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bearsfootball516's JournalTrump has been uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter this morning
Aside from one tweet about Jimmy Carter, he's been silent when normally, he'd have three or four tweets by now.
He's scared.
Breaking NYT: Kremlin is tied to Memo in '16 Trump Tower Meeting
Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton. The material was the fruit of her research as a private lawyer, she has repeatedly said, and any suggestion that she was acting at the Kremlin’s behest that day is anti-Russia “hysteria.”
But interviews and records show that in the months before the meeting, Ms. Veselnitskaya had discussed the allegations with one of Russia’s most powerful officials, the prosecutor general, Yuri Y. Chaika. And the memo she brought with her closely followed a document that Mr. Chaika’s office had given to an American congressman two months earlier, incorporating some paragraphs verbatim.
The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskaya’s account that she was a purely independent actor when she sat down with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, then the Trump campaign chairman.
It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that Ms. Veselnitskaya would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact — not mere “puffery,” as the president’s son later said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-tower-veselnitskaya-russia.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Tonight just keeps getting better...
What does the White House expect to happen in their proposed Trump/Mueller meeting?
Something like this?
Mueller: Did you collude with Russia?
Trump: No, I did not.
Mueller: Great! Case closed!
An Oral History of the weekend of the Access Hollywood tape release, 1 year later
It began as a relatively quiet day in the presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were each holed up with their aides on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, preparing for the second presidential debate, scheduled for Sunday night. Hurricane Matthew, which was churning off the Florida coast, led the Friday-morning newscasts. The Chicago Cubs were beginning a quest for their first World Series title in more than a century. But by midafternoon three separate bombshells, all coming within the span of roughly 90 minutes, threatened to throw the race into chaos.
First, the top intelligence officials of the Obama administration announced their belief that the Russian government was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee earlier in the year. Then the Washington Post published the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women. And WikiLeaks dumped its trove of emails from the Clinton campaign, hacked from the account of campaign head John Podesta.
Yahoo News conducted nearly two dozen on-the-record interviews with top officials inside and outside the Clinton and Trump campaigns and the Obama administration, as well as major media figures in Washington, New York and beyond, to produce an exclusive oral history of the wildest 64 hours in modern political history.
The resulting documentary film and online feature present a firsthand account of three pivotal days in the campaign and paint a vivid picture of the behind-the-scenes drama that unfolded inside the Post newsroom, Trump Tower, Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, Clinton’s Westchester County, N.Y., hotel, and the debate site in St. Louis.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/64-hours-october-one-weekend-blew-rules-american-politics-2-162827162.html
Easily the longest story I've read, but well worth it. Took me about an hour to get through it.
Trump picked the onslaught of a category 4 hurricane to hide behind
1. To finalize the transgender military ban, and
2. Pardon Arpaio.
Words can't describe.
Bannon speaks: "I'm going to war for Trump against his opponents,"
Stephen Bannon said in his first public remarks since his ouster as White House chief strategist that he’ll be “going to war” for President Donald Trump, vowing to intensify from the outside the fight he has waged against opponents of his brand of populist conservatism.
“If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg News hours after his departure was announced by the administration.
Bannon left the White House Friday, ending a controversial tenure as the administration is engulfed in a storm over the president’s remarks on violence in Virginia. Bannon’s departure was agreed on mutually with new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
His exit caps a tumultuous four weeks in which a slew of senior officials have announced their departures, including the former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, former press secretary Sean Spicer and former communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who was hired and fired within the space of 11 days.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-18/bannon-says-he-s-going-to-war-for-trump-after-white-house-exit
It's my first time posting an article, so I apologize if I messed something up.
It will be interesting to see how the White House frames this
It's been reported that Bannon resigned, and wasn't fired.
It's possible that the WH will frame this as "We really wanted Bannon to stay, but he was ready to go back to Breitbart."
That way, Breitbart supporters don't turn on Trump.
I'm going to go buy a nice bottle of whiskey
And not open it tonight. I'm waiting.
I'm going to wait to open it until the night Trump leaves office. Whether that be from stepping down, or the night he loses reelection in 2020.
Then, I'll crack it open, pour a little, and sip at it while I watch the news and smile.
Trump hits new low in Rasmussen
Fell to 38% today, and Rasmussen is considered to be a fairly conservative poll.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_aug2
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