President Trump is considering Laura Ingraham's godfather Pat Cipollone as new WH Counsel.

Earlier this week, Trump interviewed Cipollone, a former Justice Department attorney who practices commercial litigation at Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking.
Cipollone has been working behind the scenes advising Trump’s outside legal team since June. This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/31/president-trump-is-considering-washington-litigator-pat-cipollone-to-replace-outgoing-white-house-counsel-donald-mcgahn/

Pat became Ingraham’s godfather after she converted to Catholicism:

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President Trump is considering Washington litigator Pat Cipollone to replace WH consel Don McGahn

Source: The Washington Post

Earlier this week, Trump interviewed Cipollone, a former Justice Department attorney who practices commercial litigation at Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner, according to two people familiar with the president's thinking.
Cipollone has been working behind the scenes advising Trump's outside legal team since June. This is a developing story. It will be updated.



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If you believe Trump truly represents America then you've swallowed the Big Lie

If you think it’s necessary to get in the gutter and trade hate with Americans who are under his spell then you’ve swallowed the Big Lie. If you’ve given up hope that the egomaniac and his fellow crooks will be held accountable for purposefully acting to dismantle America, then you’ve swallowed the Big Lie.

America is as she’s always been, a mix of diversity struggling to find a way forward together that somehow includes everyone. It’s not easy and at times it’s been very messy but the ideal of a more perfect union continues in the hearts and minds of most Americans.

So it’s up to us - the majority - to keep moving forward, refusing to believe that the whims of a madman, in cahoots with both foreign and domestic adversaries, have permanently changed who we are.

We will prevail, America will prevail. So long as we don’t swallow the Big Lie.

Net Neutrality is gone. Today, The Asset attacked Google.

I’m sure when the egomaniac sleeps he dreams of controlling what each and every one of us sees and hears. You know, just like China, Russia, North Korea.

Those he admires the most.

I am convinced he will attempt to do the same, with the help of that jerk at the FCC and the KGOP.

We simply MUST take the House and the Senate.

Interesting tidbit from NBC's National Inquirer safe of secrets story:

Former Enquirer employees who spoke to the AP said that negative stories about Trump were dead on arrival dating back more than a decade when he starred on NBC’s reality show “The Apprentice.”
In 2010, at Cohen’s urging, the National Enquirer began promoting a potential Trump presidential candidacy, referring readers to a pro-Trump website Cohen helped create. With Cohen’s involvement, the publication began questioning President Barack Obama’s birthplace and American citizenship in print, an effort that Trump promoted for several years, former staffers said.
The Enquirer endorsed Trump for president in 2016, the first time it had ever officially backed a candidate. In the news pages, Trump’s coverage was so favorable that the New Yorker magazine said the Enquirer embraced him “with sycophantic fervor.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enquirer-hid-trump-secrets-safe-removed-them-inauguration-n903356

The Trump/Cohen/Pecker shenanigans go back a long way! Now I know why Cohen was called The Fixer.

With everything that happened this week, almost forgot about Allen Weissberg!

My take on the Manafort trial.

I think we can all agree this case is extraordinary, and the outcome will be a landmark decision. In spite of the judge’s personality quirks, I am choosing to believe he is not compromised. We now know he’s received threats; there are people out there trying to intimidate him. He’s keping the names of jurors sealed for their protection.

The jury. I’ve sat on a jury and know it can take awhile to process multiple counts. This case is complex with 400 pages of documents. I am choosing to believe that the jury members are aware of the importance of this case and are taking their responsibilities seriously, going through each charge and supporting testimony/documents individually. That can take some time. I would be concerned if they finish too quickly.

I expect a verdict on Tuesday, mixed verdict on the charges.

Trump, Seeking to Relax Rules on U.S. Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive

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