July 7, 2018

Seriously?

July 6, 2018

Mueller to present evidence of link btwn Manafort's bank fraud case & Trump Campaign investigation

NEW: Per @CNN, special counsel Mueller's team plans to present evidence in court that there is a link between Paul Manafort's bank fraud case and the investigation into the Trump campaign.





https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1015361435541688325




(CNN)Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday that they intend to present evidence at the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that a banking executive allegedly helped Manafort obtain loans of more than $6 million while the banker sought a role in the Trump campaign.

Manafort faces trial on bank fraud charges in the Eastern District of Virginia beginning July 25. Until now, there had been no indication that his role in the Trump campaign would become part of the trial, and he had asked the judge to keep details about his ties to President Donald Trump out of the trial. Prosecutors say any alleged collusion with the Russian government won't come up at the trial.

"The government intends to present evidence that although various Lender D employees identified serious issues with the defendant's loan application, the senior executive at Lender D interceded in the process and approved the loan," according to the filing.

The bank executive "expressed interest in working on the Trump campaign, told (Manafort) about his interest, and eventually secured a position advising the Trump campaign," the filing said. The unnamed man "expressed an interest in serving in the administration of President Trump, but did not secure such a position."



MORE:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/politics/paul-manafort-trial-public/




***UPDATE:

ALSO: New from the Special Counsel's Office. SCO says it will present evidence at trial re: allegations that a sr exec at "Lender D" sought Manafort's assistance (successfully) to get a role advising the Trump campaign. Manafort got 2 big loans from them. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4580876-USA-v-Manafort-Opposition-to-Motions-in-Limine.html … pic.twitter.com/phbvxHh6Qd








https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1015377166467584000

July 6, 2018

metaphor?

@Fahrenthold
UPDATE: @realdonaldtrump's Mar-a-Lago club is now asking to hire *61* foreign workers for the coming season. They just posted an application to hire 21 foreign cooks, who'll be paid slightly less than last year.



https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1015248575624859651
https://lcr-pjr.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspJobOrderView&frm=PJR&task=view_job_order&view=external&lcjr_id=136879

July 6, 2018

Goodness, gracious. A bit of civility and respect for rule of law, please!

July 6, 2018

Records linking children to their parents have disappeared, and in some cases have been destroyed.

Trump's America...


Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents. And they acknowledged for the first time Thursday that of the nearly 3,000 children who are still in federal custody, about 100 are under the age of 5.

The family separations, part of an aggressive effort by the Trump administration to deter illegal immigration, have produced a chaotic scramble as officials now face political and judicial pressure to reunite families.

Records linking children to their parents have disappeared, and in some cases have been destroyed, according to two officials of the Department of Homeland Security, leaving the authorities struggling to identify connections between family members.

The effort is complicated by the fact that two federal agencies are involved in detaining and sheltering migrants, and they did not initially share records with each other. On Friday, the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services, which shelters the children and must now undertake reunifications, sent out a plea to federal public health workers for help with an exhaustive manual search of records.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/us/migrant-children-chaos-family-separation.html



https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1015068114671714304

July 6, 2018

A Farewell Message From The Environment To Scott Pruit

July 6, 2018

Moment.

July 6, 2018

What will Putin and Trump do once they're alone?

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July 6, 2018

Warren to Trump:

Hey, @realDonaldTrump: While you obsess over my genes, your Admin is conducting DNA tests on little kids because you ripped them from their mamas & you are too incompetent to reunite them in time to meet a court order. Maybe you should focus on fixing the lives you're destroying.



https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/1015020727513305094