This month in the ongoing rolling tire fire that is the Trump Russia Master Timeline our new star is John Brennan who had his security clearance taken — which itself could be criminal witness intimidation — for calling Trump treasonous and saying that collusion has already been proven, it's just a matter of whether it rises to criminal conspiracy.
When I warned Mr. Bortnikov that Russian interference in our election was intolerable and would roil United States-Russia relations for many years, he denied Russian involvement in any election, in America or elsewhere, with a feigned sincerity that I had heard many times before. President Vladimir Putin of Russia reiterated those denials numerous times over the past two years, often to Donald Trump’s seeming approval.
Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash.
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The already challenging work of the American intelligence and law enforcement communities was made more difficult in late July 2016, however, when Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, publicly called upon Russia to find the missing emails of Mrs. Clinton. By issuing such a statement, Mr. Trump was not only encouraging a foreign nation to collect intelligence against a United States citizen, but also openly authorizing his followers to work with our primary global adversary agass his political opponent.
Such a public clarion call certainly makes one wonder what Mr. Trump privately encouraged his advisers to do — and what they actually did — to win the election. While I had deep insight into Russian activities during the 2016 election, I now am aware — thanks to the reporting of an open and free press — of many more of the highly suspicious dalliances of some American citizens with people affiliated with the Russian intelligence services.
Mr. Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash.
The only questions that remain are whether the collusion tsst took place constituted criminally liable conspiracy, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up any collusion or conspiracy, and how many members of “Trump Incorporated” attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets.
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Mr. Trump clearly has become more desperate to protect himself and those close to him, which is why he made the politically motivated decision to revoke my security clearance in an attempt to scare into silence others who might dare to challenge him. Now more than ever, it is critically important that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his team of investigators be allowed to complete their work without interference — from Mr. Trump or anyone else — so that all Americans can get the answers they so rightly deserve.
In this section of his extended interview with Rachel Maddow he explains why he said that Trump’s behavior was “nothing short of treasonous” after his shuck and jive dance before Putin in Helsinki.
Despite Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s false claims that Brennan could only say what he’s been saying based on classified information — which would mean that it was true and justified — and also despite new questions about Bolton’s own security clearance after he was linked to associations with Russian spy Maria Butina while he was a top official for the NRA — In these additional sections of the interview Brennan explains that his current opinion that people in the Trump campaign did collude and may have committed criminal conspiracy wasn’t based on anything he learned as Director of the CIA. It is largely based on press reports that have come out since he left the government.
Again when Brennan had testified under oath before Congress that based on the CIA’s information he didn’t see conclusive proof of collusion because that was the FBI’s job, which makes sense because any U.S. citizens in their reports would’ve had their ID’s masked. Brennan never knew what the FBI knew, for example he didn’t know anything about Papadopoulos because that information went to the FBI, not the CiA.
This is what Brennan told Congress last May.
Rep. Trey Gowdy asked Brennan, again, whether he had seen evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Brennan replied: "I don't do evidence."
Pressed further, however, Brennan said that "the information and intelligence revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and US persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals. It raised questions in my mind about whether the Russians were able to gain the cooperation of such individuals."
Brennan said he doesn't know if collusion ever occurred, but he said that he saw "information that was worthy of investigation by the [FBI] to determine whether such collusion took place.”
That was then, this is now. In this next section Maddow asked him about his previous answers to a question from NBC reporters about the Steele Dossier, but it turns out that he didn’t even see a copy of that document until December.
So the view Brennan came to when he wrote his op-ed was based on his observations of Trump’s behavior in Helsinki while he knew for a fact the Russians were lying about not trying to get involved in our election, that’s on top of various press stories about Papadopoulos who — with Trump’s personal approval — had a meeting with Prof. Mifsud where he was told about “dirt” and emails about Clinton that the Russians had stolen. He later emailed Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller about that — and according to Omarosa they told Trump about it too — and then had his meetings with Sergei Millian to set up a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin which would have been illegal under the Logan Act.
Then there was the Don Jr. meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya to get dirt on Hillary — which according to MIchael Cohen, Trump knew about and approved and Trump personally dictated a letter of lies about the meeting being “primarily about adoptions” — and later Don Jr. met with Russian spy Maria Butina's handler Alexander Torshin who also wanted to set up a one-on-one between Trump and Putin, even though Kushner had turned that meeting down previously.
There was also Carter Page’s trip to Moscow right in the middle of the Republican National Convention where a bunch of Russians told him a bunch of stuff about the upcoming Rosneft stock sale even though that company is sanctioned and there was nothing he could (legally) do about it and also again, that Russia had email dirt on Hillary Clinton confirming what Mifsud had told Papadopoulos months earlier. Then there was the mysterious change in the RNC platform to pull back support for arming Ukraine against Russia which no one wanted to admit that they’d done, but they did it. All the while Manafort and Gates were in contact with a member of Russian Military Intelligence while trying to negotiate Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to cut them some slack on the at least $18 Million debt they owed him, and also Michael Cohen and Felix Sater were trying to get a Trump Tower Moscow deal going right in the middle of the campaign based on a letter of intent that was signed personally by Trump.
And lastly, as Brennan points out there was Trump’s own personal call for Russia to “find” Hillary’s deleted emails which they apparently listened to and started attempting to spearfish her campaign staff the same night he made the statement. So that’s pretty collusion and coordination-y.
It’s so bad that Russian Billionaire oligarch Artem Klyushin, who is a government advisor to the Kremlin has been sending out threatening tweets to Trump saying this will be his :”last term” if he doesn’t ‘extinguish Fake News Russophobia’. One would think that he thinks Trump owes Russia for something, eh?
Giuliani has argued that if collusion occurred, it didn’t involve Trump personally — but he was involved fairly directly in nearly all of that, and all of that is collusion as Rep. Adam Schiff has said there’s “plenty of evidence for” while both Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe and Republican Strategist Rick Taylor have concurred.
This weekend Rudy Giuliani continued his “No collusion [by Trump]” chant when he went on Meet The Press and made a monkey out of himself by claiming “Truth isn’t Truth” because if Trump says he didn’t talk about “letting Flynn go” with Comey and then Comey says the opposite — which he already has — it’s a potential “perjury” trap. However, two people having a disagreement doesn't make a perjury case beyond all reasonable doubt. There has to be corroboration from additional documents — such as Comey’s notes — or other persons — such as Comey’s staff who were informed of these conversations, and some of whom were in the room when Trump personally called Comey to follow up. Right now, it's not yet clear how that’s gonna go but I’m not thinking Trump keeps the benefit of every doubt when all the cards are laid out.
Also Giuliani wrongly stated that Veselnitskaya “wasn't a Government lawyer” when she's admitted to being an informant for the Kremlin, was a former employee of Russia’s Chief Prosecutor Yuri Chayka, and the original email from Rob Goldstone specifically said she was a “government Lawyer” after Chayka himself had supposedly met with Aras Agalarov over the Clinton dirt.
Giuliani then said that Brennan was “unhinged” to call Trump’s behavior in Helsinki “treasonous” - when in fact Trump himself has called Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding him (“Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”) over his unemployment numbers, Steve Bannon called the Don Jr meeting “treasonous”, Sebastian Gorka said Hillary’s server was “treason” , so did House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX) and Trump advisor Al Balderaso who called for her to be "executed” even though no fully marked classified data was ever on that server and none of it was leaked to anyone without a clearance.
So that “Unhinged” thing is apparently going around.
White House Counsel Don McGahn has been talking to Mueller’s team for 9 months and provided over 30 hours of interviews, and Trump’s team is completely unaware of anything he said.
Popcorn!
The most important point is that this collusion isn't simply something that happened in 2016, it’s still going on now. Sen. Ben Nelson’s claim that the Florida Election system has been breached by Russian hackers has been confirmed.
The governor of Florida, Rick Scott, a Republican who is running against Nelson for his U.S. Senate seat this fall, has blasted his claim as irresponsible. The top Florida elections official, also a Republican, said he had seen no indication it's true. And The Washington Post weighed in Friday with a 2,717-word fact check that all but accused Nelson — without evidence — of making it up.
However, three people familiar with the intelligence tell NBC News that there is a classified basis for Nelson's assertion, which he made at a public event after being given information from the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The extent and seriousness of the threat remains unclear, shrouded for reasons of national security.
Going further the Russia bots and trolls working as part of the Internet Research Association (IRA) in St. Petersburg Russia are still in action as Media Matters had noted they seem to be acting in direct coordination with a Right-Wing Fake News website which has links to Trump spokeshill Katrina Pierson.
TruthfeedNews, a pro-Trump site linked to Katrina Pierson has shared data from the Russian Troll Farm, and they’ve shared data from them. A Clemson University communications professor told Bloomberg, “For a period of time, Truthfeed was central to their entire effort.” On August 10, BuzzFeed reported that IRA accounts shared content originating from TruthFeed to help fan the flames during last year's far-right gathering in Charlottesville, VA.
Identify Mathing Posts on TruthFeed and USA Patriots for Trump
Peirson’s personal page shares a web hosting company, IP address, and MailChimp account with TruthFeedNews.com although her attorney denies any further links between them. TruthFeed’s Facebook page and another page with more than 1.8 million followers, USA Patriots for Donald Trump, have repeatedly shared content from Pierson’s site and Facebook page, often with the same text at the same time (with TruthFeed’s page sometimes directly sharing posts from USA Patriots for Donald Trump), suggesting they are controlled by the same entity.
One of the more recent story/rants on TruthFeedNews is the claim coming from Judge Janine Pirro that Meuller has been compromised and helping Hillary Clinton for years by helping her “get away” with the Uranium One scam and even more wildly claiming that the FBi was complicit in letting Hillary “Get away” with Benghazi.
Pirro noted that a “holier than thou” Mueller refuses to investigate the “real crime that keeps jumping out,” that being the nefarious actions of these players, beginning with fired FBI director James Comey, and then pointed out how Mueller covered for Hillary Clinton in Benghazi.
“Your credentials as a government serial cleaner are really good,” she stated. “You testified — after four Americans are killed in Benghazi — to cover for Hillary Clinton’s incompetence. Bob, why would you say that the FBI couldn’t get to Benghazi in time?”
The answer to this is simple, the FBI is not a world-wide organization with Field Offices overseas — although CNN is. The forensic team that went to Benghazi were coming from Quantico VA and the area wasn’t yet secure — so they were delayed 3 weeks due to safety concerns since they’re scientists, not combat troops.
An FBI team investigating the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya traveled to Benghazi for the first time late Wednesday to examine the site where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed last month.
A small military team provided logistical and security support to the FBI agents investigating in Benghazi, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Thursday. The team left Benghazi Thursday after staying for less than a day, he said.
The FBI team had been delayed from entering Benghazi due to security concerns, as lawmakers raised questions about the thoroughness of the investigation.
Little said a “small footprint of U.S. military personnel” provided airlift support for the FBI team, which remained in Benghazi for a number of hours before departing Thursday. He declined to discuss additional details of the mission.
Asked why it took three weeks for the military to help the FBI get into Benghazi, Little said the Pentagon was willing to consider requests for support, but directed questions of timing to the State Department and FBI. He said not to “read too much” into time delays.
But this doesn’t prove that the FBI were trying to hide evidence which could have incriminated Hillary Clinton who was still in Washington that entire time.
Also after two and a half years of investigation Trey Gowdy's committee ultimately found that Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong in regards to Benghazi.
WASHINGTON — Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead.
The 800-page report delivered a broad rebuke of the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department — and the officials who led them — for failing to grasp the acute security risks in Benghazi, and especially for maintaining outposts there that they could not protect.
The committee, led by Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, also harshly criticized an internal State Department investigation that it said had allowed officials like Mrs. Clinton, then the secretary of state, to effectively choose who would examine their actions. In addition, it included some new details and context about the night of the attacks on the American diplomatic compound and reiterated Republicans’ complaints that the Obama administration had sought to thwart the investigation by withholding witnesses and evidence.
The report, which included perhaps the most exhaustive chronology of the attacks to date, did not dispute that United States military forces stationed in Europe could not have reached Benghazi in time to rescue the personnel who died — a central finding of previous inquiries.
So there’s that then too.
Here are the current daily updates for this month, additional updates will be added until the diary is maxed on space.
- August 13th—
- Stephen Miller’s uncle compares his nephew and Trump to Nazis in a scathing essay. “Trump and my nephew both know their immigrant and refugee roots,” Glosser wrote. “Yet, they repeat the insults and false accusations of earlier generations against these refugees to make them seem less than human.”
- WaPo reports that the FBI fired Peter Strzok on Friday (8/10) over his anti-Trump text messages on the orders FBI Deputy Director Bill Bowdich who had replaced Andrew McCade even though the initial recommendation was only for a demotion and 60-day suspension. Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, criticized Bowdich’s decision to fire his client and claimed that it was outside the bounds of normal disciplinary protocol for FBI agents
- Germany's economics minister Peter Altmaier blasts Trump’s tariff war: “This trade war is slowing down and destroying economic growth, and creates new uncertainties,” Altmaier said.
- Kremlin reports that Putin has not order retaliatory sanctions against the U.S., yet.
- NYTimes reporter Maggie Haberman says that Omarosa wasn’t the only WH staffer making secret recordings and that there could be dozens of other WH tapings.
- Trump lashes out at “Wacky Omarosa” for her “vicious, not smart” recordings.
- Concord Management arguments to disqualify Mueller’s indictment of them for actions of the St Petersburg troll farm fail again miserably.
- On her media tour, Omarosa tells MSNBC’s Velshi and Rule that Trump has a problem insulting the intelligence of black people, but he’s the one who really has the one who is mentally impaired. She also claims she’s now heard the Apprentice “N-word” tape that Tom Arnold and former NBC producer Bill Pruitt have previously mentioned.
- Politico reports that Trump believed Nepal was part of India — and he thought it was pronounced ‘nipple’:
- The Prosecution rests in the Manafort Case.
- Fox Host Trish Regan suggests that after 25 indictments of Russians the entire Meuller investigation is just a plot instigated by Vladamir Putin. ‘We’ve completely fallen for it’
- Former U.S. Attorney Michael Moore says on Fox that Team Trump has no option but to discredit Mueller because they’re losing everywhere.
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Trump celebrates the firing of Strzok and claims he wants the Clinton email investigation redone. [This is the kind of Tin-Pot Dictator crap that Manafort helped set up through Alex Van Der Zwaan against Yanukovych's political opposition, especially after the DOJ Inspector General already said there was nothing wrong with it the first time!]
- Alex Jones moves to Vimeo and they immediately remove his content from their site and issue a refund.
- WH continues bashing Omarosa’s "lack of character” [which seems to be exactly the same shallow opportunistic character that they have] and seeks legal remedies to prevent her releasing more tapes. [Man, they're scared aren't they?]
- A searchable database of fake Russian Troll tweets generated during 2016 show how they deliberately and directly fanned the flames leading up the 2017 assault on Charlottesville.
- Federal arrests of non-criminal undocumented immigrants have skyrocketed by 203% under Trump while Arrests of undocumented criminals have only grown by 18% over Obama’s last 14 months.
- Rep. Goodlatte's son blasts him in tweets for his poor treatment of Peter Strzok arguing that his career was ruined by his dad's political grandstanding.
- Aug 14th —
- Omarosa claims on MSNBC that Trump knew about the Clinton emails before they were released by Wikileaks. [This is easily possible if either Papadopoulos, Sessions or Stephen Miller shared Mifsud claims with Trump and would make him personally liable for conspiracy atntd Misprision of Felony.] She also claims that Betsy Devos mocked black students over their intelligence.
- Kyiv Post does an interview with a former Russian Intelligence Officer who claims that Maria Butina is probably not a "trained professional” agent, but more likely a “talented amateur.”
- Manafort’s defense team rests their case without calling a single witness claiming the prosecution hasn’t proven their case. Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow (Wed.)
- Huckabee-Sanders refuses to guarantee that there is no tape of Trump saying the N-word on the Apprentice.
- Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White is under investigation for using her official position for daily errands.
- Bob Cesca at Salon argues that Russian Hackers could still cause chaos at the 2018 midterms elections.
- BuzzFeed reports emails indicated that Treasury is refusing to provide crucial financial records to the Senate for their Russia investigation. They’re also refusing to send an expert to answer questions about the money trail. To make matters worse, some of the department’s own employees fear the Treasury is intentionally trying to hold up the Senate.
- CNN reports that 6 Million Georgia Voters registration information, including supervisors passwords, were openly exposed on the internet for months, then all the evidence was wiped under SecState Brian Kemp who is a Trump-style Republican now running for Governor.
- Chris Cuomo interviews Giuliani again where he claims "Truth is in the eye of the beholder”.
- Charles Blow argues that the N-Word tape would probably make Trump’s depraved fans love him more.
- Investigative Journalist Craig Unger tells Morning Joe about his book, “House of Putin, House of Trump,” that the Donald had been compromised by Russian intelligence for years through his ties to mobsters who pumped money into his family’s real estate empire.
- Ana Navarro nukes Scott Jenning’s Trump-splaining over his repeated displays of racism. ”Wake Up.”
- Tucker Carlson declares White Supremacy is a Liberal Myth:s“White supremacy is not ubiquitous in America, it’s not a crisis. It’s not even a meaningful category. It is incredibly rare,” he declared, claiming that the country that legalized slavery and had Jim Crow laws in many states until 1964 is “a genersus, tolerant country” and has “always has been that.” “People who tell you otherwise are either delusional or trying to control you with fear, likely both,” he concluded.
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Mimah Rocah former US Attorney for SDNY states that Omarosa’s claim that Trump knew about Russia stealing the Clinton emails would be proof of conspiracy if she can prove it.
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Twitter finally dropped Alex Jones only after 50,000 users blocked their top advertisers.
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Trump signs the Defense Authorization Bill which includes a clause prohibiting recognizing Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, but Trump issues a signing statement saying he’ll ignore that requirement and recognize whatever he feels like.
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Aug 15th --
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Closing arguments begin in Manafort trial. The prosecution claims that the star of the trial is the documents, to Rick Gates. The defense claims that this was a malicious prosecution with stacked up charges.
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Fox News host Melissa Francis says "it's not a great leap" to see that Manafort was paid by Russians to run the Trump campaign. [Actually, he was hoping to get paid by having Deripaska cancel off some of his debt by giving him a private briefing about the campaign and has asked the Russian for “help.”]
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White House Revokes former CIA DIrector John Brennen’s security clearance using a memo that was backdated to June 26, just 3 days after Rand Paul first brought up the suggestion. Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and Bruce Ohr get added to the Security Clearance Enemies List along with Comey, McCabe, Susan Rice, Michael Hayden and James Clapper, even though Page, Strzok, Comey and McCabe don’t have clearances anymore.
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James Clapper explains the larger threat of Trump’s action against Brennen’s security clearance without involving DNI Dan Coates or CIA Director Gina Haspel: “It’s unprecedented. I don’t know of a case where this has ever been done in the past. I mean, access to clearances normally would be done completely by a sponsoring agency. So in John’s case, the sponsoring agency is CIA. And normally, if there were going to be an action taken like this, it would be done at that level. And not by the White House or not by the president himself. So this is, at least in my memory, unprecedented.”
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Brennan claps back: “This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics, It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent.”
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This move is also ironic because its been previously reported that under Trump security clearances have been given out to felons and foreign agents, that over 100 people in the WH still held only interim clearances for nearly a year, including Ivanka. And that Jared Kushner while he only held an interim clearance was able to read the Presidential Daily Brief, the most sensitive document in the Government.
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Reporters lash Huckabee-Sander over the fact that Michael Flynn still has his clearance even after being convicted for lying to the FBI — actually he lied to Agent Strzok because that’s who interviewed him.
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Shep Smith lays out the evidence that Trump retaliated against Brennen because of his harsh tweets from yesterday.
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Topher Grace receives a threatening hate call because of his portrayal of David Duke in Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’.
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Giuliani threatens Mueller: “If he doesn’t wrap it up in the next few weeks, we’ll unload on him like a ton of bricks.”
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Trump attacks the FBI by using tweets from a Fake Peter Strzok account.
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Alex Jones is suspended for a week on Twitter because of a threatening video.
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Acting NYAG Barbara Underwood makes a criminal referral to the IRS over the Trump Foundation strategically using their funds to support his political campaign.
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Rolling Stone reports that the FBI has spent a year investigating a Russian hack against Dr. Hans Keirstead, the political opponent of Putin’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
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Defense One reports that dangerous malware from Russian Military Intelligence still remains on 500,000 home routers in 54 countries in a dormant state, just waiting for a “wake up” call to reactivate.
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Angela Rye shuts down an NDA’d Trump supporter Gina Louden who claims racism isn't a problem, even though there are no black people in the West Wing because she adopted a “minority” child. “I think I got stuck at Gina saying that American presidents have done a great deal for people of color like ending slavery? I think I’m stuck in 1865 now,” she said.
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Nebraska farmers begin to freak out as Trump’s trade war threatens their businesses. “He’s gonna kill us.”
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Aug 16th —
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Aretha Franklin dies at age 76.
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John Brennan slams Trump is a scathing editorial that calls his claims that there was “No Collusion”Hogwash.
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NY State Senator proposes a law to make it a Hate Crime to call 9-1-1 on innocent black people after someone called the police on him when he was handing out campaign literature.
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Rachel Maddow blasts the weak response by Florida State authorities to Sen. Bill Nelsons warning that their elections systems have been compromised by Russian Intelligence.
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Tom Arnold tells Jimmy Kimmel that he’s seen the N-Word Tape. “I’ve seen this compilation tape,” he said. “If you’re on one of these reality shows — there’s compilation tapes of me doing horrible, disgusting things. Of course, I do horrible, disgusting things, but I’m also not running for president. I remember this tape I saw, and I described it exactly. He says the N-word, he calls Eric the R-word. Now they call it the N-word tape. I have friends that worked on that show, and I explained it exactly.”
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Trump signed an order reversing Presidential Policy Directive 20 that had mapped out an elaborate interagency process before the United States engaged in cyber attacks, the WSJ said, citing people familiar with the action.
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Politico interviews a set of Republicans who are willing to concede the House to Democrats on the theory that they’ll try to Impeach Trump and it will backfire on them leading to his re-election in 2020. “If they take the House, he wins big,” explained former Trump adviser Barry Bennett, with others hearkening back to the impeachment of ex-President Bill Clinton, who grew more popular after his impeachment in 1998. “Well-respected thinkers believe that the more extreme the Democrats go, the more middle of the road voters will gravitate to Trump,” suggested a prominent conservative who wished to remain anonymous.
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Richard Unger describes in his book “House of Trump, House of Putin” how Russian gangster David Bogatin first began using Trump properties to launder his money in 1984, and became friends with Trump, inviting him to Russia in 1985 for a really great time.
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Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt: America is great because ‘we defeated communist Japan’
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Trump classlessly commemorates Aretha Franklin's passing by saying ‘she worked for me on numerous occasions’.
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Fox hosts from Hannity to Pirro and Ingraham sign onto a new conspiracy theory: Mueller is the frontman for a secret coup — often referred to as the “deep state” — to force Trump out of office. As Levin recently told his weekend audience, “Robert Mueller is a greater threat to this republic and the Constitution than anything Vladimir Putin did during the campaign. And I am no fan of Vladimir Putin.” [It’s not really a secret.]
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Vanity Fair reports that a furious Trump wants to tell Jeff Sessions to arrest Omarosa over her book, even though it’s not clear what “law” she’s supposedly broken. Sam Nunberg says that this push to arrest Omarosa for a National Security Violation is coming from John Kelly. [Except that since they didn’t discuss anything classified, there’s no National Security issue.]
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Omarosa releases another tape of Laura Trump offering her a $180,000 a year to sign another Non-Disparagement Agreement with the Trump 2020 campaign.
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Trump’s attorney prepares to take a potential subpoena from Mueller to the SCOTUS.
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In an impromptu interview with the WSJ Trump admits his pulling of Brennen’s Security clearance is really all about the “Witch Hunt” — which means that it’s an attempt at witness intimidation for all the others on his “Enemies List” who could testify against him. “I call it the rigged witch hunt, (it) is a sham,” he told the WSJ.“And these people led it! … So I think it’s something that had to be done.” [No, no it really it didn't need to be done.]
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Former Federal Prosecutor Elie Honig explains on MSNBC that Trump’s revocation of Brennen's clearance and his threats to remove more could be a crime. “It is a federal crime, §1513 if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone for providing truthful information to law enforcement,” he said. “So he’s getting closer and closer to really dangerous ground here. ”
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Tucker Carlson says he supports Trump’s border policy and asks a Mexican Journalist if he should be allowed in a Mexican Restaurant, then when the reporter says you're welcome to enjoy “our food” he says “Tacos are American Food, not Mexican. They’re mine — I’m from San Diego.”
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Admiral Bill McRaven, former commander of Seal Team Six and the Bin Laden Raid scalds Trump for his revocation of Brennan’s clearance. “You're welcome to take my clearance too.”
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Rachel Maddow points out that removing Brennan’s security clearance will limit his future ability to testify before Congress or for Mueller since his statement that that “was collusion” is largely based on classified data.
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Russian Billionaire oligarch Artem Klyushin, who is a government advisor to the Kremlin sends out a threatening tweet to Trump saying this will be his:”last term” if he doesn’t ‘extinguish Fake News Russophobia’.
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15 Former CIA Directors and Deputy Directors sign onto a scathing letter criticizing Trump in support of John Brennan and his right of free speech.
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Josh Marshall writes that we know Trump is guilty, because he acts guilty — we (and most of the media) just can’t accept it.
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Former WH Ethics Czar Norm Eisen points out that Trump’s WH NDA’s may violate Federal Whistle-Blower and Bribery Laws.
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Mueller’s prosecutors refuse to suggest probation for Papadopoulos which would potentially give him up to six months of prison time, saying that he hasn’t been sufficiently cooperative. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept 7.
- Trump lashes' out yet again at the “rigged witch hunt”, complains and defends Manafort and promises he’ll revoke more clearances, specifically naming Bruce Ohr and then repeats a Breitbart promoted Trope that Comey and Mueller are “Best Friends” which was started by HIllary-Hating FBI Agent James Kallstrom. Comey and Meuller have never been to each others homes, they we co-workers that’s all.
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NBC News reports that three sources have confirmed Sen. Bill Nelson’s claims that the Florida election system and VR Systems which handle’s their registrations have been infiltrated by Russian hackers. It turns out that Rick Scott does have a security clearance, but he never called anyone in Homeland Security before he started attacking Nelson.
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Judge T.S. Elliot in the Manafort case reveals that he has received two death threats and therefore has refused to release information about the Jurors.
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Yahoo news reports that Federal Judge Arlene Bluth refuses to allow a harassment and sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by former Trump campaign staffer Jessica Denson to go into arbitration as requested by Trump campaign lawyers because the wording of her NDA was insufficient. This would be the same type of NDA that the Trump campaign is trying to use to force Omarosa into arbitration over her book.
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House Republicans threaten to subpoena twitter over “discrimination against conservatives” when in reality it’s limiting of abusive and threatening tweets, which mostly come from conservatives.
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Democrats are willing to sue for documents that show that Kavanaugh lied to the Senate about his work during the Bush administration related to torture.
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Veterans sue Trump for letting his Mar-A-Lago cronies control the VA.
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Sessions issues order to speed up deportations by requiring immigration judges to only delay proceedings due to a "good cause" , however that standard may cause people with legitimate asylum claims to be deported before the claims is fully processed.
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Election officials in 44 states and DC are requesting security access to more data on potential election hacking from Homeland Security
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Kellyanne-Conway berates WH reporters for "being obsessed with Trump". [That's almost literally their job description.]
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Kushner family is sued for making life unbearable for their renters in order to drive them out so they could get around rent control rules.
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Pentagon cancels Trump big military parade, so naturally he’s lies first saying “I cancelled it.” then blaming the Mayor of DC.
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GOP strategist Rick Taylor says the collusion question is settled: ‘They colluded with the Russians — that’s clear’.
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Daily Beast reports that Trump got into an argument with Vets over the scene in Apocolypse Now where Robert Duvall says “I love the smell of napalm in the morning, smells like victory” claiming that we dropped Agent Orange on enemy troops in Vietnam instead of Napalm.
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Politico reports that New York businessman Moshe Lax — who partnered with President Donald Trump’s daughter to form Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry — is accused of financial wrongdoing related to a $27 million IRS lien on his father’s estate.
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Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe explains how collusion with Russia has already been proven referencing Brennan’s op-ed but argues that you don’t need conspiracy to Impeach, what you need is abuse of power.
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Authoritarianism expert Sandra Kendzior argues “for the sake of National Security Kushner needs to be out of the WH Now.”
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63 more intelligence officials sign an additional letter in support of John Brennan.
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Papadopoulos’ wife Simona Mangiante tells MSNBC’s Ari Melber she wants George to take back his confession and cancel his deal with Mueller because “shady characters” with a “specific agenda” have been coming after them.
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Georgia election board plots to shut down 7 of 9 polling places in black neighborhoods in a naked throwback to Jim Crow tactics.
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Since the July 26th deadline for reunification has passed 565 Immigrant Children are still separated from their parents, 24 are toddlers.
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John Brennan tells Maddow that Trump is “Drunk on Power.” and explains that his commentary has not been political, it’s been patriotic. “I think he’s abusing the powers of that office. I think right now this country is in a crisis in terms of what Mr. Trump has done and is liable to do. Are the Republicans on the Hill who have given him a pass, are they going to wait for a disaster to happen before they actually find their backbones and spines to speak up against somebody who clearly, clearly is not carrying out his responsibilities with any sense of purpose and common sense from a standpoint of national security?”
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Trumptarian NDAer Paris Denard gets absolute destroyed by former CIA officer Phil Mudd as he tries to justify and rationalize the targeted retaliation of revoking security clearances.
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August 18th —
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August 19th —
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Giuliani goes on Meet the Press and proclaims “Truth isn’t Truth” and also wrongly states that Veselnitskaya “wasn't a Government lawyer” when she's admitted to being an informant for the Kremlin, was a former employee of Chief Prosecutor Chayka, and the original email from Rob Goldstone specifically said she was a “government Lawyer” after Chayka himself had supposedly met with Aras Agalarov over the Clinton dirt.
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Giuliani also says that Brennan was “unhinged” to call Trump’s behavior in Helsinki “treasonous” - when in fact Trump himself has called Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding him (“Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”) over his unemployment numbers, Steve Bannon called the Don Jr meeting “treasonous” and Sebastian Gorka said Hillary’s server was “treason” , so did House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX) and Trump advisor Al Balderaso who called for her to be "executed” even though no fullly marked classified data was ever on that server and none was leaked to anyone without a clearance.
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John Bolton comes up with a new excuse for revoking Brennan’s clearance claiming that he must have used classified data to come to the conclusion that Trump colluded with Russia, but Brennan had testified under oath that based on the CIA’s information he didn’t see conclusive proof of collusion because that was the FBI’s job, which makes sense because any U.S. citizens in their reports would’ve had their ID’s masked, but he’s since stated that his opinion on collusion now is based on largely on media reports. Besides, if Brennan’s opinion was based on classified data, then that would make it somewhat more valid — not less. When for one example of when Brenna abused his clearance, Bolton can’t name any.
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Omarosa says to MSNBC’s Al Sharton that the Trump WH refuses to hire blacks, and uses the few they have as “window dressing” — [Which is funny because when she was in the WH she was rumored to have bigfoot any other black people out of her way and kept the stage for herself.] She also says Trump wants to start a “Race War.” [Too late!]
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Emails from Trump’s legal team show they have no idea what WH Counsel Don McGahn has told Mueller.
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WH Speechwriter Darren Beattie is fired after itss discovered that he had been a speaker at a 2016 H.L. Mencken White Nationalist conference that also included Richard Spencer. [How Stephen Miller is still there, remains a mystery.]
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NYTimes reports that Michael Cohen is being investigated for $20 Million in bank fraud on top of his IRS problems.
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Rick Santorum self-destructs trying to mansplain why Mueller should be investigating Hillary Clinton — again. [Mueller doesn’t have to because he’s the Special Counsel and his targets are in the WH, while she’s not so a regular investigator like Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber who has already been assigned to do exactly that by Sessions in March is sufficient. This stupid trope is not evidence of partisan bias by Mueller.]
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Fox’s News Chris Wallace catches OMB Director Mulvaney lying about Trump jobs record again and points out that Obama created more jobs (3.7 Million) in his last 19 months and the 3.4 Million Trump has in his first 19 months.
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Even though he’s supposedly “banned” Alex Jones appears Roger Stones’ show WarRoom on Facebook and Periscope ranting about “False Flag” attacks again and claims that Lester Holt and Brian Stetler somehow have advanced knowledge about them.
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Truthfeed, a pro-Trump site linked to Katrina Pierson has shared data from the Russian Troll Farm, and they’ve shared data from them. A Clemson University communications professor told Bloomberg, “For a period of time, Truthfeed was central to their entire effort.” On August 10, BuzzFeed reported that IRA accounts shared content originating from TruthFeed to help fan the flames during last year's far-right gathering in Charlottesville, VA.
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Trump surrogate Katrina Pierson’s personal page shared a web hosting company, IP address, and MailChimp account with TruthFeed although her attorney denies any further links TruthFeed’s Facebook page and another page with more than 1.8 million followers, USA Patriots for Donald Trump, have repeatedly shared content from Pierson’s site and Facebook page, often with the same text at the same time (with TruthFeed’s page sometimes directly sharing posts from USA Patriots for Donald Trump), suggesting they are controlled by the same entity.
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Tucker Carlson calls conservatives not defending Alex Jones “foolish and cowardly.”
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August 20th —
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U.S. business fear of rising prices due to tariffs grows.
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Axios reports on why several WH figur like Kelly, Cohn and Mattis decided to stay afer Charlottesville. “You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill.” “Gen. Mattis needs us.” “Trump’s not as evil as portrayed.”
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Trump accuses Mueller’s ‘angry Democrat Thugs’ of trying to interfere in midterms.
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Bush’s former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says that Trump may believe that WH Counsel Don McGahn is his person attorney, when he’s not.
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Trump keeps saying that wages are rising, but official government data proves that they aren’t.
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Brennan considers suing to protect other intel officials from the threat of having their clearance revoked for speaking out and Trump says “he won’t do it” because it will expose all his papers and his involvement in the Meuller’s “Witch Hunt” — which Brennan had literally nothing to do with.
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Manafort’s attorney says his client is “Feeling really good” as the jury continues deliberations for the third day.
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MIchael Cohen’s Lawyer Lanny Davis is reportedly in talks with John Dean.
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Another 175 Intel Officials slam Trump’s security clearance threats.
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Crazed wild-eyed Qanon conspiracy theorist are suing the media for reporting that they are crazed wild-eyed Qanon conspiracy theorists. “I’m serious, the MSM is responsible for this sh*t,” wrote one QAnon believer while describing how his own mother recently accused him of being a conspiracy nut. “How many families have been fighting for the past two years? Breakups. divorces, fired, estranged families and ex-friends. God damn the MSM, I can’t wait anymore. Let’s just sue them now.”
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CNBC reports that trade delegates from China, India, Spain and Italy have all cancelled planned September visits to the United States due to political tension over President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
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More warnings of a #SecondCivilWar : “The differences between so-called “Red” and “Blue” America are now irreconcilable, traditional political remedies that once peaceably managed conflict are irretrievably broken, and thus, a separation of some sort is, or will soon, be necessary. And if necessity can be made a virtue, it will be somehow peacefully managed.”
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Giuliani tweet an insane rant asking if John Brennan is a “blowhard.” “To John Brennan: Today President Trump granted our request (Jay Sekulow and me) to handle your case,” the lawyer wrote. “After threatening if you don’t it would be just like Obama’s red lines. Come on John you’re not a blowhard?” he added.
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CNN does a supercut of Trumpsters from Kellyanne Conway’s “Alternative Facts” to Trump “Don’t believe what you see” to Giuliani “Truth isn’t Truth” repeatedly arguing for the denial of reality
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.Trump releases a letter to local leaders (From Governors to Sheriffs) asking them to do his PR work to defend ICE against a ““nationwide campaign of smears, insults, and attacks by politicians shamelessly catering to the extreme elements in our society that desire lawlessness and anarchy.”
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Kavanaugh argued against Nixon being forced to release the Watergate tapes almost at the same time that he also argued that Bill Clinton should answer every sexual question imaginable under oath. Hypocrite much?
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Rep. Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch have written the WH Chief of Staff John Kelly with questions about John Bolton’s security clearance after he was linked to associations with Russian spy Maria Butina while he was a top official for the NRA.
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Trump calls on Sessions to fire Bruce Ohr for being Christopher Steele’s DOJ contact. Then claims that he could run the Mueller’s Russia probe himself, which would probably send him chasing down Uranium One and Chris Steele rathole for no good reasons. “I can go in, and I could do whatever — I could run it if I want. But I decided to stay out,” he said. “I’m totally allowed to be involved if I wanted to be. So far, I haven’t chosen to be involved. I’ll stay out.” Even though he denies that Russia did anything he also says Mueller has “played right into the Russians – if it was Russia – they played right into the Russians’ hands.” None of which makes any damn sense.
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Trump tweet threats to pull the security clearance for CNN contributor and former CIA operative Phil Mudd after he loses his cool and screams “Get Out!” at Paris Denard’s bullshit about people making “big bucks” off their security clearances with contractors. Technically Phil had already offered to give up his clearance, and the kind of person he’s was talking about, contractors would include Edward Snowden.
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Microsoft reports that they had found and taken down to fake websites for Republican Think tanks who were critical of Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin which had been created by Fancy Bear (GRU Russian Military Intelligence).
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August 21st
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The New Yorker reports that Trump staff had during 2017 once considered pulling the security briefings for former President Barack Obama after they started claiming that he had illegally wiretapped Trump Tower, which he didn’t.
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Trump tweets that his critics should be nice to him if they want to keep their security clearances. [Way to set up the 1st amendment lawsuits there, buddy.]
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22 States ask U.S. appeals court to reinstate net neutrality rules.
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Mark Meadows and Judicial Watch start floating a rumor that John Brennan had leaked information about the Steele memos to Harry Reid in Late August 2016 while providing the Gang of 8 briefing on the Russia Election attacks, except that the CIA didn’t have copies of the Steele memos and Brennan himself didn’t even see a copy until December. He had been previously contacted by reporters about it, and it’s likely that Reid also heard about it from the Press since Steele had been reaching out to them already.
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Breitbart attacks Brennan for saying that Trump’s “joke” about the Russians finding Hillary’s deleted emails had prompted Russians hackers to attack emails accounts of the Hillary campaign by saying that the AP had reported that the first attacked her campaign emails accounts earlier in March, which was how they got to John Podesta’s account. But this doesn’t disprove that they renewed their attacks on the same night Trump asked them too.
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The Guardian reports that D.C. Superior Court Judge Anthony Epstein tossed the defamation suit filed by Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of the Alfa Group against Christopher Steele and his intelligence firm Orbis.
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Former CIA Director Leon Panetta says revoking security clearances is a dangerous tactic. ‘This is Trump’s approach of wag the dog’
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The New York Law Journal reports that Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Tapia on declined to dismiss the suit filed by protesters because Trump himself “authorized and condoned” his security including Keith Schiller to rough up five Latino protestors back in 2015.
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Michael Flynn’s sentencing is delayed again indicating the Mueller have more uses for him for some reason.
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Kellyanne Conway lashes out at Mueller for not investigating Comey and his “silly little book” which again shows she fails to understand that the Inspector General is already looking into all that and the Special Counsel doesn’t have to, because Comey isn’t his boss.
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Manafort’s jury comes back and delivers convictions on 8 counts, including tax fraud, bank fraud and corporate campaign finance issues and a mistrial on the additional 10 counts.
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Michael Cohen pleads guilty to 8 counts including tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations which he claims were initiated “at the direction of the candidate.”
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Vanity Fair reports that Trump is screaming at Giuliani “It’s all your fault” for not accept the Attorney General job when Trump offered it and instead holding out for Secretary of State — which is completely ridiculous, there still would have been a Special Counsel.
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Preet Bharara says Trump could possibly face impeachment over Cohen: ‘This is terrible for Trump’.
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Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis says both to Rachel Maddow and to Don Lemon that Cohen has potentially a lot to say to Robert Mueller, particularly related to Russian collusion.
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Giuliani claims there’s no ‘wrongdoing in the government’s charges’ for Trump — ignoring that Cohen implicated him.
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Fox News brushes of Cohen’s guilty plea.
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Trump says he’s sad about Manafort but ‘it has nothing to do with collusion’ after going to a rally where he again whines about the “Witch Hunt” but doesn’t mention anything about Manafort or Cohen’s convictions to the crowd as they again chant “Lock Her Up!” Later he complains about some of the seats being empty.
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WH Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow reported invited a white nationalist publisher Peter Brimelow to his birthday party.
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Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis states “Trump directed him to commit a crime.”
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August 22nd —
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Hannity says Cohen was "forced by prosecutors to change his story.” [And also facts and documents.]
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Trump tweets urging people not to hire Cohen as a lawyer, and praising Manafort for staying strong. “Unlike Cohen, he refused to break,” but he says he’s not considering a pardon for Manafort “at this time.”
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Cohen finally deletes his Clinton Prison tweet, after being horrifically mocked over it.
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Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter says the DOJ is the “Democrats arm of Law Enforcement.” [We Wish!]
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Lanny Davis says Cohen was “Never, never in Prague”, but that he was there when Don Jr. told Trump about the Veselnitskaya meeting, the only problem with that is that he told Congress he wasn’t aware of the meeting beforehand.
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Rachel Maddow explains why Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka are at risk for serious criminal charges from the NYAG over the Trump Foundation Charity and the Trump Foundation itself is being looked at by NY State Tax Board for additional violations related to Michael Cohen’s payoffs. She also points out that the $50,000 the Trump Organization paid Cohen for “tech services” is suspiciously similar to the money supposedly offered to help Romanian hackers get out of Prague according to the Steele Dossier.
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After seeing a Tucker Carlson report on a White Nationalist conspiracy theory Trump says he’s asking Pompeo to look into South African whites being killed and having their farm's seized. [Because N*ggers, I guess.]
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Proving he’s a true Trumpster through and through Paris Denard was once fired from Arizona State University for sexual harrasment.
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Legal experts state there is no legal document, Constitutional stanza or case law barring the indictment of a sitting President, only an OLC opinion. The Special and Independent Counsels investigating of both Nixon and Cilnton had determined they could be indicted.
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August 23rd —
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Trump says Cohen wasn’t with him much of the time, “I’d see him sometimes.” [Even though his office was down the hall from Trump’s on the executive floors of Trump Tower.] He accuses him of “making up stories” to get a plea deal, [But he really didn’t get any deal — he just plead guilty.] Then he says “flipping to get a deal” should be “almost illegal” and that if he’s Impeached the stock market will crash making “everyone poor.”
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Giuliani says “people would revolt” if Trump were Impeached. [They’re already revolting.]
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Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife plead not guilty to campaign finance charges.
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Betsy Devos is apparently willing to allow schools to use Federal Funds to buy guns, but not use Federal Funds to FIX THEIR FAILING FUCKING SCHOOLS, which she still hasn’t visited.
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Giuliani calls on the DOJ to indict Hillary Clinton… for something. “Let’s go DOJ, Wake Up!” [Yeah. ok, they’ve had multiple investigations of her before the election and after the election and they have no case, Rudolph!’
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NDA’d Trumptarian MIchael Caputo complains that Trump will be impeached for ‘jaywalking’ if Dems retake House. [Seeing as his “Zero Tolerance” police is jailing people and separating them from their children over a “crossing the line” misdemeanor charge — that seems appropriate.]
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Economists find that Trump’s predictions of an Impeachment crash somewhat dubious.
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National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has accepted an immunity deal to cooperate and confirm Cohen’s story that Trump directed the payments for McDougal and Daniels.
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Bolton quickly shuts down a press conference after a BBC reporter asks if Trump is a ‘security risk’. [Yes]
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CNBC Host John Harwood says Trump is "nuts" if he thinks the markets will crash when he’s impeached.
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Despite his claims that Cohen's payments were “not a crime" if they didn't come from campaign funds, Trump’s past tweets on the John Edwards prosecution shows he knows damn well it's a crime.
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John Yoo, the Bush DOJ Official who wrote the OLC memos authorizing torture says: “If you’re Trump you’re worried – very worried”
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Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec claims the White House is using encryption technology developed by a special unit that allows President Donald Trump to directly — and secretly — communicate with Russian president Vladimir Putin, reported the Moscow Times.
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Infowars Millie Weaver argues with Jim Acosta over the meaning of the First Amendment.
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Washington Post reports that under advice from his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump said he would wait to pardon Paul Manafort until after the special counsel’s investigation is over.
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Fox host Neal Cavuto slams Trump for threatening financial crisis to protect his own skin.
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AP reports that the National Enquirer reportedly kept a safe with information on Donald Trump’s “hush money” arrangements and other documents — evidence of the magazine’s “cozy” relationship with the president.
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A number of wild conspiracy theories about a cabal of “Deep State” Obama staffers promoted by an Israeli intelligence firm hired by Harvey Weinstein to keep tabs on women he allegedly assaulted found their way into a memo circulated among top staffers on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council.
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Chris Cuomo tells Kellyanne Conway to “go back to Fox” if she’s going to keep promoting Trump’s lies about his campaign payoffs.
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Michael D’antonio explains to Don Lemon how the new NY State criminal cases against the Trump Organization for tax fraud and the Trump Foundation for self-dealing and campaign finance violations could literally destroy the family. “This is really his nightmare, “D’Antonio said. “He’s operated as a family business for all these years to avoid scrutiny. He wanted to hand give this whole enterprise off to his children, and his children spoke to me about how they would run it as a normal business and not be so flagrant in their publicity seeking,” he said. “They may never get the chance.”
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ACLU files a complaint that many immigrant parents held by DHS were wrongfully tricked into signing deportation papers after being told they would never see their children again otherwise.
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August 24th —
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Trump begs Sessions to repoen the Clinton probe: ‘Come on Jeff, you can do it!’. [He actually already did it you dolt!]
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Trump voters tell CNN they ’re rattled by president’s praise of Manafort — and his implicit offer of pardons. [Buckle up buttercup — the rattling is just getting started.]
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Spiro Agnew’s lawyer says Trump should quit before Mueller comes for Jared and Ivanka. [It won’t be Mueller, it will be Acting NYAG Barbara Underwood -- and it’s basically too late for them to escape anyway.]
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg “was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen in the criminal investigation into hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.” [Uh oh, there goes another “flipper.”!]
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NYTimes reports that our Russian Intel sources have dried up possibly because of the outing of an FBI informant by House intelligence. The “officials familiar with the intelligence” told the Times they do not believe the sources have been killed or compromised, but have “gone to ground” amidst aggressive counterintelligence.
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Fox fans birth a bovine after Fox News’ Twitter account posted a graphic from its latest poll that showed 58 percent of Americans backed a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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Former Obama WH General Counsel Bob Bauer tells Vanity Fair that dangling a pardon for Manaforts smells like potential obstruction. “It is impossible not to see this as encouragement to a witness in a criminal investigation to withhold cooperation,” Bauer added. “It is remarkable that Giuliani and his team do not see how the president, with this conduct, continues to do extraordinary damage to his position in the ongoing investigations.”
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Sen John McCain discontinues his medical treatment for brain cancer.
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The bid to close 7 out of 9 precincts in a majority black Georgia county is rejected.
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EPA reports confirm that everything Trump claimed about the Paris Climate Deal was a lie, they also admit that saving a few coal power plans would cost thousands of lives, damage the health for millions of kids and cost $50 Billion.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is scheduled to testify before House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept 5th.
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Shep Smith to Fox Viewers: The Cohen scandal is about a federal crime — not sex.
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Fox Host Neil Cavuto and pro-Putin Congressman Dana Rohrabacher get into screaming match over Jeff Sessions. Cavuto says Trump should fire him, and Rohrabacher says he should resign, even though he actually did resign in 2017 already and Trump refused to accept it.
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CNN reports that one of the AMI “Catch and Kill” stories involves the former doorman for Trump World Tower Dino Sajudin who had been paid $30,000 to not release a story about “Donald Trump’s illegitimate child”. He has now been released from that deal.
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August 25th —
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August 28th —
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WSJ trashes Trump’s half a NAFTA’ as ‘notably worse’ — and loaded with ‘nonsense’,
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Trump rails at Google for being “biased” because when you type in “Trump News” it’s comes back with actual news instead of right-wing spin fluffer sites and he doesn’t like that— but he didn’t find this out by doing it himself, he heard it from Diamond and Silk on Fox News.
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The Daily Caller reports that two anonymous sources claim that in 2015 the Intelligence Community Inspector General Frank Rucker had detected malware from a Chinese company located in Virginia on Hillary Clinton’s private server which had generated “ghost copies” of about 30,000 emails sent and received on the system as they were generated. Reportedly Rucker had attempted at least 3 times to brief the FBI and DOJ on this issue. Rep. Louie Gohmert had also questioned Agent Strzok about this, but he didn’t recall anything about it.
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WSJ reports that Trump resisted extending the lower of the flags for McCain because he thought the media coverage of his death was “over the top and more befitting of a President.” [So of course he does the one thing that will extend that coverage even more...]
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Shep Smith erupts over Trump’s rambling attack on Google and Facebook. [Ask Diamond and Silk.]
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An accused crack dealers tries to use Trump’ attack “flipping” suspects and the Judge blows him out of the water.
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Vermont’s only black female legislator drops out of the race due to online threats and harassment.
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Manafort's lawyers seek to move his second trial out of Washington DC because of the “highly politicized” nature of the city. [Which really means it has too many black people who are probably Democrats in it.]
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Sources tell CNBC that prosecutors in the Russia probe continued asking questions about Cohen’s role in Trump’s campaign — as well as questions “about whether Cohen conducted personal business while working as an employee of the Trump Organization and for insight on why he didn’t get a job in the Trump White House” — until at least this past May, even after the FBI raid on his home and offices in April. [This may mean that my theory that Mueller is done with Cohen might be wrong.]
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Larry Kudlow tells reporters that the WH is doing an “investigation of Google.”
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The penthouse apartment of one of Manafort's bankers was broken into where a briefcase and IPad were stolen.
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Trump's lawyers file a motion to dismiss the Stormy Daniels defamation suit claiming the right of “free speech.”
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Conservative WaPo editorial writer Jennifer Rubin writes that McCain specifically asking for Trump not to attend his funeral is “what comes from electing someone emotionally and intellectually incapable of seeing beyond his own emotional needs or understanding the moral authority a normal president enjoys by fulfilling the role of head of state.”
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Trump supporters from Alan Dershowitz to Dana Loesch keep comparing him to murderous gangsters like Al Capone arguing that he was convicted of tax evasion and not any of the violent crimes he was associated with. [Which was because he tended to kill the witnesses and also bribed the cops and judges - this is not a positive analogy for Trump who has the GOP running a protection racket for him.]
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Kushner is reportedly growing frustrated because Trump's vindictiveness makes him ignore even basic common sense advice like not messing with the normal flag procedure after John McCain’s death.
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After claiming that all of his illegal personal use of campaign funds was his manager/wife's fault Rep. Duncan Hunter then says “leave my wife alone.”
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Trump threatens Google, Twitter and Facebook — “we have thousands of complaints coming in, they better be careful.”
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A secret recording taken during Trump’s "State Dinner” with Evangelicals [who don’t have a State of their own to my recollection] reveals that he told them to campaign for Republicans from the pulpit and that if Democrats win in Novembers there will be massive violence. [Yeah, but it will be coming from right-wing nut bags.]
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Mexico’s foreign minister Luis Videgaray tweets about Trump's wall ‘We will NEVER pay for it’.
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Trump privately brought up the idea of firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in conversations with aides this past month — and his lawyers are the only people stopping him.
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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman claims Cohen is already cooperating with Mueller stating that the plea deal Cohen entered last week was exactly the same plea agreement that he did “with a client about a summer ago where there was also a contemporaneous cooperation agreement that was put under seal at the same time in the judge’s chambers.”
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Puerto Rico raises its official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 after a George Washington University survey compiles an estimate of all those who died from lack of electricity and clean water in the Hurricane's aftermath.
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Homeland Security denounces ‘violent extremism’ after ex-staffer’s ties to white nationalists were revealed. [Seems a little late, don't cha think?]
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Nunes Horseman Ron DeSantis wins the GOP Primary for Florida Governor, he will now face off against the first African-American Dem candidate for FL Gov progressive Andrew Gillum who is backed by Bernie Sanders.
- Alex Jones claims that he’s advising Trump on Google’s “Censorship of Conservatives.”
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Ex-WH Communications aide Kelly Sadler who had joked that “McCain is gonna die soon" was offered another WH Job but told them to “Fuck Off.”
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Trump again attacks Hillary’s email server after claims surface from the DailyCaller and Fox that it was hacked by China and “jokes” that maybe the Russians hacked it. [They didn’t, but then he doesn't believe the Russians hacked the DNC, so why does he think they hacked her server?]
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Chris Cuomo breaks down Trump’s attack on Google as being ‘devoid of any facts’.
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Trump apparently raged “I remember what you did at Pearl Harbor” while berating Japanese PM Shinzo Abe who wasn’t even born until 1946.
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August 29th —
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NAFTA 2.0 talks are set to begin with Canada, but they still remain firm on protecting their dairy markets.
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China denies the claims that they hacked Hillary’s server.
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WH Counsel Don McGahn will be stepping down sometime this fall after the confirmation of Kavanaugh.
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There is no “anti-Conservative bias” on Google as the Washington Post points out, experts have shown that conservatives and liberals see no significant differences in results. But location is a major factor in results. In Europe. Germany and Poland without Breitbart and RT the results for “Trump News” are much more negative than in the U.S.
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CNBC reports that the FBI and the DOJ Inspector General have denied claims reported by the Daily Caller based on anonymous sources that a Chinese company had planted malware that generated ghost email copies from Hillary Clinton’s email server. Part of the problem here is that her server was in FBI custody during all of 2015 when the ICIG Frank Rucker supposedly detected this intrusion, and there weren’t any emails being sent and received by it at that time.
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Kellyanne Conway claims: ‘It’s amazing that Trump won under the circumstances of this rigged system’ [Yes, actually it is — and that begs the question is someone rigged it the other way.]
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Rudy Giuliani is still being paid to lobby for foreign governments while working as Trump’s personal lawyer.
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GOP FL Gov Candidate Ron DeSantis warns not to ‘monkey up’ the state by electing his black opponent Andrew Gillum.
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CNN Host Erica Hill shuts down the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins when he claims “Antifa is now the face of Democrats” and “the violence is on the left, you don't see Evangelicals Rioting.” [Not exactly, but we do see them threatening, attacking, harassing, stalking and shunning women’s clinic workers and LGTB citizens, also there’s the Alt-Right, KKK, Neo-Nazi, Skinheads, Identify Evropa, Vanguard America, The Proud Boys, League of the South and many others who do consider themselves Christians and Evangelicals that are the ones Antifa is directly battling. And by the way, the SPLC considers the FRC to be a Hate Group.]
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Trump claims stories with anonymous sources are "fiction” even former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus once asked Andrew McCabe, Richard Burrr and Devin Nunes to all act as "anonymous” deep background sources for the WH.
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Grassley emplores Trump not to let McGahn go. McConnell says McGahn’s departure is a big loss for Trump’s administration. Trump says McGahn is “an excellent guy” and that he’s not concern with what he told Mueller, then he claims about his midterm violence remark that “I don’t want to see it” without explaining why exactly he expects to see it if Dems win, unless he thinks their like Soccer and College football fans who riot when they win.
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WH Counsel Don McGahn had been planning to stay until after the midterms in November and apparently didn’t know he was leaving his position “In the Fall” until Trump tweeted about it.
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DeSantis claims it’s absurd to claim his call for people to not vote for his black opponent and “Monkey this up” is racist.
- Andrew Gillum hits back at DeSantis’ racist remark: ‘I regret that his mentor is Trump’.
- Trump calls Carl Bernstein a ‘sloppy degenerate fool’ for his report the Lanny Davis had mistakenly said Cohen overheard Don Jr. tell Trump about the Veselnitskaya meeting, which would make it Davis’ mistake, not Bernstein’s.
- Maddow reports that Trump’s “Ethics Advisor” Bobby Burchfield who the WSJ reports has potentially taken laundered money from the largest embezzlement scandal in human history may become the replacement for either Don McGahn or Jeff Sessions.
- Trump’s friends and staff are concerned he’s not prepared with proper legal representation for the avalanche of investigations which may happen if Dems take over Congress.
- Trump repeats the debunked Nunes theory seeing it repeated again on Fox that the FISA court was somehow “defrauded” by the FBI over the Steele Dossier because the names of U.S. person were masked and claims that Chief Justice Roberts should have the Presiding FISA judge Rosemary Collier hold a hearing to question FBI and DOJ officials and make a criminal referral. [Yeah, that’s really, truly never gonna happen because the fact that political opponents of Trump had paid for the dossier was included in the FISA warrant, it just didn’t give their names.]
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August 30th —
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Trump tweets that he’s looking forward to McGahn’s replacement and denies that McGahn has been protecting the jobs of Sessions and Mueller.
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Dershowitz claims Trump should be “worried” about McGahn’s exit, “It has everything to do with Mueller.’
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Biden Trashes Trump without mentioning his name at McCain’s funeral in Arizona.
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The U.S. Postal Service apologizes to Dem congressional candidate and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger for mistakenly releasing her full security clearance application to a Republican research firm, which then shared it with CLF a super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)
- Trump wrongly claims “Lester Holt got caught faking his interview” where he admitted he was thinking about the Russia probe when he fired Comey. [Nothing there was faked, he said what he said.] Then he comes up with a new reason to fire Sessions, his southern accent makes him sound ‘like he has marbles in his mouth’
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NYTimes reports that Trump and Cohen had concocted a plan to buy up all the decades worth of dirt that the National Enquirer had “captured and killed” for them, including multiple affairs beyond just Daniels and McDougal, however the plan was never enacted.
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The US Embassy in South Africa slaps down Trump’s false complaints about white farmers being murdered.
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NBC reports that 68-year-old Robert Chain was arrested for the death threats which included calling the Boston Globe “the enemy of the people” in multiple phone calls.
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Bloomberg reports that Trump wants to move ahead with tariffs on Chinese imports worth $200 billion next week and that he’s threatening to pull the U.S. out of the WTO.
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GOP Senator Orrin Hatchs asks FTC to examine Google ads, and renew an anti-trust investigation of their parent company.
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DailyBeast reports that Giuliani is putting together his own counter-report to discredit Mueller in preparation for the Special Counsel’s own report on Trump. [What’s he gonna say he filed 30 indictments just because he wanted his golfing fees back?]
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Greg Guttfield gives Fox credit for “radicalizing” Trump and turning his White House into an alternative Fox News program. [It’s not just Trump...]
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Natasha Bertrand of the Atlantic explains to Chris Hayes how the National Enquirer “dirt” stories confirm parts of the Steele Dossier, particularly that there was Kompromat available on Trump which made him susceptible to blackmail, and that Cohen’s roll as a “Fixer” matches the allegation that he may have tried to pay-off Romanian hackers in Prague. [Also Cohen was paid back $50,000 for “IT Services” by the campaign, but he didn't work on the campaign.]
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Chuck Todd suggests that there may be a big announcement from the Mueller Investigation arriving on Friday (8/31) and that if there was “no collusion” he would have already ended the probe.
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Former DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller explains on MSNBC why Mueller may still indict after labor day because: ‘Roger Stone’s not on the ballot’.
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Attorney’s for the Trump Foundation filed papers to have the self-dealing suit by NYAG Barbara Underwood thrown out claiming “fundamental legal and factual deficiencies,” and that it was politically motivated, reflecting her office’s “antipathy” toward the president.
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August 31st —
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Active Measures a documentary on Russian intelligence efforts to impact the politics of other nations over the course of 30 years is released on Hulu.
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At a rally in Indiana Trump vows to fight online censorship of conservative news: “You look at Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants and I made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting and rigged search results,” He also vows to “Get involved” if the DOJ doesn’t start investigating Hillary’s server, again, as the crowd chants “Lock Her Up”, even though Trump is the one with former staffers going to prison.
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Analysis of the Google News service indicates that it doesn’t provide wildly different results for Liberals and Conservatives, unlike Facebook or Twitter — but that it does tend to favor news sites that provide a high volume of original reporting such as sites like the NYTimes, Washington Post, CNN, Politico and Huffpo.
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New Orleans’ WGNO reported that Harvard Law School Lecturer Thomas Frampton is suing the Louisiana State Police on behalf of a civil rights lawyer who discovered a list titled “full list of antifa.docx” that bore a striking resemblance to a hoax roster circulated on the neo-Nazi Stormfront website.
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DOJ Official Bruce Ohr tells House committee during a closed door interview that Chris Steele told him that a former Russian intel officer said Russia feels they have “Trump over a barrell.”
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Bloomberg reports that after Trump refused to comment on whether McCain would have been a better President than Obama, he joked that his response had given Huckabee-Sanders a "nervous breakdown.” because of the shocked look on her face.
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The Daily Beast reports that Russia has signaled it intends to help Trump in the mid-terms by undercutting is opponents in the GOP. “Naturally, Trump’s team — if they aren’t suicidal — will find arguments in support of the president,” said Konstantin Zatulin, a leading figure in Putin’s United Russia party. “Those who don’t, won’t be on his team — or maybe they won’t be in Congress.”
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An associate of Russia GRU operative Konstantin Kilimnick, Samuel Patten, 47, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Washington to violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by lobbying for the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc between 2014 and 2018 in collaboration with Victor Yanakovych’s former Chief of Staff Sergei Lovochkin without disclosing the work to the U.S. government. Patten agreed to cooperate in response to the charges which were referred by Mueller to the US Attorney for DC and the National Security Division. Also the Senate Intel committee had made a criminal referral against Patten after he was interviewed by their staff that had both lied to them and destroyed relevant documents.
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in 2014 Patten had worked with Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL while they were aiding the campaign of Ted Cruz and played a central role in SCL Group’s work in Nigeria in early 2015, when the Cambridge Analytica parent company reportedly hired Israeli hackers to steal emails and dig compromising information on the candidate challenging incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan. Similar methods were used by the Russian hacker in 2016 against Hillary Clinton's campaign which might literally have been the result collusion between Cambridge and the GRU possibly thru Kilimnick which might explain the remote access to Prof. Alexandr Kogan’s core voter data files which came from Russia.
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Speakers at the Aretha Franklin Funeral blast Trump and support Black Lives Matter.
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CNN reports that Patten also acted as a straw purchaser for an Ukrainian oligarch who used him to purchase tickets for the Trump Inaugural by funneling the money through and account in the bank of Cyprus.
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Vanessa Marquez, an actress who appeared on the popular TV drama ‘ER,’ was shot and killed by a South Pasadena Police Department officer after reportedly pulling out a BB-gun while officers and a mental care worker were doing a welfare check on the uncooperative actress, who had been suffering from seizures and eating disorders.
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The Toronto Star reports that trade talks with Canada broke down after Bloomberg had leaked insulting comments made by Trump about our norther neighbor nation, which were supposedly “off the record.” “Off the record, Canada’s working their ass off. And every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala,”
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Trump 2020 Campaign Chairman Brad Pascale lashes out at ABC and the WaPo for publishing polls showing Trump’s popularity is plummeting with a 60% disapproval rating and over 56% feel that he committed obstruction of justice.
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Two junior members of Mueller team, prosecutors Ryan Dickey and Brian Richardson have departed.
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Trump is considering Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone to replace White House Counsel Don McGahn, according to a Washington Post report. Cipollone’s lawfirm has specialized in defamation cases for public figures and “prepublication” cases against the media. [So he’s finally getting himself his “Roy Cohn” to kneecap the press.]
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Neo-Nazis are generating racists robocalls against Dem nominee for FL Governor Andrew Gillum who is the first African-American to ever become a final candidate, because apparently “monkey this up" wasn’t enough on the nose.
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Michelle Goldberg at the NYTimes argues that Trump has more White nationalists in his administration than he has African-Americans since the depature of Manigult-Newman.
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House Democrats accuse Republicans of “Cherry-Picking” and leaking text messages and emails between Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele with the press without sharing them with members of the minority in violation of House rules.
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Giuliani suggest Mueller should be investigating Bruce Ohr for allegedly violating 18 U.S. Code § 208 — which quite ironically is the law that prohibits Federal Officials from personally profiting on their official decisions — arguing that somehow Bruce Ohr didn't properly disclose that his wife worked for Fusion GPS along with Steele, although I don’t get how that works at all since Fusion didn't earn anything extra by Steele going to the DOJ and FBI and her employment there had nothing to do with Steele.
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Mediamatters reports that despite all the whining about social media censorship Right-Wing meme engagement on Facebook has increased in the last year, not been suppressed.
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Laura Ingraham — who has her own problems with allegations of racism — plays “Shock the Monkey” during an interview with Ron Desantis and advises that he demands Andrew Gillum apologize to him for his saying voters shouldn’t “monkey up” things by voting for Gillum, except that Gillum never accused DeSantis of a racist statement, he refused to take the bait. Then Hannity tells DeSantis — because of course, he gets to be on back-to-back shows — that people have deliberately taken his “comment out of context.”
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September 1st —
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September 2nd —
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Russian Troll farm linked TruthfeedNews publishes a "LOONG” list of CNN Lies — a total of 20 over the last few years — which are nearly all accidental mistakes that they made and later corrected. Then they claim that some CNN host who raised their hands ala "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" where "lying” in 2014, because the 2015 DOJ report on Michael Brown’s shooting claimed he "kept his hands at his sides” - except that’s a mistake because the report didn't say that, it said they couldn’t confirm where his hands or arms where at all. But they don't bother to correct that mistake.
Sen Lindsey Graham says that the Mueller probe isn't illegal, but that the FBI and DOJ were “in the tank” for Clinton. [Even tho the Inspector General said they weren’t, and there is a cabal of Hillary Haters at the NY Field Office.] He also says that McCain’s lessons of strength and kindness were not "mutually exclusive.”
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Sen Sullivan says it would be “politically unwise” for Trump to fire Sessions.
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Grassley prays for “Presidential Discipline.”
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Former FBI Agent Anna Rangappa says Mueller current line of inquiry could lead to more indictments for Trump associates. “I think there’s going to be another series of indictments concerning illegal campaign contributions, and this Patten plea being the first of them but where Russia may have been using straw donors, illegal donors, to funnel money into places that they would otherwise not be able to directly,” Rangappa said.
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Cohen and Flynn launch GoFundMe pages to help pay for their legal bills.
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Trump tweets the names of all 4 of his black supporters, from Kanye to Tiger Woods, jIm Brown and George Foreman, to prove his 3% approval by African-Americans is low, or something.
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Alyssa Milano points out that most of Trump’s 54 Million twitter followers are “bots” by betting their her own tweet reply about them will get more likes and retweets than his original, and she's right.
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Florida Chair of the Republican Black Caucus explodes at Al Sharpton calling him a race-baiter and black socialist [Because they really got nothing else rhetorically.]
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Senator John McCain is laid to rest in Annapolis.
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September 3rd—
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Trump celebrates labor day by crowing about low unemployment and attacking trade deals, again. Meanwhile, income inequality and wage growth are not that great, so more people are working at really shitty dead-end jobs.
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The Kremlin taunts the U.S. for their “crude” attempts to recruit Russian informants via Bruce Ohr.
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Fox host Dagen McDowell began yelling at Fox News analyst Marie Harf for saying wage growth isn't that great. [Because it's not.] “It’s not high, wages are growing faster than inflation. Period.” [Nope. According to the Labor Department, median weekly earnings fell 0.6% in inflation-adjusted dollars in the second quarter, compared to the same time period of 2017.]
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Trump attacks Sessions for not letting accused Republican criminals like Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins get away with it, whining that the GOP may now lose those seats. “Two long-running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff…” [Way to show your priorities there, Drumpfh.]
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Jeffrey Toobin says his Sessions tweet could be an ‘Impeachable offense’.
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Giuliani says the WH may try to block portions of the Mueller report from reaching Congress and the Public by claiming “constitutional privilege.”
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September 4th —
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Former Arizona Senator John Kyl is selected to replace John McCain until the next election in November.
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Early releases of Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear” which is based on recorded interviews with various members of WH staff becomes a nuclear bombshell. Trump himself was very upset that he wasn't interviewed by Woodward, but he had tried at least 6 times to have an interview but Trump’s staff had blocked it — which confirms a lot of the main themes of the book and Scaramucci’s claim that there are people in the WH who think they have to protect the country from Trump.
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In 2017, President Donald Trump addressed the riot of white nationalists chanting ‘Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville by observing that there were “very fine people” on “both sides.” “That was the biggest f*cking mistake I’ve made,” Trump told advisers shortly after giving a speech that condemned white nationalists. Woodward’s sources also told him Trump called the speech “the worst” he’d ever given.
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According to Woodward’s sources, the president opted out after flubbing a practice session set up by aides. “I don’t really want to testify,” Trump said at the end of a half-an-hour rant against his attorneys. “It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit,” one of his attorneys reportedly warned. And that after this John Dowd supposedly went to Mueller and told them Trump couldn't testify because he would “makeup stories and lie.” Mueller reportedly responded, “I need the President’s testimony, I need to know his intent on Comey, did he have corrupt intent?” The following day Dowd resigned.
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John Kelly called Trump an ‘idiot’ who has ‘gone off the rails in Crazytown’,
- According to the book, Secretary of Defense James Mattis once said that Trump “acted like — and had the understanding of — a fifth- or sixth-grader.” The president’s poor understanding of global diplomacy occurred during a meeting about troops on the Korean Peninsula.
- In a bid to thwart a third world war, aides reportedly hid documents from Trump. James Mattis apparently once snapped at Trump “We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,” after he was asked why the U.S. is spending money to detect North Korea missile launches. [This was part of the same exchange that led to Tillerson supposedly called him a “Fucking Moron.”]
- Following the launch of chemical attacks against his own people, Bashar al-Assad apparently almost became a target of US assassination. According to Woodward’s sources, when the president heard news of the attack, he exploded and ranted “Let’s kill the f*cking lot of them.” Aides convinced him to instead opt for an air strike.
- Several staffers have taken paperwork on the Oval Office desk to protect the nation:
In one case, an aide swiped a letter that would have withdrawn the U.S. from a trade agreement with South Korea that affects our ability to monitor North Korean nukes. “I stole it off his desk,” former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn said, according to the report. “I wouldn’t let him see it. He’s never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.”
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Former staff secretary Rob Porter said he also stole documents off the Resolute desk. “A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren’t such good ideas,” Porter reportedly said.
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Trump also reportedly called Jeff Sessions a “Mentally retarded dumb southerner.”
- Sarah Huckabee-Sanders claps back “This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, [Except that Mattis and Kelly are still there] told to make the President look bad,” [He does that all on his own.] “President Trump has broken through the bureaucratic process to deliver unprecedented successes for the American people.” [Not at all “unprecedented” since Clinton had greater GDP and also balanced the budget.]
- Kelly denies that he ever called Trump “Idiot”, except this isn’t the first time this report has come out nor is it the first time he’s denied. it. He doesn’t deny of the rest of it like “gone off the rails in Crazytown” though.
- Fox News Howard Kurtz points out that several of Woodward’s sources are still in the White House.
- Fox News Brit Hume says “Thank god for the people who steal papers to stop him from destroying the nation”
- GOP pollster John Couvillion indicates that the blue wave is real. “From looking at primary turnout as evidence of partisan enthusiasm, I’m seeing it on the Democratic side.”
- Fox online host says Colin Kaepernick is a ‘revered character among America-hating leftists’.
- Salon documents that every time he had a chance Kavanaugh ruled against protecting women's reproductive rights.
- Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing begins.
- Rumors spread that the woman sitting behind Kavanaugh flashed a White-power “Not-OK” symbol. Right-media argues this is WH advisor and former Kavanaugh clerk Zina Bash who has Mexican and Jewish heritage, so she’s couldn't possibly be a “white supremacist”. [Unfortunately, that doesn't explain Steve Cortez] Also the same symbol is sign-language for “Asshole.”
- Nike shares dip 2% as Colin Kaepernick ad spurs boycott.
- Mueller issues a written response to Trump's lawyers from 3 weeks previous about a face-to-face interview saying that they will accept written answer to questions on Russia, but not on collusion.
- Zina Bash’s husband uses an Official U.S Attorney twitter account to defend his wife, claiming she's half Mexican and she was just scratching her arm, but the video shows her holding the position — which is known as a symbol for the III percenters — for 15 solid minutes without scratching.
- September 5th —
- September 6th —
- NYTimes publishes an anonymous Resistance editorial by a "high ranking administration official" says that Trump’s behavior is "off the rails" and a threat to national security stating that many government officials are working behind the scenes to save the nation, and him from himself, and that the cabinet had considered the 25th Amendment early on, which is consistent with what Steve Bannon said in “Fire and Fury” and also consistent with when James Comey talked John Kelly out of resigning because “principled people” needed to be around Trump and the section from Woodward’s “Fear” where Gary Cohn says he took a letter canceling the U.S.-South Korea trade agreement out of the oval office to “protect the country.”
- Actor Burt Reynolds dies at age 82.
- Trump demands that the NYTimes turn the anonymous op-ed author "over to the government" and suggests that he (or she) may have committed "Treason?” [It's a complaint letter from the staff, not the release of State Secrets.] Then he says the author probably "isn't real" [Which means there’s no one to turn over, and no "Treason" — also this reaction pretty much proves they were correct.]
- Pence spox denies that he wrote the op-ed. "We're above such acts.” even though it uses the term “lodestar" which is a favorite of Pence's instead of “Northstar.”
- Pompeo denies he wrote it, so does Dan Coats.
- Corey Booker vows to release some of the “Congress Confidential" emails related to Kavanaugh and racial profiling, even if it means violating Senate rules and could have him expelled, Other Senate Dems join him. However, Kavanaugh’s gatekeeper Bill Burke — who also happens to be both Steve Bannon and Don McGahn’s attorney — had already released the documents in question earlier that morning and Booker was informed of this. He later argues that he had read the first email during a hearing the previous evening, and had released 20 more that weren't cleared by Burke.
- Sen Hirono releases so-called “Congress Confidential" emails where Kavanaugh rails against protections for native Hawaiians claiming it's a “naked racial set-aside”
- the Guardian reports that Trump personally intervened to get a government photographer to edit photos of his inauguration to hide evidence that his crowd size was smaller than the crowd at former President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
- CNN’s John Berman does a real-time fact check to Corey Lewandowski’s manic attack on the White House ‘resistance’ leaker where he claims that they must be "an Obama holdover.”
- Some of the hidden emails show that Kavanaugh had argued that Roe V Wade wasn’t settled law among scholars, although he’s been saying all day under oath that's it's “double precedent” after Casey.
- Trump admin signals they plan to withdraw from the Flores immigrant child detention agreement, although it was really a judgment which has since been upheld.
- Sarah Huckabee-Sanders posts the NYTimes phone number and tells people to ask them to ID ‘gutless loser’ op-ed writer.[Right, so ok, next time she goes to a restaurant can we post her home phone number?]
- Sean Hannity claims The ‘Deep State’ put a ‘hit’ out on Trump with the anonymous New York Times op-edl
- NDA’d former Trump campaign staffer Mike Caputo says the NY Times op-ed writer must be ‘investigated and jailed’.
- Bandy Lee, the Yale University psychiatrist who edited the bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” explained in an email conversation that these “revelations” about Trump seem entirely predictable based on his public and other behavior. Lee also says she had been contacted by 2 administration officials to help with Trump whom they said had gone mentally “off the rails" in October.
- Ryan Lizza posts the document from Bob Woodward's “Fear" that he claims former Trump financial advisor Gary Cohn said he “swiped from the Resolute desk” so Trump wouldn’t see it.
- Dozens of Trump top Lieutenants claim they didn’t write Deep State Throat op-ed. [Yeah neither did everyone on the Orient Express.]
- Pat Leahy catches Kavanaugh in a series of lies over his claim he didn't know emails sent to him by GOP Congressional staff had been stolen from Democrat’s computers: “I was born at night, but not last night.”
- Ted Cruz claims the Deep State Throat has to be a Democrat.
- Former Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes goes to work for RT.
- Omarosa said the Resistance Op-Ed came out of Mike Pence’s office.
- Axio reports that some White House staffers are saying they wish they had written the R anon op-ed themselves. “There are dozens and dozens of us.”
- Sen. Ben Sasse says the R-anon op-ed is exactly like what they already here from WH staffers on the Hill.
- Kavanaugh stumbles as he's asked by Sen. Kamala Harris if he's had personal communications with Trump's lawyers from the office of Mark Kasowitz about the Mueller probe, which he denies more forcefully afterward. Harris later says she has reliable information that there was a conversation between Kavanaugh and someone at Kasowitz's firm, which means possible perjury.
- Rep. Mark Meadows claims Democrats want to investigate the R anon leaker.
- Melania says the R anon op-ed is “cowardly and sabotaging.”
- The “It wasn’t me” list grows to 12 Cabinet secretaries but not John Kelly, yet.
- Fox News host A.B. Stoddard says Trump ‘doesn’t have the temperament for the hardest job on the planet’ and is now likely to purge
- Tony Schwartz says ‘Mueller has 40 years worth of crimes’ to expose’ [He probably won’t go back that far himself, but he may hand off more cases to SDNY or DC US Attorney]
- Matt Dowd and Chris Christie says the Trump admin is sinking after being torpedoed by New York Times op-ed.
- So-called “Civil Libertarian” Rand Paul says Trump should use a lie detector test to see who R anon is.
- AP reports that Giuliani has finally dropped the charade and admitted that Trump isn't going to answer any questions from Mueller in writing or otherwise. It’s a “no go.” [Go Go Rocket Subpeona!]
- Alex Jones and Infowars get permanently banned from Twitter and Periscope for abusive behavior.
- RNC Chair Ronna Romney-McDaniels long essay saying that nobody cares who wrote the NYT op-ed. [So I guess nobody is in the WH running the country right now...]
- Kavanaugh dodges and weaves as Cory Booker grills him on whether he ‘respects’ Donald Trump.
- Wolf Blitzer points out John Kelly may have denied calling Trump an "idiot" but he hasn't denied writing the op-ed yet.
- Paul Ryan say the op-ed author is “Living in Dishonesty. It doesn’t help the President. If you’re not interested in helping the President, you shouldn’t work for the President”
- Grassley claims that the reason Bill Burke is involved in the vetting process of Kavanaugh docs from the Bush-era is that it would take the National Archive 37 weeks to process the amount of info, but Dick Durbin quotes a letter from the Archives dated August 2nd saying they would have it done by the end of October.
- To find R anon alleged former civil libertarian Sen. Rand Paul has decided to let out his inner Stalin and said that everyone in the White House with a security clearance should take a polygraph test.
- In response to this former FBI and CIA officer Phil Mudd said on CNN “Where’s the crime?” [It’s not the FBI’s job to hunt down who wrote Trump a “Dear Donald, I like your policies but I’m just not that into you anymore” letter, which had no national security impact.] He says Trump would have to bring in private contractors to do this. [And since he’s a cheapskate skinflint, I would assume he’d pay for it using money from his Inauguration fund which is still got about $100 Million of partially Russian money slushing around, unaccounted for.]
- Trump argues at a Montana rally that if his supporters don't vote America will become a “Banana Republic” where the opposite party will always try to Impeach whoever is in the White House [Where the frack was he the last 8 years when Birthers - like him- wanted to impeach Obama before he was even sworn in?] He also rails over the “unelected deep state with their own agendas” and said even liberals who hate him are against the R anon Op-ed. [He means Rep. Swalwell who says Anon should come forward, but I think Batman where’s a mask for a reason.] He also says there was “fake news" in response to Lincoln's Gettysburg address, but George Conway says the reviews were very nice.
- A Trump administration official told the Daily Beast on condition of anonymity that the members of the group “went around fist-bumping each other” when the op-ed came out.
- Zina Bash flashes the “OK" sign again while sitting directly behind Kavanaugh on camera - because of course, she does.
- ThinkProgress and the Atlantic document that many DailyCaller reporters keep getting airtime on Russian media such as Sputnik News, some had written numerous articles for Richard Spencer’s alt-right website, and the Daily Stormer had called Tucker Carlson's Fox News program “Daily Stormer: The Show.”
- September 7th —
- Rawstory reports that 18 months ago a set of psychiatrist put together “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” which shows that mental health professionals agree with Woodward and R Anon.
- Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi won't be making his scheduled appearance before the Mueller grand jury as his attorney David Gray attempts to get him a private sit-down with investigators.
- Trump supposedly has his R anon suspect list down to just 12 people.
- Mueller hardens his position and wants a follow up personal interview following the written questions of Trump, both of which Giuliani is currently refusing. [This is headed to Subpeona Town.]
- Papadopoulos asks for leniency just prior to his sentencing.
- Reports surface that there is a grand jury investigating Andrew McCabe for making false statements to the DOJ Inspector general.
- Lindsey Graham jumps in front of some microphones with a conspiracy theory that the R anon op-ed shows that Meuller has no proof of collusion with Russia because somehow he has something to do with something that invoked this “Trump is crazy" hail mary. [Don’t ask me, I don’t get it either.]
- Kavanaugh protestor arrests reach 200.
- Former Page Six editor Jeane MacIntosh tells the New York Times that Trump once told her that he planned on divorcing his second wife, Marla Maples because he couldn’t stand her southern family. “Are you old enough to remember the show ‘The Beverly Hillbillies?'” Trump said, according to MacIntosh. “That’s exactly her family, except they came to New York City instead of Beverly Hills.” [So we should believe he didn’t call Sessions a “dumb southerner” because of what?’]
- Dana Bash reports that the GOP donor base is in full retreat after Woodward and R anon.
- Republican Muslims are also standing down on midterms: ‘Unless you’re white you don’t matter to them’.
- According to the Washington Post, White House aides including Reince Priebus wishing to manipulate the president would provide talking points to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) or Bob Corker (R-TN) before golf outings with Trump in hopes of preventing the president from making rash or disastrous policy decisions.
- Reince Priebus would backburner Trump’s requests for someone to be fired or policies to be put in place, by telling the president it would happen “next week,” then dropping it entirely knowing Trump would have forgotten what he had asked for.
- Trump calls for Sessions to investigate the R anon author and says he’s looking to taking legal action against the NYTimes.
- Obama gives an hour-long speech in Illinois and mocks Trump’s “economic miracle” as simply an extension of what he previously started.
- Roger Stone pal Radio host Randy Credico testifies before Mueller's grand jury.
- Federal prosecutors in New York turn to examine investigating Trump Org executives for campaign finance violations.
- Manafort’s may plead guilty to get out of having to go to his second trial.
- Papadopoulos is sentenced to 14 days for having lied to the FBI about his meetings with Russian assets during Trump's campaign. Then he appears for an extended interview/special with Jake Tapper on CNN and claims he doesn't remember if he told anyone in the Trump campaign about the Hillary emails, [However he clearly emailed Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller about it, in fact Sessions even asked him to “find out all he could" about the emails] and he doesn't remember telling Australian diplomat Alexander Downer either which is what started the Russia investigation when Downer went to the FBI. He also explains how FBI informant Stephan Halper tried to interrogate him over Russian hacking while he claimed he didn't know anything about it [but he did because that's what he told Downer], and how a possible Israeli agent may have tried to recruit him.
- Michael Cohen’s shell company will tear up hush money agreement with Stormy Daniels — and demands she pay back the $130K.
- Jack Kingston gets humiliated on CNN for calling NYT op-ed ‘sedition’.
- Nike suffers a huge jump in sales for their decision to make Colin Kaepernick the face of their 2018 “just do it” campaign.
- Parkland shooting survivor Aaliyah Eastmond gives a harrowing account of her experiences as she lobbies against the confirmation of Kavanaugh because of his support for relaxed gun policies.
- Fox analyst bitterly complain that Obama ‘breaking norms’ by criticizing Trump.
- September 8th —
- The op-ed writer snipe hunt continues as Trump's list of suspects narrows to “just a few people”, Kellyanne Conway says they don't believe it's someone in the WH, they think it's someone in national security. Meanwhile, John Kelly says "let it go”, but Trump argues that he "doesn't want this person in a classified meeting.”
- George Zimmerman issues death threats against Beyonce and Jay Z over their producing a Trayvon Martin documentary.
- WaPo reporter Josh Rogan says the WH “Doesn’t know squat” about who wrote the NYT anon op-ed.
- Grassley is blocking the appointment William Evanina, an Obama appointee who was nominated by Trump to be director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center until he receives unredacted documents on the origin of the Russia investigation which are being held as Secret by DNI Dan Coats.
- Judge Jeanine blast Obama for bashing Trump: ‘How dare you? He is to be respected!’ [Not when he doesn’t deserve it.]
- Former Cheerleaders from Kennesaw State University sue the school under the Klu Klux Klan act because they conspired to block their ability to protect racial injustice after they had kneeled during the national anthem.
- FL Republican Matt Gaetz does the Nazi “OK” symbol on Jesse Water’s show:
“Matt, don’t make that hand-gesture, they’re going to freeze-frame it,” Watters joked. [They did] “I know, right?” Gaetz said. “It just shows you the extent to which people want to focus on the absurd, rather than the substance.”
- September 9th —
- September 10th —
- Former Ted Cruz spox says it’s possible he could “lose his seat” to Beto O’Rouke. Reports are that Trump plans to do a rally for Cruz [Which should make his wife and father’s head explode.]
- Sen Feinstein says Kavanaugh thinks he’s an “oligarch that can’t be investigated.”
- Trump says Woodward’s book is a joke, “I’ll write the book.” [If that means you plan to retire early, fine we’ll go with that]
- Omarosa visits The View to drop off an audio tape of Trump derailing a WH meeting on tax reform with a rant about Hillary and Russia, claiming it was illegal for the DNC to hire Fusion GPS [But somehow not illegal for Don Jr. to invite what he thought was a Russia government lawyer — and also a GRU asset (Ahkmetshin) — into Trump tower to get “dirt” on Hillary.]
- A high school football game descends into a racist Trump rally as one team’s fans sports “Build the Wall” signs and “USA USA” chants when they score. The opposing team, which has Chicanos and Dreamers, threatened to leaves the field.
- Bob Woodward explains on the Today show how Trump is a constant threat to national security. “This has not been treated seriously enough,” Woodward said. “Some of the things Trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. This country does some things in the intelligence world which are so important to protect the country they are astonishing. They are secret. They are called special access programs, and he jeopardizes them.”
- Instead of being tough on human rights violators — the Trump administration decides it’s going to be tough on the International Criminal Court by threatening sanctions and prosecution against its judges in retaliation for cases against the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
- Trump calls for the declassification of documents related to Bruce Ohr, which could damage efforts to take down Russian gangsters like Semion Mogelivich and Oleg Deripaska.
- Sarah Huckabee-Sanders finally has a press conference after 19 days where he brings out Trump's economic guys who claim that the economy improved as soon as the election occurred, but when asked who deserves “credit” says that he prefers to give credit to “policies rather than people" — except that there were no policies instituted right after the election. Apparently, business confidence rose because they had a "good feeling” about Trump - which means it could have gone up earlier except big business and Wall Street didn't want to give Obama that “Win". He takes the blame for Trump’s “first time the GDP has been higher than unemployment in 100 years” tweet by claiming he accidentally added an extra zero, but it’s still not the best GDP in 10 years either. GDP growth was last higher than unemployment in 2006.
- Judge in Maria Butina case drops allegations that she attempted to trade “sex for access" as the emails on this subject appear to obviously be a joke. However, ABC releases emails that show that Butina arranged for a meeting between high level NRA official and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.
- September 11th —
- Quoting Lou Dobbs Trump attacks Strzok, Page and Holder over a letter from Mark Meadows about two new text messages from Strzok about a “DOJ Media Leak strategy” except that this was a strategy according to Strzok’s lawyer to STOP Leaks, not strategically create them.
- House Oversight Committee responds to Meadow’s new rumors about Strzok: The documents clearly show that Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page were not discussing how to leak documents to the press—but whether the Justice Department should change its regulations to stop leaks to the media.”
- Even Fox News calls out Trump’s ridiculous claim that 4.2% GDP is the “higher than unemployment for the first time in 100 years” because it’s not.
- Trump gives a speech at the Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial — which yeah, sucks — after greeting supporters at the airport with a double fist pump. [Just for contrast remember how people reacted when Obama didn’t wear a flag pin once, completely stood up but still “broke the law" when didn't put his hand over his heart during “Star Spangled Banner” — even though the “flag codes” and the Bellamy Salute to the pledge of allegiance which were designed to be the American version/variation of the “Heil Hitler" salute are not part of U.S. criminal law — or perhaps when he saluted with a coffee in his hand while coming out of Marine One, all of which we were told wre great moral failings, but Trump double fist pumping during just before a memorial 2,900 dead Americans is no problem.]
- With Cat 4 Hurricane Florence bearing down on South Carolina Trump rants about how their response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was “best job we did” even though almost 3,000 people — nearly as many as during 9/11/01 — died from lack of clean water and power. “I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful,” Trump claimed. Trump repeatedly and erroneously claimed that Puerto Rico did not have power before the storms hit. “I think Puerto Rico was an incredible unsung success,” Trump bragged.
- Woodward’s “Fear: Trump inside the White House” hits books shelves and there’s more juice.
- Sen Jeff Merkley releases documents that show Trump defunded $10 Million from FEMA ‘response and recovery’ to spend on ICE detentions — just before hurricane season.
- Trump only approved 75 out of 2000 requests funeral assistance for Puerto Rico — then called it an ‘unsung success’
- Manafort is still in talks with Mueller over a plea deal in advance of his second trial.
- US deficit is now scheduled to reach $1 Trillion again after the for the first time since the great recessions two years earlier than expected.
- September 12th —
- Putin says the two suspects in the Skirpal poisoning case are “civilians" and not “criminals” or members of Russian Military intelligence.
- The Intercept reports complaints from Democrats that Ranking Judiciary member Diane Feinstein has possession of a secret letter with information about the Kavanaugh nomination. [This is a letter from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about being sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh during a party in 1982, which Feinstein had promised on Aug 31st to keep confidential, after the Intercept report she refers the letter to the FBI.]
- Woodward explains on Morning Joe how Trump throws tantrums when confronted with the truth. “In the foreign policy areas, the handling of North Korea, Afghanistan, the Middle East, all of the immigration issues, all of the trade issues, I was able to excavate and find out actually what happened,” Woodward said. “This is the pattern — he won’t face what’s real.” When confronted by his aides who say things like the WTO rules in favor of the U.S. 85% of the time, he won't take their advice and call them to confirm it, and when asked why he believes what he does he says “I’ve believed these things for 30 years.”
- Released “Committee Confidential” emails involving Brett Kavanaugh indicate that although he had testified in 2006 that he “didn’t handle” the nomination of Judge William Haynes to the Federal Bench, Kavanaugh did consult on his selection in 2002 and played golf with Haynes in 2003. Other documents indicate that he was involved in decisions on the Bush detainee interrogation policies although he testified that he wasn’t.
- Trump is reportedly starting to believe he might be Impeached by a Democratic House, but thinks that it may be an advantage since the Senate will never remove him and he’ll be able to use it to “play the victim” for his 2020 re-election campaign.
- Joe Klein argues on CNN that “We have a national crisis right now, and it is very serious, and we have to focus on that,” he said. “It is yet another source that says that we are dealing with a very fundamentally deranged person who is leading our country right now,” Klein said. “And thank God there are people, sane people who are surrounding him, who might limit the damage because the legal recourses here move very, very slowly.”
- GOP party officials are fearful that they may lose control of the U.S. Senate, a prospect the Washington Post called “unthinkable” up until now. “Shipwreck” is the word used by a party operative talking to the Post.
- Eric Trump trashes Woodward on Fox News: “Don’t you think people look through the fact, you can write some sensational, nonsense book, CNN will definitely have you on there because they love to trash the president. It’ll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels...” [So now we can add “anti-semite” to his asshole qualifications.”
- Trump’s ICE and DOJ are using onerous demands for voting records to try and suppress the vote in North Carolina and other states while ignoring the use of fraudulent absentee ballots to support Republican candidates.
- Buzzfeed reports that Trump ally Aras Agalarov made a bunch of suspicious cash transferals of $1.2 Million from their bank in Russia to previously unused accounts in New Jersey starting immediately after the Don Jr/Veselnitskaa meeting and again after Election day.
- ABC TV spiked the airing of an anti-Trump Episode of Black-ish which has already completed production and had all copies of the script “wiped from the planet” to prevent offending red-state viewers.
- Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says on MSNBC that Trump can be subpoenaed and he can also be indicted, but not under the current DOJ rules that Mueller is working with — however, those rules can be changed.
- Two sources who spoke to ABC News said Manafort’s team is “pushing prosecutors for a plea agreement that does not include cooperation, at least as related to the president.”
- Gloria Borger argues that Trump's attacks the Special Counsel may have backfired as Mueller’s popularity ratings have improved and the majority of American believe Trump should sit down and be interviewed.
- Conservative ex-Republican Max Boot unloads on Tucker Carlson’s latest anti-diversity rant as “Racist and Un-American" in a WaPo column.
- “He may be much worse than he was when I worked for him,” former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. “We were able to control him and we had a good crew” after Res wrote a column claiming that Trump had had all braille writing removed from Trump Tower’s elevators. “I‘m sure it’s true,” Res said. “I‘m sure everything they said was true.”
- Senator Orrin Hatch states Trump had better not fire Jeff Sessions because he would probably only be able to get a Democrat through the Senate as a replacement.
- Woodward slams back at Eric Trump: “I just hope no one would talk like that, frankly, I think that just doesn’t fit. I’m sorry. Anyone talks like that, whether it’s a dog whistle or whatever the intent is, it’s not — part of the point of this book is that we need to have a serious debate about serious issues. And to use invective and this attack rhetoric, whatever it might be, it sets us back.”
- In additional excerpts from Woodward’s “Fear,” Trump exploded in white-hot rages when Comey released his notes and fostered the appointment of Mueller as Special Counsel: “Trump’s mood deteriorated overnight and the next day, May 18, was the worst,” the book continues. “The president erupted into uncontrollable anger, visibly agitated to a degree that no one in his inner circle had witnessed before. It was a harrowing experience.” “We barely got by,” Porter told the aide.
- Katy Tur clashes with Matt Schlapp who continues to insist that Trump’s lie about this being the first time the GDP is higher than un-employment in 100 years is true, even though even Fox News has already debunked it, and the WH budget guy has apologized for it being wrong. Schlapp aslo gets hammer by CNN’s Alison Camerota when he tries to downplay Michael Cohen’s felony campaign finance convictions which he said were specifically requested by Trump.”
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- September 14th —
- Paul Manafort agrees to plead guilty for conspiracy and witness tampering in exchange for a full cooperation agreement which requires him to be interviewed, provide documentation and testify without his attorneys or the 5th amendment on “any and all matters”.
- 895,000 people lose power as Florence batters the Carolinas with rain as a Cat 1 Hurricane.
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- FBI refuses to investigate secret letter allegations against Kavanaugh reported by Democrats.
- Trump's aides believe he will pardon Manafort — which could be an impeachable offense.
- President Donald Trump is rebranding NAFTA as the USMC pact—for U.S., Mexico and Canada—though he’s still threatening to ditch the “C” if Canada doesn’t bend to his wishes.
- Admiral Bill McRaven, former commander of Seal Team Six when they implemented the raid on Bin Laden, resigns from a Pentagon Board in protest against Trump.
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WH reacts to Manafort plea deal: “This has nothing to do with Trump.” [The deal doesn’t but Manafort’s cooperation arrangement could.]
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65 Women from Kavanaugh high school days sign a letter attesting to his integrity. [What guy who knows 65 women from high school that well, has integrity that high?]
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Senator Mark Warner states that any pardon for Manafort by Trump would be a “gross misuse of power.”
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Conservatives are outraged by Nike hiring Kaepernick, while their stock rises to an all-time high of $83.47 per share.
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Vanity Fair magazine’s Emily Jane Fox reported that former Trump Organization executive and “fixer” Michael Cohen is in talks to “flip” and cooperate with Mueller. [Which proves me wrong.]
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Pompeo slams John Kerry for his discussions with Iran asking them to maintain the Nuclear Agreement and "wait out Trump.”
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Former WH ethics czar Norm Eisen tells Jennifer Rubin at WaPo: “The reported cooperation agreement could be devastating to the president — and those around him. Manafort, for example, could implicate not only the president in the Trump Tower meeting — but also others who were involved such as Don Jr. or [Jared] Kushner,”
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Paul Manafort “has no info on President or campaign,” Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd wrote in an email to other lawyers involved in the case, according to New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.
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September 15th —
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September 16th —
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Tomi Lahren calls anyone who votes for Democrats stupid and ill-informed.
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Alyssa Milano calls out Collins and Murkowski for continuing to consider Kavanaugh after they threw Al Franken under the bus.
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Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge who was allegedly in the room during the assault denies it happened, but he also mentions in his books about a hard-partying friend named “Bart Kavanaugh."
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Politico reports that a WH source says “No way, not even a hint of it,” the lawyer said according to the site. “If anything, it’s the opposite. If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried. We can all be accused of something.”
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Ann Coulter dismissed Manafort's cooperation agreement: ‘What is it exactly he’s going to flip on?’: [Any plans made to violate campaign finance and the Logan act made before the Veselnitskaya meeting, Why he agreed to work on the campaign for free when he owed Oleg Deripaska $18 Million, why he had the RNC platformed changed on arms for Ukraine, why there was Russian intel chatter on the Trump campaign asking them for help, and they mentioned Manafort's name?]
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford comes forward to say that Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her 36 years ago when she was 13 and he was 17 while drunk by holding her down with his hand over her mouth and trying to get her clothes off, but he was unsuccessful. Kavanaugh says that he doesn’t remember being at the party, but Ford had mentioned it to her husband and her therapist in 2012 and passed a polygraph on the subject requested by her attorney.
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