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If members of the White House press corps had any self-respect they’d stop attending any events at the White House and stop covering Trump in person all together. Not his rallies, not his walk to the helicopter, nothing. Winter is here. Show some balls people. Stop being lambs.
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1126298463086481413
A demonstration I’d like to see:
White House Press Corps gathers at the fence and throws passes into nearest trash bin.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/9/1856375/-Abbreviated-pundit-round-up-Wagging-the-dog-on-Iran-Impeach-now-Gig-economy-harpoons-workers#comment_73819445
Person close to Junior re: Subpoena - "an obvious PR stunt from a so-called 'Republican' Senator"
John Baron or John Miller?
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1126249005288165378
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1126230828420354051
NY Senate PASSES the bill authorizing state authorities to release tax returns - including Trump's
The @NYSenate PASSES the bill authorizing state authorities to release tax returns - including Trump's - if requested by House Committees by a margin of 39-21.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1126176120980766720
https://twitter.com/NYSenate/status/1126176050495524865
Although I am not pro-monarchy (not even close) I can't help liking this pic
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1126159780974931968
Bette Midler re: Trump's Taxes
There's a theory that Trump doesn't want his taxes released because if his base reads that he's not as rich as he says, they might lose confidence in him. His base can read?
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1125937954457882626
The New York Review of Books: An Indictment in All But Name
An Indictment in All But NameDavid Cole MAY 23, 2019 ISSUE
Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
by Robert S. Mueller III
Two volumes, 448 pp., available at www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report, released to the public in a redacted version on April 18, lays out in meticulous detail both a blatantly illegal effort by Russia to throw the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump and repeated efforts by President Trump to end, limit, or impede Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference. Trump’s efforts included firing or attempting to fire those overseeing the investigation, directing subordinates to lie on his behalf, cajoling witnesses not to cooperate, and doctoring a public statement about a Trump Tower meeting between his son and closest advisers and a Russian lawyer offering compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
Attorney General William Barr, who has shown himself to be exactly the kind of presidential protector Trump wanted Jeff Sessions to be, did his best to whitewash the report. Almost four weeks before it was released to the public, Barr wrote a four-page letter to Congress purporting to summarize its findings. But as The New York Times’s Charlie Savage has shown, in the letter Barr took Mueller’s words out of context and omitted all mention of the damning evidence that courses through the report.* Just before releasing the report to the public, Barr also held a press conference in which he again distorted its conclusions, stating that it found no collusion with the Russians and no obstruction of justice by the president. Both statements are profoundly misleading.
The Mueller report did not address “collusion,” a term that has no legal definition, but the narrower question of criminal conspiracy. It found no evidence that Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russians’ disinformation campaigns or hacking of computers belonging to the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. But it describes extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russians, many of which Trump campaign officials lied about. And it finds substantial evidence both “that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.” Russian intelligence agency hackers targeted Hillary Clinton’s home office within five hours of Trump’s public request in July 2016 that the Russians find her deleted e-mails. And WikiLeaks, which was in close touch with Trump advisers, began releasing its trove of e-mails stolen by the Russians from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta one hour after the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged about assaulting women was made public in October 2016.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the investigation as a “witch hunt.” But Mueller found “sweeping and systematic” intrusions by Russia in the presidential campaign, all aimed at supporting Trump’s election. He and his team indicted twenty-five Russians and secured the convictions or guilty pleas of several Trump campaign officials for lying in connection with the investigation, including campaign chairman Paul Manafort, top deputy Rick Gates, campaign advisers Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump’s longtime friend Roger Stone faces multiple criminal charges arising out of his attempts to conceal his contacts with WikiLeaks. If this was a witch hunt, it found a lot of witches.
(I have the audio-book which mr pete & I will play on our next road trip - but this is a concise & clear synopsis until then)
the rest
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/05/23/robert-mueller-report-trump-indictment/
The Best Thing about the Trump Tax Loss disclosure
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The best thing about the Trump Tax Loss disclosure — over a Billion dollar Loss in a Decade —
is not that it is now obvious without Daddy-dearest $400 Million loans, the Donald would be nothing.
It is not that it is now obvious without Papa-Putin’s $300 Million loans — funneled through Deutsche Bank — that the Donald would now be less than nothing.
No rather, the best thing about the Trump Tax Loss disclosure by investigative reporters at the New York Times, is that Donald Trump will no doubt rage that “The Story is Fake!”
And IF ...
Liar, loser, loud-mouth Trump wants to prove that the latest Times story is “Fake”
— All he has to do is release his Taxes, and prove to the world how fake the Times report really is.
(Anyone want to take odds on THAT actually happening?)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/7/1856117/-The-Best-Thing-about-the-Trump-Tax-Loss-disclosure?utm_campaign=trending
John Kelly cashes in
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https://www.facebook.com/mattbors/posts/1428571743949201?__xts__[0]=68.ARDftv-szyAqimGmQ-m84f2hIVEp7aGB56Lznimq9-UJ6FBALDxYMylG5zc4F3JQCMYqWRlfnCkrouoMMKQGcFGheg26cr13Y0xPA9T_tCC8qxcMhuTyndH1RNOHHP4go2q3jYleFOj95bCSWzHiPof8RaInMZDB2JizCFwGFbc2vXUHLcBv9W8ZLC2o8-W_QyNg_KPVpl0CknThJtxallKEsIGGU0u-n-Xd6K3qUfB5m11exMfJsxvGOCuZ6WTuZiNBJRc3oI4fDPYUqRt7kwbaYhdOPSZsPPbf19iVhdsUoSHeJh4vpnxzWpu2nxjQpS9GUXuNRrk3O-lDwDl7fypc5w&__tn__=-R
Hahahaha LOSER!!!
As a narcissist, Trump’s worst nightmare is being exposed as unworthy of admiration.
His entire adult life has been an act to convince people he is someone his father would have loved.
This story is his worst outing: he’s a lifelong loser who failed at daddy’s business.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1125905838625964033
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1125925117240934406
Lawrence Tribe: Watching Cohen go off to prison...
Watching Cohen go off to prison for crimes that Individual #1 directed him to commit so that Individual #1 could become POTUS — while Individual #1 lounges in the White House disobeying his oath and corrupting everything — just feels so wrong. So not what America is all about.
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1125556396399955968
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