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kpete's JournalAttorney General says that the Trump Foundation has signed a stipulation agreeing to dissolve.
BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump agrees to shut down his troubled charity, and give its money away to charities approved by a judge.The NY AG's lawsuit against Trump & his kids will continue.
A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities
AG Underwood's Lawsuit Remains Ongoing
NEW YORK – Today, Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced that – following a court decision in favor of the Attorney General – the Trump Foundation has signed a stipulation agreeing to dissolve under judicial supervision, with review and approval by the Attorney General of proposed recipient charities of the Foundation’s remaining assets.
This stipulation follows the court decision last month allowing Attorney General Underwood’s lawsuit against the Trump Foundation to move forward.
Attorney General Underwood’s lawsuit sought the dissolution of the Foundation under judicial supervision and with the oversight of the Attorney General's Charities Bureau. The lawsuit – which also seeks millions in restitution and penalties and a bar on President Trump and his three eldest children from serving on the boards of other New York charities – remains ongoing.
Attorney General Underwood released the following statement:
“Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation – including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more. This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.
“Today’s stipulation accomplishes a key piece of the relief sought in our lawsuit earlier this year. Under the terms, the Trump Foundation can only dissolve under judicial supervision – and it can only distribute its remaining charitable assets to reputable organizations approved by my office.
“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone. We’ll continue to move our suit forward to ensure that the Trump Foundation and its directors are held to account for their clear and repeated violations of state and federal law.”
The Attorney General filed the stipulation with the court today; it is awaiting the judge’s signature.
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-underwood-announces-stipulation-dissolving-trump-foundation-under-judicial
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1075057393971662849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1075057393971662849&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheobamadiary.com%2F2018%2F12%2F17%2Fwoke-up-flawless%2F
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1075059443677782017
RUDE PUNDIT: On the Need to Drop Stephen Miller Naked Into Guatemala
Put aside for a moment that White House senior adviser Stephen Miller looks like what happens when a Mr. Potato Head becomes human-sized and mean. Put aside that he has the facial expression of a man who knows the pleasure of using a disembodied head for fellatio. Put aside that, for his appearance on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday, he seemed to have pasted Sarah Sanders's shaved pubic stubble onto his forehead. Put aside all that shallow but hilarious stuff about Stephen Miller, whose head, it should be noted, looks like a scrotum stretched over a hard-boiled egg.
Instead, let's talk about why he should be stripped naked and dropped into the middle of Guatemala. Somewhere really fucking poor. Just drop his pasty, bare white ass right there.
Because if we learned anything in his interview with Margaret Brennan on Sunday, it's that this vicious motherfucker won't rest until he has personally watched children from Mexico and Central America die horribly. Sure, Miller paid lip service to the objective tragedy that is the death of 7 year-old Jakelin Caal while in the custody of the Border Patrol. But then he made sure to blame everyone except the people running the goddamn federal government. "Hundreds die on the dangerous trek up. Smuggling organizations profit off death and misery. They are vicious, vile organizations," he said, which is true, but he could at least have fucking said that the death was being investigated, which you do, if you care.
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Let's say that Miller is dropped naked, with no passport, no i.d., no phone, no money, into a small town, like, hey, what about Raxruha, which is in the middle of fucking nowhere Guatemala. It's also the incredibly poor place where Jakelin Caal and her father left to head for the U.S.
There is a kind part of me that hopes that nude Miller would seek out help in one of the thatched roof huts with a dirt floor and a fire pit for cooking. And that the family there, where they earn $5 a day harvesting beans, would take him in and share their ragged clothes and meager food, caring for him the way that strangers often take care of those in strange lands who need help. And that kind part of me extends to a sort of redemption, that Miller would learn that the people that he thinks are so terrible, are so violent, are such burdens to this nation are none of those things, that they are simply humans who want a better life for their children. And in my most generous moments, I see Miller having a change of heart; I see him being taken to the American embassy in Guatemala City, of him coming back and giving up the white nationalism that has ruined his hairline and his soul; I see him transformed and demanding a transformation of the policies of the United States. Yes, that part of me exists.
Mostly, though, I hope they just put a collar on him and make him their pet.
The Rest:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-need-to-drop-stephen-miller-naked.html
Pelosi wasn't bluffing. She knew there were not enough votes for the wall.
“House GOP considered putting legislation on floor w/$5-B for border wall as Trump demanded. But leaders eventually told the president that there were not enough votes to pass it”
in other words, Pelosi wasn’t bluffing. she knew where the votes were.
MORE:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republicans-struggle-to-persuade-trump-not-to-shut-down-the-government/2018/12/17/ed3e402e-0219-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1074992588380348417
Judge in Flynn case says memo of FBI/Flynn WH meeting interview should be released
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1074806924363870209This will be big.
Judge in Flynn case says that the memo, written by FBI agents following their interview with Michael Flynn at the White House, should be made public, with some redactions allowed, and will be relevant at his sentencing. This memo had only been filed under seal.
Trump may emerge as a brazen grifter who, by aspiring to WH like a wizened, soiled version of Icarus
https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1074664766289952769“Trump may emerge as a brazen grifter who, by aspiring to the White House like a wizened, soiled version of Icarus, flew beyond the boundaries of his own luck and abilities and delivered his business, children and well-being into the hands of prosecutors.”
FORBES: Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump
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The deal began in the early 0's. Trump still claims that the project was scrapped before the Primaries. It wasn't. It continued throughout the campaign. Putin knew Trump was lying and thus opened himself up to kompromat. The Russian Conspiracy begins here. When written the rest will be history.
Focusing on the key words, Donald Trump, his organization and his associates, Steve Denning of Forbes outlines the overall conspiracy as defined by law. He doesn’t get bogged down with the dozens of names involved and the their individual involvement. We just need to know that the overlapping actors are part of the same grand conspiracy. Their various crime, even though they may not have known it at the time, serve the same end. Massive voter fraud perpetrated our nation and it’s people.
The article is based on Mueller’s latest filings. It’s very straight forward and a compelling reading. Please read the whole thing.
The outline:
Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump-Steve Denning-Forbes
1. Conspiring with Russia: Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates knew of the intent of the Russian Federation to carry out the Russian Intervention as early as November 2015…
2. Conspiring with Russia: Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates knew of the intent of the Russian Federation to carry out the Russian Intervention as early as November 2015…
3.Conspiring with Russia: Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates knew of the intent of the Russian Federation to carry out the Russian Intervention as early as November 2015…
4. Conspiring with Russia: Donald Trump, his campaign, his organization and his associates knew of the intent of the Russian Federation to carry out the Russian Intervention as early as November 2015…
5. Enabling hard kompromat: Through Donald Trump’s lies to the American people, of which the Russian Federation was aware, Donald Trump made the U.S. Presidency a potential victim of blackmail…
MORE HERE:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/16/1819607/-Mueller-Exposes-Putin-s-Hold-Over-Trump-Forbes?utm_campaign=trending
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/12/16/mueller-exposes-putins-hold-over-trump/#6073bdf748f6
ALSO THIS:
A Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump Investigations
Garrett Graff: “After three weeks of back-to-back-to-back-to-backbombshells by federal prosecutors and special counsel Robert Mueller, it’s increasingly clear that as 2018 winds down, Donald Trump faces a legal assault unlike anything previously seen by any president—a total of at least 17 distinct court cases stemming from at least seven different sets of prosecutors and investigators. (That total does not count any congressional inquiries, nor does it include any other inquiries into other administration officials unrelatedto Russia.)”
“While the media has long short-handed Mueller’s probe as the ‘Russia investigation,’ a comprehensive review of the cases unfolding around the president and the question of Russian influence in the 2016 campaign harkens back to another lesson of Watergate: Deep Throat’s dictum, ‘Follow the money.’”
https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-investigation-trump-russia-complete-guide/
Sen. Claire McCaskill: "We have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate."
Outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) jabbed at her colleagues in her final Senate floor speech on Thursday, arguing that the Senate was filled with "too many embarrassing uncles."
In her speech, McCaskill knocked "dysfunction" in the Senate and said senators were afraid of making tough votes.
"Peter Morgan, an author, wrote that no family is complete without an embarrassing uncle," McCaskill said Thursday. "We have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate. Lots of embarrassing stuff."
"The United States Senate is no longer the world's greatest deliberative body," McCaskill continued in her farewell address to the chamber. "And everybody needs to quit saying it, until we recover from this period of polarization and the fear of the political consequences of tough votes."
the rest:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/421251-mccaskill-too-many-embarrassing-uncles-in-the-senate
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It was over before the election.
THEN AFTER THE ELECTION, THE COVERUP BEGAN.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1074388736362901505
Hillary Clinton writes letter to 8-year-old girl who lost class president to male classmate
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Morales said she lost her election to a popular fourth-grade boy in her mixed-grade class at Friends Community School, a private Quaker school in Maryland. She was named vice president after six ballots were found to be filled out incorrectly, losing a second election by one vote.
“While I know you may have been disappointed that you did not win President, I am so proud of you for deciding to run in the first place,” Clinton wrote to Morales. “The most important thing is that you fought for what you believed in, and that is always worth it.”
“As you continue to learn and grow in the years ahead, never stop standing up for what is right and seeking opportunities to be a leader, and know that I am cheering you on for a future of great success,” the former first lady, senator and secretary of State wrote.
The 8-year-old told the Post that she was “very surprised” to get a letter from Clinton, who was the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee.
the rest:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/421572-hillary-clinton-writes-letter-to-8-year-old-girl-who-lost-class
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