Trump has finally answered one of my shower thoughts: is it possible for someone with dementia to sundown at 9 in the morning?
Spoiler alert: yes
Trump has finally answered one of my shower thoughts: is it possible for someone with dementia to sundown at 9 in the morning?
Spoiler alert: yes
HPSCI Report is a hoot.
Daily prayers in Congress? Really? Separation of Church and State, anyone?
Why is there a Chaplain position anyways?
Daily prayers in Congress? Really? Separation of Church and State, anyone?
It's not like this is anything new, far as I'm aware.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/04/27/day-463/
Day 463: Very sick or very dumb.
1/ The House Intelligence Committee found "no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government" in the 2016 election. The 253-page report criticized both the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns for "poor judgment and ill-considered actions" in their dealings with Russia-related figures. Democrats on the committee accused the Republicans of prematurely closing the investigation in a "a systematic effort to muddy the waters and to deflect attention away from the President" and asserted that Trump associates willingness to accept Russian assistance suggest "a consciousness of wrongfulness, if not illegality." The report accused the intelligence community of "significant intelligence tradecraft failings," suggesting that Russia's main goal was to sow discord in the United States and not to help Trump win the election. (New York Times / Washington Post / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/house-intelligence-committee-issues-russia-report-557413
2/ Minutes after the committee's report was released, Trump tweeted "Wow!" the Russia investigation is "A total With Hunt!" and "MUST END NOW." (The Hill)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385167-trump-russia-probe-must-end-now
3/ Natalya Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower in 2016, was an informant for for Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. "I am a lawyer, and I am an informant," she said in newly released emails. "Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general." Veselnitskaya insists that she met withTrump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and others in a private capacity – not as a representative of the Russian government. (New York Times)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to release interview transcripts from the Trump Tower meeting. The committee anticipates releasing written responses from Natalia Veselnitskaya, Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort following some redactions. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/26/trump-tower-meeting-russian-transcript-grassley-557153
4/ Trump tweeted that James Comey is "either very sick or very dumb" for having "illegally leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION." Comey is not under federal investigation for leaking classified information or lying. Trump added that Comey "lied all over the place" and "doesn't understand what he did or how serious it is." Comey wrote a series of contemporaneous memos documenting his interactions with Trump, which he leaked after being fired in May. "That memo was unclassified then," Comey said, and "it's still unclassified." (New York Times / The Guardian / Washington Post)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/27/donald-trump-james-comey-memo-row-very-sick-dumb
Five months' worth of text messages between FBI special agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were recovered. The messages span December 2016 to May 2017 and capture the immediate reactions to Trump's decision to fire James Comey, as well as the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel. The cache of messages were originally thought to be missing, but the Justice Department's inspector general recovered them using forensic tools. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/politics/missing-strzok-page-text-messages/index.html
5/ Trump thanked Kanye West for his support, tweeting that the rapper has "performed a great service to the Black Community." Earlier this week, Kanye tweeted that "the mob" could not stop him from loving Trump. He then shared a photo of himself in a Make America Great Again hat. Trump thanked West for the support, tweeting "very cool!" Trump also thanked Chance the Rapper for tweeting that "Black people don't have to be democrats." Trump Jr. also thanked Chance for "breaking with convention," but then confusingly included basketball emojis in his tweet. Chance released a statement distancing himself from Trump, saying "I'd never support anyone who has made a career out of hatred, racism and discrimination." (The Hill / Washington Post / VICE News / Daily Beast)
6/ Trump has asked aides if he should invite Kanye West to the White House for dinner and a photo-op. A source close to Trump said they couldn't tell if Trump was "kidding" or not, but reiterated that Trump enjoys that West has "always said wonderful" things about him. (Daily Beast)
Notables.
North and South Korea agreed to end their seven-decade war following a meeting between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in. The deal includes promises from both leaders to pursue "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Penninsula. Trump hailed the peace effort on Twitter, saying "KOREAN WAR TO END! The United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very proud of what is now taking place in Korea!" (Bloomberg / New York Times / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/north-korea-south-korea-summit-intl/index.html
Federal prosecutors seized as many as 16 cell phones during the raids on Michael Cohen's office, home, and hotel room. Prosecutor Thomas McKay intends to hand over the seized materials to Cohen's attorneys by May 11. (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2018/04/26/feds-seized-more-than-a-dozen-of-michael-cohens-phones/
A federal judge dismissed Paul Manafort's civil suit challenging Robert Mueller's authority. Manafort's attorneys asked to throw out all charges against Manafort, arguing that Mueller had exceeded his authority by bringing charges unrelated to Russian election interference. (CBS News / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/paul-manafort-civil-suit-dismissed-557465
Paul Ryan said he fired Chaplain Patrick Conroy because members felt like House members' "pastoral needs" were not being met. Conroy said Ryan asked him to resign two weeks ago, a request that he complied with but was never given a reason for. (The Hill / New York Times)
Scores of vacant positions in the Trump administration are causing problems for the federal government. The number of unfilled positions is at an all-time high and the staff shortages have halted pay raises for thousands of federal workers, stalled legislation to help home buyers with their mortgages, and prevented the IRS from pushing out regulations related to the new tax law. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/trump-deserted-government-552971
Trump warned countries to not oppose the U.S.'s bid to host the 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada. "It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid. Why should we be supporting these countries when they don't support us (including at the United Nations)?," Trump tweeted. (The Hill)
The White House medical unit allowed senior officials to "grab and go" prescription drugs. "You need to just give people these meds when they ask for it," multiple former medical unit employees said. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/ronny-jackson-medical-unit-ambien/index.html
Trump will visit the UK on July 13th. The trip is being billed as a "flying visit" rather than an official state one, which would have seen Trump hosted by the Queen. (BBC / Sky News)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43913414
The US economy grew at a rate of 2.3% in the first quarter, slower than the 2.9% pace in the fourth quarter of 2017, but above Wall Street analysts' forecasts of 2%. (CNN Money / Washington Post)
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/news/companies/economy-economic-growth/index.html
Trump would like to regularly appear on "Fox and Friends," according to Kellyanne Conway. "The president has said he would like to perhaps come once a month and as news breaks," which caught the show's hosts off guard, who asked her to clarify that she meant. (The Hill)
Daily prayers in Congress? Really? Separation of Church and State, anyone?
Chaplains have been there forever. Pretty sure there were even some pretty contentious discussions about it in the founding generation. Not enough to get rid of it, of course.
Not one of those "America was founded as a Christian Nation!!!1!" types, but there are a lot of examples of public Christian expression via government from the get-go.
Chaplains have been there forever. Pretty sure there were even some pretty contentious discussions about it in the founding generation. Not enough to get rid of it, of course.
Not one of those "America was founded as a Christian Nation!!!1!" types, but there are a lot of examples of public Christian expression via government from the get-go.
Yeah, unless the chaplain is exerting some until now unknown influence on our politicians, I'm honestly inclined to see it as a non-issue.
Can Trump not do a single TWEET WHERE HE RANDOMLY capitalizes! And speaks in broken fragments? Good lord!
Trump would like to regularly appear on "Fox and Friends," according to Kellyanne Conway. "The president has said he would like to perhaps come once a month and as news breaks," which caught the show's hosts off guard, who asked her to clarify that she meant. (The Hill)
I kind of want this. The last one was so great, plus I love the irony in this kind of torture being unleashed on Trump's favorite show. Talk about karma.
Also, the possibility exists that Trump could spend the last days of his presidency as a call-in on a talk show. It's wishful thinking maybe, but the chance exists.
@S.C.:
Can Trump not do a single TWEET WHERE HE RANDOMLY capitalizes! And speaks in broken fragments? Good lord!
That's like asking him to stop telling lies and being insanely petty.
Well, Donny always does the opposite of what people tell him.
So Donald, don't do it.
Chaplains have been there forever. Pretty sure there were even some pretty contentious discussions about it in the founding generation. Not enough to get rid of it, of course.
Not one of those "America was founded as a Christian Nation!!!1!" types, but there are a lot of examples of public Christian expression via government from the get-go.
The idea of some pan-Christianity being ingraine in America is completely modern (and silly even today).
America was cobbled together from squabbling sects with wildly different beliefs and history of bloodshed in the old country (and in a few cases also in the new).
The Chaplain thing is treated neutrally, at least in theory. And can hypothetically be any religion.
This isn't some fancy modern PC perspective, the era of the founders would have seen the differing Protestants regarding eachother with at least as much difference.
I don't want to call the person who wrote the cited article delusional and full of shit, but I think they're delusional and full of shit.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/media/redstate-blog-salem-media/index.html
Conservative blog Red State has fired a large number of its writers, bloggers, and editors. Ostensibly a cost saving measure, if two people made/cost about the same amount the ones who were axed were noticeably more often than not anti-Trump
Nothing wrong with a chaplain in the house as long as a rabbi/abbot/imam/other religious leader is allowed if requested.
Chaplains in modern times for the most part tend to be secular, so I don't necessarily know if that's a big necessity to request a specific thing, but I suppose people in general are allowed to request a person of their particular faith to lead a prayer.
Some people of different faiths might not like the idea of a chaplain, which does have a Christian connotation, leading their prayers, so they should be able to request a respected elder/leader if wanted/needed.
If you were ever in doubt that the mainstream media was basicaly a right wing enabling ecosystem, you only need to look at the reaction to Michelle Wolff's "outrageous" WHCD. Apparantly yapping racist trash for four years is telling it like it is and connecting with the forgotten people, but telling some jokes is incendiary and cruel.
Also Sarah Huckabee Sander is Good now apparantly.
For those who have not yet seen the comedy majesty of Michelle Wolf's "remarks":
Michelle Wolf was absolutely brutal. Each cut of the knife was glorious to watch, and while I am usually one who thinks we should try to hit above the belt on most things, this administration deserves none of the goodwill that requires. For completeness sake, an NPR article about the fallout:
Comedian Faces Criticism After Controversial Remarks At D.C. Gala
The WHCA has now apologized for Michelle Wolff. This is fucking deranged.
At any rate you do have some people hanging shade on the hypocrisy and sycophantry going on.
Too much to hope that this becomes a regular thing ?
LOL, this is just great.
If you were ever in doubt that the mainstream media was basicaly a right wing enabling ecosystem, you only need to look at the reaction to Michelle Wolff's "outrageous" WHCD. Apparantly yapping racist trash for four years is telling it like it is and connecting with the forgotten people, but telling some jokes is incendiary and cruel.
Also Sarah Huckabee Sander is Good now apparantly.
It's not this, it's that she also made fun of CNN and the like for buffering Trump's campaign with extra coverage for views. That's why you have press idiots getting huffy.
They may be in denial about it, but that's definitely what has them pouting.
We've had lots of damaged done to the decorum bullshit, hopefully this continues outing people for how goddamned stupid it is.
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All the crocodile tear decorum defenses of someone as vile and shit as Sarah Sanders is making me nauseous. She's attack dog garbage straight out of some kind of third world tinpot propaganda machine with how she carries on there.
Just like most of these turds.
This is actually making me even more mad the more I think about it.
The jokes on them though, the Blue Wave everyone keeps talking about is built on pure rage and disgust for this administration. Keep outing yourselves as decorum drones. Go ahead.
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lol half or more of this administration are probably felony level criminals, robbing the country in one way or another, but nooooo don't use the bad words!!
@Monkey:
It's not this, it's that she also made fun of CNN and the like for buffering Trump's campaign with extra coverage for views. That's why you have press idiots getting huffy.
They may be in denial about it, but that's definitely what has them pouting.We've had lots of damaged done to the decorum bullshit, hopefully this continues outing people for how goddamned stupid it is.
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All the crocodile tear decorum defenses of someone as vile and shit as Sarah Sanders is making me nauseous. She's attack dog garbage straight out of some kind of third world tinpot propaganda machine with how she carries on there.
Just like most of these turds.This is actually making me even more mad the more I think about it.
The jokes on them though, the Blue Wave everyone keeps talking about is built on pure rage and disgust for this administration. Keep outing yourselves as decorum drones. Go ahead.--- Update From New Post Merge ---
lol half or more of this administration are probably felony level criminals, robbing the country in one way or another, but nooooo don't use the bad words!!
This is my actual main problem with most of the media. They're entertainment first with a focus on ratings and reporters second. It's also why Republicans have no problem going low because the media has no problem just bending over every time Republicans want to fuck them and the rest of us, so they can get more views. Add on that most people at these places make enough money to be shielded from most of the shit.
Seriously though, Maggie getting an award while Michelle gets a lot of 'Tut tut. Too mean.' is an awful reflective on the current state of media.
This is my actual main problem with most of the media. They're entertainment first with a focus on ratings and reporters second. It's also why Republicans have no problem going low because the media has no problem just bending over every time Republicans want to fuck them and the rest of us, so they can get more views. Add on that most people at these places make enough money to be shielded from most of the shit.
Seriously though, Maggie getting an award while Michelle gets a lot of 'Tut tut. Too mean.' is an awful reflective on the current state of media.
Word of advice: Turn OFF the television.
Don't give those clowns the ratings they want to continue their partisan info circus. I'm not fucking kidding. It's beyond ridiculous now and it puts into question as to what should separate fact from fiction.
Better to stick with Reuters or AP for your news info.
Cable news is generally trash. There are some good reporters working for them – even at Fox News, presumably -- but it gets filtered through the entertainment matrix. There are similar problems at the big print outlets, like the split between WSJ's generally excellent reporting and trash opinion page and a lot of the NYT's editorial decisions, but it's easier to pick through all that.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/04/30/day-466/
Day 466: Panic mode.
1/ Trump threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress doesn't agree to include more funding for his border wall in the next spending bill. "We come up again on September 28th," Trump said during a rally in Michigan on Saturday, "and if we don't get border security we will have no choice, we will close down the country because we need border security." (Reuters)
2/ Ronny Jackson will not return to his former job as the the president's personal physician. A series of allegations caused Jackson to withdraw from consideration to become the next secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sean Conley took over for Jackson last month and will continue in that role. (Politico / Washington Post)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/29/ronny-jackson-trump-doctor-559529
Who the f*ck has left the Trump administration: A timeline of all the departures so far… (WTFJHT Community)
https://talk.whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/t/who-the-fuck-has-left-the-trump-administration/908
3/ Trump called on Montana Senator Jon Tester to resign and threatened to spread allegations about him in retaliation for releasing a document summarizing the allegations against Ronny Jackson. Trump said the allegations against Jackson were fabricated. "Tester started throwing out things that he's heard," Trump told the crowd. "Well, I know things about Tester that I could say, too. And if I said them, he'd never be elected again." (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/us/politics/trump-tester-jackson-va.html
4/ The Justice Department removed language from its manual related to gerrymandering, freedom of the press, and limits on prosecutorial power. Jeff Sessions' tough-on-crime policies were added to the manual, as well as language that underscores his focus on religious liberty, and Trump's attempts to crack down on government leaks. The last significant update to the manual happened in 1997. (BuzzFeed News)
5/ Trump Jr. and Emin Agalarov maintained a direct line of communication before and after the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. The two continued to communicate via a series of text messages until at least December 2016. (BuzzFeed News)
6/ Natalia Veselnitskaya also followed up with the Trump campaign in the wake of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Veselnitskaya reached out to the Trump family after the election and continued to lobby for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/russians-trump-team-magnitsky-act/index.html
7/ The FBI questioned a Russian MMA fighter linked to Putin, Trump, and Michael Cohen. The FBI showed up unannounced at Fedor Emelianenko's hotel room in Chicago. "All I can say is that, yeah, they showed up unannounced, knocking on our doors," Emelianenko's manager Jerry Millen said. Trump announced a joint venture involving MMA and Emelianenko in 2008. Cohen was the league's chief operating officer. (Associated Press / The Telegraph / NY Daily News)
8/ Michael Avenatti: Trump is in "panic mode" and expects Michael Cohen to cooperate with investigators. "We're going to be able to prove that the president knew about the agreement," Stormy Daniels' attorney said, "and knew about the $130,000." Trump has denied a relationship with Daniels or knowledge of the payment to her, but told Fox and Friends that Cohen was representing him in the "crazy Stormy Daniels deal" – contradicting what he said on Air Force One. (The Guardian / The Hill)
9/ A federal judge granted a 90-day delay in Stormy Daniels' suit against Trump, saying it appeared "likely" that Michael Cohen would be indicated in a related criminal investigation. The judge called Cohen "the alleged mastermind" of the deal, which makes his testimony "indispensable." Cohen plans to assert his Fifth Amendment rights if asked to answer any further questions about Daniels' suit, which seeks to void an agreement that led to a $130,000 payment Cohen facilitated before the 2016 presidential election. (Politico / Washington Post)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/trump-stormy-daniels-case-delay-558294
poll/ 46% of Millennial voters support Democrats over Republicans for Congress – down about 9 percentage from two years ago. 28% expressed overt support for Republicans in the 2018 poll - about the same percentage as two years earlier. (Reuters)
Notables.
Trump is expected to speak at the NRA's annual meeting in Dallas later this week. The address would be Trump's third consecutive appearance at the NRA's annual event. (CNN / Washington Post)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/29/politics/trump-nra-annual-meeting/index.html
Kim Jong-un told South Korea that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the U.S. promised not to invade his country. The South Korean government also said Kim would invite experts and journalists to watch the shutdown next month of the country's only known underground nuclear test site. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/world/asia/north-korea-trump-nuclear.html
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. (Reuters)
Trump deserves a Nobel prize for being so batshit crazy that NK thinks he actually would blow them up on a whim.
Uhm. Okay.
If by some astounding miracle that the talks lead to not only the official ending of the Korean War but NK actually giving up their nukes and following through with it, then Trump, Kim, Moon, the entire State Department, both Koreas' foreign ministries, every diplomat in Asia, and everyone within NK's nuke range deserves a Nobel.
Trump deserves a Nobel prize for being so batshit crazy that NK thinks he actually would blow them up on a whim.
Uhm. Okay.
Henry Kissinger, the Desaad to Nixon's Darkside, has a Nobel Peace Prize. The award means jack shit.
@Cyan:
If by some astounding miracle that the talks lead to not only the official ending of the Korean War but NK actually giving up their nukes and following through with it, then Trump, Kim, Moon, the entire State Department, both Koreas' foreign ministries, every diplomat in Asia, and everyone within NK's nuke range deserves a Nobel.
Cue next week Kim mentioning that they'll unify korea after having had a slice and a coke with Trump.
Also hilarious, the President Supervillain Twitter updated after a hiatus:
I KNOW THINGS ABOUT THE SENATOR I CAN SAY…!! #PresidentSupervillain https://t.co/c6WpAxiMg9
Worth banning guns from a public site to protect: Presidents, Vice Presidents, NRA executives
Not worth it: Children, church goers, concert attendees, movie patrons, employees, police officers, and evrything else not in the above
It was just a threat to a sitting senator. He didn't do something truly worthy of the Red Skull's villainy like congratulate a woman on her smokey eye.
It was just a threat to a sitting senator. He didn't do something truly worthy of the Red Skull's villainy like congratulate a woman on her smokey eye.
They've been on a hiatus. Could be they're just starting small.
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They've been on a hiatus. Could be they're just starting small.
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Huh, neat apropos of nothing, I can post under my Tapatalk name apparently.
Learn something new every day.
White male millenials increasingly support the Republican party according to a new poll. History repeats.
Mueller's questions to Trump have been leaked. They're a doozy.
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White male millenials increasingly support the Republican party according to a new poll. History repeats.
Losing white female millenials as well according to that poll.
Looking like the right's approach to the leaked questions is "Mueller's case is weak because all the questions are from things in the public domain," which…
blink blink
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ae763f1e4b055fd7fce9e1d?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313
Trump’s Immigration And Customs Enforcement Chief To Retire
Thomas Homan had become the face of the White House’s deportation efforts. But his U.S. Senate confirmation stalled.
Here are some of the actual questions:
1.What did you mean when you told Russian diplomats on May 10, 2017, that firing Mr. Comey had taken the pressure off?
2.What did you mean in your interview with Lester Holt about Mr. Comey and Russia?
3.When did you become aware of the Trump Tower meeting?
4.What involvement did you have in the communication strategy, including the release of Donald Trump Jr.’s emails?
5.During a 2013 trip to Russia, what communication and relationships did you have with the Agalarovs and Russian government officials?
6. What communication did you have with Michael D. Cohen, Felix Sater and others, including foreign nationals, about Russian real estate developments during the campaign?
•7. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding any meeting with Mr. Putin? Did you discuss it with others?
•8. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding Russian sanctions?
•9. During the campaign, what did you know about Russian hacking, use of social media or other acts aimed at the campaign?
•10. What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding Russian sanctions?
•11. What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?
12. What did you know about communication between Roger Stone, his associates, Julian Assange or WikiLeaks?
13• What did you know during the transition about an attempt to establish back-channel communication to Russia, and Jared Kushner’s efforts?
•14 What do you know about a Ukrainian peace proposal provided to Mr. Cohen in 2017?
15.What do you know about a 2017 meeting in Seychelles involving Erik Prince?
According a lawyer on the subject, these questions appear quite broad, and appear to be leading points of discussion where the questioner can respond to whatever Trump says with follow up questions.
Note also #14, where Cohen, as Trumps lawyer, is serving as a back channel for a seperate Russia/Ukraine peace proposal. This is EXPLOSIVE . It means records of secret treaty deals might be on Cohens tapes and other records.
Damn. I'm still kinda seething from the reaction of the media towards Michelle Wolf. The media is certainly fake in one way. They may feign as if they care about people's issues, but their reaction to Michelle where they're more upset about direct truth and being called out themselves rather than the Trump administration's lies or even about Flint's issues which she talked about show they don't give a shit as long as they still make their scores of money.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/05/01/day-467/
Day 467: So disgraceful.
1/ Robert Mueller has at least 49 questions he wants to ask Trump regarding his ties to Russia and alleged obstruction. The questions deal primarily with Trump's firing of James Comey and Michael Flynn, as well as his treatment of Jeff Sessions and the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russians who claimed to have damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Other topics of inquiry include Trump's conversations with Michael Cohen about a real estate deal in Moscow, Jared Kushner's attempts to set up a backchannel to Russia, contacts Trump had with Roger Stone, and Trump's 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/robert-mueller-questions-trump.html
The questions Mueller wants to ask Trump about obstruction of justice and what they mean. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html
2/ Trump tweets: "So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were 'leaked' to the media." The leak didn't come from Mueller's office, but were provided to the New York Times by a person outside of Trump's legal team. "No questions on Collusion," Trump added. "Oh, I see…you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!" The list includes 13 questions related to possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump followed up with another tweet 45-minutes later: "It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt!"(Washington Post / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/trump-new-york-times-mueller-561692
3/ Grammatical errors point to Trump as the source who leaked the list of Mueller's questions. "Lawyers wouldn't write questions this way, in my estimation," Michael Zeldin said, a CNN analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller. "Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued. "I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions." (The Hill)
Nixon's White House counsel said that if the Trump administration leaked Mueller's questions it could qualify as obstruction of justice. John Dean said leaking the questions could be an attempt to "try to disrupt the flow of information" or tip off a witness. (The Hill)
4/ Trump allies in the House have drafted articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein. One author of the draft articles referred to them as a "last resort" and are not expected to garner much support. The last federal official to be impeached by the House was federal Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., who was convicted on bribery allegations by the Senate in 2010. (Washington Post)
5/ Trump's bodyguard and a Trump Organization lawyer took the original and only copy of Trump's medical chart from his doctor in February 2017 after Dr. Harold Bornstein told the New York Times that Trump takes Propecia. Keith Schiller, who was serving as director of Oval Office operations, also took lab reports under Trump's name as well as under the pseudonyms the office used for Trump. Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records, which is a violation of patient privacy law. (NBC News)
The White House pushed back that Dr. Ronny Jackson is no longer Trump's personal physician, despite reports that Jackson will not return to his previous role as physician to the president after withdrawing his nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. (The Hill)
6/ Mike Pence's physician privately warned the White House in September that Ronny Jackson may have violated the federal privacy protections of Karen Pence and intimidated the Vice President's doctor. The previously unreported incident is the first sign that the White House knew about Jackson's misconduct months before Trump and his staff defended Jackson's professionalism and insisted that he had been thoroughly vetted. The incident is also the first allegation of medical misconduct by Jackson, adding to a long line of allegations against the former White House physician. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/karen-pence-doctor-privacy-ronny-jackson/index.html
Notables.
California and 17 other states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect national vehicle emission standards from being rolled back by the federal government. The states argue that the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously, failed to follow its own regulations and violated the Clean Air Act. (Los Angeles Times)
A whistleblower from the EPA says that Scott Pruitt was "bold-faced" lying when testified to Congress that no EPA employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions. (ABC News)
Michael Cohen was hit with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies, bringing the total he owes New York state to $282,000. (Bloomberg)
Former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo met with the Senate Intelligence Committee investigators as part of the panel's probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-aide-meets-senate-panel-russia-probe/story?id=54852929
You'd have figure not so perfect hair forever instead offering more bad takes would reconcile the fact that firing Come under the incredibly bad circumstances he did would basically qualify as potential obstruction of Justice but nope.
Also when is he going to ask Mike Pence's physician to resign over his involvement in Jackson's appointment being scuttled?
Damn. I'm still kinda seething from the reaction of the media towards Michelle Wolf. The media is certainly fake in one way. They may feign as if they care about people's issues, but their reaction to Michelle where they're more upset about direct truth and being called out themselves rather than the Trump administration's lies or even about Flint's issues which she talked about show they don't give a shit as long as they still make their scores of money.
There's a strange phenomena you see with all media that is supposed to be critical. Where if it reaches a certain size and power, then it becomes part of the general institution of whatever subject it covers. Politics, music, film etc.
They begin to go to the same social functions, events, and so on. Where suddenly their real job, to be absolutely critical of the subject for the benefit of the reader/viewer…. becomes entangled in some sort of dumb polite society etiquette that they've become part of.
This is one of the main reasons no one gives a crap what say Rolling Stone has to say about music. And here again.
What the hell is wrong with Kayne West? Did he just stated that Slavery is an alternative?
What the hell is wrong with Kayne West? Did he just stated that Slavery is an alternative?
Apparently .
C'mon, people, this is finally the opportunity for people of all political persuasions to unite in ignoring the Wests and the Kardashians. Please, don't let this moment slip away.
C'mon, people, this is finally the opportunity for people of all political persuasions to unite in ignoring the Wests and the Kardashians. Please, don't let this moment slip away.
I'm still going to wait for that album but goddamn is being a fan of his music gonna suck so hard over the next few months.
Regarding his current notoriety, negating bullshit like this slavery tweet, I've been enjoying a healthy amount of schadenfreude from conservatives/alt-right who freak out whenever he does the same stuff on the other end of the spectrum, like congratulating one of the Parkland kids
(I just want to go back to when Azealia Banks was The Problematic Fave Of Mine is that so hard)