When It's Treasonable to Assert Your Privilege (The Mueller Investigation Part 102) (The Mueller Investigation Part 102)

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Previous thread titles for reference:

First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation (10/27/17)

First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation, Part Two (10/28/17)

The Four Treasons: Mueller Investigation, Part 3 (10/31/17)

A Man For All Treasons: Mueller Investigation, Part 4 (11/5/17)

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Treason! The Mueller Investigation Part 5 (12/4/17)

Treason Is The Reason For The Season! The Mueller Investigation Part 6 (12/16/17)

Treason to Believe (The Mueller Investigation Part 7) (12/26/17)

I Love You For Sentimental Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 8) (1/3/18)

Give Me One Treason To Stay Here... (The Mueller Investigation Part 9) (1/15/18)

Treasons of Love (The Mueller Investigation Part 10) (1/24/18)

For Treasons Which Are Well Known To Them (The Mueller Investigation Part 11) (1/30/18)

Come on and Treason Down, Treason Down the Road (The Mueller Investigation Part 12) (2/6/18)

13 Treasons Why (The Mueller Investigation Part 13) (2/18/18)

By Treason of Insanity (The Mueller Investigation Part 14) (2/23/18)

The Edge of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 15) (2/28/18)

A Treason to Live; A Treason to Die (The Mueller Investigation Part 16)…(3/10/18)

Treasons of the Heart (The Mueller Investigation Part 17) (3/17/18)

A Stormy Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 18) (3/21/18)

Lovin', Touchin', Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 19) (3/26/18)

Everything Happens for a Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 20) (4/4/18)

For All the Right Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 21) (4/11/18)

Treasons Change (The Mueller Investigation Part 22) (4/16/18)

Dangerous Tre'asons (The Mueller Investigation Part 23) (4/22/18)

Don't Stop (the) Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 24) (5/1/18)

Got This Treason in My Body (The Mueller Investigation Part 25) (5/7/18)

I'm Treason on a Jet Plane... (The Mueller Investigation Part 26) (5/14/18)

Treasonnaires' Disease (The Mueller Investigation Part 27) (5/21/18)

You've Lost That Lovin' Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 28) (6/2/18)

Multiple Treasons Why (The Mueller Investigation Part 29) (6/9/18)

For Undisclosed Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 30) (6/18/18)

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 31) (06/23/18)

Treason d'être (The Mueller Investigation Part 32) (06/30/18)

My Treasons Are Not My Own (The Mueller Investigation Part 33) (07/08/18)

The Treasons a Baby Cries (The Mueller Investigation Part 34) (07/13/19)

Get to Know Your Family Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 35) (07/15/18)

All You Got To Do is Hold Him And Kiss Him and Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 36) (07/17/18)

Fall or Spring? Which Would / Wouldn't Be Your Favorite Treason? (The Mueller Investigation Part 37) (07/18/18)

It's the Time of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 38) (07/21/18)

My Treasonal Summer Job Abroad (The Mueller Investigation Part 39) (07/25/18)

Yellow is the Color of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 40) (07/27/18)

The Treason for my Life's Trials and Tribulations (The Mueller Investigation Part 41) (07/31/18)

Hunting Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 42) (08/04/18)

It's Swimsuit Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 43) (08/07/18)

Treasonably Priced (The Mueller Investigation Part 44) (08/12/18)

Tre45onal Affective Disorder (The Mueller Investigation Part 45) (08/16/18)

A Plea for Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 46 (08/21/18)

Untreasonably Hot (The Mueller Investigation Part 47) (08/22/18)

There is a Treason... Turn, Turn, Turn (The Mueller Investigation Part 48) (08/24/18)

The Voice of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 49) (08/28/18)

The Golden Age of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 50) (09/03/18)

Treasons for Remaining Anonymous (The Mueller Investigation Part 51) (09/08/18)

Hurricane Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 52) (09/16/18)

All Natural Mushroom Treasoning (The Mueller Investigation Part 53) (09/22/18)

Treasoning with an Alcoholic (The Mueller Investigation Part 54) (09/28/18)

Judicial Treasoning (The Mueller Investigation Part 55) (10/06/18)

Treasons for Hidden Genius (The Mueller Investigation Part 56) (10/15/18)

Trick or Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 57) (10/25/18)

Several Treasons to Get Out and Vote in the Midterms (The Mueller Investigation Part 58) (11/5/18)

Heading Back to the Magical Keebler Elf Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 59) (11/11/18)

It's Turkey Picking Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 60) (November 18, 2018)

Stepping into the Holiday Treason! (The Mueller Investigation Part 61) (November 26, 2018)

Treason's Greetings! (The Mueller Investigation Part 62) (November 29, 2018)

Spirit of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 63) (December 3, 2018)

'Tis the Treason to be Jolly (The Mueller Investigation Part 64) (December 5, 2018)

Celebrate this Holiday Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 65) (December 8, 2018)

Treasons to Get out of Solitary (The Mueller Investigation Part 66) (December 10, 2018)

Numerous Treasons For Silence (The Mueller Investigation Part 67) December 12, 2018)

Treasons We Celebrate This Season (The Mueller Investigation Part 68) (December 15, 2018)

Trimming the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 69) (December 19, 2018)

O Christmas Treason, O Christmas Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 70) (December 22, 2018)

Treasons We'll Be Ringing in the New Year (The Mueller Investigation Part 71) (December 27, 2018)

Treasons I'm Coming For You (The Mueller Investigation Part 72) (January 3, 2019)

A Shutdown is Perfectly Treasonable (The Mueller Investigation Part 73) (January 6, 2019)

Treasons I'm Focused (The Mueller Investigation Part 74) (January 10, 2019)

Treasons We Need A Wall (The Mueller Investigation Part 75) (January 13, 2019)

Mid-Treason Replacement (The Mueller Investigation Part 76) (January 15, 2019)

A Treasonable Request (The Mueller Investigation Part 77) (January 19, 2019)

Treasons to Postpone (The Mueller Investigation Part 78) (January 23, 2019)

Swinging from the Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 79) (January 26, 2019)

Sweating Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 80) (January 30, 2019)

I'll Be Your Girl For All Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 81) (February 4, 2019)

House Cleaning Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 82) (February 9, 2019)

For Emergency Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 83) (February 15, 2019)

Treasons I Speak (The Mueller Investigation Part 84) (February 19, 2019)

Treasonable Preparations (The Mueller Investigation Part 85) (February 23, 2019)

Treasons for Redemption (The Mueller Investigation Part 86) (March 1, 2019)

Treasons to Watch (The Mueller Investigation Part 87) (March 7, 2019)

A Treasonable Amount of Time (The Mueller Investigation Part 88) (March 11, 2019)

Treasons I Have Veto Power (The Mueller Investigation Part 89) (March 18, 2019)

Treasons I've Submitted My Report (The Mueller Investigation Part 90) (March 22, 2019)

Treasons to Continue On (The Mueller Investigation Part 91) (March 24, 2019)

Treasons For a Barr Cover (The Mueller Investigation Part 92) (March 24, 2019)

Treasons to Protect Our Assets (The Mueller Investigation Part 93) (March 26, 2019)

Treasonable Interference (The Mueller Investigation Part 94) (March 31, 2019)

Tax Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 95) (April 6, 2019)

Treasons You May Leave (The Mueller Investigation Part 96) (April 11, 2019)

Treasonable Redactions (The Mueller Investigation Part 97) (April 18, 2019)

Treasons We Won't Abandon Him (The Mueller Investigation Part 98) (April 19, 2019)

Treasons to Subpoena (The Mueller Investigation Part 99) (April 24, 2019)

Treasons She was Right... About Everything (The Mueller Investigation Part 100) (April 30, 2019)

Treasonable Returns on Your Investment (The Mueller Investigation Part 101) (May 3, 2019)

When It's Treasonable to Assert Your Privilege (The Mueller Investigation Part 102) (May 9, 2019)

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Edging towards impeachment for Pres Bone Spurs. I don't believe his approvals are up. Not at all.

Thanks OP

Thank you for these threads OP!

Right now; Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on CNN speaking with Erin Burnett about a petition Tlaib is spearheading, that has 10 million signatures in favor of impeaching Trump.

I can't picture Don Jr being thrown in jail. As dumb as he is, I don't get why he doesn't just go down to Capital Hill and plead the 5th. I mean of course I'd love the idea of him being jailed but it's hard to imagine at this point given how lucky this family is

We need at least one sacrificial lamb. I could see Donald ending up like Nixon, so Don Jr. has to be the one in jail.

Trump would pardon Jr.

Do you know who my heart goes out to in all of this mess? Baron. What the hell is that kid thinking?

All Don Jr. has to do is show up and plead the Fifth and it's all over. In a normal world there would be repercussions for pleading the Fifth but not with the Trump family.

R6 Neither do I.

Baron's thoughts:::

Mama je zbrala dovolj denarja za oba v njenem skrivnem stanovanju v Trumpovem stolpu.

Gospod Trump, Donnie, Eric in Ivanka lahko gredo v zveznem zaporu.

Bog, kako želim, da je Tiffany tudi kriminalec.

Trump's base doesn't expand despite the latest show of his approval ratings from Gallop. About 8% to 10% of the electorate will fluctuate external to his committed base which is approximately a third of the electorate.

Comey appearing right now in a CNN Town Hall hosted by Anderson Cooper. Spill it James.

I'm entertaining the thought of going back to the first thread and reading it.

lol Trump is not going to like this town hall. Comey just said Trump repeated the inauguration crowd size lie as well as lying that he didn't make fun of that disable reporter when they had dinner early in 2017

There are people that live in their own reality, and Trump is one of them. I used to live with someone like that, and they would make up entire scenarios that were laughably untrue - but they believed it, heart and soul. I couldn't move out of there fast enough.

Trump is like an elderly dementia patient who has completely lost his mind, and the GOP just stands there next to him and his provable lies and agrees with him.

Comey can piss and moan all he wants but at anytime he could have brought the wrath down on those FBI assholes in NYC by informing internal affairs about their blackmail attempts.

But he didn't. Nor did he reprimand them. Instead, he allowed the fuckers to hold him hostage and reopen the "buttery males" bullshit.

He can either apologize and own his shit or STFU. I have no use for him or the NY FBI traitors.

May Putin's tea find them all.

I don't feel bad for Comey but he's useful now to troll Trump and Fox since Comey does tell the truth. He may not have always acted the way he should have but he's not a liar and that really causes problems for Trump

Junior doesn’t even have to show up and plead the 5th. He can take the 5th INSTEAD of showing up.

lol yes Anderson get messy! He's bringing up Sarah Sanders' lie now that everyone in the FBI wanted Comey fired

so today DC court of appeals has disbarred Manafort. Can't believe it's taken so long

This doesn't bod well for anyone. Asshole. I wonder what Ivanka thinks about this. The "force for good" has failed again.

^ "bode well"

The rollback of child labor laws was definitely the gutting of labor laws in the US. Hurray! Send those lazy 13 year olds into the coal mines !!!

well maybe more white women will vote for the Democratic candidate in 2020 now. Their 53% for Trump in 2016 is what put him over. We know straight white men are mostly a lost cause

Comey also praised Obama for trying to get a bipartisan statement on Russian meddling in 2016 and agrees that repubs refused!!!!

Good glad Comey said this. EXPOSE McConnell

They showed such contempt for Obama and his administration. Yes, you Comey. And so many of your fellow FBIers. Now, the mask has slipped off the GOP and it is they, not the Dems, who are the party of lawlessness, Anti-Constitution and anti-Institutional.

McConnell has done major damage in undermining the Constitution. This guy must be removed from his post.

r13 he isn't thinking anything. He has some kind of probleml and probably does not comprehend what is going on.

McConnell needs to be taken back of a building and punched in the face and stomach repeatedly.

R35, turtle isn’t the only one. They all need to be punished Singapore style.

he's lucky he's from shithole Kentucky.

And while this shitshow continues, the GOP is working at undoing Roe with all the judicial appointments theyre forcing through.....and get a load of this....

What a shit show this country has become in just two short years.

Any word on the Don Junior subpoenas?

The fact that a republican signed off on those supenas is a HUGE deal.

Richard Burr is under enormous pressure from repugs to drop it. Cruz, Paul and Graham all came out against him.

Burr is not budging.

This could be a big deal.

So it looks like women are going back into the basement with the butchers. Will they actually stand for this to happen? Or will they march?

Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena:

The Senate Intelligence chairman has no plans to withdraw the subpoena for the president’s son.

Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump’s eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe.

But despite a day facing attacks from the highest rungs of party leadership, Burr is unmoved, according to colleagues in both parties.

The News Broadcasters all act like Burrow should be shaking in his boots, that is just ridiculous. Sometimes I get furious with news people, they gave us Trump.

When I see how the other Republicans just fall in with the criminal Trump, I think we are living in Bizarroworld.

Not Burrow, BURR!

[quote]They all need to be punished Singapore style.

That's a bit extreme, but love being spanked by my gentleman callers. Here's Bill working on my tiny hiney.

I really want to believe Burr's intentions are good but I am super skeptical of ANY and ALL rethugs at this point.

SAme here R48...I'll believe it when I see it

He really does not understand how tariffs work.

I read somewhere that China is skeptical of him sticking to anything he says in negotiations. Backing out of multiple treaties and agreements and lying every time you speak is going to have consequences at some point.

I wonder if Burr's stunt is just another stalling tactic by the GOP where they hope that the Dems stop in their tracks watching it unfold?

[quote]Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena: The Senate Intelligence chairman has no plans to withdraw the subpoena for the president’s son.

Burr apparently walked through the backstory of the Don Jr. subpoena in close-doors GOP lunch yesterday.

Rick Wilson: "I hear things, and am told the MAGA caucus was a bit stunned."

Rick Wilson: "I hear things, and am told the MAGA caucus was a bit stunned."

What does that mean. Guess I'm going to have to dig up Rick Wilson's twitter feed and see if he is any less cryptic there.

[quote]Guess I'm going to have to dig up Rick Wilson's twitter feed and see if he is any less cryptic there.

You're a martyr r53!

[quote]Rick Wilson: "I hear things, and am told the MAGA caucus was a bit stunned."

So, Burr was able to get SOME support from the Freedom CUCKass.

Did Jim Jordan automatically start handing out locker room towels?

R54 Don't be such a cunt.

Ghouliani "headed to Kiev to meet with incoming President to pursue probes that could help tRump politically by casting suspicion on the origins of the MUELLER probe & the MANAFORT case, as well as the involvement of @JOEBIDEN's son in Ukraine":

I was just going to post ^ that. I would call that "colluding with a foreign government to impact the outcome of an election" which happens to be illegal but what do I know...

This is truly insane..I guess if they start a treasonous conspiracy in plain site it's legal now? WTF!

While we're all waiting for Pelosi to come to her senses about impeachment, I suggest watching this 100 yr. old German surrealist ballet (filmed in 1970, no CGI!). Over and over.

R30 It wasn't the voters who elected Trump, it was Russia who hired the beast.

R48, I'm skeptical too, despite Rick Wilson's tweet.

Let's not forget all the hosannas about Jeff Flake's supposed bipartisan move to delay the Kavanaugh vote for a couple of days for an FBI investigation that turned out to be cursory at best.

I fucking hate Jeff Flake, even more so after that blatant Kavanaugh stunt last fall.

Let's not forget that Burr was the one leaking info about the Mueller investigation to the WH. This smells like an attempt at face-saving on Burr's part and I have doubts that it will result in much more than Junior repeating variations on "I don't recall."

Methinks Rick Wilson is being fed a line.

If Trump is impeached there will be hell from his supporters. They have to get him to leave of his won accord

CBS: Rudy Giuliani defends Ukraine trip to help "defend" Trump

Reuters: Mueller won't testify next week, says House Judiciary chair -reports

Why the fuck not, R67?

ABC: Democrats considering daily contempt fines on Trump officials: Schiff

Washington Post: Analysis: How the Mueller report revelations are complicating the lives of Richard Burr and other GOP senators

Richard Burr looks like Shirley Knight in “As Good As it Gets.”

That's my question, too, r68...

So, if Barr refuses to give the judge the unredacted report that she has court ordered to be given to her, what happens to him at that point? Now, he's in contempt of Congress and contempt of court?

As far as Burr and subpoenaing Dickhead Jr., I think in a weird way he's trying to give Jr. a second chance that the others who were directly charged with lying to Congress didn't get. They'll bring him in and ask if there's anything he wants to clarify that he may have "misspoken" about during his first testimony. The others, like Cohen, they just sent off to be charged. So, Burr is still being a Repug by giving Jr. a second chance instead of charging him but, being a Trump, Jr. is just fucking that up, too, which means it's backfiring on him and the Repugs.

Where is Deep Throat when you need him?

What this whole Russia investigation needs is Deep Throat Two- someone who knows everything and can lead reporters to the right answers.

The reason Mueller won't testify is pretty simple. Barr ordered him not to. Mueller is still working on other investigations, so I don't think he can resign yet without leaving everything, unsupervised, in the hands of Barr.

R75, House Democrats think that Mueller will leave the DOJ at the end of the month, and therefore be free to testify. Meanwhile, Barr appears to be blocking him from testifying. The WaPo has a story today about this.

R73- I've missed this whole part - so a judge has ordered Barr to hand over the unredacted report? If he refuses, then what's to stop the judge from treating him like any other person who defies a judge? Don't they wind up in jail?

Also, if anyone in the Trump administration can just ignore a legal subpoena, why can't everyone in the US do that as well? There must be hundreds of subpoenas that are issued through courts every day in the US - can't those people just point to people like Don Jr and say "well, if he can ignore it, so can I?"

R76- Isn't Mueller allowed to tell Democrats - "I'm free on such and such a date, so I can answer questions then." Democrats shouldn't have to guess when he's available.

R78, there are negotiations ongoing. It seems complicated.

R77, I think it was Amy Berman Jackson who ordered Barr to give her the unredacted report because of the Roger Stone trial, which she is presiding over. It's a court order, so I assume he will be found in contempt of court if he doesn't follow the court order. There is a second judge who is also supposed to request it but hasn't yet as far as I know.

R79, yeah. Complicated by Barr sticking his criminal fat fingers in everything.

My suspicion is that the Senate intel committee now has emails to Donnie Jr. or some other evidence that he was fully aware of Trump Tower in Moscow plans all along, when he testified last year, UNDER OATH, that he was only peripherally aware of such plans.

PS, in any other time, in any other administration, that would be called perjury and would be subject to criminal penalties.

You know, at this point in the seemingly endless nightmare that our country has become, I would be happy if the "news" media would just stop reporting on every single nick-name Trump comes up with for his supposed enemies.

I guess I have to learn to live with the rest.

[quote]ABC: Democrats considering daily contempt fines on Trump officials: Schiff

"considering"

what's to consider? Just fucking impose the fines. They've had enough time to do what Congress demanded

R73 Rachel said exactly that!

One of the dems floated getting people disbarred as a penalty - now we’re talking! Also the fine should be at least 50k a day.

Roger Stone's lawyers have told Judge Jackson they want to see the unredacted report in case there's info in it they can use as they prepare for his upcoming trial, so Judge Jackson ordered it released to her so she can read it. She’ll then decide if Stone's team gets to see it.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal has issued subpoenas for President Donald Trump's tax returns, the committee told CNN on Friday, an escalation in the fight for the President's personal financial records and the latest step this week in Democrats' fight for information from the Trump administration.

Neal sent subpoenas to both IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Republicans are trying to destroy our democracy...many should be hung by the neck until dead.

They really are traitors to the country and its Constitution. Our forefathers would have hanged them.

Hillary should somehow miraculously win a 2020 Write In vote.

NYT confirms WSJ: White House officials asked at least twice in the past month for the key witness against Trump in the Mueller report, Don McGahn, to say publicly that he never believed the president obstructed justice.

Washington Post: ‘There was no attempted coup’: FBI’s former top lawyer defends Russia probe

NYT: Mueller Will Not Testify Next Week, but Democrats Are Not Giving Up

Anyone want to bet that the Trumps or some people close to them profited from that Dow dip because of China this week??

James Baker will be on Rachel Maddow's show tonight. I hope this induces another Trump twitter meltdown like Comey did last night

r97 I totally believe that. It’s exactly his m.o.

Senator Burr has Ted cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Rand Paul on the warpath? LOL! You couldn't pick better enemies. If Trump and Miz Linz suddenly go quiet, then we'll know Burr is just giving JR. a chance to "Clarify" his testimony. With Burr not running for re-election he will get pretty lonely and he may be subject to all kinds of harassment. Including the perks he is entitled to as a retired member of Congress. So he will definitely pay a price. One thing you can count on, is Trump is very much into revenge, and he allows others to do things they only ever dreamt of.

NBC: Sen. Murphy: Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine on behalf of Trump 'improper,' possibly 'illegal'

NYT: White House Asked McGahn to Declare Trump Never Obstructed Justice

R94- So how did the NYT get this info? Leaked by who? It's almost like there are people surrounding Trump who are trying to help send him over a cliff.

Even if impeachment isn't happening in the near future - Trump can be in just as much pain from a thousand paper cuts. So let's start seeing more subpoenas and leaks.

Hillary was the most qualified in 2016 but I wish she had not run. I wish Joe would not run, I wanted Sharrod Brown to run, he chose not to. Most of the woman running, should not run.

Why is Steve Bannon being interviewed by CNN? And why does he have an op-ed in the Washington Post?

No one needs to hear the "other side" at this point. The media have plenty of real journalists and real experts to talk to. There's no reason to give Bannon or the rest of them like Lewandoski a platform.

We have to put up with the criminal Ghoulianni going to Ukraine to start a lot of lies about Joe and then the resident lowlife in the White House continues to tell one lie after another and there is no one to protect us. Why did we allow the Hitler Trump to take over?

Our favoritest prezident in the entire yooniverse to address his adoring fans from the Lincoln Memorial during the annual July 4 festivities

I think another reason to start impeachment hearings and call them impeachment hearings is that maybe some of these insiders who leak secretly will move into the spotlight. They'll see things officially being underway and want to be the hero. Everyone knows what impeachment hearings mean and that it is serious. People can write off discussions, and investigations, and committee hearings much more easily. We have to simplify everything for the dolts of the country.

Negating Congress, packing the courts with right-wing judges. This is an endeavor for a coup. If Trump thinks he can't win in 2020, he'll illegally cancel the election, or will refuse to leave office if he loses, claiming corrupt voting. Yes, this country is already in the midst of a coup, it just hasn't been completed yet. The brainwashed masses need to get off their cell phones and act. Now!

So Ghouliani is going to the Ukraine to get negative intel on Trump’s enemies?

There is absolutely nothing Trump can do if he loses the election....the very second a new President is sworn in, Trump is then a private citizen and can be forcibly removed if need be.

R111 He has already fully corrupted the executive branch to the point that a crime is not a crime. There will not be anything resembling a clean election if he is running, and then he will project all the cheating from his side onto the Dems whether he wins or loses. If the GOP and media are as brainwashed into accepting his narrative as they are now, even if he loses, the transition of power will be very difficult at best.

Unitary executive theory:

The unitary executive theory is a theory of American constitutional law holding that the President possesses the power to control the entire executive branch. The doctrine is rooted in Article Two of the United States Constitution, which vests "the executive power" of the United States in the President.

Politico: 'I look at it like my race': Biden's primary surge reminds Trump of 2016

R112, the Secret Service isn't going to accept his narrative. Their allegiance is to the president and as of January 20th after the election that won't be Trump. He will be forcibly removed from the White House because the new president will tell the Secret Service to remove the fucker.

I wish they'd just shoot the fucker on the spot once the new president is sworn in.

Would certainly save a lot of noise and bullshit.

Congress needs to impeach now. I don't care if the republican criminals in the senate don't vote to impeach, we need it on Fake Prez's record. History will clearly show who the traitors were.

Yes, r117, history. That'll show 'em!

Pelosi needs to send the Sargent of Arms over to the Justice Department and arrest Barr. Haul is ass to be Capitol basement to the cleared out cage and hold him there till he fully cooperates. AND NO CONJUGAL VISITS FROM MISS LINDZIE ALLOWED!

Discussed in the last thread R119. Sending him over to Barr is pretty much useless. He's one person and would never get through to come close to reaching Barr for an arrest.

The capitol police could arrest someone. I wonder what they did back in the early days? Surely there must have been some Congressman who needed arresting or some cabinet official. We're totally unprepared to deal with thuggery. We need to put some new laws on the books because this whole experience has shown us how fragile our system is. You could drive a semi through the gaps in our laws. We just assumed anyone committed enough to run for the PResidency would care about the country, understand the government and honor the Constitution. BAsic shit. But we never thought about anyone like this fucking mobster pig.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y) said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller will not be testifying before his panel next week.

Nadler told reporters that the committee is still negotiating over his testimony with the Justice Department and Mueller but expects him to appear.

There's an AP headline saying that tRump is requesting a "foreign power to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden". WHAT. THE. FUCK?!!! YmThis cannot be Constitutional, much less legal! This situation is beyond dystopian...It's fucking SURREAL. Every day it's "What in the fresh hell has Dump and his henchmen done today?" These fuckers are wiping their ashes with our Bill of Rights. They are not even PRETENDING to have any loyalty to our Constitution!

R123, the most pathetic part of it all is that Ukraine, the “foreign government” Giuliani was going to visit to try to fabricate dirt on Biden, apparently was just setting up Giuliani and Trump. The Ukrainians were probably going to lure Giuliani over, record him saying incriminating stuff, and then use the recording to blackmail Trump to do favorable things for Ukraine. Someone — the Russians? — told Giuliani that the fix was in and he shouldn’t go. This is what is happening: we are not just being destroyed, we are being destroyed by assclowns.

Whenever Ghouliani gets trotted out I always have the same reaction - that it's some bullshit, fake story they're making up as a diversion from something else they don't want anyone noticing or talking about.

Pretty much always works out that way.

R123 CNN reported tonight that Giuliani is backing out of the trip to the Ukraine. He should be bitch slapped for putting the idea of this whole thing out there in the first place.

Guiliani is such a despicable little old man. It's so hard to pick just one, but of Trump's crew, he really might be the worse of the worst.

The freer world that emerged out of the defeat of fascism in 1945, which further beat communist totalitarianism in 1989, is being deliberately dismantled. The ideals of the Confederates and Fascists are coming up from underground. If you think these people are acting against their own country, it's because their ideology was always explicitly anti-American.

I love that Giuliani was basically shamed into not going lol finally the media has been useful

some were saying it could break the law so I'm sure he got nervous about that. It'd be great to see his ghoulish self in jail some day though

R129 Kind of stupid to announce he was doing it! But this doesn't mean they gave up on this. You just know some Trump "coffee boy" will sent to do it instead.

A lot of people on Twitter are criticizing the mainstream media for not taking Trump and his ghouls seriously. They aren't covering the true substance of WTF is going on, and instead still treat Trump as a novelty. When you have twits like Dilanian and Sam Stein and then the "both sides" bullshit on CNN, it really helps undermine our democracy. The Media ought to be running around with their hair on fire. They need to realize that if he gets into the WH in 2020, he will be coming for them. If you didn;t see Jill Wine Banks with Chris Hayes last night go find the clip. Trump is a criminal right now based on what he is attempting to do. Abuse of power.

Giuliani needs to focus on whitening his bottom teeth. Ick!

R131 I also believe the media machine keep this all going because of ratings. What will they do if the shitshow ever ends? Investigative journalism is dead, it's all clicks, views and $$.

R132 that should be the new image for "the Scream"

Trump is on a retweeting frenzy this morning at levels high even for him. I think he is really liking just forwarding other tweets on - less work for him.

A lot of these retweets are from "regular" people. He must just search twitter for people praising him.

I hope Rudy is flying on one of those super-safe Russian airplanes.

NBC: Giuliani says he's no longer going to Ukraine

I still don't think he was ever planning on going to the Ukraine. It was a fake distraction story.

The Hill: Dem leaders feel squeeze on Trump strategy

CBS: Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump insult: "I had to Google that"

Mayor Pete has a great way of responding to Trump that makes Trump look small and sort of lazy without Pete losing his dignity by “going low.” His response here was more baffled and confused by the “insult” which means it didn’t work, it didn’t land, and it wasn’t even original as the linked article points out. Mayor Pete frightens Trump in a different way than Biden does.

More so than 2008, this feels like the election that will firmly put a cap to the Baby Boomers' voting power.

Neo-Nazis protest Holocaust remembrance event in Arkansas

Trump administration officials are avoiding (or not invited) to deliver commencement addresses at state, and academically prominent private, colleges and universities.

Today, Pence is speaking at Liberty University where Jerry Falwell Jr. Is President.

Betsy DeVos spoke at Ave Maria College, a small Catholic college in southwest Florida. Not all were happy.

Harvard's commencement speaker is Angela D. Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.

[quote]Today, Pence is speaking at Liberty University where Jerry Falwell Jr. Is President.

They do like to stay in their bubble.

Now Rudy says the whole Ukraine thing was a SETUP designed to make him look bad.

"The President’s personal lawyer reversed course on Friday evening and decided to not take a trip to Ukraine, where he intended to request the government launch investigations that would be politically useful to President Trump.

“I will step back and just watch it unfold,” he told Fox News on Friday evening after declaring he had cancelled the trip. He then spun a conspiracy theory demonizing the Ukrainian government. “No trip because I believe I was walking into a bunch of people, one of whom already has found to be involved on this, and I think this was a setup. The whole thing, by the way, is a setup. From the very beginning. That is what your gonna find,” Giuliani said.

The Hill rag is always Dems in disorder. It's really fallen

Umm I've heard that Liberty University has a really nice pool, or something like that. Does it have a place for me for to change too?

Just make sure to wear a bra, dear. Modesty!

Some matters, there are no reasonable "both sides". When the House is trying to acquire rightful testimony and documents, voice is given to Trump's and cohorts' absurd deflections and the phony "investigate the investigators'" vendettas and false narratives. CNN, by doing such a format, is communicating that conflicting arguments stand on equal ground. That's not reality or truth. I don't want infotainment and hear bogus spin.

[quote]The Hill rag is always Dems in disorder. It's really fallen

The Hill has been called out for having dubious connections.

Some analyst on CNN said if they are doing so much out in the open (Ghouliani going to Ukraine) imagine what they do behind closed doors.

And we need the scoop on Jerry Falwell JR stat.

shoulda been the pool boy, r144. He'd at least tell the kids how to make a decent amount of money in a hurry.

Guiliani has been making trips to Ukraine for the last few years....his security firm has a contract there....nobody pays attention. Whats he really up to ?

stealing the next election. They don't care anymore. It's just gonna be blatant stealing of elections by Republicans for the foreseeable future.

Giuliani apparently has ties to super-corrupt officials in the previous government, but Ukraine now has a president who is not so Russia-friendly and did not want the aggravation of being dragged into US politics.

Interesting question, though: what foreign countries actually want Trump to be re-elected? Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, but who else? Who would want to help him?

r145 - "You know your classmate, Valeria. She was born without a left arm, but you wouldn’t know it from her deft handling of a lacrosse stick. "

" Now, that may not seem like much to you ladies, but that girl... has a wooden foot. Now go out there and dance with your two *good* feet!"

ghoul-alini was on faux news the other day saying that biden's son was involved in ukraine dirty dealings and biden knew about it and paid money to get his son off? (so biden is a corrupt crook too dealing with foreign bad guys was his angle)... oh yeah, and ole rudy JUST JUST HAD TO I REPEAT JUST HAD TO ALSO THROW OUT THERE TALKING TO that woman with blonde hair who is a "rhymes with punt" but starts with the letter C and whose initials are L.I. that biden's son was kicked out of the marines for using cocaine? you know a essential fact? that was necessary to tell the world...

on a more serious note, if their any ANY SLIVER OF TRUTH of what ghoul-alini just stated? if not? that is OUTRIGHT SLANDER!! BIG TIME!

How odd. R160 suddenly shows up to repeat, in detail and in unconvincing English, the Trump camp’s anti-Biden talking points.

r161, Boris @160 needs to report back to Olga in HR for more training.

Newsweek: Trump Jr. Spokesman Rips GOP Senator Over Subpoena 'Harassment'

AP: Trump says voters don't care about his personal tax returns

[quote]Boris @160 needs to report back to Olga in HR for more training.

Pliz to more grammar, less coochie stank

Business Insider: Trump started his Saturday by blasting out more than 60 retweets attacking Mueller and others

The obvious question is who can beat Pence next year.

Someone should tell the dumbfuck that he can keep his personal taxes private. We just need his business ones and anything in his personal ones related to his businesses. Unfortunately for this dipshit, he kept all of his businesses in his personal control and put them on his personal taxes. He's such a horrible business man, it's hilarious.

#Brokeahontas

r167 I would imagine anyone.

The Senate subpoena fascinates me. What the fuck is Burr up to?? He's done significant dirty deeds for the WH. And now it appears he *might* be attempting to nail Jr. on perjury charges. (Given the angry response from Congressional Rs I don't think he's playing cover up games with Jr.)

Did he have a change of heart? Did he locate his testicles? Is he calculating that Trumpito won't be president next year??

He is supposedly really good friends with co-chair Mark Warner so Warner may have clued him in that the jig is up.

Former Intern....heard any good gossip?

#161 AND #162?? did you not read my post? i hate trump and his entire family and his entire administration with the heat of a thousand suns! ALL I DID was posting what corrupt pos giuliani/ghouliani said on fox news and if there was any smidgen of truth to it? i had never heard such a tale and if giuliani made this 100% up with not even 0.001% person of truth to it, biden better sue his ass! of course, i PERSONALLY DO NOT BELIEVE IT! it's just shocking that there are "things" like ghoul-iania spouting this stuff and getting away with it!...

i want either biden, mayor pete, warren, tim ryan or kamala harris to be our president and vice president and i hope that whoever wins, everyone who runs will have a position in that president's administration!... notice i also ripped on that blonde on faux news whose initials are L.I. and who is worse then a bitch, she as i stated previously is a "rhymes with punt" and starts with the letter "C"!...

sorry if i offended or didn't make my thoughts clear to anyone....

Oh, dear.

R172- With the leak in the NYT about McGahn, maybe people are seeing that there's no longer any point in trying to cover for Trump. As long as Trump can't blackmail you, it's better to start cutting the cord now.

Trump loves to retweet Tom Fitton -- he seems like he is a bit tiresome. He has been talking receiving new information on Hilary's emails for months.

How can such Fucking Evil be running our country, and how can so many Goddamn idiots be slaves to it??!!

Its all in the Bible....the book of Revelations to be specific. They call him the Antichrist. Thats why Evangelicals follow him blindly.

The look of being caught in a lie.

Or, the look of being smitten with Miss Lindzey?

Could be both.

[quote] AP: Trump says voters don't care about his personal tax returns

Bill Maher said the same last night

R180 His deplorable voters don't care, but the whole point is to get the independent voters to reject him. And it's a moral victory for the Dems to expose this fraud.

I'd bet they'll be interested in his tax returns if that $53 million "interest payment" turns out to be tied to cocaine trafficking.

“AP: Trump says voters don't care about his personal tax returns.”

Let me fix this for you AP....

AP: Trump says TRUMP voters don't care about his personal tax returns.”

Voters: AP we all say we care about Orange Asshole's personal tax returns.

Bill Maher is a moron and a fossil.

R185 suffers from truth phobia. Get help.

Trumps and his kids have been laundering money for decades and they need to be in prison. All of them.

R160, I think it is true that Biden’s son got caught with coke. As a voter, that doesn’t matter to me because his son was an adult man and Biden has no control over it.

Jeb Bush has a grown daughter that is a crackhead and ended up in jail. I don’t like Jeb Bush, but if I did, that wouldn’t stop me from voting for him, and in fact he was elected by the voters of Florida and I think they knew about that, because it was a long term issue. I don’t think they cared about it. He ran for President after that was public knowledge.

“In 2002, [Noelle Bush] was first arrested for attempting to fill a fraudulent prescription for anti-anxiety medication and then again later for possessing crack cocaine at a rehabilitation facility in Florida.”

In the attached article, Jeb Bush makes the point that a First Family with a family member struggling with addiction is more likely to be sensitive to the plight of drug addiction. Fair point, although I’m not a Jeb fan.

Trump voters are all Nazis, are we really suppose to care what Nazis like and don't like? If wishing could make them human...

Biden's son over 48 months ago.

Do Not Care.

Biden is only popular because of nostalgia rather than his records or policy proposals. Better his baggage be exposed early on. If he doesn't survive, at least Dems know they have many other good candidates to choose from.

R185, I totally agree about Bill Maher.

Biden’s son was in the Naval Reserve, not the Marines:

“Vice President Joe Biden's son was booted from the Navy Reserve because he tested positive for drugs, it was revealed on Thursday.

“A U.S. official told NBC News that Hunter Biden was kicked out of the Reserve earlier this year after he failed a drug test.

“The official said Biden failed the test in 2013, but he was not kicked out until Feb. 14 of this year. Senior U.S. officials told NBC News that Biden, 44, tested positive for cocaine. The Wall Street Journal first reported the incident.”

That’s the same son who left his wife for his dead brother’s wife and now he’s broken up with her too.

For some background, both Biden sons were in a car accident with their mother when they were very young children and nearly died. Their thirty year old mother and one year old sister died. This happened when they were shopping for a Christmas tree and were hit by a truck.

Joe Biden married Jill Biden some time later and has been married to her ever since.

My guess is, Hunter Biden was probably given opiates as a young child when seriously injured and developed a taste for them. He had a skull fracture in the accident. He grew up in the middle of a terrible tragedy, and had a head injury as a young child, which can affect judgment. So it’s not surprising if he’s fucked up.

R178, I grew up in a part of the country of evangelicals where the appearance of the “antichrist” was expected to happen soon. And all those evangelicals were certain, emphatic they could never follow a man who pretended to follow Christ but did nothing emulating Christ. Today, All of them have sold out their “Christian” values and are raging maniacs talking guns, rage, and hatred. This has been a shock to me, to find out these people I thought had Christ in their heart, actually don’t. It’s the one thing I have personally gained from Trump’s reign, he has shown what deeply resides in the heart of people. Some broke high but the vast majoruty, most I know broke low. I’m still trying to deal with this revelation.

*majority

So now I’m trying to figure out the hatred. I ‘ve traveled the world a bit. I’ve seen real poverty, not the USA kind. These evenangelicals have homes, food, clothes, cars, tvs, cell phones, computers, jobs, education, free libraries. In parts of India/China I’ve been, the people had none of this. Why aren’t we grateful for our prosperity?

*evangelicals

The way I’ve had to deal with this is looking at this time as coming to a crossroads. Those with ties to the earth and money and limited resources will take one road, those looking in another direction outside the material will take a different road. Not saying one is better than another. Just one has a different priority. It’s a great and wonderful time of decision.

Oh puhleez...

Like we aren't supposed to know that CUNTvanka doesn't snort coke to keep her thin figure.

You really think that worthless gash is "disciplined" and hits the gym on a regular basis?

It seems to be common knowledge that Cheatolini himself likes to snort adderall...

We all want Trump to have a massive stroke, but at this point, I'd settle for an O.D.

I’d settle for a VERY painful hernia.

I think you'll have to settle for Telephone Thumb.

r172 There is a lot of gossip in the beltway. I am trying to be careful what I post here.

[quote]....turns out to be tied to cocaine trafficking.

Well, then he would have another "common interest" with McTurtle.

Does anyone remember how they feel before he ran for office and everyday was a nightmare?

I was driving the other day and remembered what it’s like. When you could listed to a little need on a leisurely drive and it wasn’t a constant reminder of the hellacape this country has become.

FCI, pleaaaaaase please share something even if you have to frame it like a blind item...

YES! Pleeeeease share, FCI!

Mnuchin and Madame Louise.

Types that have spurred revolutions in reaction.

But not Trump's base.

Lindsey's lips looks look much thicker and puffier recently. Botox? Or is it something else?

JUST SHOWS YOU what kind of piece of shit (actually worse then shit since shit used to be food and one can use shit as fertilizer, so shit does still have it's uses!) for ghoul-iani to throw that out there on faux news of course of biden's son and his drug use and "kicked out"! he just HAD to put that out there for all to see and hear because???????? damn, how i wish he was investigated, he more skeletons in his closet then a graveyard!..

SNL

Harder Daddy!

Barr admitted in front of millions of Americans that he has not yet read the unredacted Mueller report, yet crows of Dump's complete exoneration!

Why isn't this being repeated ad nauseam until even the Deplorables can comprehend this?

[quote]“I know that speech didn’t sound very eloquent, but for the Florida Panhandle, it was basically the Gettysburg Address,”

ABC: Robert Mueller 'is going to testify': Rep. Adam Schiff

Washington Post: Applying ‘maximum pressure,’ Trump faces burgeoning crises overseas

The Hill: Trump: 'Witch Hunt ... must never be allowed to happen again!'

Politico: Schiff: Campaigns shouldn’t be allowed to get foreign help

Mitch presents hole

FCI know that you can't post much but can you give us a hint?

Statement : Things are happening behind the scenes that suggest the tide is finally turning against DJT. Your answer: yes or no

FCI has never presented us with anything factually coming true. So, why hold our breath to hear just the same stuff that gets our hopes up, only to deflate us again?

R222 = Troll

I agree with R222, FCI just enjoys the attention. Nothing if any value is ever actually said by FCI.

Wasn’t FCI the one who said someone he knew said that Trump would “die in prison”?

An intelligence agent on Twitter said Trumpito would die in prison, early 2017ish I believe.

Does Junior Mint not understand his prior testimony wasn't the truth?

Question: We got the decade of tax information about Trump, which dominated the news for a few cycles. Did Trump ever come out and say anything about it? I don't remember, though that may be because I turn away whenever he speaks or tweets.

Junior Mint by retweeting John Cardillo is trying to troll Pete Buttigieg. But Junior does have the mind of a special needs 5th grader.

"#TraitorTrump is not #Mensa".

John Cardillo, associated with Newsmax, is a radio talk show host known for his ongoing rants about AOC.

R228, Trump claimed that the tax returns reflected only manufactured paper losses typical of the real estate business, but The NY Times reporters had already demonstrated that wasn’t true.

On "Sunday Morning Futures" (FBN), Lindsey Graham was advocating that Donald Trump Jr. ignore Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Republican Burr's subpoena issued to Trump Junior.

So Graham is undermining the vote of a Senate Committee and is urging publicly that Trump Jr. break another law.

All these conservative men so clearly wanna fuck AOC and it kills them to know they will never get the chance.

Trump and co does not want Mueller to testify because he will reveal that he was shut down prematurely and the shit will hit the fan....they can only delay it for so long.

[quote]Mitch presents hole

I believe the correct phrase should be "Mitch presents cloaca."

"Harder Daddy" Lindz, all her political career which is basically her whole lucrative work experience, has always found an older man and latched onto him. She's opportunistic and will do anything to be in the good graces of whatever "daddy," at the moment is given her attention and instructions. That daddy is DJT.

And Miz Lindz promotes that she and a certain Supreme Court Justice are bonded beyond politics. That appears totally one-sided.

Compromised politicians, particularly the ones whereby they are pawns to foreign entities, are damaging to democracy.

The media doesn't probe and expose this stuff well enough. Investigative journalism is weak. The media will lose in a autocracy.

so just heard a former federal attorney on tv say there's no real way for the House to enforce any fines they impose on Trump officials.

There's also a whisper that some of the Trumpers are laughing at being held in contempt as if it's meaningless

I mean I think impeachment hearings are all we've got at this point. I know Pelosi wants to go through every procedure possible to show the courts that Trump is just not cooperating but this quite worrisome

Personally I think Pelosi is holding off on impeachment hearings so voters don't have time to get fed up with them before 11/20.

R237 yes, continue having hearings and subpoena documents. Let the defiance of DJT and cohorts move through the courts. Start impeachment hearings next spring and prolong it over the election season.

I want it to begin much sooner, but understand the strategy.

Republicans are depending on Russia, Fox News, and mega-doñors to get them through the election cycle.

I want them all executed, by Guillotine, today.

At some point in this saga and with the election, federal marshals will play a role.

Hopefully this administration has not been installing political loyalists and hacks in key positions with the U.S. Marshal Service. They are to serve all three branches of government.

If courts rule against DJT and the WH still refuses to comply, will the federal marshals fulfill the court orders and make arrests?

If Trump refuses to leave office after losing a relatively close election, this will be more than testy.

Congress needs to be monitoring.

Talk about a Constitutional meltdown.....

Tired of cable media using black commentators, on staff or as guests, to dismiss or bash Pete Buttigieg. Pete is doing outreach to the black community and such takes time. Those commentators have other politicians they are supporting. CNN does this regularly, deliberately pushing a premature narrative that blacks don't relate to Pete and he doesn't understand their needs. Pete isn't well-known yet .

The major newspapers like NYT and WP need to have the headline read every day : TRUMP OBSTRUCTS JUSTICE FOR THE XXX DAY.

CNN used to be the world standard.

Live feeds from reporters on the ground all over the world.

The were live on the scene and had all the facts first.

Then, under Zucker, went from bad to worse to what it is now, which is basically Radar Online t.v. version.

Let’s say you were a greedy, faceless, conglomerate corporation and you bought the country’s most robust news outlet. You wouldn’t want it exposing your tentacles so you shrink it, and move everything ‘in studio’ with panels discussions.

It can do less damage to your agenda that way. You should also hire and empty suit like Zuck to make it happen.

But you sell just as many ads against this new garbage because for cable tv buys, there’s only so many places to go.

You profit more and expose corruption less.

It’s a win-win for your mega-conglomerate bottom line.

What's Junior going to give Graham for the favor?

r221 Yes. A lot is going on behind the scenes.

Again, the trolls come out to blast me yet I rarely give info so I don't know who I'm such an attention seeker. 99% of my posts I don't tag with FCI.

[quote] We got the decade of tax information about Trump, which dominated the news for a few cycles. Did Trump ever come out and say anything about it?

He did but it's understandable if you missed it. Only 40 million people saw it. I didn't watch it either.

NYT 'bombshell' on president's business losses was scooped by Trump himself

A member of NBC's entertainment division broke that story in 2004. His name was Donald Trump, star of "The Apprentice."

Look back to 2004, Season 1, Episode 1, Scene 1: Trump is in the back of a luxury car driving through the streets of Manhattan, boasting about who he was, what he owned and what made him who he is before sharing that the success "wasn’t always so easy."

"About 13 years ago, I was seriously in trouble. I was billions of dollars in debt," Trump said at the time. "But I fought back and I won. Big league. I used my brain. I used my negotiating skills. And I worked it all out. Now my company’s bigger than it ever was, stronger than it ever was and I’m having more fun than I ever had. I’ve mastered the art of the deal and I’ve turned the name Trump into the highest quality brand.”

The episode was a springboard for Trump from A-list New York tabloid star to A-list national TV star. The finale of the first season of "The Apprentice" was watched by 40 million people. For context, HBO's highest rated "Game of Thrones" drew 17.8 million, albeit on a pay channel. It was this reality show and that success that helped make Trump a household name synonymous to many as a winner, which helped springboard him to the presidency after running against a flawed, unauthentic Democratic candidate.

The Hill is a right-wing piece of shit rag no better than Fox News. Why do people keep linking to it?

Wasn't The Hill actually neutral at one point? Is it all pod people now? Or was it always a mess?

[bold]El País (Spain): Ecuador to turn over Julian Assange's computers, phones, and storage devices to the US[/bold]

Google-translated:

[quote]The government of Lenin Moreno has taken another step in his offensive against Julian Assange. The attorney general of the state of Ecuador has agreed to register one of the stays of the embassy of that country in London, in which the cyber-activist has resided during the last seven years, and to deliver to the US all his documents, mobile phones, computer files, computers, memory units, CDs and any other device, as indicated by an official notification to which EL PAÍS has had access.

To whom in the US will Equador turn over Assange's devices, AG Barr?

Bette Midler apparently is not fond of Trump.

Rollie Pollie Barr may undermine the investigations in the SDNY. Giving Barr evidence of anything that would make DJT or Putty look bad will be squelched. Barr needs impeached.

R151 from one grandiose narcissist to another.

I feel like this national nightmare is just beginning. Trump has factions in the CIA , the FBI , the Justice Department, most of the GOP Congress and at least 2 Supreme Court members all in for him. Why? Not because the admire and like him, that’s for sure. Between the dirt Trump and Pecker have on damn near everybody- including Dershowitz and many other influential douche bags and the shot Russia can dig up or manufacture, I’d say we are in for the fight of our lives and the outcome is far from certain. I see Nancy Pelosi and Nadler looking strained and unwell and things not happening and a wrench being thrown in to jam up the works and Mueller being a stoic stone faced POS and Chuck Schumer being a fuckface and I shake my head/. Wtf can anyone do? I never believed things would ever get to this point.. But tell me I’m wrong- Trump has very powerful help from the Russians, Saudis, Israelis and god knows who.

Maybe we can get some help from the Chinese, Brits, Germans ...

I hope so, R255. With any luck, we won’t be able to use that “we saved your asses in WW II” line anymore.

"Harder Daddy"!

Well, Miss Thang will have to exclaim something else as Junior pays his thank you.

Thanks FCI. A little hope was what all i needed!

I appreciate any info you share with us.

r61, BRILLIANT.

FCI, thanks for the modicum of hope!

What did FCI say? Did we miss it?

At R245 FCI confirms a lot is going on behind the scenes. I'm interpreting this as hopeful that Dump is NOT above the law!

I would like it if Jerry Nadler could appear a little bit more forceful. He also looks very pale.

"From Wingman to Wingnut"

"From Post-Antebellum Debutant to Potty Mouth and Deplorable Old Queen"?????

I could be wrong, but I have to imagine the attempted July 4 rally will go the same way as the failed LOOK AT ME! parade.

ABC: Trump repeats claims of 'coup' attempt after former FBI lawyer knocks them down

R363, I want to believe that slow and steady wins the race. Does it serve a purpose if Nadler lashes out the way Trump does? I'd like it if Trump got a taste of his own medicine, but if Nadler isn't that type of person, then it's best for him to just work the way that he does and when the time comes, he will nail Trump to the wall, quietly and legally.

ABC: Not appropriate for Trump to talk to AG about investigation into Biden: Schiff

I saw Nadler on TV standing. He's way overweight. He needs to slim down. That said. I believe he's doing a good job under tough circumstances. He's cautionary and methodical with his timing, and that may prove to be the prudent approach.

I think Nadler has gastric bypass...he is thinner than he used to be. I hope the stress going to kill him.

Not appropriate? WTF Adam Schiff? We need stronger language than not appropriate.

R270 Schiff talks a good game, but hardly scores when it comes time to play. It's always considering this or that but at the end of the day, nothing seems to come of it.

Wow - the trolls are out in force this morning.

R270, I saw Nadler in person in October. Now that you mention it, he did have the physique of a heavy person that’s lost a lot of weight. His weight seemed reasonable though, he was heavy but not extremely so.

He was also an extremely intelligent and kind person. I’m not from NY, so I didn’t know him. When I found out he got this job I was actually reassured by that, he seemed decent. He was waiting for someone to show up and we were passing the time, he was very kind and patient with everyone even though he was out of state and nobody there knew who he was.

He was accompanied by a couple of women who acted kind of stuck up and self important, which was funny because there was really no reason for it. One acted like she had 100 cups of coffee and then walked into a library. The other acted like she was a queen walking among the drooling peasants. But Nadler himself was extremely courteous, humble and whip smart.

"Their allegiance is to the president."

Not always, r115; not always.

Gee, now what would put the word "coup" in Trump's lizard brain?

Seriously, everything he says is a projection.

Yes, r276, including some of the derogatory nicknames he calls others.

Graham's go to guy.

Andrew Ferguson is also closeted.

Is everybody GAY?

abfab

These two are les miserables

^ gabflab

LOL @ R282!

The Fuck?! Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Donald Trump Jr. should ignore the subpoena issued to him by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“If I were Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer, I would tell him, ‘You don’t need to go back into this environment anymore,’” Graham said in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “‘You’ve been there for hours and hours and nothing being alleged here changes the outcome of the Mueller investigation.’ I would call it a day.”

Last week, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, to answer more questions about his contacts with Russia. Trump Jr. is reportedly resisting the subpoena and may invoke his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions.

The panel is seeking to question Trump Jr. about congressional testimony he gave in September 2017 about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow — testimony that was later contradicted by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

That must be some AMAZING blackmail material they've got on him.

R286 my money is on spit roasted by blatino leather daddy pix

Lindsey's kompromot involves felching.

Uh on...Senatrice Cunty Cotton's written a book. Tom Cotton says sacrifice of Americans paying tariffs is "minimal" compared to those serving overseas.

As the U.S. and China inch closer to an all-out trade war, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says that the sacrifice Americans will pay for President Trump's tariffs are "minimal" compared to those serving overseas. President Trump has maintained that Americans would not be fronting the brunt of the cost for tariffs, but many, including the president's own economic adviser, say they will.

"There will be some sacrifices on the part of Americans, I grant you that, but I also would say that sacrifice is pretty minimal compared to the sacrifices that our soldiers make overseas that are fallen heroes that are laid to rest in Arlington make," Cotton told "CBS This Morning" when asked about the impact of tariffs on farmers in his own state of Arkansas.

Cotton, the author of "Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery," said that in the long term, the goal is to make sure that the U.S. "remains preeminent as a global super power both in the economic and the security" worlds.

The price tag for that "preeminence" on the average American family, according to trade experts falls between $700 to $1,000.

They may as well tell us all to eat cake.

Ignoring a subpoena is breaking the law. Junior Mint doesn't work in the WH or anywhere else in the federal government. There are no executive privilege claims that can be attempted to apply to him.

Graham needs reprimanded by his Senate colleagues and lose his chair of the Judiciary Committee. The Senate won't do it because of partisanship, but is is much deserved.

r291....you mean like when he claimed attorney client privilege when testifying before Congress because there was an attorney in the same room when he had a conversation with his father ? ....and the GOP said nothing and let him get away with it ?

Trump RCP approval average rises to 45.3

I really hate evangelicals and I spend time with them. They act all sweet but in their hearts, they are mean and hard hearted.

R293, Trump's aggregated poll rating is in his usual 39.5-42.5% range.

From what I have heard for a long time, and before the Russia shit, is that La Senatrice had compromising photos being spit-roasted. Not sure of the color of the guys doing the spit-roasting, but that is what has always been talked about. Not sure if it started as a joke and everyone just says spit-roasting and the photos are something else but I said that a long time ago. Also, I said he was with someone who was legal but only due to the state they were in.

Supreme Court's conservatives overturn precedent as liberals ask 'which cases the court will overrule. Source: Washington Post

Courts & Law Supreme Court’s conservatives overturn precedent as liberals ask ‘which cases the court will overrule next’

By Robert Barnes May 13 at 12:36 PM

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned a 41-year-old precedent Monday, prompting a pointed warning from liberal justices about “which cases the court will overrule next.” ... The issue in Monday’s 5 to 4 ruling was one of limited impact: whether states have sovereign immunity from private lawsuits in the courts of other states. In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to such immunity, although states are free to extend it to one another and often do.

But the court’s conservative majority overruled that decision, saying there was an implied right in the Constitution that means states “could not be haled involuntarily before each other’s courts,” in the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote Monday’s decision. ... Thomas acknowledged the departure from the legal doctrine of stare decisis, in which courts are to abide by settled law without a compelling reason to overrule the decision.

But he said the court’s decision four decades ago in Nevada v. Hall “is contrary to our constitutional design and the understanding of sovereign immunity shared by the states that ratified the Constitution. Stare decisis does not compel continued adherence to this erroneous precedent.”

As was evident during the confirmation hearings of President Trump’s nominees to the Supreme Court — Justices Neal M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh — liberals are worried about what other court precedents the newly fortified conservative majority will find wrongly decided. ... Justice Stephen G. Breyer clearly had other issues — abortion rights, for instance, or affirmative action — in mind in his dissent. ... It is “dangerous to overrule a decision only because five members of a later court come to agree with earlier dissenters on a difficult legal question,” Breyer wrote, adding: “Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the court will overrule next.” ....

The case is Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt.

Robert Barnes has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined The Post to cover Maryland politics, and he has served in various editing positions, including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006. Follow https://twitter.com/scotusrepor

Jeffrey Toobin: English translation of Justice Breyer's dissent today in Hyatt: "Roe v. Wade is doomed." #SCOTUS

Blue states need to pass laws making it a crime to seek an abortion from another state in their state. Put the pressure on these red state voters who think they can just drive on over to the nearest blue state to obtain an abortion, especially the rich.

Roe is likely dead. But the backlash will be huge. So many people forgot how things used to be. I'm only 33 but I am well read on how things were. Some will be in for a huge surprise.

I'm sure Susan Collins will be very concerned.

So what will happen when women start dying? Nothing. People will write outraged tweets. Nobody will get out in the streets and protest. They’ll just lie there and let it happen.

Thoughts and Prayers

"I had no idea Justice Kavanaugh would do such a thing. No idea. If I did, my vote very well could have be different I tell you. What is done is done so there is no point dwelling on this now."- Susan Collins (R-Notverybrightsville)

Collins is going down. All the Rep. and Independent women will absolutely go after these men.

and Senator Collins needs to stop with the (Bewitched) Aunt Esmeralda routine.

Mainers ditched their looney Governor...now go after Susan Collins.

"CNBC: list of US goods targeted for 25% tariff"

(which American Consumers and Tommy Cotton's constituents will pay.

China will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation for the Trump administration’s latest decision to increase duties on Chinese products. Beijing will increase tariffs on more than 5,000 U.S. products to as high as 25%, the Chinese Finance Ministry says. Here is a list of some of the 2,493 goods that will be subject to a 25% tariff.

Frozen, dried, smoked and salted beef Honey Frozen spinach and legumes including peas, beans and lentils Fine and coarse rice, corn and wheat flour as well as processed oats Any plant mainly used as a spice Virgin olive oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil and sesame oil Soda and bottled water Spirits including gin, tequila, vodka and other distilled spirits and alcoholic beverages

Building stone, bricks, panels and floor tiles Wall and ceiling coverings Pipes and tubes Wood flooring and carpets Small tools including handsaws, scissors and other blades Tools used for drilling, milling or boring

Furniture including metal or wood frames for upholstered furniture Bedding and sleeping bags Footwear including leather and rubber boots, sports shoes and accessories for shoes Hats, umbrellas and walking sticks Lighting fixtures Watches and clocks Musical instruments including upright pianos, stringed instruments, wind instruments and keyboards

Parts for railway or tramway locomotives Track signal equipment for railway or tramway Sailboats, motorboats and yachts Canoes and other recreational vessels

Coffee makers, hair dryers, microwaves, space heaters, electric ovens Television broadcast cameras Telecommunications equipment Microphones, headphones, speakers, recorders, DVD players and other accessories for video and audio equipment

Rocks including granite, marble, chalk and sandstone Precious and semiprecious stones including diamonds, rubies and emeralds Metal ores including iron, nickel, zinc, titanium and zirconium Natural liquid gas Fertilizers Chemicals including chlorine, iodine and sulfuric acid Dyes and pigment

and in other MAGAt News: Remember that woman who called Michelle O. an ape in heels?

SCOTUS and Rowe v. Wade

Dershowitz defends Barr. Of course, the partisan The Hill, gives it ink.

No surprise.

Darren Samuelsohn, Politico: DOJ has given Judge Amy Berman Jackson the unredacted portions of the Mueller report relating to Roger Stone and WikiLeaks

Dershowitz is a long standing asshole Republican, a paid mouthpiece with no morals.

[quote]Remember that woman who called Michelle O. an ape in heels?

Now she's a jackass in orange.

R309 Amy Berman Jackson was appointed by Obama

Tarot reading on Jim Jordan

Love her..TY R313

"White House reviews military plans against Iran -- including sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East -- in echoes of Iraq war."

So this is how Trump intends to distract from Mueller testifying in public. Which will cable news choose? Muelller or Iraq War Endgame?

NYT: Barr has begun investigating the investigators

Trump's going to need a few more troops against Iran than we used against Iraq.

A war with Iran would be, of course, playing into Putin's hand, cost our treasury and our lives, and be an epic disaster. We will be in a very weakened state should this happen.

Our economic house is very unstable with soaring deficits/debt during good times- it should be the opposite.

No room for stimulus should we need it due to the above.

More trillions spent on war and more lives lost, causalities coming home needing expensive medical care.

It’s so transparent that Trump is desperately trying to gin up a “Wag the Dog “scenario. And, frankly, I don’t think we’re distracted by wars anymore and I don’t think that will work out for him as a shiny object if he manages to land us in some kind of conflict. We were (are?) in two wars for so many years - it’s not like life stopped here in the U.S. during that period and all scandals were immediately forgotten and abandoned so we could all rally around the flag. It’s a different era entirely. It won’t work.

CNN: Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap

CNN) It seems a crazy idea that any president would actually want to be impeached. But Donald Trump has so subverted Washington logic with his wild, norm-crushing presidency that there is now a serious conversation -- at least among Democrats -- about whether he views the ultimate constitutional crisis as a weapon in his re-election campaign.

The possibility is shaping the strategies of Democratic leaders as they weigh the political risks of impeachment and their duty to defend principles of American governance.

Many Democrats fear that Trump may be laying an impeachment trap that could consume the House majority, distract them from key issues like health care and alienate persuadable voters.

"Part of our reluctance is we are already a bitterly divided country and an impeachment process will divide us further," Schiff said Sunday on "This Week" on ABC News. "He certainly seems to be trying and maybe this is his perverse way of dividing us more ... He thinks that's to his political advantage, but it's certainly not to the country's advantage."

Trump dodged a question in a Politico interview last week about whether he wanted to be impeached. And he argues that if anyone committed crimes over the 2016 campaign, it is Democrats, not him.

At other times he has, however, seemed to be testing out arguments that he could use in his defense in an impeachment showdown.

"It's hard to impeach somebody who hasn't done anything wrong and who's created the greatest economy in the history of our country," Trump told Reuters in an interview in December.

"I'm not concerned, no. I think that the people would revolt if that happened," he said.

Much Democratic reticence about impeachment is shaped by a certain reading of the history of the Bill Clinton era. In midterm elections in 1998 that took place after Republicans had initiated the impeachment process, Democrats actually picked up House seats in a reverse of historical trends. The result has been read ever since as a judgment by voters to rebuke Republicans who sought unsuccessfully to oust a twice-elected President.

Some Democrats fear that an impeachment process now could play into the current President's hands and allow him to rally the country against them.

They need to open formal impeachment proceedings against the fucker and let the chips fall where they may. There's no data or evidence that shows that bringing impeachment proceedings against a sitting President, whether successfully or not, will hurt the initiating party.

And if they DON'T bring it, then our Constitution isn't worth the paper its written one. We are either a nation of laws, or we aren't.

I do think he wants to be impeached. He must have a rallying cry. He needs the material. That is why I said Nancy is playing this right. She drives him crazy.

He knows he will never be removed.

This is all Steve Bannon. It smells of his rancid flesh.

But the Dems are smarter. I think they will bring everything to light and let the public turn on him. Then he will be arrested once he is voted out.

[quote]Dershowitz defends Barr. Of course, the partisan The Hill, gives it ink.

I think I mentioned it either earlier in this thread or in a related thread but none other than Alan Dershowitz wrote the very long introduction to the Mueller Report book that was released last week. As you can imagine, the entire thing was written with a flashlight from up Trump's ass.

I don't know what the heck they are afraid of. No, it won't drag down the whole party but rather elevate it in the eyes of the Dem base, which is larger than the Trump deplorable base. The party got to give its own base something to focus on, so they will turn out to vote against Trump.

r324 We will turn out regardless. If we don't, and we need impeachment to get us voting, then we are fucking idiots.

They don't need to officially impeach him to start impeachment hearings. Doing so will give them move legal power to do what they're already trying to do. The investigations will take long enough that it will be close enough to the election that they can use Mitch McConnell's patented "too close to an election to formally impeach" excuse just to make sure everything keeps going without giving Trump the talking point of actually being impeached.

I think they should require men to be DNA sampled and databased, and each fetus will need to be tied to both a woman and a man, broadcast publicly. I would enjoy the chaos.

I bet abortion would be legal again directly.

but I don't get what there is to be afraid of. The rabid deplorables are already foaming at the mouth and will turn out to vote for the orange turd in 2020 regardless of what the House does or does not do. Even if they don't impeach him, Trump will find some angle to get his zombies riled up. If they do impeach him, it won't make their numbers any greater.

If enough of the rest of us turn up to vote in the swing states, Trump will lose (unless there's election hacking/tampering)

R328, the fear is that it will be framed as political smear tactics and desperate overreach. And, unfortunately, we can't count on the media to dispel that illusion that the Repugs will create. It might have an effect on Independents.

R329 No true Independents are going to vote for Trump.

R329 and if they do nothing it will be seen largely as inaction. Trump and the right wing media will frame the narrative as they always do that they're the victims. If the rest of the country doesn't get it by now that they're lying then we deserve another term of these assholes. I support Pelosi following the procedures but I want the House to impeach him preferably by the end of this year

[quote]Blue states need to pass laws making it a crime to seek an abortion from another state in their state. Put the pressure on these red state voters who think they can just drive on over to the nearest blue state to obtain an abortion, especially the rich.

I do get the thinking behind this, but there's no way in hell women's groups are going to let people die just to piss off the Trumpanzees.

If/Roe is overturned the underground abortion railroad to NY State *will* be back. Bet on it.

GA's attempts to punish women who seek abortions out of state cannot and will not legally stand.

Once deployable bitches start dying from botched abortions, these pukes will suddenly realize they've been played for fools.

After the crime rate skyrockets, babies die from lack of healthcare, babies dumped in trash bins and young women disappearing to Mexico - then maybe these fools will realize they've been played.

I doubt it but their daughters, wives and sisters dying may be the only way these pukes wake up.

Dems should take a lesson from China... when Trump sticks it to you, you don't talk yourself into the ground... you stick him back.

R330, they did last time. Ninety percent of "independents" are embarrassed Republicans who won't publicly admit to being Repugs anymore.

R331, I don't want them to do nothing and I don't think they will do nothing. I think they are following the path I laid out in R326. They are holding off on officially announcing the transition from committee investigations to impeachment hearings until they have followed the letter of the law in every way possible. They will time the transition to moving to impeachment hearings to the point where the Repugs will start arguing that we're too close to an election to consider impeachment which will make the Repugs have to talk endlessly about impeachment going into the 2020 election cycle.

In other news, tomorrow is the hearing on Trump suing the banks to keep them from giving the financial documents to Congress. Trump's lawyers are endlessly whining while the Democrats' lawyers are saying, "We're good to go.", so I think that's leaning the Dems way.

And, lastly, why did Barr turn over the unredacted Mueller report to the judge but can get away with not giving it to the House which is conducting equivalent legal proceedings?

r335....it was only unredacted sections that specifically pertain to Roger Stones case....not the entire report.

Tarot reading on Junior Mint

CNN does does a fluff piece on 'Mother'.

Anna Navarro says "Lindsey Graham is serving as President Trump's accomplice".

"This is not the Lindsey Graham I know".

Navarro is just now figuring this out?

Hell Trump will probably say he is being impeached and his dimwitted followers will believe. It doesn't matter he will lie and make shit up and they will believe him. They should just start impeachment proceedings anyway.

[quote]Blue states need to pass laws making it a crime to seek an abortion from another state in their state.

They don't need to when red states are passing laws making it a crime for citizens to seek an abortion in another state.

[quote]"This is not the Lindsey Graham I know".

NO ONE EVER knows a closeted man.

This is all moving quickly into Handmaid’s Tale territory.

I'd like the Democrats to be less concerned about dividing the country and more concerned about uncovering crimes and holding their perpetrators accountable. Otherwise those crimes become de facto permitted.

their are a plethora of u.s. bases all around/surrounding the country of iran! and we need to worry about them and them starting a war? really?..

Dubya and Dump are both 72 but Dubya has aged much better. Dubya knows that his favorability has completely turned around and he could really influence GOP voters by reading Dump the riot act.

And yet the best Dubya can say is that people are "concerned"?!?!

Girls, girls....!

NBC: Trump lawyers welcome report of third probe of Russia inquiry

USA Today: President Donald Trump's battle with sprawling congressional probes gets its first day in court

Donald, Dubya and Bill Clinton are all 72. Maybe that's why the pro-Biden movement is so strong. We could end up with a whole bunch of old, dead white guys and Barack as the last one standing for a while there.

So, so cute.

Well, Gym Jordan is a fashion statement.

Maybe I'm being naive, but Why can't Somebody stand up (in Congress, or at a press conference, or just at a local meeting and state the glaringly obvious: "What ANY person does with his or her own body is none of your fucking business" ??? Or at the very least, "No federal funds for poor people to get a needed medical procedure, but no problem with your Republican wives, mistresses and victims using their Cadillac coverage to get a little scraping done before lunch at the club" ????

Due to blowback and negative press, now Lindsey has spun her earlier statement about telling Don Junior to ignore a Senate Committee subpoena

Lindsey has changed it to saying Don Jr. may physically go, but advises Junior to plead the 5th, and then it's all over.

Oh Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey.....

Is it really all over if he pleads the 5th?

Reuters: Trump urges judge not to fast-track his lawsuit over House subpoena

"The executive branch strategy mostly seems to be a blanket rejection of all attempts at oversight, regardless of the issue, up until the election," Griffin said. "So any time the calendar is accelerated that probably favors Congress."

Another "this is not the Lindsey I know".

Joe Manchin meet Anna Navarro.

Does anyone really care what Joe Manchin has to say about anything anymore?

#LindseyGrahamResign is trending on Twitter.

Odd, Miz L hasn't posted today on Twitter.

Pooty Poop and MAGA Spurs put pressure on the poor thang to help out Pooh Bear's bf.

A post like that r361, requires a detailed index.

DL Lesbian here-. No doubt I'll go down fighting over Roe v Wade, and every Woman's right to control her body, but I have another story. My partner and I were blessed with our daughter who has Down's Syndrome 17 yrs ago. Yes, we knew this during my partner's pregnancy, but we also made a fully-informed CHOICE. And even though we were fully committed, it didn't mean there weren't incredibly difficult times- potty training till she was 10; fighting the Education system tooth and nail, or crying ourselves to sleep over every goddammed.bully, just to name a literal few. And I know we had it EASY. And although I cherish our daughter dearly, It gives me a literal pit in my STOMACH when, I think of the millions upon millions of women out there who will literally have NO CHOICE when they are confronted by the news that their fetus/ baby is seriously ill and will no longer have the option to terminate the pregnancy. Can you imagine the number of disabled ( let alone underserved) children that will be born?? Madness.

Another DLer bisexual woman here, who will also go down fighting for abortion rights likely. I’ve had multiple miscarriages from wanted pregnancies which were devastating enough and it terrifies me that I would be imprisoned under the new laws. FUCK YOU TRUMP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — After an FBI briefing, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Russian hackers gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

...and were still there and active in the 2018 election.

r316 Jeff Smith, the frugal Barr-licker?

AP: AP sources: Trump Jr. subpoena sent when interviews declined

CNN: CIA, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins

When the truth comes out, Barr should be put to death for treason.

I love what the Tarot Card Lady had to say about Donald Junior.

Democrats fear Dump is laying an impeachment trap:

That was already posted and discussed. Personally, I think there is/will be enough public favor for impeachment. It's time to take the fucker down.

"Ford Prepares for Mass Layoffs After Losing $1 Billion to Trump's Trade Tariffs"

So....how does that affect Michigan?

This trade thing is going to negatively affect Dump's base like a full-force knee kick to the balls. I know they are stupid, but surely some of them will see that Dump did this....He's PROUD he did this...and he doesn't give a fuck about his "people" nor anybody else but himself (and perhaps his daughter/lover Ivanka).

Someone should start a rumor that Trump has gotten Ivanka pregnant.

Meanwhile, AG Barr is undertaking a complete discrediting of the Mueller report and the IC.....and the Dems do nothing. They were warned, and they continued to allow Barr to play his games. What will they do now when he declares everything invalid so the corrupt can stay in power ?

Reuters: Pompeo tells Russia: Don't meddle in next U.S. presidential vote

R379 ...followed by a >winkwink<

I’m sure he had both hands on his hips too!

[QUOTE]It’s so transparent that Trump is desperately trying to gin up a “Wag the Dog “scenario. And, frankly, I don’t think we’re distracted by wars anymore and I don’t think that will work out for him as a shiny object if he manages to land us in some kind of conflict. We were (are?) in two wars for so many years - it’s not like life stopped here in the U.S. during that period and all scandals were immediately forgotten and abandoned so we could all rally around the flag. It’s a different era entirely. It won’t work.

This seems to have the ring of truth to it.

Can someone explain how primarying a President works? Is Weld automatically entitled to a debate and recognition from the repub party on the ballot? Does he have to meet a certain threshold of money or support? Can the GOP block him and Trump can ignore him? I want Weld to be at least a minor pain in the ass for Trump for the next year

[quote]I’m sure he had both hands on his hips too!

I'd be surprised if he knows which roll of fat his hips are under.

#LindseyGrahamResign

Psychic says: abortions, sex trafficking, sexual assaults, wars, lies, tax evasion, cheating, divorces, etc etc etc, None of this will take Donald down. What is going to take him down is money. So let him have at the tariffs and anything else to do with money because once his base understands that they have been screwed and it is going to cost Them, then he will go down

NEW from NYT: The House Intel Committee is investigating whether lawyers tied to President Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony.

Link...

AP: Judge skeptical of Trump effort to keep records from House

Mike Pence and his religious persecution utterances at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Treasonous Dump's lawyers told a judge today that Congress didn't have the power to investigate him for corruption, and suggested that both the Whitewater and Watergate investigations were invalid attempts at "law enforcement":

Bahahahaha^^

Breaking!!!

Trump Jr makes deal to testify before Senate Intel Committee just on tv now haven't looked for an article

I bet he'll plead the 5th

R394 It's a Republican Senate Committee... they will bend over backward to exonerate him and "incriminate" the Dems.

Junior agreed to appear a month away, mid-June.

Delay, delay, delay. Then he could still plead the 5th.

Miss Lindzey had told him to blow it off and is getting shit for doing so.

Even as a cartoon, Chuck Todd is a sucking chest wound...and wonky-eyed KC in the DC; both repub taint-lickers.

These are fun....

The Republican Senate Committee has acquiesced to the request to answer all questions with "I do not remember".

#LindseyGrahamResign Demands Flood Twitter Amid Bipartisan Backlash Against Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena Advice

Seeing la Senatrice, tRump, and Moscow Mitch in ankle chains and jumpsuits will be fun.

I want that kompromat on Miss Lindz leaked far and wide. Why won’t the old coward just come out already. He’d get MORE votes if he called a press conference, apologized for his cowardice and switched sides. As it is right now, people are screaming for his head. Is this worth it to him? Ditto Mc Turtle. Leak that kompromat!

Senatrice Sayizzzz:

"Mistah President, that black call-boy had a pork sword theeeissssss big'! Please tell Vladimir to dessssstroy the tapes and I'll continue to live in your anus."

And this...

Year 2035

[quote]I'd like the Democrats to be less concerned about dividing the country and more concerned about uncovering crimes and holding their perpetrators accountable. Otherwise those crimes become de facto permitted.

But, what if the outcome of not worrying about dividing the country is to divide the country to the point where the very criminals you want held accountable get another term to continue their crimes? This is a very precarious balancing game that Pelosi and the rest of the Dems have to play just right. They haven't even been in power for four full months yet and look at everything that's already happened and in process. Pelosi is a master of political power moves. This woman got the Affordable Care Act passed against huge odds. I trust her.

I *almost* hate Graham more at this point than Trump because he actually registers as an actual sentient being on the I.Q. scale as opposed to Trump, and is therefore more liable for his actions.

i kinda agree, r406. I really think Trump has never actually known right from wrong in any context, has never had the tightest grasp on reality, and is now slipping into dementia, but Our Miss Lindz has no excuse. She's just straight up lying every single day and knows it.

Washington Post: ‘I don’t see him crying uncle’: Trump believes China tariffs will help him win reelection

It's weird knowing in any situation, the President of the United States is always the most pig ignorant person in the room, and will never, ever not be because he thinks he's always the smartest one.

[quote]Pelosi is a master of political power moves

I didn't deny that or criticize Pelosi specifically, R405. In fact I'd like to believe that her delaying and putting off impeachment is part of a more effective end-game of holding high-ranking lawbreakers accountable. My problem is with the argument that what's most important is not to divide the country.

Every GOPer is a loathsome demon. Every one of them. They are to be hated equally as they all have a hand in this shitshow we are in.

All of our enemies could not have asked for a stupider President. They are destroying us and using this useful idiot like a play thing.

Our Miss Lindz

Why a prettier South Carolina Peach, I never did see, r412, I do declare.

Mar-a-Lago Artwork Addition

I'm hoping sometime in the near future we see the massive downfall of Ronna Romney McDaniel. She's such a disgrace propagating conspiracy theories and lies for the GOP

I thought you said Roma Downey for a second as she and her husband are due some karma.

Where are all these pictures of Miz Lindsey as Scarlett coming from? Is the general public now doing this?

R417, yes, it's an idea that has escaped into the public domain. I'm convinced that I've seen a news commentator mock Lindsey by doing a Scarlett "well, la-di-dah." I even think someone called him Miz Lindsey on the air.

Don Lemon did a "Senator Lindsey has the VAY-puhs" act to the delight of Chris Cuomo.

If I were to paint Linds as Miss Scarlett, it would be in the red velvet one where Rhett makes her attend Mellie's party.

I used to enjoy LG as light entertainment, but no more.

This is really awful to wish on anyone, but I wish that Lindsey Graham suddenly developed full-blown AIDS.

I wish the same thing happened to him as Trump’s sister and he had to resign very suddenly to avoid prosecution.

I used to enjoy LG as light entertainment

A new Billy Hipkins video on 'poor Miss LG' is long overdue. Those were hilarious.

Why monumental campaign finance reform is critically needed.

This piece in the New York Times today gave me hope. It's brilliant.

From the column, "But this president has a particular strain of hatred within his tiny dark heart for the Pacific states. And they hate him back. After the wipeout in last year’s congressional elections, only a mere 38-mile strip of the Pacific shore in the lower-48 states, in Washington, remains in Republican hands."

Bravo, West Coast States.

Gotta say that I hate that the 2020 Democratic field is full to overflowing. However, I welcome things like what MT Governor Steve Bullock just said:

> Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is not a good role model, telling "CBS This Morning" that "we're expecting more from preschoolers" than the behavior the president has exhibited in office.

Politico: rump boasts that his looks and brain are better than Biden's

He really is such a basket case about his looks, isn't he? It's going to be so much fulfilling when there's the inevitable (in coffin?) photo sans dye and bronzer.

No, R428, in his casket he can make sure they give him his bronzer and his wigs. But in PRISON, he will lose his wigs and his bronzer. Hah!

So, realistically -- distraction war with Iran? Yes? No?

R430, I’m betting against it. I think the TALK of war is the distraction.

Bloomberg: Mnuchin Foresees Trump Tax Return Fight Heading to Court

R426, I believe it's OK to have a large Democratic field at this early point. After the first couple of debates, a big chunk of them will withdraw. It takes much funding to keep going, and most will not have it. And those left, the early primaries will dwindle the group further fast.

Frankly for me, a few of the later entrants and lesser known candidates, are among the better qualified.

I don't give a FUCK about anything else other than the unredacted Mueller report and that is ALL anybody else should be talking about too, not the fucking 2020 election,

R433 True - They're eminently qualified. But honestly, I would like people like Bullock in the Senate. We NEED strong Dem candidates from red states to run for the Senate.

Tee sooner some of these candidates get knocked out of the presidential race and focus on Senate seats instead, the better off we'll be. Even if Trump is gone in 2020, we're not getting anything done if Mitch McConnell is still in control of the Senate.

Even with wigs/dye/bronzer/make-up galore Dump's fat ass is so ugly he can still snag lightning on a clear day!

I pray daily we'll see someone douse the Dump's face with gasoline and then set a match, all caught on camera for the entire world to see.

Am I evil for having these thoughts?

No, R438. Not even in the slightest.

Someone mentioned in an earlier thread a series of things regular citizens should be doing to Trump Cabinet members and other cabal members when they dare venture into public. One of them was that someone should constantly follow Steve Mnuchin around with a can of "fart spray" from Party City and spray it on or around him whenever he is in public.

Honestly, I think about that again every so often and literally burst out laughing. So thank you for that, whoever you are. A little laugh in these dark days.

Washington Post: Trump’s prized Doral resort is in steep decline, according to company documents, showing his business problems are mounting

To go along with R439, I think SNL should do a skit where Trump walks into a room and all he does is fart. Loud smelly ones, Causing consternation for all the other characters in the skit who react. It doesn't have to be funny. It just has to completely humiliate him. It would go viral all over the world.

Someone should tweet that to Colin Jost, R441.

Politico: Complaints grow that Trump staffers are campaigning for their boss

Look everybody knows Trump is : nearly illiterate with a very low IQ, has a very small mushroom shaped penis, is married to an eastern bloc whore, has 2 sons Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber, his daughter has had mass quantities of plastic surgery and he lusts for her, is disliked and made fun of by most everyone who has ever known him, is a malignant narcissist with very low real self esteem, will go down in history as the worst President eve, is known as a pathological liar who is easily manipulated by most anyone with an IQ above 90. I'm sure I could add more to his humiliation but no need. Deep down I believe he hates himself nearly as much as the rest of us.

Now we just need him to do something about it ...

Great post, R443. I agree with everything except the last line. I think he’s pathologically in love with himself and this has been reinforced by all the yes men and yes women in his life.

Oops, I meant R444, of course.

R445 Well if Trump snorts some nose candy before the next debates like he did in 2016, now that he's older, it might just "negatively affect" him. :)

R448 I remember we couldn't figure out why he kept sniffing. And he kept getting into Hillary's space. It was so weird. She ignored it, which I think was a mistake. Imagine if she has asked him directly - why are you physically stalking me on stage and why do you keep sniffing?

To Senatrice Graham and her #Brokeahontas

ABC: White House rejects House Judiciary document request

USA Today's Brad Heath:

White House lawyers told Rep. Nadler today that Congress' Russia investigation is not a "legitimate exercise of oversight authority," and said they would decline to comply with some requests for evidence because of "our respect for the rule of law."

NYTiimes' Nicholas Fandos:

Today at a law enforcement ceremony at Capitol:

AG Barr approached Pelosi, shook her hand: "Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?"

Pelosi smiled and, per a bystander, told Barr the House Sergeant at Arms was there should an arrest be needed. Barr laughed; walked away.

Treasoners: Endgame

R449 it was a no win for her. If she would have confronted him people would have used it against her and said it proved she wasn't "strong," or "tough enough," to take it. If she can't handle him walking around on stage behind her and got rattled by it... how could she lead the country!

[quote]White House lawyers told Rep. Nadler today that Congress' Russia investigation is not a "legitimate exercise of oversight authority," and said they would decline to comply with some requests for evidence because of "our respect for the rule of law."

I ❤️ projection

Bullshit, R455. It would have helped her if she stared that bully down.

R453 That's Barr's pick up line.

Keep telling yourself that, R457. Do you have selective amnesia? Hillary could never win at anything she did. The media and Deplorables always found a way to spin it the other way, especially if they could say she was weak.

I agree with R455. There's a reason she ignored it. She knew they would have picked her apart if she even flinched.

The documents subpoenaed from Deutsche Bank by Congress include Trump's TAX RETURNS.

Is Trump ranting about R461 yet? If not, he should be any moment.

Hillary was absolutely in a no win situation with the fucking media. No matter what she did, they were ready to pounce on her thinking she was going to win so lets give her hell for shits and giggles. And fuck most of the Never Trumpers who made their disdain for her widely known as they either said they were holding their nose and voting for her or voting "third party". Ditto the BernieBros who voted for her and made it a point to tell anyone who would listen how much they hated it. Enough about that......

The lawlessness of this bunch is at a scope that is truly out of this world. Now lawlessness is the rule of law. Well of course it is! Never trust a GOPer, even Weld. Don't trust any of them.

R461- But has the bank actually handed them over yet?

The Democrats are going to have to call the bluff of anyone who ignores a subpoena and arrest them. Isn't the Sgt. At Arms allowed to do that? Arrest them and keep them there until they comply- a week, a month, whatever it takes.

If there's no punishment, then everyone who gets a subpoena will just ignore it.

I think every person in this country needs to start ignoring subpoenas and other laws this admin ignores. Just make up any random reason. If they can do it, then the rule of law is dead so appeal that bitch to the SC if they dare try to hold US accountable for shit they let THEM get away with.

R464, Deutsche Bank has been talking for months with various Congressional committees, wants to provide the documents, and has produced some of them. Trump and his family have sued the bank trying to stop it from handing over the material.

R466 I would love it someone throws Trump under the bus for a change. Deutsche Bank will be around long after Trump is gone, so they might not want to run afoul of the US Congress.

Once we get the documents from Deutsche Bank and see that they gave Trump tons of money knowing that it was all part of a criminal money laundering scheme, I hope we will quickly revisit the fact that it was former Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy's, son who okayed it. And, then we can revisit the rather strange and quick retirement of Kennedy from the SC in order to have Trump put his piece of shit on there. And, then, we can impeach about 50 different fucking Repugs, from the president, to the AG, to Kavanaugh.

R439 - I have a fantasy that some stealthy enterprising activists, dressed unobtrusively of course, manage to let loose hordes of bedbugs at Mar a Lago, into the homes of Ms Lindz, Richard Barr, Ivanka and Jared, Mnuchin, Mitch McConnell, and so on, - essentially hit any and all of the GOP and/or their aides with manufactured bedbug infestations. I'd certainly enjoy those headlines.

Falling Rats

And this happened-

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kenneth Lee to a lifetime federal judgeship over the objections of both of his home-state senators and despite his past controversial writings on sexism, AIDS, LGBTQ rights, slavery and Native Americans.

At the time, Lee argued that claims of sexism are “irrelevant pouting”; that LGBTQ rights advocacy is “yet another way to portray people as victims in need of preferential treatment”; that gay people are more promiscuous than straight people, which is why “9 out of 10 people with AIDS are gay or drug users”; that multiculturalism is a “malodorous sickness”; and that African Americans’ fight for equality in the aftermath of slavery is similar to other immigrants trying to overcome discrimination.

Like the vast majority of Trump’s court picks, Lee is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, which has been funneling judicial nominees to the White House who oppose abortion rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

He is also Trump’s 40th confirmed appeals court judge. That’s so many ― more than any president has obtained by this point in a first term ― that one in every six seats on a U.S. appeals court is now filled by a Trump nominee.

In 1973 I went from PA to NYC for an abortion. I was 22; in the recovery room next to me was a 16-year-old. The procedure was not an experience women seek for fun.

Mueller was supposed to testify today. Does anyone really think he's ever going to?

Lindsey has a secret.

R475 The rumor/hope is Mueller will quit the DOJ within the month, freeing himself from any restrictions/obstructions Barr would like to place on him.

Washington Post: House Democrats fall in line with Pelosi’s no-impeachment strategy despite Trump’s defiance

Link, r471....

AP: Senate backs appeals court judge from Calif. as Dems protest

Why is Mueller still at DOJ?

true r463, I am so deeply suspicious of the media. I am so suspicious of what they say when they declare Democratic front runners and inevitibles and anything else. They are always playing games.

r481 Because they are making too much money off close races and causing drama. The news should not be for profit. That was the end of true journalism and the 4th estate.

How many of these judge vacancies are still open? If there were all these seats to be filled, could they not have been filled back when the Democrats had more power in the Senate??

Before Reid and McTurtle began totally dismantling longstanding senate procedures, the Repubes slow walked nominees, R483.

They didn't slow walk them, R484, they did nothing on them. Just let half the judiciary in the country stand empty so Obama couldn't fill them. The Merrick Garland debacle was just the icing on their racist fucking cake of obstruction and lies.

It took them a loooong time to do so, but Congress ultimately confirmed 3/4 of Obama’s judicial nominees. True, there should have been more.

Lawrence O'Donnell: Graham was "clearly witness tampering" and "could be disbarred as a lawyer".

[quote]Lawrence O'Donnell: Graham ... "could be disbarred as a lawyer".

Spoiler Alert: He won't be.

Queen Trumplotta is visiting Manhattan today. Maybe someone will throw a mudball at her sedan chair.

You know, they have the votes they need to overturn Roe on SCOTUS, but it won't happen overnight with just one case. It will be a gradual hollowing out. That's just how the courts work. So the Republican urgency to salt the courts with their judges is not as sharp as it was a year ago.

But, the Republicans are extremely nervous about the possibility of war with Iran. Every single analysis going back to Bush 43, indicates that Iran has a ton of stuff underground, and there will be absolutely no way we can knock them out with airstrikes. There will be boots on the ground and a bloodbath for our men. That's reality.

And they will also have to invade Lebanon. Iraq is fragile. It is not stable enough to be the kind of staging area we need. The Repukes know this. Generals they respect know this. So IMO they are very nervous. The Tariff/trade war with China and the hardship it's causing for red states is also a huge problem.

Trump will not be advised, guided, or controlled. So it is no longer inconceivable that we might peel off 20 Senators to move him out. He's using his Justice Department as a political weapon. But Republicans ought to know that he will turn on them as quickly as he turns on Democrats. They have to know Trump is really non-partisan. Anyone he decides to investigate or prosecute is vulnerable.

We need to make sure their own people are turning on them, and no one is doing a better job of softening his support than Elizabeth Warren campaigning in places like West Virginia, and others who are going into Trump country like Klobuchar and Biden.

Yes we have 2 million Democrats running for President. But if those "Presidential candidates" are visiting your town halls and essentially saying the same things about healthcare, taxes, the environment, and jobs/infrastructure, we can peel away part of Trump's base. Not the extremists, or the mentally challenged, but there are others. A lot of Republican women are pissed about the abortion bans.

McTurtle

Has Queen Trumplotta also made a royal proclamation that today is also backwards day in Manhattan?

It'd be better if someone threw a hand grenade, r489.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a full pardon for former media mogul Conrad Black, who was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent 3-1/2 years in prison.

Last year, Black published a book praising Trump, titled "Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other."

Black was also tied to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein:

Pardoned someone Justin like himself. That fat fuck is an idiot.

^^^ Just like, not Justin.

How many of you still have people in your Social Media feeds that defend Dotard?

CNBC: It's up to special counsel Robert Mueller if he wants to testify to Congress, Attorney General William Barr says

R498 None for me. But I brought up something about unity to someone who was pretty liberal but was tearing other Democratic candidates apart and got shellacked in return. Not fun.

Why don't I believe a word out of Barr's fat, bitch, mouth?

CNBC: Trump's tariffs amount to one of the largest tax hikes in decades

Please.

GOP women fully support these abortion band. They want ALL women to be as chained, shackled and miserable as they are. They see unmarried women as "the enemy" trying to steal their old, fat ugly husbands.

They think having an old, fat white man by their side raises their standing in the world and if they have to punish other women to maintain that standing, then so be it.

Trump Art: Trump Navigating and Battling the Swamp

Why I recognize Ivanka, Melania (grasping the flag bearer--is that Kellyanne or Betsy DeVos?), Ben Carson, John Bolton, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Wilbur Ross; but can't identify the rest clearly. Maybe that's Bannon with the binoculars and Steve Miller with the back paddle?

Is that Mnuchin trying to jab the gator?

McTurtle better get out the creek or get mistaken for a swamp creature.

Miss Lindzey must be waiting on the bank with dry clothes and hot coffee for them all.

^Mick Mulvaney is there.

r490 that's all a dream. While the Senators may be scared or worried their constituents don't care about Iran. With Trump's support a Senator wanting any type of political future wouldn't break ranks to impeach.

Dems keep viewing things through the lens of the process when the only thing that matters is the politics of the situation.

R504 The back paddler is Mike Pence. That may be Mother after the alligator.

Just to return to Trump's worthless pardon for Conrad Black. Always remember Black's biographer calling Black a millionaire who longed above all to be accepted by billionaires. And so duly got caught with his venal fingers in the till.

Birds of a feather of course. Just one minor joy from Trump's downfall will be that Black's 'pardon' was bestowed by a treasonous criminal. Black will forever be known by history as a greedy social climber who did jail time.

Reuters: U.S. House speaker: Congress has not approved war against Iran

R502, correct. trump & allies gave themselves huge tax breaks while saddling average American's with huge new taxes.

Calling them tariff's just distracts people from the truth. I'd like to know where all these additional taxes will end up. Pockets of trump maybe?

^^^^^^^^

Taxes from tariffs imposed by the federal government are deposited into the US Treasury.

We don't know what the hell is happening with anything , do we, R511?

Re: the fart spray can used on Steve Mnuchin mentioned upthread:

My greatest wish is to have Ivanka Trump made to do a Game of Thrones-style “Shame!” walk through the streets of D.C. while naked and with people throwing rotted fruit and dirt at her, screaming “Whore! Cunt! Daddy’s Fucktoy!” And, like Cersei, she will be barefoot.

[quote]Taxes from tariffs imposed by the federal government are deposited into the US Treasury.

The question is, where will that money go from there?

Oopsie. It turns out that the Steele Dossier source for the infamous alleged "pee tape" is the same source who claimed there was a Russian consulate in Miami. There is no Russian consulate in Miami. That is a pretty good indicator that there is no pee tape either. Looks like it was fruit from a rotten tree. Surely if such a tape existed, we'd have seen it by now.

Kyle Griffin: New ad from the Tom Steyer-backed group Need to Impeach targets Democrats: "He broke his oath of office. He's defying you. He's laughing at you. And he’s getting away with it."

Orange turd is coming back to NYC this evening and as expected, it's a mad house in midtown, I was in the area, walking along madison ave and I saw Anthony Scaramucci. He was also walking along madison ave with a friend. I saw him on 56th street. Some guy had stopped him to chat with him. He is so fucking short! no more than 5'5. I think he may even be 5'4. But he is not ugly. nice hair.

R517 also bi or gay. Was following a gay porn star on Twitter.

R506, They might care if their sons gets their limbs or heads blown off.

But I'll tell you what: In the spirit of Phil Ochs, I ain't marching anymore. Street protests are for the young(er).

"get"

R515, There IS a Visa and Passport Office. So maybe there's just a small mix-up, not a yuuge negating error.

Flynn filing info breaking now is not a good look for Team Trump.

It will be extremely interesting to uncover exactly whence funds that needed laundering by Trump, Inc., not simply that such laundering occurred for Deutschebank (son of Justice Kennedy), Alfa Bank (Russia), and the Bank of Cyprus (Wilbur Ross).

Heroin/opium (Afghanistan, for example). Females, including underage and abducted (SE Asia, e.g.). Weaponry.

Lots of "trafficking."

Seems there's only one "news" source behind R515's post. The writer is "Debra Heine, conservative Catholic mom of six and longtime political pundit. She has written for several conservative news websites over the years, including Breitbart and PJ Media." Her source seems to be an anonymous Twitter account, that supposedly has info from the DOJ investigation into Republican claims of FBI misconduct. I would take this with a very large grain of salt.

NBC: Trump financial disclosure reveals revenue dips at Mar-a-Lago, mixed results at other businesses

It bears repeating -- everything he touches dies.

Clearly he's not touching himself much. He probably even disgusts himself.

who was the member of congress who obstructed justice for Trump? (according to Flynn)

[quote] Oopsie. It turns out that the Steele Dossier source for the infamous alleged "pee tape" is the same source who claimed there was a Russian consulate in Miami.

The launch of a formal inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation -- being led by one of the Justice Department’s toughest prosecutors -- has touched off a new round of behind-the-scenes finger-pointing among Obama administration officials who could have some explaining to do about efforts to surveil the Trump campaign.

A key dispute that flared this week concerns whether then-FBI Director James Comey or then-CIA Director John Brennan -- or both of them -- pushed the unverified Steele dossier containing claims about President Trump and his relationship to Russia. The dossier’s more sensational claims were never substantiated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team.

“Amazing—James Comey says that in 2016, John Brennan insisted on including the dossier in their IC assessment. But Brennan says: no no, COMEY wanted to use the dossier,” North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican who has long demanded answers about the origins of the probe, tweeted Thursday in reference to a prior Fox News report.

Meadows added: “They know the truth is coming. And now they're all throwing each other under the bus.”

Wasn't it John McCain who gave the dossier to the FBI?

R529, Devin Nunes is a prime suspect.

[quote]Wasn't it John McCain who gave the dossier to the FBI?

Yep!

NYT: Frustrated House Democrats Pin Their Hopes on Mueller

AP: Schiff plans 'enforcement action' against DOJ over Mueller

R530 you fucking idiot. You are posting FAKE FUCKING FOX news. Don't mention Mark Meadows name here or his rancid moronic buddy Jim Jordan here ever again. you are trolling and you know you are trolling -or maybe you are just stupid enough to believe the garbage being pumped out by Trump, the WH and Fox etal. Curious considering the shit coming out about Flynn and members of congress who are sweating their rapidly approaching doom. Das Vadanya Dummy.

Sounds like Nunes is the one.

Her arrogance is so unbecoming.

It has to be Nunes. Not only was he on Trumps transition team, Nunes tagged along with Flynn to the meeting where they discussed kidnapping that Turkish cleric. So Flynn and Nunes had some sort of rapport.

I have 530 blocked as a troll for what it is worth.

[quote]Clearly he's not touching himself much. He probably even disgusts himself.

Don't be silly, bitches. That's my job!

So the Senate passed another extreme judge who has a history of extreme abortion views. All but one GOPer (the always Concerned, never helpful Suzzy Collins). Why didn't Murkowski vote against the judge? Are there no fucking moderates in the GOP (rhetorical)?

All Dems voted against. And once again, Manchin was one. We need to remember this when others bitch about him. He is 99% better than anything we could get out of WV.

^^^meant all but one GOPer voted yes.

[quote]It took them a loooong time to do so, but Congress ultimately confirmed 3/4 of Obama’s judicial nominees. True, there should have been more.

Only after Harry Reid went nuclear due to continued, unending Repug obstruction.

I was looking at the upcoming 2020 Senate races. While unfortunately there's the chance we could still not win majority back, there are several incumbents who are vulnerable.

I think we stand a chance in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, even Kentucky + Louisiana + Mississippi, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, even Texas if the Beto effect leads to an awakening in that state.

[quote]So it looks like women are going back into the basement with the butchers. Will they actually stand for this to happen? Or will they march?

Ha! March? Well, OVER 40% of women ALWAYS vote GOP so if they aren't bothered by their own second-class citizenry than neither am I! I am so over all this pink pussy hat wearing, hashtag metoo, let's have a march foolishness if you can't get nearly HALF of other women to stop voting Republican! All this blather about being so intelligent and competent! Bah! If women are so smart why are over 40% of them still drilling holes in their own boat?

Look if women want these abortion laws in shit holes like Alabama or anywhere else, I say let them have them! Majority rules and these rancid Republicans are the majority there. If it isn't a problem for them, maybe we should consider that IT ISN'T A PROBLEM AT ALL! It might smarten up the many women, especially the 18-24 year-olds who steadfastly REFUSE to ever vote. It's a teachable experience for them!

What bothers me is that the deplorables in Alabama and other stupid red states get more of a vote than I do in CA. The really smart people leave those states and get less of a vote when they move to the smarter blue states. The electoral college no longer truly represents the will of the people as people move around. Time to abolish it.

Anyway, I'm tired of dumb americans voting against the health of our people and our planet. I can't believe that scum trump is still in office and that mcconnell etc keep cheating in plain sight.

R530

R530 is a bit of an anti-Dem troll. It started this thread, which was closed by Muriel.

-- Pelosi: NO IMPEACHMENT

-- Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an interview published Monday that she's against impeaching President Trump "unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan," arguing "he's just not worth it."

-- "Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it," Pelosi told The Washington Post.

-- The issue has divided Democrats, with some members pushing for Trump's removal for office and others indicating they plan to wait and see what ongoing investigations produce.

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[quote]I'd take that to mean she has been briefed on the Mueller report and found it lacking.

I too have r530 blocked. Consensus: TROLL.

The Flynn business coming out today can’t be good.

Is that Miz Lindsay showing her 'dear leader' how she likes to be fisted by her gentleman callers @r541?

Yes, R551, except she prefers it without the KY.

Yes, the Senatrice likes everything raw.

Jesus, I did not need to see that at R556.

Where's Jared been?

And Ivanka?

And Im still patiently waiting for Treason of the Bitch.

Im waiting for Treason of the Bitch not so patiently.

Does the bitch refer to Jared or Ivanka?

R569 can go either way. However I really want to see baby girl hauled away from the White House after Daddy throws her under the bus.

ugh. The Huckabeast. I really didnt need to see that before I went to bed.

I love this.

I meant I loved the fact that the restaurant's business increased... not her Huckaface.

The Huck has a face only her father could love...

and her brother's of course.

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There must be a highly developed counter story and distraction being heavily hawked in conservative media. When asked what all these new investigations into the origin of the Russia interference investigations in 2016 now ordered by Barr are supposed to discover that we don't already know, someone in another gay media place posted this answer:

"Not much, just proof that there were illegal efforts by some in OUR federal government to rig the election to help Hillary Clinton win, to sabotage the Trump transition, and to undo the results of the election by framing the President and members of his campaign, transition, and administration. Of course, I could be wrong."

When I read that I thought that I was Alice slipping down the rabbit hole....

R585 that's disturbing.

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