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| 10-30-18 11:23am - 2151 days | #1301 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Real news: President Trump is cleaning up his past. Whitey Bulger, the notorious Boston crime boss, was found dead in prison. It's well-known that Trump has extensive ties to the Mafia and other criminals. That's one reason Trump keeps talking about "bad men". Now Trump is using his powers and influence to dispose of people who might testify against him in return for reduced sentences. Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney who said he would take a bullet for Trump, has flipped and said he made illegal payoffs to Trump mistresses. But Trump wants to eliminate as many other possible witnesses against his illegal actions. The problem is that Trump's history is filled with illegal actions: murder, extortion, bribery, etc. Trump, the secret head of New York's mafia family, the Trump-Galliano family, has sent his most trusted assasins on secret assignments. Will Congress investigate Trump's illegal actions? Or will the Republicans bury their heads in the sand and deny they are working for a corrupt and evil crime boss? Enquiring minds want to know: when will Trump have to face the music for his crimes? -------- -------- Whitey Bulger, Boston Mob Moss Who Inspired ‘The Departed’ and ‘Black Mass,’ Found Dead in Prison at 89 Bulger was convicted in 2013 for his participation in 11 murders Trey Williams | October 30, 2018 @ 10:16 AM Last Updated: October 30, 2018 @ 11:07 AM James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston mob boss who was also the subject for Johnny Depp’s 2015 crime film “Black Mass,” was found dead in a West Virginia federal prison on Tuesday, according to U.S. Department of Justice. He was 89. NBC News, citing the Boston Herald, said that Bulger had recently arrived at the high-security penitentiary. According to the Justice Department, Bulger was found unresponsive at 8:20 a.m. ET at the U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Officials said life-saving measures were initiated immediately by staff, but that Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner. The Boston Globe reported that Bulger was killed by an inmate with Mafia ties. The Department of Justice said in a statement that the FBI has opened an investigation into Bulger’s death. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified and an investigation has been initiated. No staff or other inmates were injured, and at no time was the public in danger,” the statement read. Bulger was the leader of the dangerous Boston-based Winter Hill Gang. He was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 murders that stretched from Massachusetts to Florida to Oklahoma. Bulger was one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives for 16 years before he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011. He was serving a life sentence for racketeering, extortion conspiracy, money laundering, possession of unregistered machine guns, transfer and possession of machine guns, possession of firearms with obliterated serial numbers and possession of machine guns in furtherance of a violent crime. Along with Depp’s portrayal of Bulger in Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass,” the mob boss was the inspiration for Jack Nicholson’s character in Martin Scorsese’s 2007 Best Picture Oscar winner, “The Departed.” | |
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| 10-30-18 11:35am - 2151 days | #1302 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Unbelievable news: Michael Cohen re-registers as a Democrat as he distances himself from Trump. Does Michael Cohen believe that as a registered Democrat, he will be a more believable witness than as a Republican? Many Republicans, like Trump, are famous for lying out of both sides of their mouth, as well as out of their ass: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, the list is endless. Do you believe Michael Cohen can tell the truth? Or that he will be a credible witness against his former boss, Donald Trump? --------- --------- The Guardian Michael Cohen re-registers as Democrat as he distances himself from Trump Lanny Davis said Cohen changed his registration to further ‘himself from the values of the current’ administration Associated Press in New York Thu 11 Oct 2018 17.45 EDT Last modified on Thu 11 Oct 2018 17.59 EDT Cohen had been a registered Democrat for years until changing his registration in March 2017. ‘It took a great man to get me to the make the switch,’ Cohen said at the time on Twitter, referring to Trump. Michael Cohen had been a registered Democrat for years until changing his registration in March 2017. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen returned to the Democratic party on Thursday, the latest in a series of steps he has taken to distance himself from the Republican president following a bitter falling-out. Cohen’s defense attorney, Lanny Davis, announced on Twitter that his client has changed his registration from Republican to Democrat. He described the move as an effort to distance “himself from the values of the current” administration. Cohen retweeted Davis’s post and a link to an Axios story that first reported the news. The switch came on the eve of Friday’s deadline for New Yorkers to register to vote in the November election. Cohen had been a registered Democrat for years until changing his registration in March 2017. “It took a great man to get me to the make the switch,” Cohen said at the time on Twitter, referring to Trump. Cohen had served as the Republican party’s deputy finance chairman but resigned that post this year amid a criminal investigation into his business dealings. Davis on Thursday described Cohen’s latest about-face as “another step” in Cohen’s promise to place “family and country first”, a pledge he made over the summer that signaled his willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to eight federal charges, including tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. In pleading guilty, he said that Trump directed him to arrange payments before the 2016 election to buy the silence of the porn actor Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model who alleged they had affairs with Trump. Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced 12 December.  2018 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | |
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| 10-30-18 12:03pm - 2151 days | #1303 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Real news: President Trump claims he can break the US Constitution and make new laws. Says that his powers are stronger than the US Constitution. Bow down before the President, God's messenger on Earth, who has holy powers that are greater than other mortals. ----- ----- https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/...tizenship/index.html Trump claims he can defy Constitution and end birthright citizenship By Kevin Liptak and Devan Cole, CNN Updated 2:07 PM ET, Tue October 30, 2018 Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise in a new interview to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections. Trump's vow to end the right to citizenship for the children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil came in an interview with Axios released Tuesday. Such a step would be regarded as an affront to the US Constitution, which was amended 150 years ago to include the words: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." Trump did not say when he would sign the order, and some of his past promises to use executive action have gone unfulfilled. But whether the President follows through on his threat or not, the issue joins a string of actions intended to thrust the matter of immigration into the front of voters' minds as they head to polls next week. A day earlier, the President vowed in an interview on Fox News to construct tent cities to house migrants traveling through Mexico to the US southern border. His administration announced the deployment of 5,200 troops to protect the frontier as the "caravan" continues to advance -- though it is still weeks, if not months, from reaching the US border. And the President has warned of an "invasion" of undocumented immigrants if the border isn't sealed with a wall. For Trump it's all about the 'white' part of white, working-class voters For Trump it's all about the 'white' part of white, working-class voters Still, the threat of ending birthright citizenship amounts to another escalation in Trump's hardline approach to immigration, which has become his signature issue. "We're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits," Trump said in an interview for "Axios on HBO." Several other countries, including Canada, have a policy of birthright citizenship, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for reducing immigration. "It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And it has to end," he continued. Already, even some of the President's defenders downplayed the prospects of successfully ending birthright citizenship by executive order. "Well, you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order," House Speaker Paul Ryan told a Kentucky radio station. Ryan said it would involve a "very, very lengthy" constitutional process to change the 14th Amendment, which was adopted in 1868 to protect citizenship rights for freed slaves. The step would immediately be challenged in court. Some of Trump's previous immigration executive orders, including an attempt to bar entry to citizens from some Muslim-majority countries, came under legal scrutiny after a chaotic drafting process. At the same time, the President has derided his predecessor Barack Obama for taking executive actions to block some young undocumented immigrants from deportation, a step Trump said was a presidential overstep. The American Civil Liberties Union slammed Trump's proposal Tuesday morning. "The President cannot erase the Constitution with an executive order, and the 14th Amendment's citizenship guarantee is clear," said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. "This is a transparent and blatantly unconstitutional attempt to sow division and fan the flames of anti-immigrant hatred in the days ahead of the midterms." Cupp: Tweet is fear mongering at its most naked Cupp: Tweet is fear mongering at its most naked 01:16 Asked about Trump's promise on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, said the President has the "right to raise that debate" if he wants but "this notion that he can simply violate the Constitution by executive order, let's face it, no serious legal scholar thinks that's real." "This is simply an attempt for Donald Trump, who wants to do anything possible to bring back fears around immigration, to use that as a political tool in this last week before the election," Warner said. "This is again, where a President's words matter. The Constitution is quite clear that no one, including the President of the United States, is above the law." The White House did not provide additional details of the planned executive order on Tuesday morning. "It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," he said, adding that he has run it by his counsel. "You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order," Trump said. The President didn't provide any details of his plan, but said that "it's in the process. It'll happen." The interview is a part of "Axios on HBO," a new four-part documentary series debuting on HBO this Sunday, according to the news site. CNN's Abby Phillip and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report. 2018 Cable News Network | |
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| 10-30-18 12:10pm - 2151 days | #1304 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump says Barack Obama was born in Africa. Obama has no birth certificate. Obama was a fake president. Obama belongs in jail. And so does Hillary Clinton. Why can't we clean the swamp in Washington, and put scummy Obama and scummy Hillary in jail? Get rid of the scum, and let President Trump do his job of making America great again. My country tis of thee, one nation under God, one nation under Trump. | |
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| 10-30-18 07:10pm - 2151 days | #1305 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Judge says President Trump has the right to call people liars and thieves because of free speech. But Trump's lawyer demands $341,000 from Stormy Daniels because she filed a lawsuit accusing the President of libel (calling Stormy Daniels a liar). Is the law fucked up, or what? ---- ---- Trump demands eye-popping sum from Stormy Daniels over her rejected defamation bid with his lawyer charging $841 per hour By NANCY DILLON Oct 30, 2018 | 11:55 AM President Trump wants to squeeze Stormy Daniels for $341,559.50 over her failed defamation claim. Trump’s lawyers say he spent the sky-high sum on filings for the claim before and after a judge rejected it two weeks ago. Daniels initially sued the president for defamation on April 30, two weeks after he took to Twitter and dismissed her sketch of an unidentified man who allegedly threatened her in a parking lot as a “con job.” “Plaintiff filed this action, not because it had any merit, but instead for the ulterior purposes of raising her media profile, engaging in political attacks against the President…and to depose Mr. Trump and take discovery,” Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder said in the motion for attorney’s fees filed Monday. Harder said the defamation claim was so expensive to defend against because Daniels and her lawyer Michael Avenatti first filed it in New York, even though Daniels already had a related suit against Trump pending in federal court in California. The earlier underlying suit was filed in Los Angeles in March and remains ongoing. It seeks to break the $130,000 hush money agreement Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen brokered with Daniels in October 2016 related to her claims she had sex with Trump in 2006. After filing the March suit, Daniels and Avenatti went public with claims the adult actress was confronted in the Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 by a mystery man who threatened her to keep quiet over the alleged affair. She and Avenatti released a sketch on April 17 of the unidentified man they allege threatened her. Trump scoffed at the sketch a day later in a Twitter post. “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” the president tweeted. U.S. District Judge James Otero ultimately determined Trump had a right to respond with his tweet. “Mr. Trump's statement constituted ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ that is protected by the First Amendment,” Otero wrote in his opinion. “To allow (Daniels) to proceed with her defamation action would, in effect, permit her to make public allegations against the President without giving him the opportunity to respond. Such a holding would violate the First Amendment,” the judge ruled. Avenatti quickly filed a notice of appeal and tweeted that Trump’s “record before the Ninth Circuit has been anything but good.” But the president’s lawyer wasted no time going after Daniels for six figures. Harder claims it cost $34,707.97 for lawyers to analyze the defamation claim, $102,977.32 to write a motion to transfer the case back to California, $139,899.21 to file the motion to dismiss the claim and $63,975.00 to file the motion for attorney’s fees and sanctions. Harder said his hourly rate for the case was $841.64. Trump and Harder also want additional sanctions levied against Daniels, according to the filing. “The conduct of Plaintiff and her counsel suggest they will continue to bring similar claims and meritless lawsuits against Mr. Trump, if sufficient sanctions do not deter them from doing so,” Harder wrote. Daniels’ separate lawsuit seeking to prove her $130,000 hush-money agreement with Trump and Cohen was actually illegal remains ongoing. | |
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| 11-01-18 08:38am - 2149 days | #1306 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Obama, the illegitimate President of the United States. President Trump, after deep study, told America that Obama was a fraudulent President who was born in some shithole African country. Now Obama, out of the limelight since giving up the Presidency, is giving people an inside look at how the US government works. President Trump has ordered the FBI and CIA and other intelligence agencies to watch and study the proposed project, and to arrest both Barack Obama and his dark-skinned wife if the couple reveal any classified secrets. Trump is also reviewing the status of the Obamas, to see whether they deserve to hold security clearances. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Collider.com Obamas Set ‘The Fifth Risk’ Adaptation as First Netflix Project by Adam Chitwood October 31, 2018 Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have made their first acquisition under their deal to create content for Netflix. Per Deadline, the Obamas have picked up the rights to author Michael Lewis’ latest book The Fifth Risk, which was released on October 2nd and provides an inside look at the inner workings of the U.S. government. The idea is to create a possible series that helps people further understand how the government actually works. More details about the project are set to be revealed on the new episode of Katie Couric‘s podcast this Thursday. Specifically, The Fifth Risk follows the chaos that erupted at the departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce during the handoff between the Obama administration to the Trump administration. Lewis conducted interviews with a number of federal workers who revealed that those who took over at these departments were woefully under-prepared, and some even threw away the briefing books provided by the Obama administration folks who had previously held the jobs. As a result, this “willful ignorance” caused a breakdown in a governmental system that has widespread and long-lasting effects. Lewis is no stranger to adaptations of his work. The Blind Side scored a Best Picture nomination, as did Bennett Miller’s terrific adaptation of Moneyball. There’s also a TV series adaptation of Flash Boys in development at Netflix, starting from scratch after Aaron Sorkin attempted a feature film adaptation of that Wall Street tale at Sony a few years ago. There’s no guarantee The Fifth Risk will actually happen, but the book has been optioned by the Obamas with the intent to develop a potential series adaptation at Netflix. It’s unclear if that would be a narrative series or a docuseries, but either way this is an indication of the kind of content the former First Family intends to make at Netflix. Their stated intention was to further educate and enrich the populace, and who better to produce an inside look at the inner-workings of the federal government than folks who served as President and First Lady for eight years? “The election happened,” remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. “And then there was radio silence.” Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system—those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night. | |
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| 11-01-18 10:07pm - 2149 days | #1307 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump promises to crack down on illegal immigrants. Promises to grab all good-looking women by the pussy, until they scream with joy. But the skanks can go back to whatever shithole country they came from. Melania promises to stick by her man, as long as he continues to fund her fashion clothes, But Melania also has a wandering eye. She is looking at some well-hung secret service agents that can warm her bed, while her husband is making whoopie. We have to respect the office of the President. No matter what piece of shit may occupy it. ---------- ---------- Trump promises immigration crackdown ahead of US elections Thomson Reuters By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton Nov 1st 2018 7:50PM WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration planned to require immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to come into the country through a legal port of entry, pushing a hard line on immigration ahead of elections next week. The president's remarks, five days before U.S. voters determine which party will control Congress and state governorships across the country, drew immediate criticism as an effort to generate fear and energize his political base. "Migrants seeking asylum will have to present themselves lawfully at a port of entry," Trump told reporters at the White House, painting a caravan of migrants traveling from Central America toward the United States as a dangerous threat. "Those who choose to break our laws and enter illegally will no longer be able to use meritless claims to gain automatic admission into our country," he said. It was not clear whether the plan would pass legal muster, although Trump, who sought to use immigration as an issue to motivate Republican voters in the 2016 presidential race and now ahead of the Nov. 6 elections, said it would. He added that an executive order was in the process of being finalized, but provided few details. Federal law provides that any immigrant in the United States may apply for asylum, regardless of whether he or she enters the country through a designated port of entry. Trump has ramped up his tough stance on illegal immigration in recent days. He deemed the group of migrants from Central America a threat to Americans. It is made up of people who have left poverty and violence at home and are heading slowly through Mexico toward the U.S. border. Trump referred to the movement as an "invasion." Mexico on Wednesday put the size of the caravan that left Honduras in mid-October at 2,800 to 3,000 people. Other caravans have since followed. The president, who has ordered U.S. troops to the border with Mexico, also suggested rock-throwing by migrants would be treated as equivalent to gun usage. "They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We're going to consider, and I told them to consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military police, I say: Consider it a rifle," Trump said. A Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Davis, declined to discuss specifics on the military's potential use of force, but said that U.S. troops "always have the inherent right of self-defense." Critics said the president was stoking fear ahead of the elections, in which Trump's Republicans are battling to keep their congressional majorities. "President Trump’s attempt to paint peaceful families seeking asylum as a national security threat is as absurd as it is cruel," said advocacy group Human Rights First in a statement. "The president is fear mongering to score political points ahead of a contentious election at the expense of people’s lives." The American Civil Liberties Union said: "If he plans at some point to prohibit people from applying for asylum between the ports of entry, that plan is illegal." Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, an ally of the president and head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a letter to the secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department that his office had received information that several members of the caravan had "significant criminal histories." Trump said on Wednesday the United States could send as many as 15,000 troops to the border to confront the migrant caravan, more than twice the number previously disclosed by defense officials. A U.S. defense official said about 100 active-duty troops arrived on the border at McAllen, Texas, on Thursday. Republican lawmakers and other Trump supporters have applauded the deployment. But critics argue Trump has manufactured a crisis for the U.S. military to address. Trump also said this week he would seek to scrap the constitutional right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and illegal immigrants. Such an action would face a likely legal challenge. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton; Additional reporting by Makini Brice, Kristina Cooke, Lisa Lambert, Idrees Ali and Tom Hals; Editing by Peter Cooney) | |
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| 11-03-18 02:30pm - 2147 days | #1308 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Rolling Stone Issue 1321: November 2, 2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, reveals that President Trump has strong views about the world of color. Trump said to Michael Cohen, "Name me one country run by a black person that's not a shithole." And then Trump added, "Name one city." Cohen couldn't give an answer. Proof that cities, and even countries, need White Men to lead them to greatness. Trump, you are the Man. Why are some reporters in the Fake News calling you racist? Honest opinions will set us free. --------- --------- November 3, 2018 3:10PM ET Michael Cohen Confirms What We Already Know: Trump Is Racist “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,'” president’s former lawyer reveals By Peter Wade Michael Cohen accused Donald Trump of making racist remarks behind closed doors in a new interview with 'Vanity Fair.' Michael Cohen has signaled recently in tweets and random comments to the media that he is no longer President Donald Trump’s most loyal defender. This continued in an interview with Vanity Fair that published Friday where he accused Trump of making racist remarks behind closed doors. Cohen gave the interview Tuesday, the day of the first funerals for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. Explaining why Cohen came forward now, Vanity Fair noted “he knew that the president’s private comments were worse than his public rhetoric, and he wanted to offer potential voters what he believed was evidence of Trump’s character in advance of the midterm elections.” Cohen recalled four instances where he was offended by the president’s racism: Once, when speaking about one of Trump’s campaign rallies in 2016: “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.'” After Nelson Mandela’s death, Cohen remembered: “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,'” This language echoes a line from January when Trump called Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations “shithole” countries. When traveling with Trump through Chicago in the late 2000s, Cohen said Trump remarked: “We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.” Finally, Cohen said he and Trump were talking about Trump’s decision to fire Bill Rancic or Kwame Jackson on The Apprentice: “Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson. He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black fag win.'” Regardless of what you think of Michael Cohen, many things Trump has done publicly in the past lend credibility to his accusations. The president has a long history of racism, as Rolling Stone has written about before. Rachel Maddow on Friday ran a segment on Cohen’s remarks and pointed out a pattern in the way Trump insults black Americans, noting that the president calls them either: dumb, low IQ, unintelligent, unqualified or criminal. “That’s basically everything that he says about prominent African Americans who he targets,” Maddow concluded. | |
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| 11-04-18 03:30pm - 2146 days | #1309 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Donald Trump stands behind Brett Kavanaugh. Says he was in the car with Kavanaugh, while Brett was humping the girl. And the girl was begging for more. Then Trump got on the girl, and she began to scream with pleasure. Trump and Kavanaugh both claim the girl was overjoyed with the sex. So, Trump has Kavanaugh's back, and Kavanaugh has Trump's back. If anyone wants to subpoena, Kavanaugh will turn them down. Kavanaugh wanted the Justice Department to ask President Clinton salacious questions about his sex with Monica. But now that a Republican is president, it's a different story: because Kavanaugh is a strong Republican, and even though the Supreme Court is supposed to be politically neutral, Kavanaugh is a staunch Republican who will stand up for the Republican party, while denying that politics has anything to do with his decisions. Trump and Kavanaugh, strong supporters of the right to fuck you over. -------- -------- Trump Tries To Revive Doubt Over Kavanaugh Claims After Little-Known Accuser Recants [HuffPost] Sara Boboltz ,HuffPost•November 3, 2018 President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to cast renewed doubt on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by pointing to the recantation of one little-known accuser. The woman, Judy Munro-Leighton, falsely claimed to have authored a “Jane Doe” letter stating that Kavanaugh and a friend raped her “several times” in the back seat of a car, which the judge denies. The true author of the letter remains unknown, and the claim was not widely reported on during the September confirmation hearings. “A vicious accuser of Justice Kavanaugh has just admitted that she was lying, her story was totally made up, or FAKE!” Trump said in a tweet after initially misspelling the judge’s name. “Can you imagine if he didn’t become a Justice of the Supreme Court because of her disgusting False Statements,” the president continued. He added: “What about the others? Where are the Dems on this?” The Senate approved the justice in an extremely tight vote Oct. 6, and Trump has leaned on Kavanaugh’s successful confirmation to win favor with his base, referencing the controversy at numerous campaign rallies ahead of Tuesday’s hotly contested midterm elections. Postmarked Sept. 19 from San Diego, the handwritten letter was mailed to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) after Christine Blasey Ford came forward with her story about Kavanaugh earlier that month. Kavanaugh called the letter’s contents a “crock” and a “farce” in sworn testimony during a Sept. 26 conference call with senators. Ford, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, stands by her assertion that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school gathering in the 1980s. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley referred Munro-Leighton to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray for investigation in a letter dated Friday. According to Grassley, committee staff received an email from Munro-Leighton on Oct. 3 in which she claimed to be the letter’s author but was “deathly afraid” of going public. When committee staff eventually spoke with Munro-Leighton, she recanted, saying she only sent the email “as a way to grab attention” because she felt angry. Investigators found that she lived in Kentucky, not California. She told them she had never met Kavanaugh. Munro-Leighton is the fourth person Grassley has referred to federal prosecutors for investigation over the Kavanaugh hearings. Julie Swetnick, who says Kavanaugh attended parties where women were gang-raped, and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, were referred in late October. A man who has not been publicly identified was referred in late September. Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who maintains that Kavanaugh once thrust his penis in her face at a Yale party, never directly spoke with committee members. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 11-04-18 04:06pm - 2146 days | #1310 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Secret conversations between Trump and Kavanaugh: Trump: Can I send nuclear missiles to the the border in San Diego, CA? Kavanaugh: You are the President. Send the missiles. But don't use emails: emails can get you in trouble. Use a phone. Even the hacked iPhone that the Chinese and the Russians are taping. Because you can deny that. Say any recordings are Fake News. The public believes you. You are the President. You are the Man. Trump: Thanks, Brett. That's why I picked you for the Supreme Court. Can we pass a Constitutional law that makes me President for Life? Like the Chinese did? Like Putin did? Kavanaugh: We need to clear out the deadwood on the Supreme Court. Get me some new faces here, and you will be Dictators For Life. | |
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| 11-04-18 08:33pm - 2146 days | #1311 | |
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biker (0)
Active User  Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
lk2fireone: What are you going to when Trump finally leaves office? I realize you will rejoice  , but won't that leave a hole in your life? You put so much effort into this. You're going to have to find a new outlet. Meanwhile continue to have fun and I will stop in and see what's new like right now.  Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 11-04-18 10:06pm - 2146 days | #1312 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
@biker, I never paid much attention to politics until Trump. Hopefully, I will return to a better view of life. Happy days are here again? LOL. | |
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| 11-07-18 02:34am - 2144 days | #1313 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Mulsim women elected to Congress for the first time in history. Donald Trump declares martial law. Says if the women show up in Congress, active US military personnel are authorized to fire live ammo rounds, with instructions from the President himself: shoot to kill these radical mother-fuckers, who are trying to bring our great country down, and letting in illegal immigrants. Trump, surrounded by the criminals and low-life slugs from the shithole countries he is defending the US citizens against, is asking for the US military to decide: give me liberty and a white America, or give me death!!! One nation under God, under Trump. In related news: John Conyers, who resigned last December after multiple charges of sexual harassment. Conyers had been the longest serving member of Congress before his resignation — a tenure of 52 years. President Trump is considering nominating John Conyers for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for standing up to women and defending the rights of Pussy-gropers. Conyers is black, and also a Democrat, so Trump is willing to listen to Republicans who oppose this nomination. -------- -------- Muslim women elected to Congress for the first time in history Yahoo News Lisa Belkin Nov 7th 2018 3:28AM There will be Muslim women in Congress for the first time in history, as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib easily won their House races. Omar was declared the winner in Minnesota’s left-learning Fifth Congressional District — which includes Minneapolis and its suburbs, and has elected Democrats since 1960. A Somali-American and a former refugee, she served as the first Somali-American legislator in the U.S. when she won a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2016. She campaigned in favor of single-payer health care, tighter gun control and more inclusive immigration policies. The seat had been held by Keith Ellison, who left it to run for state attorney general. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, ran essentially unopposed in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, which includes Detroit. She is an attorney and served in the Michigan House of Representatives. Her election comes during a presidential administration seen as fanning anger against Muslims and enacting anti-Muslim policies. There was no Republican on the ballot in the overwhelmingly Democratic district. There was a Green Party candidate, D. Etta Wilcoxon, and a Working Party candidate, Sam Wilson. In addition, Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones declared herself a write-in candidate for the seat in late October. Tlaib had defeated Jones in the Democratic primary earlier in the year, by about 900 votes. Jones, in turn, had won a separate primary to fill the term of John Conyers, who resigned last December after multiple charges of sexual harassment. Conyers had been the longest serving member of Congress before his resignation — a tenure of 52 years. In a year when a record number of women are running for Congress and races across the country include more candidates of color and more gay, lesbian and transgender candidates, Tlaib and Omar add to the diversity of newcomers to the electoral process. | |
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| 11-07-18 12:59pm - 2143 days | #1314 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
TRUMP 2020 that will give you 4 more years to have fun. Guns and Porn,,,,,what else is there ? Since 2007 | |
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| 11-07-18 01:56pm - 2143 days | #1315 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
We've lost Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. But not to worry: this gives Trump the chance to pick someone he likes better. So long, Jeff. Wishing you well, after trying to hint you should resign for many, many months. ----- ----- President Trump announces Jeff Sessions is no longer the attorney general Yahoo News Hunter Walker Nov 7th 2018 6:00PM WASHINGTON—President Trump abruptly announced that Jeff Sessions is no longer the attorney general in a pair of tweets on Wednesday, “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country well,” Trump wrote, adding, “We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well! A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.” The tweets came within hours of a lengthy White House press conference where Trump suggested some major staff changes would be coming soon, When pressed, the president declined to say what those changes might be. He framed potential turnover as standard operating procedure in the wake of the end of an election cycle. AdChoices Trump’s White House has seen extensive turbulence with multiple high level departures. Sessions has long been seen as having a questionable future with the White House since Trump has repeatedly expressed disapproval with the attorney general’s decision to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Sessions recusal stems from the fact he was an active supporter of Trump’s 2016 campaign. The Mueller probe is examining whether Trump’s campaign team colluded with Russian efforts to interfere in that presidential race. Sessions’ recusal prevented him from stopping the probe, which Trump has attacked as an unfair “witch hunt” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Yahoo News asking if Sessions resigned or was fired. | |
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| 11-07-18 04:31pm - 2143 days | #1316 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump, the Whitest President we've ever had (take a look at his dyed blond hair), scolds a reporter who asks about Trump's goal to make America White again. "That's a racist question", Trump says, when a reporter asks Trump about his embrace of the "nationalist" label that is a rallying cry for white nationalists. How dare you ask me a question like that. I'm the most non-racist human who ever lived. I love everyone, even my critics and enemies. I stand with Jesus Christ himself. Actually, to be completely honest, I stand above Jesus Christ. God sent me to America to make our country great again. Free, white and 21 (to drink alcohol). I also support guns, because I'm a proud American. However, Trump admits that he loves not only America, but the entire world. Trump has a big heart. Trump is my hero. ------- ------- 'That's a racist question': Trump scolds reporter who asked about his embrace of 'nationalist' label Yahoo News Dylan Stableford Nov 7th 2018 4:15PM President Trump on Wednesday cut off a reporter who attempted to ask whether describing himself as a “nationalist” on the campaign trail had emboldened white nationalists. “I don’t know why you’d say that,” the president said in response to the question from PBS NewsHour’s Yamiche Alcindor in the East Room of the White House. “That’s a racist question.” Alcindor noted that some critics saw Trump’s embrace of the “nationalist” label as a disguised appeal to white supremacists that damaged the standing of Republicans with minorities and moderates. “I don’t believe that,” Trump replied. “Why do I have my highest poll numbers ever with African-Americans? That’s such a racist question.” The White House and conservative media outlets pointed to an August Rasmussen Reports poll showing Trump’s support among African-Americans has nearly doubled (from 19 percent to 36 percent) since he took office. But most polls show Trump’s approval rating among black voters has hovered between 10 percent ad 15 percent throughout his presidency, while roughly 80 percent of African-Americans disapprove of his performance as president. “You know what the word is? I love our country,” he continued. “I do. You have nationalists, you have globalists. I also love the world. I don’t mind helping out the world. But we have to straighten out our country first. We have a lot of problems.” Trump added: “To say what you just said is so insulting to me. That’s a terrible thing you said.” During the press conference, which was convened for Trump to address the midterm election results, Trump sparred with several reporters, including CNN’s Jim Acosta, who pressed him about labeling the caravan of asylum-seeking migrants an “invasion.” Trump scolded Acosta and refused to allow CNN’s chief White House correspondent a follow-up question. “I tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” he said. “You are are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN. You’re a very rude person.” Trump repeatedly ordered other reporters, including CNN’s April Ryan, who tried to ask about voter suppression, to “sit down.” Alcindor and Ryan are both black. The event was the president’s first scheduled open-ended press conference at the White House since February 2017. It is only the second one he has held with the White House press corps since taking office. Alcindor defended her line of questioning. “I’m simply asking the questions the public wants to know,” she tweeted. _____ | |
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| 11-08-18 01:20am - 2143 days | #1317 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The truth is starting to come out: Donald Trump is The Antichrist revealed: Although most followers have been told and even believed that Trump was sent by God to make America great again, the secret Illuminati has been dropping hints that Trump is really the Antichrist. Trump has even deceived God Himself with Trump's protestations of love for humanity. Satan is the ultimate trickster. I myself have not yet watched "American Horror Story", so I don't know all the details yet. But just reading what Variety says, I got chills down my spine and sweat broke out all over my body on reading how this show is based on Trump's inner sanctum. We need to pray that God and the angels will wake up before Trump can destroy America with nuclear missiles that he will falsely claim are from Russia and China and North Korea, his allies in Satan's plan. Democrats unite! Fight Trump and his evil plans before it's too late. -------- -------- Variety.com November 7, 2018 8:31PM PT ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: The Antichrist Decimates the Coven in ‘Fire and Reign’ By Andrea Reiher Andrea Reiher TV Contributor SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Fire and Reign,” the ninth episode of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse.” As “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” continued to work its way back to the actual apocalypse that kicked off the season, the penultimate episode, “Fire and Reign,” revealed why there only seemed to be six witches at the bunker in present day and also how the apocalypse came to be in the first place. The show picked right back up with the two billionaire twits, Mutt and Jeff (Billy Eichner and Evan Peters, respectively) — and yes, those really are their names. Jeff was so sick of how awful the world is that he wanted to just burn it all down and start over. As luck would have it, he and Mutt were meeting with the Cooperative shortly. Ms. Venable (Sarah Paulson) asked to play a more important role in their company by meeting with the Cooperative too, but was rudely rebuffed (at first) and told them she quit. Meanwhile, at the Coven in New Orleans, Mallory (Billie Lourd) was struggling with her powers and she started freaking out about Michael (Cody Fern) coming for them. Cordelia (Paulson) assured her that all witches would be safe under her aura shield, but Dinah (Adina Porter) broke the spell for Michael and Mir-bot (Kathy Bates), who then mercilessly gunned down all the witches with her shotgun arm. Cordelia, Mallory and Myrtle (Frances Conroy), who were upstairs at the time, survived, but Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) and Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) weren’t so lucky. Dinah surveyed the carnage, too, with a nauseated look on her face — but hey, Satan’s “thank you” for her helping his son was to give her a talk show, so she didn’t feel too badly. In a really fun twist, it turned out that Mutt and Jeff planted a camera in Mir-bot and were using it to spy on Michael. They also could control Miriam’s speech and suggested to him that he burn the world down and use Mutt and Jeff to help him. Michael called on the two coke fiends, who revealed the Cooperative to him and convinced him they could start a nuclear war — because the Cooperative was actually the Illuminati, a group that conspiracy theorists believe is a shadowy cabal that controls the entire world and has been around for centuries. In the “AHS” universe, members include Vladimir Putin, Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton and General Kim of North Korea. Michael was intrigued by the idea of basically ending the world to usher in his reign, so he gave Mutt and Jeff a big thumbs up. As all this was happening, the surviving witches — which also included Madison (Emma Roberts) and Coco (Leslie Grossman), who maybe weren’t at the Academy when Michael attacked — all holed up in Misty’s cabin. Misty, incidentally, was off gallivanting around with Stevie Nicks, which was wonderful to learn. The remaining coven members wanted Mallory to execute a spell to go back in time to help set things right. No previous witch ever survived the spell, but Mallory was game anyway. Maple-Pumpkin Overnight Oats Ad by Quaker See More Cordelia and Myrtle wanted Mallory to take a dry run first, so they could test her power without alerting Michael to it. In doing so, the show pulled a page from Matt Weiner’s current playbook and dove into the Russian assassination of the imperial Romanov family in 1918. In Ryan Murphy’s version of that royal family, the youngest girl, Anastasia, was a witch, but her power wasn’t strong enough to save her family — hence why Mallory was sent back in time, to help. During the first attempt Mallory lost her focus, the family was killed, and Mallory almost died, too. Cordelia acknowledged that Mallory wouldn’t come into her full powers until she (Cordelia) was dead, but Myrtle wouldn’t let her do anything drastic, offering up an alternative idea — ask the warlocks for help. Which is drastic in its own way but hopefully wouldn’t prove fatal. Unfortunately, though, Michael got there first and literally tore the warlocks apart. Back at Mutt and Jeff HQ, Venable was serious about quitting, so the billionaire bros let her in on the plan to start World War III and kill most of the world’s population. They offered her a position as an outpost administrator for when the world ends and she immediately got pretty power hungry at the thought. Michael, meanwhile, revealed the apocalypse plan to the Cooperative (aka The Illuminati) and assured them of their and their families’ survival as he outlined the plan for building the outposts. Yet again, the episode felt like it ended rather abruptly. It seems insane that there is only one episode left because there is a lot of ground to cover in the season finale, from getting the outposts set up, to seeing what will become of the resurrected coven members in present day and, based on the preview for next week, getting even more flashbacks into Michael’s early life. “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX. | |
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| 11-08-18 09:22pm - 2142 days | #1318 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User  Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
The White House has pulled CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's "hard pass" (a permanent security clearance from the Secret Service). Sarah Sanders released a video of Acosta allegedly being rough with a female White House intern sent to take away Acosta's mic when Trump wouldn't answer Acosta's questions. Disturbingly, the video seems to have been altered in two places, once speeding up frames to make it appear Acosta was rough with the intern, and again to slow frames to keep the same overall run time. This is some Orwellian shit right here, straight out of "1984." Acosta is unpopular, and he never should have touched the intern, but the issue is that the White House has released doctored video at all. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 11-09-18 12:54am - 2142 days | #1319 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
@Loki, White House news is more real than the Fake News that most newspapers or TV stations put out. Even when it's completely doctored, White House news, if approved by our Glorious Leader of the United States of Trumpland, is realer news than the "facts" put out by regular news sources. Trump über alles, my hero. | |
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| 11-09-18 02:56pm - 2141 days | #1320 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
For the record, "Das Lied der Deutschen" (The Song of the Germans)(which contains the lyric "Deutschland über alles" in the first stanza) was an anthem about unifying the petty German Principalities into one German state. "Deutschland über alles" originally was meant as a rallying cry for German nationalism and unification, with people being called to put "Germany above all else." It's the German National Anthem. After WWII, Germany has used only the third stanza. "Deutschland über alles" is no longer sung. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 11-10-18 09:12pm - 2140 days | #1321 | |
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biker (0)
Active User Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
Sadly Germany had to make a lot of changes. My Uncle Mike had a SS dagger that had one of those slogans on it. All my Dad got was a Luftwaffe armband and a fork from his prison camp. In another hour it will be the 100th anniversary of the armistice of The Great War. I remember did a series on that war that was several episodes long. How many topics did I bring up without breaking a sweat. I can go all night. Just ask any of my close friends. They have sat through my BS many a night.  Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 11-11-18 07:33am - 2140 days | #1322 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The truth is finally coming out. And we have Donald Trump to thank for it. Quentin Tarantino is a cretin. Tarantino's films are trash. And Hollywood is filled with “its self-inflated pomposities and embarrassments like the Oscars.” From the lips of Academy award winning composer Ennio Morricone, who is speaking his mind. Why do we have Donald Trump to thank? Because Trump has made America great by dumping shit on it. And now a famous Italian is joining in with this joyful theme. Personally, I think Tarantino has done some hugely enjoyable films. If you are in the mood for violence and some black humor. ----- ----- Variety: November 10, 2018 8:30PM PT Quentin Tarantino ‘A Cretin,’ Says ‘Hateful Eight’ Composer Ennio Morricone By Patrick Frater Legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who won an Oscar for the music to “The Hateful Eight,” has labeled the film’s director, Quentin Tarantino, “a cretin” and called his films “trash.” Morricone savaged Tarantino in an interview published this week in the December edition of the German-language version of Playboy. He criticized Tarantino on two main counts: his chaotic working style, and his lack of originality. “He is not a director,” the veteran musician alleged. Tarantino “is absolutely chaotic. He talks without thinking, he does everything at the last minute. He has no idea,” said Morricone, adding: “He calls up out of the blue and wants a complete score in just a few days. That’s not possible. It makes me so mad. I’m not going to put up with this. And I told him so last time.” Morricone, who has credits on more than 500 movies and has provided iconic scores for Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars,” Roland Joffe’s Cannes-winning “The Mission,” and Guiseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso,” said that Tarantino does not rank in the pantheon of great directors. “The man is a cretin. He only steals from others and puts stuff back together again. There’s nothing original about that. That doesn’t make him a director,” Morricone said. “He is nothing compared with the Hollywood greats, such as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. They had class. Tarantino simply recooks old dishes.” Morricone, who turned 90 this week, also did not spare the U.S. and the Oscars ceremony from criticism. He pushed back against suggestions that the 2016 Oscar ceremony left him emotionally disturbed. “Nonsense. Rather, I was in pain from sitting down for so long, on the plane and at the ceremony. If I looked happy, it was because I knew I would soon be getting away from that boring ceremony,” Morricone said. He added that he has no desire to return to the U.S. with “its self-inflated pomposities and embarrassments like the Oscars.” | |
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| 11-11-18 10:49am - 2139 days | #1323 | |
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biker (0)
Active User Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
Apparently Ennio doesn't understand art for arts sake. Thank goodness Van Gogh didn't think like Ennio or we would not have his art. A lot of great things come out of chaos. Our Universe for instance. We have thousands of years of story telling. I believe that something original is hard to find. Those who write, produce, or direct find new ways to tell these old stories. Tarantino found his way. Because Ennio doesn't like it doesn't make it trash. The only trash here is what is coming out of Ennio's mouth. That is my opinion. It has the same weight as Ennio's, so like opinions we all share assholes and I'm willing to share mine. My opinion. My asshole is not for sharing.  Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 11-12-18 01:24am - 2139 days | #1324 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Variety.com November 11, 2018 10:24AM PT Ennio Morricone Denies Making ‘Hateful’ Quentin Tarantino Comments, Threatens to Sue Playboy Germany By Variety Staff Ennio Morricone has denied participating in an interview with Playboy Germany magazine in which he was quoted as saying Quentin Tarantino was a “cretin,” who made nothing but “trash” films. “This is totally false,” the 90 year-old composer said in a statement released Sunday. “I have not given an interview to Playboy Germany and even more, I have never called Tarantino a cretin and certainly do not consider his films garbage. I have given a mandate to my lawyer in Italy to take civil and penal action.” Morricone, who won an Oscar for composing Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” was quoted in the December issue of the German-language magazine as saying Tarantino was a “chaotic” director on set and lacked originality. But Morricone claims the remarks were a fabrication. “In London, during a press conference in front of Tarantino, i clearly stated that I consider Quentin one of the greatest directors of this time.” “I am forever grateful for the opportunity to compose music for his film.” Read the statement in full: It has come to my attention that Playboy Germany has come out with an article in which I have called Tarantino a cretin and consider his films garbage. This is totally false. I have not given an interview to Playboy Germany and even more, I have never called Tarantino a cretin and certainly do not consider his films garbage. I have given a mandate to my lawyer in Italy to take civil and penal action. I consider Tarantino a great director. I am very fond of my collaboration with him and the relationship we have developed during the time we have spent together. He is courageous and has an enormous personality. I credit Tarantino for being one of the people responsible for getting me an Oscar, which is for sure one of the greatest acknowledgments of my career, and I am forever grateful for the opportunity to compose music for his film. In London, during a press conference in front of Tarantino, i clearly stated that I consider Quentin one of the greatest directors of this time. | |
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| 11-12-18 07:23pm - 2138 days | #1325 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Obviously Playboy Germany is fake news. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 11-13-18 12:23am - 2138 days | #1326 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump is a wonderful man. Sincere. Loving. Compassionate. He loves the people of Puerto Rico. But not their politicians. So, it's time to stop giving money to Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people (in Puerto Rico) are still waiting for help, living in homes that are in desperate need of repair, according to The New York Times. The island’s leadership has said it needs billions more to rebuild, and in February said that it would cost at least $17 billion just to fix its beleaguered power grid. Swan reported Sunday that Trump has even proposed demanding some of the money already allocated to relief back. Let the people of Puerto Rico stand on their own two feet. American taxpayer money is for Americans. Not for brown-skinned people who are greedy for American dollars. Trump is an excellent businessman. He knows when it's time to stop giving our money away. Leave Puerto Rico for the Puerto Ricans. And make America great again. -------- -------- Trump Wants To End Hurricane Maria Relief Funding To Puerto Rico: Report [HuffPost] Nick Visser ,HuffPost•November 12, 2018 President Donald Trump wants to stop sending federal relief money to Puerto Rico, an American territory, following last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria, according to a report Sunday in Axios. Trump reportedly believes, without evidence, that the Puerto Rican government has been mishandling the relief funding and using it to pay off debt, according to the outlet’s Jonathan Swan. The president made that conclusion after misreading an article in The Wall Street Journal last month, Swan reports, and told Congressional leaders that he “doesn’t want to include additional Puerto Rico funding in further spending bills.” There is no evidence that the territory has been using any of its relief funds to pay off debt obligations, and the island’s leadership has actually argued against doing so, according to The Washington Post. Trump first alluded to his frustrations with the relief funds last month, saying “inept politicians” were attempting to use the “ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations.” The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations. The U.S. will NOT bail out long outstanding & unpaid obligations with hurricane relief money! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2018 Puerto Rico is still recovering from the devastation left by Maria in late 2017. The island’s government revised death tolls from the storm up to 2,975 in August, numbers that Trump himself has denied multiple times on Twitter. More than $6 billion has been allocated to help aid storm recovery, but hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for help, living in homes that are in desperate need of repair, according to The New York Times. The island’s leadership has said it needs billions more to rebuild, and in February said that it would cost at least $17 billion just to fix its beleaguered power grid. Swan reported Sunday that Trump has even proposed demanding some of the money already allocated to relief back. The president has regularly lashed out at the Puerto Rican government throughout the crisis, and even suggested that the storm’s impact wasn’t a “real catastrophe” like 2005′s Hurricane Katrina. After Trump’s latest attempts to downplay the death toll, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló lambasted the White House and said that the “victims and the people of Puerto Rico do not deserve to have their pain questioned.” “The people of Puerto Rico deserve a full accounting of the impact of the storm, and they deserve recognition of that impact by our president,” Rosselló wrote. “It is not time to deny what happened. It is time to make sure that it does not happen again.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 11-13-18 04:53am - 2138 days | #1327 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Sabotage, cheating, fraud, illegal votes: the scumbag Democrats have tarnished the voting process for years, and the Republican party is fighting back. Would you want corrupt politicians to be elected by fraudulent votes? Would you want to see black Africans stealing jobs from white Americans? Shame on the Democratic party. They have no morals. They are scum. -------- -------- Inside the Republican Strategy to Discredit the Florida Recount Image Protesters gathered outside of the Broward County supervisor of elections’ office in Lauderhill, Fla., on Friday. Scott McIntyre for The New York Times By Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman Nov. 12, 2018 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The concerted effort by Republicans in Washington and Florida to discredit the state’s recount as illegitimate and potentially rife with fraud reflects a cold political calculation: Treat the recount as the next phase of a campaign to secure the party’s majority and agenda in the Senate. That imperative — described by Republican lawyers, strategists and advisers involved in the effort — reflects the G.O.P.’s determination to tighten its hold on power in the narrowly divided Senate. The outcome of the Florida race will decide whether the party controls as many as 53 seats and has a freer hand to confirm Republican-backed judges with the vote of the man at the center of the recount, Gov. Rick Scott, who is trying to oust a three-term Democrat, Bill Nelson. With the Democrats capturing a Republican-held Senate seat in Arizona on Monday night, the recount fight in Florida becomes even more consequential. Beyond the Senate majority, there is also the matter of morale. Any reversal of an election that Republicans believe they already won in a state as symbolically important as Florida — the country’s most competitive political battleground — would be a blow to a party that had a net loss of at least 32 House seats and six governorships. Everyone from donors to rank-and-file lawmakers is determined to keep Democrats from notching another victory. Mr. Scott and his allies have tried to portray the Senate election as a fait accompli — he is currently ahead by about 13,000 votes — and the recount as a futile attempt to prolong the inevitable. Indeed, between 2000 and 2016, there were 4,687 statewide general elections and just 26 statewide recounts. Only three — or 0.06 percent of all statewide elections — reversed the initial result, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan group FairVote. “This has been decisive,” Representative Brian Mast, a Florida Republican who represents parts of Palm Beach County, said on Monday. “I hope this can wrap up quickly.” But the Republicans’ posture on the recount — especially the party’s claims of fraud and cover-up and President Trump’s latest assertion on Monday of forgery, all presented without evidence — has been deeply divisive and even drew a stern rebuke Monday from the chief state judge in Broward County, Fla., Jack Tuter. He urged lawyers involved in the battle over the recount to “ramp down the rhetoric” and take any accusations of electoral fraud to the police. The Republicans’ strategy in Florida reflects their experience in the 2000 presidential recount in the state. Party strategists and lawyers say they prevailed largely because they approached it as they did the race itself, with legal, political and public relations components that allowed them to outmaneuver the Democrats, who were less strategic and consistent with their lawsuit targets and public remarks about the recount. The races for Senate and governor may head to a recount or a runoff. Nov. 10, 2018 This time around, though, Democrats are holding little back. The party’s candidate for governor, Andrew Gillum, retracted his concession once the recount in his race began, even though he will have to close a vote deficit that is about three times as large as Mr. Nelson’s. The effort that Mr. Scott and Republican allies are waging today is strikingly similar to that multifront war in 2000 led by the George W. Bush campaign and an army of party consultants. Lawyers are filing complaints in Tallahassee; surrogates for the Republican candidate are holding news conference calls with journalists and sitting for interviews on cable, blaming the Democrats for tarnishing the integrity of the electoral process; and party officials are encouraging demonstrators to gather at sites where the recounts are taking place. “The tactics are the same, the issues are the same, the problems are the same,” said Brad Blakeman, a Republican consultant who worked on the party’s messaging in 2000. “And quite frankly,” he added, “the solutions are going to be the same if no one concedes, because again you’re going to have a court determining the outcome.” There is one new variable, however: Mr. Trump. The president, who has long fanned unfounded claims of voter fraud, is especially concerned with the Florida outcome, according to people in touch with him about the recount. And he equates his political success with that of Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for governor whose campaign was taken over by Trump aides, as well as with that of Mr. Scott, whose victory he believes he ensured by campaigning across the state and pulling him over the finish line. Mr. Trump sees the recounts, one person close to him said, as akin to a personal attack. Mr. Trump has been more combative and unrestrained in slinging claims of fraud and unfairness than Mr. Scott or Mr. DeSantis. The recount story hits many of the president’s sore spots, including his frequent insistence that his political opponents cheat against him and his unproved belief that American elections are tainted with illegal voting, especially by undocumented immigrants. But with such aggressive, unyielding attacks on Democrats, Mr. Trump and his Republicans risk treading into territory that is a minefield of tension over race. Their repeated allegations of subterfuge and fraudulent ballots are a blunt appeal to a political base motivated by the notion that elections are often stolen by Democrats. And in this case, some of the central players are African-Americans, including Mr. Gillum and the Broward County supervisor of elections, Brenda C. Snipes, whom Republicans like Mr. Scott have called out by name for enabling “rampant fraud,” as the governor put it last week. In the face of the Republican cries of ballot fraud and political mischief, Judge Tuter in Broward County refused a request by Mr. Scott to order the county police to impound voting machines and ballots when they are not in use. The judge was also critical of comments made by Mr. Scott’s lawyers on television and social media perpetuating the unsubstantiated rumors of fraud. Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know. “We need to be careful what we say,” Judge Tuter said. “These words mean things these days, as everybody in the room knows.” Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000 and is one of the most prominent African-American women in the Democratic Party, decried what she described as obvious racial undertones in the Republican attacks on the recount process. “Democracy is often noisy, but it shouldn’t lead to politicians using dog-whistle politics to further divide people, as well as undermine confidence in our electoral process,” she said. Image In Florida’s recount, Republicans risk treading into territory that is a minefield of tension over race. Their unproved allegations of fraud are colliding with the campaign of Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for governor who is seeking to become Florida’s first black leader.CreditScott McIntyre for The New York Times And some Republicans warned that incendiary language, when used by either party during electoral disputes, was sometimes troubling. “Screaming fraud or unfairness is probably not a constructive first step,” said Marc Racicot, who was the Republican governor of Montana when he spoke regularly on Mr. Bush’s behalf during the recount in 2000. “That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be vigilant, and that you shouldn’t look for opportunities for there to be something that has gone awry. But I don’t think I would start there.” In recent days, unverified and sometimes wild claims of sabotage and deception have been circulating on Twitter and elsewhere on social media, spread with the help of far-right activists who have large internet followings and a history of embellishing and exaggerating claims of Democratic-led conspiracies. One that gained traction on Monday suggested that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office had staged a bomb threat at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Sunday to cover up the discovery of a box of provisional ballots that were left in a rental car. It appears to have originated with Laura Loomer, a former associate of James O’Keefe, the activist famous for using hidden cameras to embarrass prominent liberal targets. Rush Limbaugh informed his readers of the story on his radio show on Monday afternoon. Roger Stone, a friend of the president’s who shares and encourages some of Mr. Trump’s own baseless claims, has also become an outspoken voice in the recount process. “I have never seen anything as brazen, as outrageous, as one-sided as the process that’s going on in Broward County,” Mr. Stone, a Floridian and veteran of the 2000 recount, said in a video posted to InfoWars, the site founded by Alex Jones, a promoter of various “false flag” theories. | |
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| 11-13-18 04:54am - 2138 days | #1328 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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On the ground, both Republicans and Democrats are deeply involved in the recount effort, but the G.O.P. organizing muscle from Washington and elsewhere is particularly notable. Republican officials said more than 100 staff members from the Republican National Committee are in Florida, and thousands of trained volunteers. The party, along with Mr. Scott’s campaign, has also undertaken a new fund-raising effort to cover the mounting costs of lawyers, paid personnel and the mountain of logistics that accompany a recount with so many people involved. The party committee sent an email to its supporters late Monday that had the subject line “FW: STOLEN?” and included an image of the president’s tweet saying the Democrats were committing fraud. White House officials privately said that while Mr. Trump and the party continued to hammer the message of voter fraud, they anticipated that the vote tallies would not change drastically over the course of the recount, and that Mr. Scott would be certified as the winner. Other Republicans involved in the effort have expressed similar confidence in private, pointing to Mr. Scott’s margin of roughly 13,000 votes over Mr. Nelson as likely too large to change decisively in a recount. Mr. Bush’s lead over Mr. Gore after the polls closed on election night in 2000 was 1,784. After a recount that proceeded in fits and starts and took more than five weeks before being settled at the Supreme Court, Mr. Bush won by 537 votes. Jeremy W. Peters reported from Tallahassee and Maggie Haberman from Washington. Alan Blinder contributed reporting from Atlanta, Patricia Mazzei from Miami and Lisa Lerer from Washington. A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 12, 2018, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: G.O.P. Fears Over Senate Edge Drive Push to Discredit Recount. | |
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| 11-13-18 05:05am - 2138 days | #1329 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump needs to call out the National Guard, and order them to shoot to kill any black African, brown immigrant, or obnoxious Muslim who voted illegally in the Florida election. We must fight to keep Democracy safe from all scummy Democrats and their criminal lowlife associates. Let us pray that Donald Trump will retain a strong majority in the Senate, so he can pack the judicial system with conservative lawyers and judges that will carry out the will of the people. And help Trump build a Wall, in the south, to keep out Mexicans, and in the north, to keep out illegal Canadians. America for Americans! PS: I read that Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian that snuck into the US at night, while no one was watching. He married Scarlett Johansson, a fine-looking woman, then dumped her for Blake Lively. Throw the Canadian bastard in prison for violating our fine American girls. Ryan Reynolds has no morals. | |
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| 11-13-18 11:24am - 2137 days | #1330 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump slam's France's wine industry. Accusing France of unfair trade practices. France makes excellent wine, Trump admits, but so does the United States. And France makes it very hard for the US to sell its wines in France. Unfair. Bad business. Are the French corrupt? Yes, you need to watch your wallet, when in France, because the French thieves will steal you blind. While Trump was in Paris, he told his secret service agents to keep an eye on not just his wallet, but also their own wallets. Also, the US helped France in World War 1 and World War 2. Are the French grateful? Never. The French President said France has to protect itself against China, Russia, and even the United States of America. Not fair. No gratitude. We should have let them burn. ------- ------- Trump slams France's wine industry, accusing it of unfair trade practices Business Insider Jonathan Garber Nov 13th 2018 1:29PM President Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at France's trade practices surrounding its wine industry. He said the country charged "big tariffs" compared with the "very small tariffs" the US placed on French wine. Trump's relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron has been deteriorating in recent weeks. President Donald Trump on Tuesday railed against what he framed as unfair trade practices by France when it comes to wine. "On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S.," Trump tweeted. "The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change!" The European Union levies tariffs ranging from $0.11 to $0.29 a bottle on wine that is imported from the US, while bottles exported from the EU to the US are hit with a tax of $0.05 a bottle, the Wine Institute says. Data specific to France was not readily available. In 2017, the US imported $1.8 billion worth of French wine, while France bought just $71 million worth of US wine, according to data from the International Trade Centre. The US is the largest destination for French wine, making up 17% of the country's exports, according to the data. Trump's tweet comes amid a deteriorating relationship between him and French President Emmanuel Macron. Earlier Tuesday, Trump took aim at France's war record in response to Macron last week suggesting Europe needed an army to "protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia, and even the United States of America." Macron later clarified his comments to say they were directed at cybercrime and building domestic defense industries that didn't rely on US arms. "Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!" | |
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| 11-13-18 01:38pm - 2137 days | #1331 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Melania Trump comes out fighting. Says a White House aide no longer deserves the honor of serving in the White House. This is about the honor of the White House, which has been strengthened by the presence of Donald Trump. Donald Trump, man of the people, fighting for the rights of the poor and middle class in the United States, while giving billions of dollars to the top 1%. The poor and middle class need to stand on their own two feet. While the top 1% need all the help they can get, in order to carry out their immense responsibilities. Also, President Trump loves the press. Many of his best friends are in the press. But he will no longer allow vicious, evil reporters to hide under the Constitution. The Constituition is only for good, white Americans. --- --- In a stunning move, Melania Trump calls for ouster of a top national security aide By Jeremy Diamond and Kate Bennett, CNN Updated 4:03 PM ET, Tue November 13, 2018 Melania calls for top WH aide to be fired (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, in a remarkable move carried out by her spokeswoman, publicly pushed for the ouster of deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel. "It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that (Ricardel) no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House," the first lady's communications director Stephanie Grisham said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement amounted to a stunning public rebuke by a first lady of a senior official serving in her husband's administration. It came after reports surfaced earlier Tuesday indicating Ricardel would be pushed out of her post after less than seven months on the job. Neither Ricardel nor spokespeople for the National Security Council responded to CNN requests for comment. Reflecting the fast-moving nature of the events, soon after a Wall Street Journal report surfaced Tuesday afternoon alleging Ricardel was fired and escorted off the White House grounds, a senior White House official denied the story to reporters. The official said Ricardel was still in her office Tuesday afternoon. The official declined to speculate further about Ricardel's future in the administration. New York Times: White House balances a complicated dynamic between Melania and Ivanka Trump New York Times: White House balances a complicated dynamic between Melania and Ivanka Trump Her potential departure would leave national security adviser John Bolton without one of his key allies in the administration, a deputy who has also shared his penchant for bureaucratic infighting. It was those sharp elbows that sources said led to the first lady's stinging statement, with Ricardel most recently feuding with members of the first lady's staff over her trip to Africa. One person familiar with the matter said Ricardel quarreled with the first lady's staff over seating on the plane and use of National Security Council resources. A White House official accused Ricardel of being dishonest about the feud and subsequently leaking stories to try to cover her behavior. And before her spat with the East Wing, Ricardel butted heads repeatedly with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a rivalry that was well-known within the Trump administration. Her disputes with Mattis preceded her time as deputy national security adviser, going back to the presidential transition when Ricardel sought to block Mattis from hiring certain people who had been critical of Trump or were viewed as insufficiently loyal to Trump. Tensions have also been rising between Ricardel and chief of staff John Kelly and his deputy Zach Fuentes in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Kelly and Fuentes believe Ricardel was leaking negative stories about them to the press, the people said. The dispute made it difficult for Ricardel to land in a top post in the Trump administration, though she was ultimately tapped for the position of undersecretary of commerce for export administration. Ricardel then joined the National Security Council as Bolton's deputy in April after he was named national security adviser. Ricardel has been key to Bolton's efforts to restructure the National Security Council and to help Bolton secure his place as an influential adviser to the President on all foreign policy matters. CNN's Pamela Brown, Sarah Westwood and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report. | |
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| 11-13-18 07:33pm - 2137 days | #1332 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The truth is starting to be revealed: "Trump is reluctant to personally fire people and said dismissals are usually done by Kelly." That's why people leave the White House in such numbers: they are looking to get a job closer to home. It's not Trump's fault that people leave. They do it on their own. Even Jeff Sessions, our dearly departed Attorney General, was not fired: he was merely asked to resign, and then submitted his letter of resignation. Leaving many people to wonder what's the difference between being fired and resigning. ------- ------- Rumors of a major shakeup rock the White House Yahoo News Hunter Walker and Jenna McLaughlin Nov 13th 2018 8:54PM WASHINGTON — News that several senior officials in the Trump administration were set to be fired rocked the White House on Tuesday. However, in a West Wing that’s seen record turnover and a slew of rumors that didn’t pan out, it was hard for even some insiders to know what to expect next. President Trump is said to be considering replacing his chief of staff, John Kelly, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday. The Journal reported the move would be part of a larger “shake-up” that would begin with the removal of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The report also said Trump would be getting rid of Mira Ricardel, the top deputy for national security adviser John Bolton. The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comments from Yahoo News about the reported shakeup. Kelly’s departure has been one of the longest-running rumors surrounding the Trump White House. The former Marine general became White House chief of staff, one of the most powerful positions in the West Wing, late last July. In the more than a year since then, there have been regular reports that Kelly was set to quit or be fired. The rumors were attributed to various factors, including Trump’s alleged dissatisfaction with Kelly’s attempts to impose order on the freewheeling West Wing or clashes between the chief of staff and members of the president’s family, including his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, who are both top White House advisers. This latest report included another element that has appeared in past Kelly speculation. According to the Journal, Trump “probably will replace” Kelly with Nick Ayers, who is Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff. Ayers, 36, has spent over a decade in Republican politics, where he’s earned a reputation as an aggressive and talented political wunderkind. He joined Pence’s gubernatorial reelection effort in Indiana in 2016 and went on to become national chairman of Pence’s vice presidential campaign. A source who has spoken to Ayers in recent days said Ayers dismissed the latest round of rumors as “the same story that comes up every two months.” Ayers did not respond to multiple requests for comment. While the persistent speculation surrounding Ayers and Kelly hasn’t panned out in the past, there are some notably different aspects to this latest report. Most importantly, during a press conference last Wednesday, Trump himself indicated that he was mulling high-level staff changes now that the midterm elections are over. “We’re looking at a lot of different things, including Cabinet. I’m very happy with most of my Cabinet. We’re looking at different people for different positions,” Trump said when asked about potential staff changes, adding, “You know, it’s very common after the midterms. I didn’t want to do anything before the midterms.” The dismissal of Ricardel, a lower-profile aide, was pushed by the first lady, Melania Trump, who clashed with Ricardel during a trip to Africa last month, the paper reported. Melania Trump, who has been frustrated by some of her press coverage, also reportedly believed Ricardel was behind some negative stories about her office. “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that [Ricardel] no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” said Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for the first lady, when contacted by Yahoo News. Ricardel did not respond to a request for comment. In an administration constantly plagued by warring factions and uncertainty, Ricardel entered the White House with preexisting public feuds on her scorecard, including with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It is unclear whether national security adviser John Bolton, Ricardel’s boss, who has a similar reputation for being sharp-elbowed and hawkish on foreign affairs, will step in to defend her and try to prevent the president from removing her. In spite of leaks from unnamed officials and public comments from Trump and his wife, it remains unclear whether anyone is about to be fired. One former White House staffer described the rumors to Yahoo News as “the same as usual.” The ex-staffer noted that Trump is reluctant to personally fire people and said dismissals are usually done by Kelly. “Long story short: I’ll believe the dismissals when they happen,” the former staffer said. | |
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| 11-14-18 03:38am - 2137 days | #1333 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trevor Noah reveals that the Republican party is the party of liars and hypocrites who killed his grandfather. Trevor is a loving, warm-hearted man who tries to forgive his enemies. But Republicans are the true scumbags of politics, who are difficult to forgive. Look at whats-his-name, Brett Kavanaugh, accused of atttemped rape and other sex crimes, who boasted about his excessive drinking but lied to the US Senate and the Republican party made Kavanaugh a poster boy by putting him on the Supreme Court. Republicans, the party of liars and hypocrites. The party of Donald Trump, the most corrupt President of the United States we've ever had. Go, Trump, the man who smiles as he lies to the public, the man elected to the highest office in the country. You can expect politicians to lie, but Trump has made it an art form. No wonder the Republican party loves him. --------- --------- The Wrap Trevor Noah Compares Recount Drama in Florida to Accidentally Killing His Grandfather (Video) “The Daily Show” host didn’t actually kill pop pop, but the situation in Florida is pretty crazy Ross A. Lincoln | November 13, 2018 @ 10:36 PM Last Updated: November 13, 2018 @ 10:53 PM On Tuesday, the “Daily Show” took a look at the recount drama in Florida, or as Trevor Noah called it, “the Florida of states.” The situation is so crazy, Noah said, it’s a lot like if you accidentally killed your grandfather through neglect. At issue are mandatory recounts in Florida’s gubernatorial and senate races, and how Republicans have pushed back against the recount through claims that the recounts, required by law, are efforts by Democrats to steal the election. People who say this “are lying. Nobody’s stealing the election,” said Noah. “But that doesn’t mean Florida doesn’t have big issues with its voting. All over Florida, the elections have been a clusterf—.” Noah then discussed Broward County, where the election supervisor approved inscrutable ballots that put the space for senate candidates underneath the instructions, and separate from all other ballot selections, leading at least 25,000 people to forget to cast a vote for the senate. “Even if the senate ballot was on a weird place on the form, how as a voter are you leaving that voting booth without voting for the main thing,” Noah asked. “I sort of understand. Like one time my grandfather sent me to the pharmacy to get his insulin, and then I came back with Shampoo, gum, People magazine. And we was like ‘where’s my insulin’ and I was like ‘ah I forgot the most important thing.’ And then he died and we laughed.” But don’t worry, Noah quickly clarified that he was just kidding: “He died for other reasons. It was the shampoo, he was allergic.” | |
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| 11-14-18 01:14pm - 2136 days | #1334 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
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Times have changed here at PU, a few years ago I posted a thread similar to yours and was reprimanded, you have 1333 post of tolerance. Note I think I only got three posts in before it was closed. Since 2007 | |
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| 11-14-18 01:43pm - 2136 days | #1335 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I think the site is more tolerant today than a few years ago. Under the previous management, this thread would have been shut down immediately. Because this thread is not about porn, except that Trump has made pussy-grabbing an acceptable way of saying hi to an attractive female. So maybe Trump is porn in action.  | |
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| 11-17-18 03:32pm - 2133 days | #1336 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says zombies and abortions are the cause of mass shooting in America. The problem is not guns: it's the crazies who shoot them. But not to worry: Bevin is willing to stand firm against the zombies and crazies, and will paint his state red with the blood of these evil things that are less than human. Bevin also blamed Hillary Clinton for the lack of moral decency in America. ----- ----- Rolling Stone November 17, 2018 3:29PM ET Kentucky Governor Blames Zombies for Mass Shootings in America Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has a unique take on the topic of mass shootings: Lack of gun regulations aren't to blame, the problem is… zombies? Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin has a unique take on the topic of mass shootings in America. Lack of gun regulations are not to blame, the problem is… zombies? Bevin told conservative radio talk show host Leland Conway this week that American culture rewards and celebrates death and that the brain-eating monsters are invading the minds of our country’s youth, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. “What’s the most popular topic that seems to be in every cable television network? Television shows are all about, what? Zombies! I don’t get it … that’s what we are,” Bevin said. Zombies are, of course, a problem according to Bevin, but let’s not forget abortion: “When a culture is surrounded by, inundated by, rewards things that celebrate death, whether it is zombies in television shows, the number of abortions… there’s a thousand justifications for why we do this.” Unhappy with Bevin’s accusation, Tony Moore, one of the creators of The Walking Dead comic books and the internationally broadcasted television show, penned an op-ed in the Louisville Courier Journal responding to the governor’s remarks. “Bevin’s words paint fandom as a degenerate sensibility, when I have only ever known kindness and generosity from them.” Moore, a Kentucky native, pulled no punches, attacking Bevin for encouraging violence during the 2016 campaign. “This attack comes from the same Gov. Bevin who howled that modern American conservatism may need to be protected with actual bloodshed… Implying that under a liberal administration, it could be a likely necessity for a new civil war, a literal armed insurrection murdering Americans, to protect his political ideology.” Moore was referring to Bevin’s comment that if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, and said: “Somebody asked me yesterday, I did an interview. ‘Do you think it’s possible, if Hillary Clinton were to win the election, do you think it’s possible that we’ll be able to survive, that we’d ever be able to recover as a nation?’ And while there are people who have stood on this stage and said we would not, I would beg to differ. I do think it would be possible, but at what price? At what price? The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood of who? The tyrants, to be sure, but who else? The patriots.” “Whose blood will be shed?” he continued, “It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away. Don’t let it happen.” So death is OK with Bevin — even if he has to sacrifice his own children — as long as it’s in service of his conservative ideals. But once we put zombies on television, that is a bridge too far. | |
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| 11-17-18 09:03pm - 2133 days | #1337 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump is one of the bravest Presidents we've ever had. He is willing to shut down the US government if he doesn't get funding for his border wall. Does that mean that, if the government is shut down, he won't be getting a salary? And what about Congress? Will their salaries be withheld? Forget about federal police and postal workers and other federal employees. They make too much money, anyway. And they have unions to protect them. Shut down the government. Drain the swamp in Washington. Trump is the man. ------- ------- Kellyanne Conway suggests Trump is willing to shut down government over wall funding Geobeats Geobeats Nov 17th 2018 5:30PM White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Friday indicated that President Trump is ready to shut down the government if that’s what it takes to get the U.S.-Mexico border wall funded, reports The Hill. Her comment came after ‘Fox & Friends’ host Steve Doocy pointed out that the upcoming spending bill will not likely include money for the barrier and asked if a shutdown is among the president’s possible responses. Conway stated: “The president is keeping all options open.” Trump has previously indicated that he is willing to take that extreme measure, telling reporters in July: “If we don’t get border security after many, many years of talk within the United States, I would have no problem doing a shutdown.” A day later, he tweeted: “I don’t care what the political ramifications are, our immigration laws and border security have been a complete and total disaster for decades, and there is no way that the Democrats will allow it to be fixed without a Government Shutdown.” | |
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| 11-18-18 07:52am - 2132 days | #1338 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump hangs tough. Puts on a black baseball cap and black windbreaker jacket to show sympathy for the dead in California. But says that it's fake news to blame California wildfires on climate change. Climate change is a hoax, spread by the Chinks. If Trump was in charge of California, he would use the water to stop the fires. Moonbeam governor has no clue to helping stop the fires. Trump is a mastermind, who knows what to do: After all, he is not only a genius businessman, who started from nothing and built a billion dollar real estate empire (ignore the fact that his father illegally bypassed tax law to pass the properties to his children), but also a scientific genius who calculates in his head the best solutions to all problems. California has been really horrible to President Trump. But Trump has such a big heart, he is willing to forgive California. And the fires are probably God's work in cleaning out the deadwood in California, those evil Democrat scum who deserve their fate. Go, Trump, White Man of the Year, leader of the Moral Majority and the birther leader (I still don't know why Trump did not have Obama arrested and put in prison for claiming he was a US citizen.). -------- -------- Death toll rises to 76 in California fire with winds ahead The Associated Press SUDHIN THANAWALA and TERENCE CHEA Nov 18th 2018 8:22AM CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California crews battling the country's deadliest wildfire in a century were bracing for strong winds, with gusts up to 50 miles per hour, creating the potential to erode gains they have made in containing a disaster that has killed at least 76 and leveled a town. Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for more than a week after the fire sparked in Butte County, Sheriff Kory Honea announced Saturday night. Authorities stressed that the long roster does not mean they believe all those people are missing. Honea pleaded with fire evacuees Saturday to review the list of those reported as unreachable by family and friends and call if they are safe. Deputies have located hundreds of people to date, but the overall number keeps growing because they are adding more names, including those from the disaster's chaotic early hours, Honea said. "It's really very important for you to take a look at the list and call us if you're on the list," he said. The remains of five more people were found Saturday, including four in the decimated town of Paradise and one in nearby Concow, bringing the number of dead to 76. Honea said among the dead was Lolene Rios, 56, whose son Jed tearfully told KXTV in Sacramento that his mother "had endless amount of love for me." President Donald Trump toured the area Saturday, joined by California's outgoing and incoming governors, both Democrats who have traded sharp barbs with the Republican administration. He also visited Southern California, where firefighters were making progress on a wildfire that tore through communities west of Los Angeles from Thousand Oaks to Malibu, killing three people. The president pledged the full support of the federal government. Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom thanked him for coming out. "We've never seen anything like this in California, we've never seen anything like this yet. It's like total devastation," Trump said as he stood amid the ruins of Paradise. Rain was forecast for midweek, which could help firefighters but also complicate the search for remains. Northern California's Camp Fire has destroyed nearly 10,000 homes and torched 233 square miles (603 square kilometers). It is 55 percent contained. The fire zone in Northern California is to some extent Trump country, and that enthusiasm was on display as dozens of people cheered and waved flags as his motorcade went by. Kevin Cory, a wildfire evacuee who lost his home in Paradise, praised Trump for coming to a state that is often at odds with the White House. "I think that California's been really horrible to him and the fights. I mean they're suing him," he said. "It's back and forth between the state and the feds. It's not right." But for the most part, survivors, some who had barely escaped and no longer had homes, were too busy packing up what little they had left or seeking help to pay much attention to the president's visit. Michelle Mack Couch, 49, waited in line to get into a Federal Emergency Management Agency center in the city of Chico. She needed a walker for her elderly mother and tags for her car. "Let's hope he gets us some help," said Couch, who voted for Trump and whose rental home burned down last week. But as far as taking time out to watch the president, she said wryly, "We don't have a TV anymore." Honea expressed hope that Trump's visit would help with recovery, saying the tour by the Republican president and California's Democratic leaders "signals a spirit of cooperation here that ultimately benefit this community and get us on a path toward recovery." In Southern California, Trump also met briefly at an airport hangar with families and first responders touched by the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks more than a week ago. Trump called the shooting at a country music bar, which left 12 dead, "a horrible, horrible event." ___ Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire in Paradise, California, and Janie Har and Daisy P. Nguyen in San Francisco contributed to this report. \ | |
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| 11-18-18 08:40am - 2132 days | #1339 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Donald Trump twitter on California forest fires (November 10, 201 :"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more fed payments." | |
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| 11-18-18 02:00pm - 2132 days | #1340 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump has come out swinging. Just say no to forest fires. Save billions of dollars in federal aid by refusing federal dollars to California. That money is needed for a wall to keep Mexicans and other low-life scum from crossing the border into America. Let us bow our heads in prayer, as Trump leads us to make America great again. And California, land of hippies and tree-huggers, can drop into the Pacific Ocean as far as Trump is concerned. Good bye, California. And good riddance. | |
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| 11-19-18 04:27am - 2132 days | #1341 | |
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biker (0)
Active User Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
I'm surprised you got reprimanded Cybertoad. I know no rules you broke. I know some sites, such as Steam Forum that spell out no politics or religion, but not here. Hard to separate porn from politics since it is up to the courts to decide what is free speech. We were asked about whether Ik2 should be allowed and I was in favor of him continuing. Freedom of speech is important to me. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 11-21-18 07:35am - 2129 days | #1342 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The US Senate is revolting. President Trump needs to have the disloyal senators arrested and put in front of a firing squad. President Trump also stands firm with his friend the Saudi Crown Prince, who has unfairly been smeared in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. First, Khashoggi was a journalist, and Trump knows that most journalists are scum. Second, Khashoggi was not even a US citizen, so why are US citizens getting hot and bothered about the death of a foreign journalist? Third, the Saudi Crown Prince is a wonderful guy, friendly, warm-hearted, a buddy of Trump. Trump stands behind his friends, until it's time to step away. And the Saudi Crown Prince is responsible to giving lots of money to the Trump businesses, so it's not yet time to step away. --------- --------- Senate demands answers on Khashoggi murder after Trump stands by Saudis HuffPost US Willa Frej Nov 21st 2018 7:27AM Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on both sides of the aisle voiced their opposition to President Donald Trump’s proclamation of support for the Saudis, demanding answers into Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) specific involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) penned a letter to Trump on Tuesday asking the administration to do more to clarify what happened to Khashoggi. Specifically, they want an answer within 120 days into whether MBS is responsible. “In light of recent developments, including the Saudi government’s acknowledgment that Saudi officials killed Mr. Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate, we request that your determination specifically address whether Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman is responsible for Mr. Khashoggi’s murder,” they wrote in the letter. In a statement released Tuesday, Trump reinforced the strength of the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia, noting that Khashoggi’s murder may forever remain shrouded in mystery, despite the fact that the CIA reportedly was able to directly link MBS to the incident. “We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi,” Trump said in the statement. “In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” The backlash from many Republican Senators was swift: Khashoggi was reported missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish authorities determined that he was tortured, dismembered and beheaded inside. After initially denying responsibility, MBS later acknowledged that Saudi officials were involved in the killing, though he never took any personal blame. A Saudi prosecutor is also seeking the death penalty for five out of the 11 suspects charged. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 11-21-18 08:42am - 2129 days | #1343 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The government is failing Donald Trump. Trump is the President of the United States. Elected by the people of the United States. But the government is failing to act as Trump wishes: Trump wants Hillary Clinton and James Comey in jail, for their crimes. Why can't Trump, as President, order his subordinates to put Hillary Clinton and James Comey in jail, for their crimes? Hillary Clinton and James Comey are criminals, for criticizing and obstructing justice. Lock them up. That is the only way to treat these criminals. ------- ------- This is a stress test of the US government Analysis by Z. Byron Wolf, CNN Updated 10:16 AM ET, Wed November 21, 2018 Trump pushed for prosecution of Clinton, Comey Toobin rips Ivanka over using private email Washington (CNN)If you weren't taking President Donald Trump literally, you were wrong. "Lock her up!" and "America First!" are more than just slogans. He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market. Freedom to dissent and the peaceful transfer of power between opponents are supposed to be what sets the US apart from undemocratic societies. But when Trump shot back at Clinton during a 2016 presidential debate that if he were President she'd be in jail, it was a prelude to him actually targeting his former rival and pressuring the Department of Justice to actually "lock her up." He's tweeted as much since then, complaining that the DOJ wasn't doing enough to investigate her. Top Trump officials saved the President from himself But his view on political rivals like Clinton and critics like former FBI Director James Comey, whom he fired, is that the government -- HIS government, he believes -- should be mobilized against them. His former White House counsel Don McGahn stood in the way, according to The New York Times. But he's also asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Matt Whitaker, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff who has since become acting attorney general, for updates on the investigation. "We live in a democracy and you don't go after your political rivals," said Alberto Gonzales, who served as both White House counsel and attorney general for Republican President George W. Bush. But Gonzales added during an interview with CNN's John Berman on "New Day" Wednesday that so far, the people around Trump have kept his power dreams in check. The process, he argued, has worked. "Sometimes I think this President in particular says things out of frustration but nothing comes of it, and so long as we have good people serving in these senior positions, both in the White House and in the Department of Justice, I have to be confident the rule of law is going to be respected," Gonzales said. This is the place to point out that that particular counsel is gone and hasn't been replaced. Trump is also in the market for a new attorney general. The man stepping in temporarily is Whitaker, who has been publicly critical of the special counsel investigation that Trump calls a witch hunt. Nowhere has Trump's personal frustrations with the government around him and his desire to influence the Justice Department been more evident than on that government's ability to investigate possible collusion with Russia by his campaign. While his political grudges have influenced his interactions with justice officials, Trump has ignored the politically inconvenient determinations of his intelligence community. One of Trump's main slogans since becoming President is "America First!" and that was the subhead of his stream-of-conscious-dictated statement meant to silence debate about how or whether the US should react to Saudi Arabia's official involvement in the death and dismemberment of Virginia resident and Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "Maybe they did or maybe they didn't," Trump said in the release, again contradicting his intelligence community. That line seems to be code for the fact that he doesn't care what Saudi Arabia does to its dissidents at long as the government there is buying US-made weapons. The din in Trump's ear on Saudi Arabia, which the US has long backed as an ally in the Middle East, had grown as evidence grew in the eyes of US intelligence agencies that the operation against Khashoggi had the imprimatur of the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump, after inking a deal for Saudi Arabia to buy more US weapons doesn't want to hear that, so he affixed eight exclamation points in his statement to drive the point home. Trump's Saudi support highlights brutality of 'America First' doctrine Trump's Saudi support highlights brutality of 'America First' doctrine He's also grown tired of the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election -- the one that gave him his current job -- so he's routinely tried to distract from the inquiry into whether his campaign was complicit in that interference by returning again and again to Clinton, the rival he vanquished and the person Russia tried to keep from winning. The difference between Saudi Arabia -- a kingdom -- and the United States -- a representative democracy with checks and balances -- is that in Saudi Arabia, a prince can dispatch a team of agents to deal with an inconvenient public critic in a foreign land. They can arrest scads of political rivals and lock them up in the Ritz Carlton during a power grab. Trump, despite his desires, is hemmed in by the system he leads, which puts us a long way from that kind of naked abuse of power in the US, where the institutions of government do not as easily allow for that moral flexibility. His absolution of Saudi Arabia of any consequences for the killing of Khashoggi drew reactions from Republicans like Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, as well as Sen.-elect Mitt Romney. "America can't excuse & minimize the brutal & gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a US resident & columnist. Our country is defined by human values, by principle above convenience, & by commitment to morality. We must subject the perpetrators of this outrage to withering sanction," Romney tweeted after the release of Trump's statement. Not that such admonitions are likely to influence Trump's thinking. They don't even signal new Republican opposition to the President after the party suffered losses at the ballot box that cost them control of the House and gave Democrats a new foothold in Washington. Top Republicans slam Trump for statement backing Saudi Arabia Trump has said he sees the election as a victory because Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate. And Republican control of that chamber means he is likely safe, for now, from serious censure or biting legislative counteractions. It has long been a far different thing for Republicans to criticize Trump as opposed to voting against his policies, which means Trump will likely maintain a protective buffer in the Senate from anything the newly powerful House Democratic majority does to contain him. The progression of Trump policy from tweet to slogan to action has become more familiar, even though his ideas and tweets seem designed for shock value. The lasting legacy of the Trump administration will be very dependent on how the government -- whether in the form of the courts, the Congress, the special counsel or the bureaucracy and staff around him -- can contain his attempts to use the government as his own political tool. The tension between powers is what keeps the US government in balance, but as he does with everything, Trump has supercharged the stress. | |
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| 11-21-18 08:55am - 2129 days | #1344 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
In a stunning development, Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business. Many of them in violation of federal records rules. Lock her up. And lock up Donald Trump, the father who allowed his daughter to use emails in violation of the law. Citizens demand that Trump be held accountable: both the father and the daughter. ------- ------- Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year Here's why private email accounts can be problematic in the White House By Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey November 19 at 6:56 PM Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. He attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” for using a personal email account as secretary of state. Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction. The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell. In a statement, Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Lowell, acknowledged that the president’s daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information. “While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” he said in a statement. Mirijanian said Ivanka Trump turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records. And he stressed that her email use was different from that of Clinton, who had a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton’s emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation. “Ms. Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted,” Mirijanian said. Like Trump, Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely. Ivanka Trump often discussed or relayed official White House business last year using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records. Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were “marked classified.” The FBI later determined that 110 emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Trump’s daughter did not know that government officials should not use private emails for official business. “There’s the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,” Evers said. “There is no reasonable suggestion that she didn’t know better. Clearly everyone joining the Trump administration should have been on high alert about personal email use.” Ivanka Trump and her husband set up personal emails with the domain “ijkfamily.com” through a Microsoft system in December 2016, as they were preparing to move to Washington so Kushner could join the White House, according to people familiar with the arrangement. The couple’s emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft, the people said. Trump used her personal account to discuss government policies and official business fewer than 100 times — often replying to other administration officials who contacted her through her private email, according to people familiar with the review. Another category of less-substantive emails may have also violated the records law: hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house, they said. People close to Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staffers about prohibited use of private email, according to people familiar with the situation. Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations. Revelations about Clinton’s personal email system led to an FBI investigation of whether she had mishandled classified information. The scandal shadowed Clinton throughout the 2016 White House race, culminating in then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his conclusion that she had been reckless with government secrets but that there was not sufficient evidence she had intended to skirt the law. During the campaign, Donald Trump said the Democratic nominee’s “corruption is on a scale we have never seen before” and called her personal email use “bigger than Watergate.” Trump supporters still chant “Lock her up!” at his rallies, and the president, nearly two years into his administration, continues to tweet about Clinton’s emails. “Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD,” he tweeted in August, referring to a Fox News story about claims that the bureau did not scrutinize all her emails. “Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!” Ivanka Trump first used her personal email to contact Cabinet officials in early 2017, before she joined the White House as an unpaid senior adviser, according to emails obtained by American Oversight and first reported by Newsweek. In late February 2017, she used her personal email to contact Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon and propose they meet to explore “opportunities to collaborate.” The following month, she emailed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, suggesting that their staffers meet to discuss ways to collaborate on “locational/workforce development and k-12 STEM education.” While her messages were largely about government work, Trump was not then subject to White House records rules. When she joined the White House on March 30, Trump pledged to comply “with all ethics rules,” responding to complaints that her voluntary role gave her all of the access and perks of the White House — but none of the legal responsibilities or constraints. “Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role,” she said in a statement at the time. But Trump continued to occasionally use her personal email in her official capacity, according to people familiar with the review. Her husband’s use of personal email for government work drew intense scrutiny when it was first reported by Politico last fall. The revelation prompted demands from congressional investigators that Kushner preserve his records, which his attorney said he had. At the time, administration officials acknowledged to news organizations, including the New York Times and Politico, that Ivanka Trump had occasionally used a private account when she joined the White House. But Trump had used her personal email for official business far more frequently than known, according to people familiar with the administration’s review — a fact that remained a closely held secret inside the White House. “She was the worst offender in the White House,” said a former senior U.S. government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal dynamics. | |
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| 11-21-18 08:56am - 2129 days | #1345 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
After discovering the extent of her email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell, Ivanka Trump’s attorney, to help review her personal emails to determine which were personal and which were official business, according to the people. The White House Counsel’s Office did not have access to her personal account and could not review it without invading her privacy and possibly violating privileged communications with her attorneys, people familiar with the review said. After his review, Lowell forwarded emails that he had determined were related to official business to Ivanka Trump’s government account, a move he viewed as rectifying any violations of the records law, they said. Lowell’s review found fewer than 1,000 personal emails in which Trump shared her official schedule and travel plans with herself and her personal assistants, according to two people familiar with the review. Separately, there were fewer than 100 emails in which Trump used her personal account to discuss official business with other administration officials. The scope of her personal email use had not emerged in response to American Oversight’s records request, which sought Trump’s correspondence with Cabinet agencies in early 2017. Most internal White House communications are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. “I’m disappointed — although not entirely surprised — that this administration disregarded clear laws that they more than anyone should have been aware of,” Evers said. In many cases, government officials contacted Ivanka Trump first at her personal email address. That was the case with a note she received in April 2017 from Treasury Department official Dan Kowalski, who was seeking to set up a meeting between the president and the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international economic group of which the United States is a member. “I apologize for reaching out to you on your personal email for this, but it is the only email I have for you,” he wrote, according to an email obtained by American Oversight. “For future reference my WH email is [redacted],” Ivanka Trump replied. “Thanks for reaching out and making this introduction.” But other times, Trump used her private email to initiate official business. In April 2017, she used her personal email to write to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s chief of staff, Eli Miller, suggesting that he connect with her chief of staff, Julie Radford. The email chain, obtained by American Oversight, was copied to Radford’s government account. “It would be great if you both could connect next week to discuss [redacted],” she wrote. “We would love your feedback and input as we structure.” | |
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| 11-22-18 10:56am - 2128 days | #1346 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump is forced to admit the truth: The Saudi Crown Prince was not guilty of the supposed death of a journalist. The Saudi Crown Prince, who is a close friend of President Trump, and Trump both think alike: if the journalist was murdered, it was a crime. Both Trump and the Prince hate crime, and hate cover-ups. (That is why Trump paid those women hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiete about his affairs: he hates cover-ups, but wants his private life to be kept private.) The fake media reported that the CIA said the Prince was involved in the murder. That was fake news. Donald Trump wants the real news: the CIA really said the Prince “might have done it, which is a big difference”. Thank God we have such honest and moral leaders in the world, that we can depend on to tell us the truth. ------- ------- Trump: CIA 'didn't conclude' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi death President disagrees with his own intelligence agency after a report said it had assessed Mohammed bin Salman did order the murder Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly Thu 22 Nov 2018 12.31 EST First published on Thu 22 Nov 2018 10.51 EST Donald Trump has ranged himself against his own intelligence community, disputing that the CIA has “concluded” that Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi prince's presence at G20 offers leaders a photo op to dread – will he go? Read more The president spoke a week after the Washington Post first reported that the agency had assessed that the Saudi crown prince did order the murder. Khashoggi, a Saudi national, US resident and Post columnist, went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. He is believed to have been killed and dismembered. His body has not been found. Sign up for the new US morning briefing Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the murder. After offering numerous contradictory explanations, Riyadh said last week Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered when “negotiations” to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia failed. Maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world's a very very vicious place Donald Trump “They didn’t conclude,” Trump insisted, asked about the CIA report when peaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “No no, they didn’t conclude. I’m sorry. No they didn’t conclude. They did not come to a conclusion. They have feelings certain ways. I have the report … they have not concluded, I don’t know if anyone’s going to be able to conclude the crown prince did it. “I will say this: I don’t know, I don’t know. But whether he did or whether he didn’t, he denies it vehemently. His father denies it, the king, vehemently. The CIA doesn’t say they did it, they do point out certain things and in pointing out those things you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn’t.” The latest major Trump resignations and firings Read more Trump said media were guilty of “false reporting” on the issue, and claimed the CIA had said Prince Mohammed “might have done it, which is a big difference”. The president has been widely criticised for choosing not to act over the death of Khashoggi. On Wednesday, Khashoggi’s editor at the Post, Karen Attiah, posted to Twitter a number of ways in which she said Congress could act instead. Incoming Democratic chairs of House committees could move to declassify the CIA report, she said. Among other suggestions, Attiah suggested such committees could also investigate financial ties between Trump, his son in law and adviser Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia. On Thursday, Trump repeated recent remarks about how the needs of US foreign and economic policy governed his response on the issue. He said people should “take a look at what’s going on in Iran, the vicious situation that’s taking place there and the number of people that are being killed and slaughtered”. “We have a very strong ally in Saudi Arabia,” he said, “an ally that said at the very top level, the crown prince, they did not commit this atrocity, and it’s an atrocity, it’s a terrible thing. I dislike it more than you do. But the fact is they’ve been a very strong ally, they create tremendous wealth in their purchases, but more importantly they keep the oil price down.” Asked who should be held accountable for Khashoggi’s death if not the Saudis, Trump said: “Maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world’s a very very vicious place.” Turkey attacks Trump's 'comic' stance on Khashoggi killing Read more Turkey’s government has repeatedly said the order for Khashoggi to be killed came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, although it has not directly accused Prince Mohammed. On Thursday France said it had imposed sanctions, including travel bans, on 18 Saudi citizens linked to the murder, and warned that more could follow depending on results of the current investigation. “The murder of Mr Khashoggi is a crime of extreme gravity, which moreover goes against freedom of the press and the most fundamental rights,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement. “France asks that all light be shed on the manner in which such an act may have been committed. It expects from the Saudi authorities a transparent, detailed and exhaustive response.” Denmark said it was halting exports of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, citing the war in Yemen and Khashoggi’s death. In Florida, Trump also said that “if we go by a certain standard, we won’t be able to have allies with almost any country”. He added: “I hate the crime, I hate what’s done, I hate the cover-up. I will tell you this: the crown prince hates it more than I do.” | |
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| 11-22-18 04:44pm - 2128 days | #1347 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump has pardoned 2 White House turkeys. But has, in tears, ordered his daughter, Ivanka Trump, to surrender to police after she admitted to illegally sending emails. The White House will be dark this thanksgiving, while the President confers with his lawyers and advisors whether he should pardon Ivanka before or during or after her trial. Remember, Donald Trump's chant of "lock her up" for Hillary Clinton, for sending emails? Now that has come back to bite Donald Trump in the ass. As an honorable man, he had no choice to order police to arrest his favorite child, Ivanka, before he could issue her a pardon. But since the Trump family is above the law, he will give Ivanka a pardon for any and all crimes she may have committed. Edited on Nov 23, 2018, 02:14am | |
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| 11-22-18 09:06pm - 2128 days | #1348 | |
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Loki (0)
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Pardoning the turkeys on Thanksgiving is a tradition that began only recently. I had thought it an older tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_Presentation "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 11-29-18 03:03pm - 2121 days | #1349 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This is wrong. Trump is the man. He needs to be seen as a strong leader. One whose word is bond. The Trump administrations proclaimed it would not stand for lawlessness from the illegal caravan of migrants. US authorities fired tear gas into Mexico, to stop the illegal caravan. But they did not arrest these criminals. Is Trump a pussy? Who will be pushed around by criminals and other illegal immigrants? Shame on Trump. He should have ordered the National Guard to fire live rounds into Mexico, to stop these scumbags and rapists and low-life bottom feeders from polluting our borders. Lock them up, Trump. Don't be a pussy. Democracy is strengthened by the blood of these ruthless criminals. ---- ---- No one arrested in border clash is prosecuted The Associated Press ELLIOT SPAGAT Nov 29th 2018 4:18PM SAN DIEGO (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed against any of the 42 people associated with a caravan of Central American migrants who were arrested in a clash that ended with U.S. authorities firing tear gas into Mexico. The Associated Press has learned that the federal government decided not to prosecute the migrants despite proclamations from the Trump administration that it will not tolerate lawlessness over the caravan. Customs and Border Protection declines to say why no one was prosecuted but a U.S. official says many came as families — which are generally exempt. The official said that in other cases, authorities didn't collect enough information to pursue charges, including names of the arresting officers. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official says two of the 42 were referred to the Justice Department for prosecution but charges weren't filed because the accused had medical conditions. | |
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| 11-29-18 03:20pm - 2121 days | #1350 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Michael Cohen, former lawyer for President Trump, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project. Who do we trust? Cohen says he lied to Congress to stay loyal to Trump during his run for president. The President says Cohen is a liar: Cohen can not be trusted: President Trump says he did nothing illegal: whatever Trump did, it was within the law. So, did Trump lie to the public about his dealings with Russia? Does it matter? This is for the lawyers to work out, since Trump is the President, the man who above the law, since he is doing things that are too important for him to be arrested or impeached. So the truth does not matter: what really counts, are the stories Trump tells about what a great job he is doing. And if anyone accuses the President of illegal acts, it's a goddamn witch hunt, and those accusers belong in jail. Trump: man of the people. The whitest President the US ever had: the most moral President we've ever had. ------- ------- Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project By Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Pamela Brown, Stephen Collinson and Gloria Borger, CNN Updated 2:58 PM ET, Thu November 29, 2018 NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 21: Michael Cohen, former lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Federal Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in New York City. Cohen reached an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to charges involving bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations.(Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images) (CNN)President Donald Trump spoke more extensively during the presidential election with his-then attorney Michael Cohen about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow than Cohen admitted to Congress last year, Cohen said while pleading guilty Thursday in federal court to a charge from special counsel Robert Mueller's office. Cohen, who previously said talks about the Moscow project had ended in January 2016, just prior to the Iowa caucuses, said he had lied out of a sense of obligation to Trump. "I made these statements to be consistent with Individual-1's political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual-1," Cohen said. Individual-1 was identified in court filings as Trump, and Cohen identified him as such in a New York courtroom Thursday. Cohen, who famously once declared he would "take a bullet" for Trump, is cooperating with Mueller and has spoken with the special counsel's office for more than 70 hours on topics beyond Moscow, a source with knowledge of the discussions told CNN. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to eight counts in a separate case from the Manhattan US attorney's office. Cohen did not have an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors on that case. Thursday's revelations are potentially significant because they appear to show that Trump was engaged in business dealings with Russia in the midst of a campaign in which Moscow interfered to help elect him. They could also intersect with other information that Mueller knows to create political and legal jeopardy for the President. Trump responded to Cohen's admission at the White House on Thursday, calling his former lawyer "very weak." "He's a weak person," Trump said before departing for Buenos Aires, Argentina. "He was convicted with a fairly long-term sentence with things unrelated to the Trump Organization," Trump said. "What he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence." In fact, Cohen hasn't been sentenced in either case, and the charges to which he pleaded guilty in August included information about his reimbursement by the Trump Organization for payments he made or helped orchestrate to conceal allegations from two women about sexual encounters with Trump before he ran for office. Trump has denied those claims. Cohen was also charged in the Manhattan US attorney's office case with tax fraud and false statements to a bank. He is scheduled to be sentenced in both cases on December 12. Cohen left the courthouse Thursday without making a statement. Schiff: If Cohen misled, Trump misled country Cohen's cooperation with Mueller has included meetings with federal prosecutors on at least seven occasions beginning August 7, 2018, two weeks before he was first charged in New York, according to court filings. Cohen had previously said talks about the Moscow project had ended in January 2016. In a letter to Congress and in congressional testimony, Cohen had also stated that he never agreed to travel to Russia in connection with the project, and that he hadn't considered asking Trump to travel for the project. He had also said he didn't recall speaking to the Russian government about the project. Trump abruptly cancels planned Putin meeting All of those statements were false, Cohen said Thursday. "In truth and in fact, and as Cohen well knew, Cohen's representations about the Moscow Project he made to (House and Senate Intelligence committees) were false and misleading," Mueller's office said in a court filing. "Cohen made the false statements to (1) minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1 and (2) give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before 'the Iowa caucus and . . . the very first primary,' in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations," prosecutors said in court filings. Discussions with 'Individual-2' on Moscow project The charges provide a much fuller picture of the Trump Organization's efforts to advance the project in Moscow. As late as June 2016, according to prosecutors, Cohen and another man, identified in filings as "Individual-2," discussed efforts to gain Russian government approval for the Moscow project. Individual-2 is Felix Sater, a Russian-born onetime business associate of Trump's, according to people familiar with the matter. Cohen discussed the project with Trump on more than the three occasions he had previously mentioned, prosecutors said, and he briefed Trump family members working within the Trump Organization about the efforts. Cohen also agreed to travel to Russia and asked Trump about the possibility of Trump going there in service of the project. In addition, Cohen "asked a senior campaign official about potential business travel to Russia," according to prosecutors. In May 2016, after Sater asked Cohen when the trip involving Trump should occur, Cohen responded that Trump's trip should take place "once he becomes the nominee after the convention." Sater and Cohen communicated extensively about plans for Cohen's own prospective trip, filings show, but in June 2016, Cohen told Sater he wouldn't go. In court Thursday, Cohen added: "I would like to note that I did not in fact travel there, nor have I ever been to Russia." After Cohen outlined his lies concerning the extent of his discussion with Trump and his plans for travel to Russia, a special counsel prosecutor, L. Rush Atkinson, told US District Judge Andrew Carter that Cohen had neglected to admit to a third set of falsehoods -- those concerning his direct contact with the Russian government about the Moscow project. Cohen had had a 20-minute phone call with a representative of the Kremlin in January 2016, according to filings. Atkinson was joined in court Thursday by special counsel prosecutors Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein. The charge to which Cohen pleaded Thursday carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000 and supervised release of no more than three years. Democrats vow to investigate House Democrats, who will retake the majority early next year, plan to use their new power to investigate the disclosures revealed in the new set of charges against Cohen. California Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman, said his panel will try to bring in Cohen and investigate whether there was any money laundering by the Russians through the Trump Organization. Democrats in Congress vow to investigate after Cohen pleads guilty to making false statements "If Mr. Cohen misled the Congress about the President's business dealings in Russia deep into the campaign, it also means that the President misled the country about his business dealings, and that the Russians were apparently attempting to gain financial leverage over the potential President of the United States," Schiff told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Status of Mueller investigation Trump has criticized the Mueller probe and his own Justice Department almost daily, fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this month and has hinted at a pardon for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. But Cohen is the latest former Trump associate to say he lied -- apparently to protect the President -- a circle of defense that now seems to be quickly unraveling. Who is Michael Cohen? The news comes a few weeks after the President installed a skeptic of the Russia probe, Matt Whitaker, as his acting attorney general. The move was seen by some critics as an attempt to disrupt Mueller and to stop him from making new indictments. The latest charges also cross what Trump has set as a red line -- an investigation into his family's business empire -- that the President has warned would cause him to fire the special counsel. This story has been updated. CNN's Betsy Klein, Manu Raju, Sunlen Serfaty, Sarah Mucha and Julia Jones contributed to this report. | |
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