January 17, 2018

Oh that's not suspicious or anything... 👀

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BREAKING: AP Sources: Steve Bannon attorney relayed questions to White House during House interview, was told when not to respond.

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January 17, 2018

"NO DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR IT"

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has urged all Democrats to vote against a short-term government funding measure that doesn't include immigration and other Dem demands. ``No Democrats are going to vote for it,'' says Dem Rep John Yarmuth

https://twitter.com/LauraLitvan/status/953648293300658176

January 17, 2018

Sergey Kislyak received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump.

Newly Uncovered Russian Payments Are A Focus Of Election Investigation
US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.


Officials investigating the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election are scrutinizing newly uncovered financial transactions between the Russian government and people or businesses inside the United States.

Records exclusively reviewed by BuzzFeed News also show years of Russian financial activity within the US that bankers and federal law enforcement officials deemed suspicious, raising concerns about how the Kremlin’s diplomats operated here long before the 2016 election.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, charged with investigating Russian election interference and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, is examining these transactions and others by Russian diplomatic personnel, according to a US official with knowledge of the inquiry. The special counsel has broad authority to investigate “any matters” that “may arise” from his investigation, and the official said Mueller’s probe is following leads on suspicious Russian financial activity that may range far beyond the election.

The transactions reveal:

One of the people at the center of the investigation, the former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump. Bankers flagged it to the US government as suspicious in part because the transaction, marked payroll, didn’t fit prior pay patterns.

Five days after Trump’s inauguration, someone attempted to withdraw $150,000 cash from the embassy’s account — but the embassy’s bank blocked it. Bank employees reported the attempted transaction to the US government because it was abnormal activity for that account.

From March 8 to April 7, 2014, bankers flagged nearly 30 checks for a total of about $370,000 to embassy employees, who cashed the checks as soon as they received them, making it virtually impossible to trace where the money went. Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia — one of Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.

Over five years, the Russian Cultural Centre — an arm of the government that sponsors classes and performances and is based in Washington, DC — sent $325,000 in checks that banking officials flagged as suspicious. The amounts were not consistent with normal payroll checks and some of the transactions fell below the $10,000 threshold that triggers a notice to the US government.

The Russian embassy in Washington, DC, sent more than $2.4 million to small home-improvement companies controlled by a Russian immigrant living not far from there. Between 2013 and March 2017, that contractor’s various companies received about 600 such payments, earmarked for construction jobs at Russian diplomatic compounds. Bankers told the Treasury they did not think those transactions were related to the election but red-flagged them because the businesses seemed too small to have carried out major work on the embassy and because the money was cashed quickly or wired to other accounts.

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election?utm_term=.nxWJ4aR2J&bftwnews#.jrde5bEme
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/953643062097596417

January 17, 2018

Eric Trump - "My father sees one color -- green."

https://twitter.com/alex_mallin/status/953622196206923776

January 17, 2018

"It is NOT Donald that is the problem.....It. Is. You.

http://liberalsarecool.com/post/169784587764/we-have-30-of-the-population-that-are-just

January 17, 2018

WAPO: "There may be something in tatters at center of investigation, but it isn't the FBI."

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/953608710986792961
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/953624288053153792

January 17, 2018

Luckovich draws "Potus on Scale"

January 17, 2018

"Little Hands" Is Going to have a sad over THIS: "Trump bad in bed" says porn star Stormy Daniels

According to Weisberg, Daniels disclosed to her that she slept with Trump in his hotel room after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. According to the WSJ piece, the tournament was held in July that year at Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Weisberg claims this encounter was the start of a sexual relationship “which continued for nearly a year.” Trump had married his wife Melania Trump, née Knauss, in January 2015—18 months prior to pursuing the alleged affair.

Daniels reportedly told Weisberg that Trump was bad in bed, though in not so many words. “She intimated that her view of his sexual skill was at odds with the remark attributed to Marla Maples,” he wrote, linking to a Reddit post featuring an old New York Post cover touting Trump’s ex-wife apparently saying: “Best sex I’ve ever had.”




https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/953614888529809409
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/953610082692075520

January 17, 2018

Stephen Colbert: Vital Stats from President Trumps Physical:

Vital Stats from President Trump’s Physical:
Height: 75 Inches.
Weight: 239 Pounds.
Depth: None.

https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/953457464569188362

January 17, 2018

Here's the exam Trump took Friday:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-is-the-moca-the-cognitive-exam-trump-took/article/2646110