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Don McGahn Rebuffed White House Request to Say Trump Didn’t Obstruct Justice
After release of the Mueller report, the president sought to have the former White House counsel say that he didn’t believe the president’s push to dismiss the special counsel constituted a crime
WASHINGTON—Within a day of the release of the Mueller report last month, President Trump sought to have former White House counsel Don McGahn declare he didn’t consider the president’s 2017 directive that he seek Robert Mueller’s dismissal to be obstruction of justice, but Mr. McGahn rebuffed the request, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1126971531060555781
BREAKING NEWS: House Democrats have issued subpoenas to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Com
BREAKING NEWS: House Democrats have issued subpoenas to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig over Trumps tax returns
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1126949326473846785
MORE:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dc/house-subpoena-trump-tax-returns
CSPAN "Sounds like you think Congress will get president's tax returns this yr." Schiff: "Oh Yeah."
Music to my ears!
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1126915039334666241
Donald Trump Reportedly Cheated to Beat an 11-Year-Old in Golf
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1126856853571424256
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/donald-trump-reportedly-cheated-to-beat-an-11-year-old-in-golf/
In case you didn't know, the entire Republican Party is a sadistic joke.
Abortion rates go down when countries make it legal: report
Countries with stricter abortion laws have higher abortion rates
Abortion rates have fallen over the past 25 years, even as more countries have made the procedure legal and easier to get, according to a new report released Tuesday.
Countries with the most restrictive abortion laws also have the highest rates of abortion, the study by the Guttmacher Institute found. Easier access to birth control drives down abortion rates, the report also finds.
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"Abortions take place around the world, no matter the legal setting," the report reads. But, it adds, “Provision of abortion is safest where it has long been legal."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/abortion-rates-go-down-when-countries-make-it-legal-report-n858476
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1126247084833824768
Fmr. Trump ghostwriter: "Trump's portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day--
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1126804073217290240................
A real go-getter, right? But Trump’s portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day — which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his “French military helicopter” to Atlantic City — where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone — whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasn’t. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the “rack rate” (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldn’t cover the monthly payment of the loan he’d taken out to buy the place. In other words, he’d made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didn’t want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.
On days when there were no broadlooms or chenilles to ponder, we would sit around his office and shoot the breeze while (as we now know) out there someplace in the real world, his businesses were hemorrhaging cash. He’d talk about the Yankees, show me pictures of Marla Maples (whom he was then romancing while still married to Ivana) and tell me obviously made-up stories, such as how he had just the other day seen a beautiful, completely naked woman on the street. “Put that in the book!” he’d say, and I’d pretend to write it down.
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In the final weeks of working on the book, we attempted to explain away his disasters, such as the forced sale of his yacht. “As much as I’ve enjoyed it until now,” he (I) wrote, “and as impressive as it’s been to my casino customers, I think I’m giving up the game of who’s got the best boat. ... I don’t need it anymore, I don’t want it anymore, and, frankly, I can find better things to do with the money.”
Translation: I’m broke.
the rest:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
Kendrick Castillo, American hero.
While Trump & supporters at rally yesterday, reacted by laughing when someone shouted about shooting immigrants at the border, this Hispanic boy lay dead after losing his life trying to save others from a shooter.
Did anyone say his name?
He is Kendrick Castillo, American hero.
https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1126477416795385856
"The Republican Congress created Trump": Harry Reid's thoughts on a fallen Senate
[b]“The Republican Congress created Trump”: Harry Reid’s thoughts on a fallen Senate
Reid thinks the Senate has lost its way.
By Ella Nilsenella.nilsen@vox.com May 9, 2019, 6:50am EDT
LAS VEGAS — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks Republicans have been seduced by President Donald Trump and forgotten the whole point of the US Senate.
Sitting at his desk in his old Senate chair with his name engraved on the back, Reid complained that the Republican-led upper chamber has become too subservient to the president under current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“I can’t imagine how the Republicans are being so compliant on everything [Trump] wants,” Reid told me during a recent interview in his Las Vegas office. “What’s the Senate all about?”
It’s not because Trump is an aberration, he cautions: “Trump did not create the Republican Congress; the Republican Congress created Trump.”
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/9/18518997/harry-reid-senate-filibuster-mcconnell-trump
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