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December 12, 2019
A fine tradition, indeed!
Forget politics, this is the main reason to log onto Twitter today #dogsatpollingstations
A fine tradition, indeed!
December 11, 2019
Indeed!
Connie Schultz: Small people come in all sizes.
Connie Schultz@ConnieSchultz
Small people come in all sizes.
https://twitter.com/ConnieSchultz/status/1204834246285770752
Small people come in all sizes.
Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr
Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick.
https://twitter.com/ConnieSchultz/status/1204834246285770752
Indeed!
December 11, 2019
Runner who slapped reporter's butt on live TV is youth minister, Boy Scout leader
Tommy Callaway has been identified as the Georgia man caught on camera slapping a reporter on her butt during a live TV broadcast.
The incident happened during a 10K Savannah Bridge Run race in Savannah, Georgia on Saturday. As WSAV-TV reporter Alex Bozarjian anchored the live segment, runners streamed by, mugging for the camera. Suddenly, a man can be seen hitting Bozarjian on her behind, which prompts a look of shock from the reporter.
https://twitter.com/GrrrlZilla/status/1203306427818926081
Since then, the video and story spread on social media, and the runner was quickly identified by his outfit and bib number. Now, new details have trickled out about Callaway.
According to Heavy.com, Callaway is 43, and a resident of Statesboro, Georgia. He is married, has daughters, works as a salesman at Swedish Match and is a youth minister at his church, Pittman Park UMC. His LinkedIn profile also says he has been a Boy Scouts of America Scout Leader since 1987.
...
“I was caught up in the moment. I was getting ready to bring my hands up and wave to the camera to the audience, there was a misjudge in character and decision-making,” he told the news program. “I touched her back; I did not know exactly where I touched her.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/12/runner-who-slapped-reporters-butt-on-live-tv-is-youth-minister-boy-scout-leader.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oregonian_sf
The incident happened during a 10K Savannah Bridge Run race in Savannah, Georgia on Saturday. As WSAV-TV reporter Alex Bozarjian anchored the live segment, runners streamed by, mugging for the camera. Suddenly, a man can be seen hitting Bozarjian on her behind, which prompts a look of shock from the reporter.
https://twitter.com/GrrrlZilla/status/1203306427818926081
Since then, the video and story spread on social media, and the runner was quickly identified by his outfit and bib number. Now, new details have trickled out about Callaway.
According to Heavy.com, Callaway is 43, and a resident of Statesboro, Georgia. He is married, has daughters, works as a salesman at Swedish Match and is a youth minister at his church, Pittman Park UMC. His LinkedIn profile also says he has been a Boy Scouts of America Scout Leader since 1987.
...
“I was caught up in the moment. I was getting ready to bring my hands up and wave to the camera to the audience, there was a misjudge in character and decision-making,” he told the news program. “I touched her back; I did not know exactly where I touched her.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2019/12/runner-who-slapped-reporters-butt-on-live-tv-is-youth-minister-boy-scout-leader.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oregonian_sf
December 11, 2019
Biden signals to aides that he would serve only a single term
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he will serve only a single term.
While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicate that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.
According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for re-election in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president.
“If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129
While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicate that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.
According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for re-election in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president.
“If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/biden-single-term-082129
December 9, 2019
House Judiciary Dems: As Rep. Swalwell notes, nobody asks "what did Trump know and when..."
As Rep. Swalwell notes, nobody asks “what did Trump know and when did he know it?”
He knew everything, he directed everything, he was at the center of everything.
https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1204158395844042759
He knew everything, he directed everything, he was at the center of everything.
https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1204158395844042759
December 9, 2019
No costume could ever disguise these three.
New photos show accused rapist Harvey Weinstein posing with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell at a royal party thrown by their scandal-scarred pal Prince Andrew.
The smiling trio were in attendance for the 18th birthday celebration for Andrew’s older daughter, Princess Beatrice, at Windsor Castle in 2006.
Weinstein wears a tuxedo as he stands next to Epstein, wearing a white US Navy SEAL uniform with a row of medals, and his one-time girlfriend Maxwell in a gold mask and red headdress.
Epstein already had an arrest warrant out for him in Florida on child-prostitution charges, something Andrew insisted in his recent BBC interview that he knew nothing about when he invited him to the party.
“This photograph sums up just why the Epstein affair has been so disastrous for Andrew,” a source told The Sun. “He brought these people into the royal fold, to Windsor Castle no less, where they could rub shoulders with the great and good. It is an astounding lack of judgment at the very least.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/photo-shows-jeffrey-epstein-harvey-weinstein-at-prince-andrews-party/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Photo shows Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein at Prince Andrew's party
No costume could ever disguise these three.
New photos show accused rapist Harvey Weinstein posing with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell at a royal party thrown by their scandal-scarred pal Prince Andrew.
The smiling trio were in attendance for the 18th birthday celebration for Andrew’s older daughter, Princess Beatrice, at Windsor Castle in 2006.
Weinstein wears a tuxedo as he stands next to Epstein, wearing a white US Navy SEAL uniform with a row of medals, and his one-time girlfriend Maxwell in a gold mask and red headdress.
Epstein already had an arrest warrant out for him in Florida on child-prostitution charges, something Andrew insisted in his recent BBC interview that he knew nothing about when he invited him to the party.
“This photograph sums up just why the Epstein affair has been so disastrous for Andrew,” a source told The Sun. “He brought these people into the royal fold, to Windsor Castle no less, where they could rub shoulders with the great and good. It is an astounding lack of judgment at the very least.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/photo-shows-jeffrey-epstein-harvey-weinstein-at-prince-andrews-party/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
December 9, 2019
Inbox: Buttigieg Camp Announces Fundraisers Will Be Open & Names of People Raising Money Will Be...
Inbox: Buttigieg Camp Announces Fundraisers Will Be Open & Names of People Raising Money Will Be Made Public. This after Warren put out how much she made for legal work over 30+ yrs last night. Calls for transparency from each seem to be met with...more transparency from each.
This line from Buttigieg’s campaign manager caught my attention: “No other candidate for president has released the entirety of their tax returns since their education concluded.”
For the rest of the field, that period of time post-college is way longer than Buttigieg’s.
https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/1204134841748512771
This line from Buttigieg’s campaign manager caught my attention: “No other candidate for president has released the entirety of their tax returns since their education concluded.”
For the rest of the field, that period of time post-college is way longer than Buttigieg’s.
https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/1204134841748512771
December 9, 2019
A diminished Trump attempts to gaslight the country about the findings of the IG Report
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1204130152726192128
December 9, 2019
Lol... Alan Dershowitz seems to be having some difficulty using Twitter:
Some Democrats pursuing the impeachment of President Trump are trying their hardest to pin an impeachable crime on the commander-in-chief, according to law Professor Alan Dershowitz.
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1203847415310225409
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1203847415310225409
J’acuse: Julie Brown is not a real journalist. She is essentially an investigator for Virginia Giuffre’s legal team. Whenever I sent evidence of Giuffre’s mendacity or my innocence, Brown turned it over to Giuffre’s legal team and refused to publish it. (1 of 2)
(2 of 2) The attached email from me to her proves my point. ( attach email ). More to come.
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1204119974006181888
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1204120017803120645
(2 of 2) The attached email from me to her proves my point. ( attach email ). More to come.
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1204119974006181888
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1204120017803120645
December 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1204104501172559873
'Dossier' author Chris Steele met Ivanka Trump years before Russia scandal, source says
Source: ABC
Nearly a decade before the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka met a British intelligence officer who ran the Russia desk -- and when the agent left his covert service and moved into private practice in 2010, she stayed in touch, ABC News has learned.
The two exchanged emails but never worked together, and the man, Christopher Steele, would one day re-emerge in a most unexpected way, taking a central role in the Russia scandal that consumed the early years of her father’s presidency, according to a source familiar with their past contacts.
Steele gained notoriety as the investigator who ignited a firestorm by authoring the highly controversial 2016 dossier alleging links between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and embarrassing incidents involving Trump before he took office. Critics of Steele have argued that the former intelligence officer was biased against Trump and was inclined to produce a negative report on the presidential candidate – excoriating Steele on social media and elsewhere.
In 2007, Ivanka Trump met Steele at a dinner and they began corresponding about the possibility of future work together, the source said. The following year, the two exchanged emails about meeting up near Trump Tower, according to several emails seen by ABC News. They suggest Ivanka Trump and Steele stayed in touch via emails over the next several years. In one 2008 exchange they discussed dining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dossier-author-chris-steele-met-ivanka-trump-years/story?id=67597270
https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1204104501172559873
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