, German Khan?]
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WH trade advisor Peter Navarro apologizes on Fox News for he “special place in hell” comments about Justine Trudeau. “I own that.” [Is this the first Trumpee to apologize?]
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Jared and Ivanka have made $82 Million from their various companies while working in the WH. John Bolton also pulled in $2.2 Million from Fox News, AEI, and the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute.
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WH Communications staffer Steven Chueng is outed in what appears to be an attempt to seal leaks.
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Rawstory reports that Trump may have taken the idea to use halting the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises as leverage from Putin during a conversation at the G-20 summit last summer.
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Trump tells Hannity that he felt foolish with his “Little Rocket Man” rhetoric, but that it brought Kim to the negotiating table. [You have that backwards, his ICBM tests brought you to the table.] Hannity says he should build a Trump Tower in Pyongyang without understanding how inappropriate and illegal it would for him to personally profit from foreign policy. Trump also defend’s the brutal North Korean regime to Greta Van Susteren “He’s a rough guy. He has to be a rough guy or he has been a rough person,” He also says he feels badly for Otto Warmbier and says the summit might not have happened if not for his death.
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Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security Adam Hickey told Congress that the final report from the DOJ Taskforce on Election interference will be released by mid-July.
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Kellyanne’s husband George Conway writes and extensive legal column that argues against the claim that Mueller’s investigation is unconstitutional.
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WaPo reports that career DOJ attorney Joel McElvain has resigned in protest the day after Sessions decided not to defend the pre-existing conditions regulations of the ACA which pulled McElvain and two other lawyers off the case.
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Mclatchy reports that HHS is considering building tent cities to house between 1000-5000 separated migrant children at Ft. Bliss Army Base near El Paso, TX. along with Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo.
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June 13th —
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NYTimes is reportedly reviewing the work produced by Ali Watkins who had been dating indicted Senate Intel security chief James Wolfe. Watkins had revealed her relationship with Wolfe after she was contacted and questioned about him by a CBP agent Jeffrey Rambo.
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Kim John Un has accepted Trump’s invitation to the White House.
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Trump claims that Robert Deniro must be “punch drunk” from his movies {Which is the dumbest shit ever because he’s 75 years old, and Raging Bull was 38 years ago and he’s done 80 movies since then, if he’s been ”Punch Drunk” since 1980 how’s he remember his lines? “Senile” would have made more sense, but then Trump is younger than Deniro.]
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Michael Cohen reportedly concerned that he could be arrested any day now, according to friends of Cohen who spoke to Vanity Fair and New York Daily News. ABC then reports that he has lost his legal team either because of legal fees and/or his desire to have someone more familiar with SDNY criminal issues which potentially makes it far more likely that he will take a plea deal and cooperate, but he hasn’t sat down with prosecutors yet.
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WaPo reports that Scott Pruitt acted as his wife’s headhunter asking aides and GOP donors to help find her a job until he finally secured her a position with a conservative political group.
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North Korean state media touts all of Trump’s concessions including halting military exercises and guaranteeing Kim’s security as well as potentially reducing sanctions without their having to really do anything yet.
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Tens of thousands of asylum applications are in jeopardy after Sessions decision to deny those fleeing non-government domestic and gang violence including an Salvadoran woman who had claimed her husband had beaten and raped her for 15 years.
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Trump attacks the media for their criticism of his NK deal and his declaration that the “Nuclear Threat is now Over” by saying that the “media is our countries biggest enemy.” [Which perfectly explains why he gets along so well with a tinpot dictator who starves his people and keeps 100,000 politic dissidents in death camp prisons.]
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Iran says they will restart Uranium enrichment at their Fordaw plant if the nuclear deal with the remaining members including China, Russia and the EU collapses.
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Rudy’s son Andrew Giuliani has lost his WH access because John Kelly took away his visitors pass meaning he now needs an escort while in the building, saying that he ““subverts the chain of command” even despite Trump’s orderethat he be promoted to “special assistant” during dinner meeting with Rudy at Mar-A-Lago, which both Kelly and Office of Public Liaison director Justin Clark had resisted.
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Senator Corker says he fears the GOP has become “A Trump Cult.”
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Roger Stone says “Trump definitely had sex with Stormy Daniels, he likes tall, busty women.”
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MSNBC reports that prosecutors are preparing paperwork to arrest Michael Cohen.
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Former “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Smallville” star John Schneider blames “anti-conservative bias” by a judge for his being held for in jail for 5 hours for $150,000 of unpaid alimony, even though he’d actually been sentenced to 2 days. “I was treated like I was guilty until proven innocent, like a second-class citizen,” [Would he like to compare his treatment with that of Sterling Brown who was beaten and tased by Milwaukee Police, then spent hours in jail for parking badly? Or perhaps be arrested for asking to use the restroom while waiting for a friend at Starbucks for approximately 2 mins, and even after the friend arrives you still get held in jail for the next few hours? Or like Tennis Pro James Blake who was tackled and thrown to the ground by NYPD in a case of mistaken identity? Or maybe he’d like to spend a few months in a Texas Tent city while seeking asylum after being beaten and raped for 15 years?
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Trump tells Fox’s Brett Baier that the G7 would be better if Russia was involved because they spend 25% of their time talking about them. If they were they he could say to Putin “Hey Vlad, Could you do me a favor, and leave [Syria and Ukraine] alone?” He says Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t respect Obama [Which is because he’s a fucking racist prick, not becuase Obama wouldn’t stand up to him and wreck his economy with sanctions.] He also says Obama “didn’t do anything about the election meddling. [Which is a total fucking lie, and a) since when does Trump even believe the Russians medded and b) just what he has TRUMP DONE ABOUT IT? “Hey, Vlad would you do me a favor and butt out of our elections?”]
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Trump also says that Kim Jong Un’s human rights abuses are simply the result of him “being tough.” [Yeah, the Khmer Ruge and Stalin were “tough” too — on several million people who they killed.]
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CNN reports that emails show British political operatives Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore that worked in support of the Brexit vote were in regular contact with Russian ambassador Kislyak before, during and after his meeting[s] with candidate Donald Trump in 2016.
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Both Jake Tapper and Shep Smith blast Trump’s ridiculous claim that the North Korean “Nuclear threat is over.”
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SecState Pompeo blows up at reporters who asks how they plan to verify North Korea abiding by the de-nuclearization agreement. “I find that question insulting and ridiculous and, frankly, ludicrous,” Pompeo angrily responded. “I just have to be honest with you. It’s a game and one ought not play games with serious matters like this.”
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Russian media calls the Trump/Kim summit a “Victory for Kim” and warns that Trump “may be being manipulated.” [Uh yeah, ha think?]
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Vanity Fair reports that Sessions is apparently really angry that Kusher and Van Jones are getting along both on Prison reform and the pardon of Alice Marie Johnson. “He hate, hate, hate’s it.” [What other reaction would you expect old southern bigot?]
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Trump accuses OPEC of driving up oil prices while ignoring the fact putting sanctions back onto Iran probably raised prices too
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Rachel Maddow reports that Trump pal and head of his inauguration fund Billionaire Tom Barack was a principle go-between for an August 2016 meeting with UAE and Saudi Prince rep George Nader who was offering their help in support of Trump during the election in coordination with the Russians.
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Republican Senators call for hearings on the Scott Pruitt scandals. [About fracking time!]
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MSNBC and other journalists tour the Brownsville children detention center that wouldn't allow in Sen. Jeff Merkley. They state it houses 1,400 children ages 10-17 who feel like prisoners, have little or no contact with their parents, that they spend 6 hours a day in school where they're taught a positive spin of American history and that they’re are giant murals on the wall of Trump saying “You can lose the battle, but still win the war.” [So basically it’s a re-education camp.] This facilitiy is licensed with a 48 person medical staff, but they report that the proposed tent cities which are planned on military bases won't be licensed.
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Michael Avenatti crushes the Mooch into a fine thin powder during a debate about Trump on the Colbert Show.
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June 14th —
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Salon reports that hard-core Trump fans are driving politicians they feel are insufficiently loyal to Trump out of the GOP -— such as Rep. Mark Sandford who lost his primary challenge and Sen. Bob Corker who is retiring— which could seriously doom their chances in the mid-terms.
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DOJ IG Michael Horowitz releases his 500 page report which is expected to allege that Comey deviated from FBI norms when he publically announced the re-opening of the Clinton probe and that this may have helped Trump win the election. [We know!] But it doesn't find any “political bias" inside the FBI against Trump. Some GOPers say they now need a second Special Counsel to look further, but Sessions argues that isn't necessary. Rob Rosenstein briefs the WH on the report.
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More of Page and Strzok's text messages criticizing Trump “We’ll stop him [from becoming President]” are released in the IG report, but some of their texts also criticize Clinton, and there’s no evidence this impacted the way they did their jobs.
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Bloomberg reports that Horowitz IG report says the lack of substantive communication between Comey and Loretta Lynch was “troubling” and “extraordinary”, but this again counters the narrative that her tarmac talk with Bill Clinton impacted the email investigation in Hillary’s favor.
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Politico reports that former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb said during a panel discussion at George Mason University that last summer WH Counsel Don McGahn had recused his entire office from the Mueller investigation because of their direct involvement in the firing of Michael Flynn and James Comey. McGahn and at least two of his aides have been interviewed by Meuller.
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Don Jr. tells Fox and Friends his father is running a cult and that's somehow a good thing. “If it’s a cult, it’s because they like what my father’s doing,” he told the show. “You see real Americans actually winning for a change, conservatives actually getting things done.” [Actually, he’s been getting things like the Paris Agreement and Iran Agreement, TPP and Free Trade and human and UN-done.]
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EU approves retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.
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Acting New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood files a huge lawsuit against the Trump Foundation Charity and it's directors Trump, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric alleging that it was illegally used for political purposes, coordinating with and raising $2.8 Million for the Trump campaign — via text messages from Corey Lewandowski directing funds — and for self-dealing. Underwood states “As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality,” She continues stating: “These include a $100K payment to settle legal claims against Mr. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort, $158K to settle legal claims against Trump National Golf Club, and $10K to purchase a painting of Mr. Trump displayed at the Trump National Doral,” the suit claims.
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Trump explodes in rage over the NYAG Charity suit. “The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in $19,200,000,” the president wrote. “I won’t settle this case!” [Please don’t!]
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Fox Host Kennedy blames Bill and Hillary Clinton for giving Trump the idea to start a “sham charity” [That’s totally fucked up and also wrong!]
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Sarah Huckabee-Sanders slams CBS for reporting that she and Raj Shah are retiring at the end of the year, then Fox News says she persuing other potential options.
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Buzzfeed reports that Trump used Putin’s own talking points when arguing with G7 member, saying Crimea is “Russian because that's the language they speak.”
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The Baltimore Sun reports that nearly 25 teachers who had been on valid H-1B visas for years may have to leave the country as their visas expire since the Trump administration had slowed and complicated the renewal process.
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Kim Jong Un is using video of Trump saluting a 3 Star North Korean General before North Korean cameras for propaganda purposes.
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Playboy reporter Brian Karem blasts Huckabee-Sanders support for the separation policy: “You’re a parent, don’t you have any empathy?”
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Trey Gowdy argues that the IG report shows that FBI Agent Strzok — who is a registered Republicans — showed “toxic bias” against Trump puts any investigation he may have been involved in “in doubt” including the Russia/Trump investigation. Jerrold Nadler says the reports shows that the FBI helped Trump into the White House.
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FBI Director Wray says that the FBI remains strong and they will update their policies and punish those who have violated their policies “fully.”
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Cohen asks for a restraining order to keep Avenatti from going on television, which is weird because Avenatti would have to be granted access to Cohen’s criminal case for that to work. Avenatti responds: “The motion for a gag order is a complete joke and baseless,” he said. “Mr. Cohen and Brent Blakely can’t deal with the truth, the facts, and the law, so they have to resort to unethical, meritless motions. This must be their birthday present to Mr. Trump.”
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Former Texas detention center employee Antar Davidson who quit in disgust calls it a ‘private prison’ full of traumatized kids.
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June 15th --
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Trump claims the IG report exonerates him and proves there was "no collusion” with Russia - which wasn't the subject of the report. He also claims the report was "wrong" when it said there were no biased actions against him, regardless of personal criticism of his campaign by FBI personnel. He claims he’s “solved North Korea” and that he gave Kim Jong Un a “very direct” number to call him.
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CNN reports that Michael Cohen is now reaching out to prosecutors to make a deal.
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Sen. Lindsay Graham says on CNN that the IG report shows that the FBI is deeply wounded, and that he’ll interrogate Michael Horowitz next week under oath. He also says that “parents get separated from their children when they go to jail every day”, and that if Trump changes the policy back to what it was it would only “incentivize” more people coming with kids, but that hasn’t worked out that way yet. He finishes with "If you don’t like me working with Trump to make the world a better place, I don’t give a shit.”
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Trump unveils $50 Billion in tariffs on Chinese goods. They vow immediate retaliation, and the DOW drops another 200 points instantly.
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The Manafort judge revokes his bail and sends him to Jail until his trial starts in September.
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Russian State TV celebrates Trump standing up to G7: “Crimea is Ours. Trump is Ours.”
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Cohen loses on his attempt to place a restraining order on Avenatti.
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Trump whines that jailing Manafort is “very unfair” besides the fact he was caught witness tampering. “Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!” [You know what else if “very unfair”- punishing 2000 kids by forcibly separating them from their parent who at worse, commited a misdemeanor, not multiple felonies like Manafort.]
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Giuliani sends a signal to Manafort — and says ‘things might get cleaned up with pardons’ after Russia probe”.
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Natalie Portman recalls on Colbert’s late show how she used to run into Jared Kushner at Harvard, and that he couldn’t get in until his dad donated $2.5 Million to the school and how it's weird watching him turn into a super-villian. [Well, his dad is a convicted Felon.]
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Prosecutors have decrypted 700 pages of secret messages from Cohen’s phones.
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Giuliania walks back his pardon talk, kinda. “He won't do it, but he has the absolute power to do it.”
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Former Trumpster Sam Nunberg says Mueller is writing a report paving way for Democrats to impeach Trump. [Probably.]
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Maria Cardona shreds Jack Kingston for justifying Trump using kids as hostages for his wall.
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June 16th —
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June 18th —
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Former 1st Lady Bush blasts the Trumptarian separation policy with a WaPo Op-ed. “I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.”
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John Oliver on Jeff Sessions separation plan : ‘It’s not a f*cking law!’:
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The UN Human Rights Council condemns the US family separation policy. “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,”
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Roger Stone admits that he had a meeting with a Russian named Harry Greenberg in Florida May of 2016 who had offered him dirt on Clinton Foundation Hillary is exchange for a $2 Million pay off by Donald Trump, which he had refused expecting Trump wouldn’t pay it [He might have paid $150k for it!] — but he failed to mention this to Congress and claims he “forgot” until his friend Michael Caputo had been shown text messages about it by Mueller on May 2nd. [This brings the count of Trumptarians in contact with Russians to 14.] Both Stone and Caputo could be looking at perjury if Greenberg was a "plant" intended to sting them — but the Crossfire Hurricane investigation by the FBI into Russia didn't begin until late June, so who in the FBI sent this guy?
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DHS Sec. Kirstjen Neilsen claims there “is no policy of family separation. Period” and says “We refuse to apologize” for the policy they don't have, but apparently they do. Fox and Freinds thank her for “setting the record straight.” Then Doocy does a pretzel dance to justify the policy.
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Scarramucci claims Trump “has to end.. this atrocious inhumane policy” [But, he won’t.]
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Trump tweet whines that Democrats haven’t paid the immigration ransom for the children he's kidnapping yet. “Why don’t the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world’s worst immigration laws?” [They have a bill, but Republicans don't!] “Where is the outcry for the killings and crime being caused by gangs and thugs, including MS-13, coming into our country illegally?” [MS-13 aren't “coming into” the country, they’re already here.]
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Salon reports that the DOJ IG report shows there was actually an FBI "deep state" of leakers who were sabotaging Hillary Clinton, not Trump.
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Trump Tower Chicago has never even tried to abide by environmental laws.
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Jeb Bush calls Trumptarians out: ‘Children shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool’.
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Trump Tweet Screams: “CHANGE THE LAWS!" after claiming that the “worst criminals on earth are using children at the border.” [No — that would be YOU, Change your fucked up policy!]
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Bill O'Reilly turns on Trump: He ‘will not win’ immigration fight — and ‘should reverse course today’. [Not likely.]
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Jeff Sessions says he's doesn’t “want” to snatch kids [But he will] and ‘If we build the wall we won’t face these terrible choices’. [Most of it that can be built already is, liar.]
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A cursing Truck drivers hits a protestor outside of a Jeff Sessions speech in New Orleans - where he again claims his policy is a "deterrent” [So he should be thanking “Democrat laws" for it?] — and isn’t arrested or stopped by police.
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Massachusets Republican Gov Charlie Baker cancels deployment of his states national guard troops to the border saying Trump’s policy is “Inhumane.”
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Amnesty International states Trump’s Child Internment camps violate international torture laws. “This is a spectacularly cruel policy, where frightened children are being ripped from their parent’s arms and taken to overflowing detention centers, which are effectively cages,”
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CNN reports that DHS internal documents show that Trump’s "deterrent” isn't working and border crossing haven't slowed, but increased by 5% since the “Zero Tolerance” policy went into effect.
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Trump rants to National Space Council: “The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” he said. “It won’t be. You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places, we can’t allow that to happen to the United States. Not on my watch.”
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WH aide Mercedes Schlapp calls it "Disgraceful” for Democrats to complain about the child stealing. “It is because the Democrats want to play politics with this issue, using children as political pawns, that we are not able to solve this problem,” Schlapp claimed. WH Aide Hogan Gidley denies there is a “family separation” policy to Fox & Friends, before admitting that there really is.
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Former 1st Ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton band together with Laura Bush against the child separation policy.
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Sen. Pat Toomey claims the reports of child separation are "greatly exaggerated.” [What 2,000 separated families isn't enough for you?] Ann Coulter calls for Trump not to “Fall for migrant child actors.”
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Dr. Colleen Kraft, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, says that Trump’s separation policy is Chlid Abuse and could cause them permanent developmental damage. “I can’t describe to you the room I was in with the toddlers,” Kraft said of the detention facility. “Normally toddlers are rambunctious and running around. We had one child just screaming and crying, and the others were really silent. And this is not normal activity or brain development with these children.”
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Sen. Patrick Leahy points out the all the missteps by the FBI during the election helped Trump and hurt Clinton — also that James Kallstrom and the NY FBI office may have been the source of the leaks to Rudy Giuliani intended to hurt Clinton. He asks Christopher Wray and IG Horowitz if there’s an ongoing investigation into this, but they don’t answer.
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Judge knocks down Kansas Attorney General Chris Koback’s Voter ID Law and orders that he take Legal Ed classes.
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Propublica releases audio of 10 immigrant children crying in dispair for their parents while Border Guards joke “We have an orchestra here… What’s missing is a conductor.”
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The WH press briefing is delayed for almost 4 hours until DHS Sec. Kirstjen Neilsen is found and is flown in the act a body blocker for Huckabee-Sanders she says Obama also separated families [except he didn’t because DHS Sec Jeh Johnston speciically kept familes together] that she hasn’t seen any of the pictures of boys being held in CBP and HHS custody when she’s asked “Where Are the Girls?” She also lies about parents being able to contact their kids in detention, that they can reclaim them after release [not if they get deported], and that they can claim asylum upon entry [That’s what they DID, but not anymore if they enter between points of entry]. She also says it’s “not child abuse because they have access to TV.” [Oh fucking hell! It's a “cage” but it’s not a Cage Cage because it has HBO?]
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WH rejects the Feinstein fix for family separation saying that “We want to fix the entire system, we don’t want to just tinker with it” which means all of Trump’s “We could sit down with Dems and fix this in one meeting” talk is just more bullshit.
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Nazi Holocaust survivor Yoka Verdaner writes a Guardian Op-ed and states: “Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime,” Verdoner argued that Trump’s “no tolerance” immigration policy “will scar its child victims for life.”
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NY Gov Andrew Cuomo and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper join MA Gov. Charlie Bakers boycott from sending National Guard Troops to the border.
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Former NSA Director Michael Heyden is the first to go full Godwin and says the HHS Child Detention Centers are like Nazi Concentration Camps.
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Fox News Judge Napolitano calls Trump separation policy “child abuse.” “In my opinion, it is child abuse to separate children from their parents, unless it is necessary to save a human’s life, and that is not the case here. There is a federal statute that says you can’t separate children for more than 72 hours, and they know all of this. They are picking and choosing which rules to follow.”
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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) says that he’s met an 8-month-old name Roger who’s been held apart from his parents for more than a month in detention.
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Trump tweet lies again claiming crime is up in Germany because of immigrants and refugees from ISIS, when in fact — it’s gone down.
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Pediatrician Dr. Julie Linton tells Anderson Cooper that these separations can cause long term damage to leading to depression and long term health problems among children, particular the fact that they can’t be touched by the staff, meaning they can't be physically comforted when emotionally traumatized.
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CNN's Gary Tuckman spends all day at the Nogales Border crossing with families waiting for an “credible threat” asylum interview — and only one person gets in. Those who are told that they might lose their children upon entry say they have no choice, they’ve been threatened with death home in Central America.
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Sen. Kamala Harris calls for Krisjen Neilsen to resign.
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Paul Ryan and Mark Meadows get into a shouting match on the House floor over two competing “bad and even worse” GOP Immigration bills. The more conservatives bill fails in the House and the mildly less assholish bill - neither of which addressed the separation issue — is delayed until next week.
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GQ reports that Don Jr. "regrets” his Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya because of all the trouble that it's caused. [But not because it was a stupid fucking idea that violated FEC rules, or the conspiracy to cover it up.]
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Propublica reports that Betsy Devos DOE has quietly killed 1,200 civil rights cases involving widely disparate detention and discipline practices between black and white students.
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Trump admin proposes merging the Education and Labor departments. [Because why have a clear priority for education or the rights of workers?]
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Scott Pruit has spent $4.6 million on his personal security including $2,400 for "tactical pants and polos.”
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The Spector publishes an article by BBC reporter Paul Wood who states that Cambridge Analytica's Alexander Nix had obtained copies of the hacked DNC emails from Julian Assange almost as soon as they claimed they had them, which was a month before Wikileaks first published them on July 22, 2016.
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CNN reports that Trump and Putin are set for another face-to-face meeting in mid-July.
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Trump fans come to tears not because of families being separated, but because people are being "too hard on Trump" over it. They also claim that if you rob a bank you would lose your kids - but that's just not true, you might go to jail but you don't lose custody of your children even on a felony conviction unless you’re shown to be a danger to them.
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WH aide Steven Miller also gets heckled out of a Mexican restaurant "Fascist!”
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Melania Trump after reported pushing Trump to change the separation policy makes a big photo-op trip to a child immigrant detention center in Texas, but stomps on top her attempt at a compassionate message by wearing a $35 jacket that says “I don't really care, do you?" on her back during the flight. Her spox says there's "no message” to the message written on her back, but Trump tweets that it means she doesn't care about the "Fake News" media, who she had invited to go with her on the trip.
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CNN panel including Jeffrey Toobin and Brian Karem argue that Trump's family separation is "worse than Katrina” [Actually, the bumbling ramshackle aftermath of Hurricane Maria was worst than Katrina, this is the worse than anything since the Japanese American Internment camps because it terrorizes kids and violates parent’s custody rights.]
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Nunes horseman Jim Jordon claims the baby jail crisis is over, “he signed an order-- what more do you want?” [Uh how about reuniting the families?]
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Judge Amy Brennan refuses Manaforts request to have evidence suppressed which had been obtained from a storage unit when the custodian voluntarily opened it without asking for a warrant first.
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WaPo reports that CBP has ended "Zero Tolerance" for undocumented migrant families at the border because they can’t do it without separation, but the DOJ denies this. Multiple conflicting policy emails are apparently flying back and forth. They also report that the DOD has been ordered to establish the capacity to hold 20,000 more people.
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Former DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson absolutely denies that the Obama Admin separated families at the border.
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Trump orders parents and children to be reunited, which wasn't included in his Executive Order —and which in some cases can’t be done because they didn't set up a tracking system while some of the kids are too young to speak or know their own name.
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Trump rages against due process for immigrants by opposing increasing the number of judges to be able to shrink the case backlog that he just made worse. “We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password,”
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Corey Lewandowski denies that he was dismissing the plight of a down syndrome child with “Waah Waaah" and instead claims he was just showing disrespect to a Democrat who brought it up, then claims this case doesn’t matter because the mother was actually a witness in a child trafficking case,and then plays the Kate Steinle card claiming the undocumented immigrant who acquited of murder after accidental shot her with a gun stolen from Homeland Security which he found discarded on the peer — which also had ricocheted off the ground before hitting her — was an "Animal”. [And apparently also related to Bullseye!]
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The head of the Border Patrol Council says 80% of undocumented immigrants stopped at the border have no criminal record and "most are polite and respectful.”
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Sessions now claims that he "never intended" to separate families, even though he had said when he implemented the policy it was exactly what he wanted to do "as a deterrent.”
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WaPo reports that the National Enquirer regularly shared stories about Trump with Michael Cohen before they were published for his approval, which could be an FEC violation as an in-kind donation.
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Scott Pruit does not grok emails and instead lets his staff do nearly all his electronic communications. [Great way to hide a paper trail too.]
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Laura Ingraham faces another ad boycott for her "summer camp" comments.
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Trump says Republicans should "stop wasting time on immigration" if enough Democrats won't come on board with their bills to jump the filibuster shark, however, he also doesn't say they should support the Feinstein bill either. Then he claims Democrats stories of "sadness and grief” at the border are phony, that it's "not true" that immigrants have a lower crime rate than citizens [when it is], then stages a big "permanent separation" event with a pack of the family of members who were killed by undocumented persons, although most of them are from DUI's and traffic accidents, not murder. They claim the ‘mainstream media” doesn't report this but the event is carried live on CNN and that 63,000 Americans have been killed by “illegals" since 2001, but 37,000 ppl die from traffic accidents every year, so that's not really making their point.
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Mueller files a motion to block Manafort from claiming that his prosecution is motivated from a political desire to get Trump impeached. Manafort also loses a bid to dismiss his money laundering charge.
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Politico reports that WH staffers are being heckled on the streets of DC. “I have gotten yelled at a few times walking out of work,” he complains. “I want to get home, not get in a debate in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue.” [Yeah, and asylum seekers just wanted to keep their kids safe not recruited into a gang, killed on kidnapped only to have them stolen by the U.S. government - try LYFT sometime, also consider Grubhub.]
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Protestors blast tape of crying immigrant children outside Sec. Nielsen's home “No Justice. No Sleep.”
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#NotSteeveDoocy on Fox and Friends argues we shouldn't be upset about kids separated at the border "These aren't our kids.” [As if due process only counts for citizens? Wrong.]
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Father of the Honduran girl who was photographed by Getty Pictures while her mother was being searched and featured on the cover of Time Magazine actually wasn't separated from her mother, they're being detained together while she applies for asylum.
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ABC greenlights a Roseanne spinoff called "The Connors" which won't include the namesake star since she’s a bigot and nutbag conspiracy theorist.
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Roseanne Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold — who has long said he’s seen outtake tapes of Trump making horrifically racist statements on the set of the Apprentice — posts a selfie of himself with Michael Cohen, Michael Avenatti says this may be a “flare shot to Trump that things are coming down the pike.” Arnold tells ABC news he took the shot with Cohen as part of a show he’s doing for Vice "The Hunt for the Trump Tapes”. "This dude has all the tapes — this dude has everything,”
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NYTimes Maggie Haberman reports that Trump really hated giving up on his Baby Jails because he really thought it was a good deterrent, even though the rate of immigrants at the border went up, not down.
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McClatchy reports that the Ukrainian peace deal intended to lift sanctions was hatched in the early days of 2016, long before Micheal Cohen and Felix Sater supposedly delivered the plan to Michal Flynn's desk in 2016 just before he was fired.
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The Intercept reports former GOP mega-donor, Michael Cohen client and felon Elliot Broidy attempted to pitch his cyber data and surveillance firm Circinus to governments in the UAE, Tunisia, Romania and Cyprus to help them isolate and track their “detractors" online.
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HUD is ready to allow insurance companies to re-implement racists Housing discrimination rules.
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Missouri nail manufacturer plans to lay off 250 workers due to Trump's steel tariffs.
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Mueller admonishes the NYTimes and WaPo for mistakes in their reporting including claiming that there was a "no-knock” warrant for Michael Cohen when it was a normal warrant.
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CBP sends a letter to Congress claiming 500 kids have been reunited with their parents and that this represents 15% of the total, which means that there are actually 3,000 separated children.
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Huckabee-Sanders is kicked out of a VA restaurant once she recognized by the staff, some of whom are gay and are extremely offended by her. She claims “I work for the POTUS.” They apparently held a vote over letting her stay, and she lost.
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NBC News reports that Trump has grown “cool” on SecDef Mattis and is cutting him out of the loop on major decisions.
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Maxine Waters says Trump’s staff and cabinet members should feel the heat when in public, protestors should form and remind them how they feel where ever they find them. Nancy Pelosi criticizes her position.
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Sen Mark Warner says at a private event that he can't talk about it, but that there’s much more coming in the Mueller probe. ‘Buckle Up, it gets worse.”
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NYTimes reports that emails show that Scott Pruitt’s chief of staff Ryan Jackson and his ex-landlord Steven Hart had communicated on EPA matters showing that he did lobby the agency while providing Pruitt with low-cost housing. Politico reports that the Office of Special Counsel (not Mueller) is investigating Pruitt for retaliation against at least six employees who were removed when they resisted his questionable and unethical requests.
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US Coal Miners begin to worry that Trump’s tariffs will hurt their exports.
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Trump attacks the Red Hen restaurant which has asked Huckabee-Sanders to leave for having dirty canopies, doors. and windows, although they have a clean health rating and his own restaurants including Mar-A-Lago have been cited multiple times for health code violations.
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Trump supporters bombard the wrong Red Hen restaurant in New Jersey with threats and hate speech, instead of the one in Virginia.
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SCOTUS rules backing the gerrymandered GOP maps in North Carolina, then they back 4 out of 5 of the GOP electoral maps in Texas.
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Daily Beast reports that Mueller has reached out to radio host Randy Credico whom Roger Stones says acted as a go-between for him and Julian Assange. Credico says he won’t testify unless he gets a subpoena from Mueller, he had already been subpoenaed by House Intel.
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Meghan Kelly lectures against “Uncivil” protests: “Paul Ryan [the granny starver] hasn’t done anything wrong.” [Yeah, he has.]
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The View’s Sonny Hostin says to Huckabee-Sanders defenders “This Administration is the height of uncivil.”
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GOP caller on C-Span says that the Red Hen should be burned down.
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Roseanne Barr gives a tearful interview: “I’m a lot of things, a loud mouth and all that stuff,” she said, clearly struggling to speak through tears. “But I’m not stupid, for God’s sake. I never would have wittingly called any black person and say they are a monkey. I just wouldn’t do that. I didn’t do that. And that people think that I did that and it just kills me. And if people think that, I’m just so sorry that I was so unclear and stupid.” [You did exactly that at least twice, we didn't misread you.]
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WaPo reports that a National Guards had written on the Facebook page of a charity attempting to reunite separated immigrants: “Waste of money, They’re lucky we aren’t executing them.”
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ACLU files suit to block Immigrant Family Separations.
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Kremlin-connected Concord Management who were indicted along with the Russian Troll Farm files a motion claiming that Mueller doesn't have the Constitutional authority to prosecute them, but this argument had previously failed for Manafort in a DC court in May.
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Trump tweets a threat to Waters for her call to protest his staff in public and calls her again a “very Low IQ person.”
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Virginia GOP calls for a boycott of the Red Hen restaurant.
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Huckabee-Sanders whines about being asked to leave Red Hen and then decides to lecture the country on civility saying a “Hollywood Star called for my children to be kidnapped.” and she's always trying to treat people with "respect" - but she really doesn't.
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Staff at Texas Detention Centers despise their jobs: “They hate this mission.”
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Shep Smith says “America is caging children in the desert.”
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Jeffrey Toobin says to Trump supporters who want more positive media coverage “That’s too bad.”
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Mueller has reportedly gained access to Erik Prince’s phones and computers.
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