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WATCH: How are Republicans going to respond to calls for Trump’s impeachment? #MTPDaily

@peterbakernyt: “Republicans don’t really like him on the Hill… but they don’t see it in their interest to do that right now.”

https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1101606678947155968

“I never like being misinterpreted, but especially when it comes to Otto Warmbier and his great family,” Trump argued. “Remember, I got Otto out along with three others.”

“The previous Administration did nothing, and he was taken on their watch,” he continued.

“Of course I hold North Korea responsible for Otto’s mistreatment and death,” he wrote, without mentioning Jong-un.

“Most important, Otto Warmbier will not have died in vain. Otto and his family have become a tremendous symbol of strong passion and strength, which will last for many years into the future,” he continued.

“I love Otto and think of him often!” Trump added.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/trump-tries-pin-blame-obama-facing-furious-backlash-siding-kim-death-otto-warmbier/

Trump recruitment failure sets off alarms over 2020
America First Action is central to the president's billion-dollar campaign plans, but the super PAC is struggling to find someone to take the reins.



Former White House official Nick Ayers had been expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABBY ORR 03/01/2019 05:03 AM EST

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-2020-super-pac-1197066

President Donald Trump wants to raise $1 billion for his reelection. But his top advisers worry that the super PAC at the center of that effort is hurting, lacking a high-wattage leader who can cajole millionaire and billionaire donors to fork over huge sums.

Trump political aides, members of the president’s family and top Republicans have been considering potential candidates to spearhead America First Action’s 2020 fundraising efforts. They want someone with deep ties to the president and the clubby world of major GOP donors.

But the nationwide search has so far come up empty. Super PAC organizers at one point came up with a roster of around two dozen names that included Robert Kraft, who was never seriously considered but was quashed anyway after the New England Patriots owner — a fixture at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort — was charged with soliciting prostitution. Another person floated for the post was GOP benefactor Kelly Craft, but she was ruled out after being nominated for United Nations ambassador.

Then there’s Nick Ayers. A former White House official who is close to many top Republican givers, he had been widely expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. But the 36-year-old Ayers, who’s spent the past few months with his family and quail hunting in Georgia, has yet to sign on.

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Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Donald Trump, Jr. appeared together at #CPAC today.

TOPIC: “Horrible, Swindling Cretins with Facial Hair Americans Only Know Because Their Horrible, Swindling Fathers Had Money.”

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1101543884679770112

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff also revealed that Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer who claims strong connections to the Kremlin, and who reportedly pitched the Moscow Trump Tower project to Trump’s team, will testify before the committee on March 14.

The public hearing is believed to be the first scheduled appearance before Congress for Sater, who once had an office in Trump Tower and is seen as a mysterious figure who could shed light on dealings between the Trump organization, his campaign and Russia.

Sater has boasted of his ties to Vladimir Putin, saying he could get the Russian president to say “great things” about Trump, and suggested that the Trump Tower deal would help him get elected.

“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in a November 2015 email quoted by The New York Times.

“I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/michael-cohen-will-return-congress-next-week-along-felix-sater/

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Michael Cohen's would-be publisher says he never saw a full manuscript of Cohen's book:

https://twitter.com/AndrewRestuccia/status/1101525780113309699

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Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, “gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done. Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen.....

6:19 AM - 1 Mar 201

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101472084730003457

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...and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday. No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed. Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!

6:26 AM - 1 Mar 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101473899357880321

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Michael Cohen’s book manuscript shows that he committed perjury on a scale not seen before. He must have forgotten about his book when he testified. What does Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, say about this one. Is he being paid by Crooked Hillary. Using her lawyer?

6:37 AM - 1 Mar 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101476470034259968

@THECITYNY

1/ #BREAKING: HUD regional director @LynnePatton could be in hot water after she skipped out of a conference for top housing agency administrators to show up at former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s congressional hearing this week, @THECITYNY’s @gregsmithnyc has learned.

https://twitter.com/THECITYNY/status/1101251648708640769

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9/ All HUD senior administrators from across the nation were supposed to attend the Monday-through-Wednesday conference in Washington, D.C. to get updates on HUD policies, review HUD @secretarycarson’s priorities and report on the work taking place in their respective regions.

3:49 PM - 28 Feb 2019

https://twitter.com/THECITYNY/status/1101253140853211136