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February 24, 2019

Wow I never knew that Trump and company have been working so hard.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099800961089003522.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1099803719435239426


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I wonder who believes this crap? The farmers who have had to plow their
crops back underground, all the hardware and software designers and makers
who have had their products copied by China, the Italian shoe designers and
manufacturers that Ivanka copied and then had nock offs made in China for
her own "line," the solar energy companies that have had to lay off their workers,
and so on?
February 23, 2019

Forget about all the other problems that go with prostitution but why were millionaires and ...

... billionaires going to a "jerk shack" in a strip mall? No doubt with that kind of cash they could
have had anything they wanted and very discreetly too.

February 22, 2019

How many abortions has Trump paid for in his life? And yet he is trying to stop them now?

Marla Maples is on record that when she got pregnant w/Tiffany Donald all
but told her to get an abortion and I think Trump did the same thing w/Melania
and Barron too.

This is all kabuki theater for his base.

But still the Evangelicals still support him.

Trump to Bar Abortion Referrals By Family Planning Clinics
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142272582

February 22, 2019

Smollett is a dog and pony show BTW Chicago hade 555 murders last year

and yet we have all this "media stuff" about one nut who filed a phony police report and set up a con?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-murder-total-2018-homicides-police-department/

Two teen boys walking through Bronzeville.

A 12-year-old girl from Michigan visiting her father in West Garfield Park.

Two Chicago Police officers who ran toward danger, one in the Loop and the other at a South Side hospital.

Infants in Little Village and Hermosa.

A great-grandmother in her Park Manor apartment.

February 21, 2019

CNN Roger Stone faces judge Thursday after Instagram posts

https://www.kitv.com/story/40000506/roger-stone-faces-judge-thursday-after-instagram-posts

Stone could be in a world of hurt today.


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The longtime Republican political operative and self-described "dirty trickster" faces a federal judge who wants to address his recent antics while he awaits trial. Two posts he made on Instagram on Monday could put at risk his ability to stay out of jail and the leeway he has to speak about his case publicly.

The first post was a picture of Judge Amy Berman Jackson with what appeared to be the crosshairs of a gun drawn behind her head. Stone's caption called special counsel Robert Mueller a "Deep State hitman," said his case was a "show trial" and implied that Jackson was biased as an Obama appointee and because she had ruled on a Benghazi-related case and "incarcerated Paul Manafort." "#Fixisin," Stone added to his post.

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Jackson has been down this road before. In the criminal case against Stone's longtime colleague Paul Manafort, Jackson revoked Manafort's bail and sent him to jail eight months after his arrest because prosecutors accused him of attempting to reach out to witnesses.

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Jackson has already warned Stone in person and in writing that he must not violate his bail terms nor draw too much attention to himself with his statements in the media. She ordered him not to speak in and around the federal courthouse, because of how court activity in his case has drawn crowds and how he stokes his followers.
February 20, 2019

Done Deal

February 20, 2019

Did yesterday's NY Time's article get to Trump?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1098218016255414272

(BTW Joe Stalin was big into using the term "the enemy of the people." Is Trump trying to get people killed?)

Trump Has Publicly Attacked the Russia Investigation More Than 1,100 Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-attacks-obstruction-investigation.html

Trump Has Publicly Attacked the Russia Investigation More Than 1,100 Times
By LARRY BUCHANAN and KAREN YOURISH
FEB. 19, 2019

The attacks, which number nearly 1,200, are part of a strategy to beat back the investigations. They have also opened him to possible obstruction of justice charges. They include statements made on Twitter, in official speeches, at rallies and during news media interviews and other press events.

While it is highly unusual for anyone — let alone the president of the United States — to comment on continuing criminal investigations, Mr. Trump has done so at least once on 330 days, or more than 43 percent of his time in office as of Feb. 14.
February 19, 2019

Judge could revoke Roger Stone's bond and send him to jail because of 'crosshairs' Instagram post

Source: cnbc

Former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, leaves federal court in Washington, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019.
A federal judge has ordered longtime Republican operative Roger Stone to court on Thursday to explain why he should not have his criminal release bond modified or even revoked because of his recent Instagram post showing the judge next to what appeared to be a rifle scope's crosshairs.

Stone, a self-admitted dirty trickster and friend of President Donald Trump, could be sent to jail if his $250,000 signature bond is yanked by the judge, Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over the criminal case filed against him by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Jackson, in an order filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., told Stone to appear in her courtroom at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to explain why a partial gag order she has imposed on him, "and/or his conditions of release ... should not be modified or revoked in light of the posts on his Instagram account on or about February 18, 2019."

(update 3 hours ago)

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/judge-could-revoke-roger-stones-bond-because-of-crosshair-instagram.html



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