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THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! THE SWAMP EXPLODES TRUMP & PALS LOOTING OF UKRAINE MASSIVE STATE GAS COMPANY
As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump's main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.
Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine's massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies, according to two people with knowledge of their plans.
Their plan hit a snag after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lost his reelection bid to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose conversation with Trump about former Vice President Joe Biden is now at the center of the House impeachment inquiry of Trump.
But the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine's new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry's past political donors.
It's unclear if Perry's attempts to replace board members at Naftogaz were coordinated with the Giuliani allies pushing for a similar outcome.
The affair shows how those with ties to Trump and his administration were pursuing business deals in Ukraine that went far beyond advancing the president's personal political interests. It also raises questions about whether Trump allies were mixing business and politics just as Republicans were calling for a probe of Biden and his son Hunter, who served five years on the board of another Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
On Friday, according to the news site Axios, Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers that it had been Perry who had prompted the phone call in which Trump asked Zelenskiy for a "favor" regarding Biden. Axios cited a source saying Trump said Perry had asked Trump to make the call to discuss "something about an LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant."
While it's unclear whether Trump's remark Friday referred specifically to the behind-the-scenes maneuvers this spring involving the multibillion-dollar state gas company, The Associated Press has interviewed four people with direct knowledge of the attempts to influence Naftogaz, and their accounts show Perry playing a key role in the effort. Three of the four spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The fourth is an American businessman with close ties to the Ukrainian energy sector.
The Trump and Giuliani allies driving the attempt to change the senior management at Naftogazt, however, appear to have had inside knowledge of the U.S. government's plans in Ukraine. For example, they told people that Trump would replace the U.S. ambassador there months before she was actually recalled to Washington, according to three of the individuals interviewed by the AP. One of the individuals said he was so concerned by the whole affair that he reported it to a U.S. Embassy official in Ukraine months ago.
THE BUSINESSMEN
Ukraine, a resource-rich nation that sits on the geographic and symbolic border between Russia and the West, has long been plagued by corruption and government dysfunction, making it a magnet for foreign profiteers.
At the center of the Naftogaz plan, according to three individuals familiar with the details, were three such businessmen: two Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, and an oil magnate from Boca Raton, Florida, named Harry Sargeant III.
Parnas and Fruman have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republicans, including $325,000 to a Trump-allied political action committee in 2018. This helped the relatively unknown entrepreneurs gain access to top levels of the Republican Party — including meetings with Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago
the two were coordinating with Giuliani to set up meetings with Ukrainian government officials and push for an investigation of the Bidens.
Sargeant, his wife and corporate entities tied to the family have donated at least $1.2 million to Republican campaigns and PACs over the last 20 years, including $100,000 in June to the Trump Victory Fund, according to federal and state campaign finance records. He has also served as finance chair of the Florida state GOP, and gave nearly $14,000 to Giuliani's failed 2008 presidential campaign.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...aine-over-gas-firm/ar-AAInI5H?ocid=spartandhp
As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump's main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.
Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine's massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies, according to two people with knowledge of their plans.
Their plan hit a snag after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lost his reelection bid to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose conversation with Trump about former Vice President Joe Biden is now at the center of the House impeachment inquiry of Trump.
But the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine's new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry's past political donors.
It's unclear if Perry's attempts to replace board members at Naftogaz were coordinated with the Giuliani allies pushing for a similar outcome.
The affair shows how those with ties to Trump and his administration were pursuing business deals in Ukraine that went far beyond advancing the president's personal political interests. It also raises questions about whether Trump allies were mixing business and politics just as Republicans were calling for a probe of Biden and his son Hunter, who served five years on the board of another Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
On Friday, according to the news site Axios, Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers that it had been Perry who had prompted the phone call in which Trump asked Zelenskiy for a "favor" regarding Biden. Axios cited a source saying Trump said Perry had asked Trump to make the call to discuss "something about an LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant."
While it's unclear whether Trump's remark Friday referred specifically to the behind-the-scenes maneuvers this spring involving the multibillion-dollar state gas company, The Associated Press has interviewed four people with direct knowledge of the attempts to influence Naftogaz, and their accounts show Perry playing a key role in the effort. Three of the four spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The fourth is an American businessman with close ties to the Ukrainian energy sector.
The Trump and Giuliani allies driving the attempt to change the senior management at Naftogazt, however, appear to have had inside knowledge of the U.S. government's plans in Ukraine. For example, they told people that Trump would replace the U.S. ambassador there months before she was actually recalled to Washington, according to three of the individuals interviewed by the AP. One of the individuals said he was so concerned by the whole affair that he reported it to a U.S. Embassy official in Ukraine months ago.
THE BUSINESSMEN
Ukraine, a resource-rich nation that sits on the geographic and symbolic border between Russia and the West, has long been plagued by corruption and government dysfunction, making it a magnet for foreign profiteers.
At the center of the Naftogaz plan, according to three individuals familiar with the details, were three such businessmen: two Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, and an oil magnate from Boca Raton, Florida, named Harry Sargeant III.
Parnas and Fruman have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republicans, including $325,000 to a Trump-allied political action committee in 2018. This helped the relatively unknown entrepreneurs gain access to top levels of the Republican Party — including meetings with Trump at the White House and Mar-a-Lago
the two were coordinating with Giuliani to set up meetings with Ukrainian government officials and push for an investigation of the Bidens.
Sargeant, his wife and corporate entities tied to the family have donated at least $1.2 million to Republican campaigns and PACs over the last 20 years, including $100,000 in June to the Trump Victory Fund, according to federal and state campaign finance records. He has also served as finance chair of the Florida state GOP, and gave nearly $14,000 to Giuliani's failed 2008 presidential campaign.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...aine-over-gas-firm/ar-AAInI5H?ocid=spartandhp
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Wonder if that article has anything to do with this announcement?
Energy Secretary Rick Perry eyeing exit in November
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/rick-perry-expected-to-resign-000189
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! LOCK HIM UP - I TOLD YOU SO - 58% SAY INVESTIGATE 49% SAY REMOVE
WELL OL' DHERD CALLED ANOTHER ONE - I TOLD YOU TWO YEARS AGO WHEN TRUTH CAME OUT
CROOKED WOULD BE OUT. CONS WOULD TURN ON HIM AS SOON AS HE WAS A LIABILITY. 30% OF
REPUBLICANS NOW SAY INVESTIGATE 20% OF REPUBLICANS NOW SAY REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE.
AND WE HAVENT EVEN HAD THE FIRST PUBLIC ALL DAY PUBLIC NATIONAL TV HEARING. THE WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN HEARD FROM. CROOKED IS TOAST AND REMEMBER
THE ORACLE OF DHERDLAND TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN.
More than 8 in 10 Democrats endorse the inquiry and nearly 8 in 10 favor a vote to recommend that Trump be removed from office. Among Republicans, roughly 7 in 10 do not support the inquiry but almost 3 in 10 do, and almost one-fifth of Republicans say they favor a vote recommending his removal. Among the critical voting bloc of independents, support for the impeachment inquiry hits 57 percent, with 49 percent saying the House should vote to remove Trump from office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...9e0af6-e936-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
WELL OL' DHERD CALLED ANOTHER ONE - I TOLD YOU TWO YEARS AGO WHEN TRUTH CAME OUT
CROOKED WOULD BE OUT. CONS WOULD TURN ON HIM AS SOON AS HE WAS A LIABILITY. 30% OF
REPUBLICANS NOW SAY INVESTIGATE 20% OF REPUBLICANS NOW SAY REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE.
AND WE HAVENT EVEN HAD THE FIRST PUBLIC ALL DAY PUBLIC NATIONAL TV HEARING. THE WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN HEARD FROM. CROOKED IS TOAST AND REMEMBER
THE ORACLE OF DHERDLAND TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN.
More than 8 in 10 Democrats endorse the inquiry and nearly 8 in 10 favor a vote to recommend that Trump be removed from office. Among Republicans, roughly 7 in 10 do not support the inquiry but almost 3 in 10 do, and almost one-fifth of Republicans say they favor a vote recommending his removal. Among the critical voting bloc of independents, support for the impeachment inquiry hits 57 percent, with 49 percent saying the House should vote to remove Trump from office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...9e0af6-e936-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
Trump’s defense: You can’t impeach me. I impeach you.
The U.S. Constitution, as written by the framers, contains seven articles.
President Trump’s version goes to 12.
Trump informed lawmakers of his “Spinal Tap” approach to constitutional law three years ago, but current events make it more ominous in the retelling. Asked what he would do to protect the Constitution’s Article I powers — the powers of Congress — he reportedly responded, “I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII.”
We now know he had no intention of protecting Article I, and we have a good idea what must be in those five unwritten articles that exist only in the president’s imagination:
Article VIII gives Trump the power to solicit and receive the help of foreign governments in his election.
Article IX gives Trump the power to ignore congressional subpoenas and to block witnesses from testifying. (Trump’s latest exercise of Article IX powers came Monday; George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, failed to show up for a deposition before three House committees.)
Article X gives Attorney General William P. Barr the power to reach out directly to foreign leaders and intelligence services — without involving the FBI or the Justice Department’s international personnel — to solicit information that could help Trump’s reelection.
Article XI exempts Trump from turning over his tax returns, no matter how many laws or court orders say otherwise. (A federal judge became the third to rule against Trump in the matter on Monday, condemning Trump’s “categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process.”)
And Article XII gives Trump the power to impose extralegal punishments, including the impeachment of Congress.
Trump appeared to be exercising these Article XII powers on Saturday when he said that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is a “pompous ‘ass’ ” who should be impeached. (Romney had criticized Trump actions as “wrong and appalling.”) The (real) Constitution does not provide for impeaching lawmakers, but Trump on Sunday expanded his extra-constitutional demand, saying “Nervous Nancy” Pelosi and “Liddle’ Adam Schiff” were guilty of “Treason” and must be “immediately impeached.”
It’s a variant of Trump’s “No puppet, you’re the puppet” defense. You can’t impeach me — I impeach you!
Fighting impeachment, Trump employs two familiar arguments. One is to accuse his opponents of whatever he’s accused of. The other is to blurt out obscenities. Before branding Romney an “ass,” Trump informed 65 million Twitter followers that the Democrats’ case is “BULLSHIT.” (Objectively accurate headline: “Trump Tweets Bullshit.”)
It hardly matters that Trump’s new plan to impeach his accusers is not, technically, legal. As during the Russia inquiry, ignorance of the law might be his best (and perhaps only) defense. The ignorance seems genuine: In addition to developing a 12-article Constitution, Trump has mused about attacking migrants with bayonets and alligators, “ordered” U.S. businesses to find alternatives to China, proposed to rewrite a constitutional citizenship provision by fiat and routinely accused those who criticize him of “treason.”
Trump, also calling his critics “spies,” recently pined for the “old days when we were smart with spies and treason” and “we used to handle it a little differently.” Ah, yes, the good old days, when those accused of treason were summarily shot. Perhaps he’ll also use his Article XII powers to bring back the halcyon days of cruel and unusual punishment; he could order that Romney be given 30 stripes, send Pelosi to the ducking stool and crop Schiff’s ears.
Even if he did, it’s a safe bet Republicans would respond as they are now: by looking the other way or by insisting Trump was just joking. Only unelected Republicans seem to notice how awful they look excusing this behavior. Colin Powell says the GOP “has got to get a grip on itself.” Kerry Kircher, House counsel for the Republicans between 2011 and 2016, told The Post’s Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade that Trump “is shaking the foundations of the republic.” Even Trump loyalist Tucker Carlson wrote of Trump’s Ukraine call: “Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea.”
So what can Democrats do about it? They could always take an article from Trump’s unwritten constitution, and assert their newfound powers to brand the letter “R” (for rogue) on Trump’s cheek, to chain Barr to the whipping post or to sentence uncooperative witnesses to bilboes and pillories.
But Democrats don’t have to follow Trump into the constitutional wilderness. In the “old days,” Congress’s inherent contempt powers allowed lawmakers to impose fines and to detain those who ignored subpoenas. Trump’s extra-constitutional antics have set off court battles that will, by design, outlast any impeachment inquiry. In the meantime, Democrats would be justified reviving a practice that is both legal and proportional when administration witnesses refuse to testify.
Lock ’em up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...c92fb4-e940-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
The U.S. Constitution, as written by the framers, contains seven articles.
President Trump’s version goes to 12.
Trump informed lawmakers of his “Spinal Tap” approach to constitutional law three years ago, but current events make it more ominous in the retelling. Asked what he would do to protect the Constitution’s Article I powers — the powers of Congress — he reportedly responded, “I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII.”
We now know he had no intention of protecting Article I, and we have a good idea what must be in those five unwritten articles that exist only in the president’s imagination:
Article VIII gives Trump the power to solicit and receive the help of foreign governments in his election.
Article IX gives Trump the power to ignore congressional subpoenas and to block witnesses from testifying. (Trump’s latest exercise of Article IX powers came Monday; George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, failed to show up for a deposition before three House committees.)
Article X gives Attorney General William P. Barr the power to reach out directly to foreign leaders and intelligence services — without involving the FBI or the Justice Department’s international personnel — to solicit information that could help Trump’s reelection.
Article XI exempts Trump from turning over his tax returns, no matter how many laws or court orders say otherwise. (A federal judge became the third to rule against Trump in the matter on Monday, condemning Trump’s “categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process.”)
And Article XII gives Trump the power to impose extralegal punishments, including the impeachment of Congress.
Trump appeared to be exercising these Article XII powers on Saturday when he said that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is a “pompous ‘ass’ ” who should be impeached. (Romney had criticized Trump actions as “wrong and appalling.”) The (real) Constitution does not provide for impeaching lawmakers, but Trump on Sunday expanded his extra-constitutional demand, saying “Nervous Nancy” Pelosi and “Liddle’ Adam Schiff” were guilty of “Treason” and must be “immediately impeached.”
It’s a variant of Trump’s “No puppet, you’re the puppet” defense. You can’t impeach me — I impeach you!
Fighting impeachment, Trump employs two familiar arguments. One is to accuse his opponents of whatever he’s accused of. The other is to blurt out obscenities. Before branding Romney an “ass,” Trump informed 65 million Twitter followers that the Democrats’ case is “BULLSHIT.” (Objectively accurate headline: “Trump Tweets Bullshit.”)
It hardly matters that Trump’s new plan to impeach his accusers is not, technically, legal. As during the Russia inquiry, ignorance of the law might be his best (and perhaps only) defense. The ignorance seems genuine: In addition to developing a 12-article Constitution, Trump has mused about attacking migrants with bayonets and alligators, “ordered” U.S. businesses to find alternatives to China, proposed to rewrite a constitutional citizenship provision by fiat and routinely accused those who criticize him of “treason.”
Trump, also calling his critics “spies,” recently pined for the “old days when we were smart with spies and treason” and “we used to handle it a little differently.” Ah, yes, the good old days, when those accused of treason were summarily shot. Perhaps he’ll also use his Article XII powers to bring back the halcyon days of cruel and unusual punishment; he could order that Romney be given 30 stripes, send Pelosi to the ducking stool and crop Schiff’s ears.
Even if he did, it’s a safe bet Republicans would respond as they are now: by looking the other way or by insisting Trump was just joking. Only unelected Republicans seem to notice how awful they look excusing this behavior. Colin Powell says the GOP “has got to get a grip on itself.” Kerry Kircher, House counsel for the Republicans between 2011 and 2016, told The Post’s Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade that Trump “is shaking the foundations of the republic.” Even Trump loyalist Tucker Carlson wrote of Trump’s Ukraine call: “Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea.”
So what can Democrats do about it? They could always take an article from Trump’s unwritten constitution, and assert their newfound powers to brand the letter “R” (for rogue) on Trump’s cheek, to chain Barr to the whipping post or to sentence uncooperative witnesses to bilboes and pillories.
But Democrats don’t have to follow Trump into the constitutional wilderness. In the “old days,” Congress’s inherent contempt powers allowed lawmakers to impose fines and to detain those who ignored subpoenas. Trump’s extra-constitutional antics have set off court battles that will, by design, outlast any impeachment inquiry. In the meantime, Democrats would be justified reviving a practice that is both legal and proportional when administration witnesses refuse to testify.
Lock ’em up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...c92fb4-e940-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
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LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
You guys are adorable.
What's the name of your club? Do you have secret handshakes, passwords?
All jokes aside, can you honestly imagine Reagan acting like this?
Probably because he was the POTUS of my formative years, Reagan will always be my standard. Politics aside, Reagan acted with class. This motherfvcker? C'mon.
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! WHY? TRUMP WONT TELL WORLD ABOUT "PERFECT CALL" THE MAN IS MODEST TO A FAULT
“Trump and his enablers continue to argue that the Constitution is unconstitutional,” Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) said. “This letter could’ve been written by the same authoritarian goons trump admires so much. It’s garbage and won’t halt Congress one iota.”
“The actions taken by the President over the past two weeks show a defiance of our Founders, with a total disregard for their wisdom and the U.S. Constitution,” Pelosi wrote.
Then, mocking a phrase he used to describe himself in a tweet, she wrote, “In his ‘great and unmatched wisdom,’ President Trump must know that no one is above the law. The President will be held accountable. When it comes to impeachment, it is just about the facts and the Constitution.”
[I THINK CROOKED HAS BEEN HANGING OUT WITH DICTATORS TOO LONG]
The White House said Tuesday that it will not cooperate with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, ratcheting up tensions between the legislative and executive branches amid an outcry from Democrats that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigations.
Trump personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said earlier Tuesday that he would not cooperate with House investigators and that he “can’t imagine” that anyone from the Trump administration would appear before a Democratic-led panel investigating the president.
Giuliani’s comments came hours after the State Department blocked a scheduled deposition by Gordon Sondland, a key figure in the Ukraine controversy, prompting three House committee chairmen to announce that they would issue a subpoena.
Poll: Majority of Americans say they endorse opening of House impeachment inquiry of Trump.
●House Democrats consider masking identity of whistleblower from Trump’s GOP allies in Congress.
●Demoralized State Department personnel question Pompeo’s role in Ukraine crisis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...dd0b64-e94c-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
“Trump and his enablers continue to argue that the Constitution is unconstitutional,” Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) said. “This letter could’ve been written by the same authoritarian goons trump admires so much. It’s garbage and won’t halt Congress one iota.”
“The actions taken by the President over the past two weeks show a defiance of our Founders, with a total disregard for their wisdom and the U.S. Constitution,” Pelosi wrote.
Then, mocking a phrase he used to describe himself in a tweet, she wrote, “In his ‘great and unmatched wisdom,’ President Trump must know that no one is above the law. The President will be held accountable. When it comes to impeachment, it is just about the facts and the Constitution.”
[I THINK CROOKED HAS BEEN HANGING OUT WITH DICTATORS TOO LONG]
The White House said Tuesday that it will not cooperate with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, ratcheting up tensions between the legislative and executive branches amid an outcry from Democrats that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigations.
Trump personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said earlier Tuesday that he would not cooperate with House investigators and that he “can’t imagine” that anyone from the Trump administration would appear before a Democratic-led panel investigating the president.
Giuliani’s comments came hours after the State Department blocked a scheduled deposition by Gordon Sondland, a key figure in the Ukraine controversy, prompting three House committee chairmen to announce that they would issue a subpoena.
Poll: Majority of Americans say they endorse opening of House impeachment inquiry of Trump.
●House Democrats consider masking identity of whistleblower from Trump’s GOP allies in Congress.
●Demoralized State Department personnel question Pompeo’s role in Ukraine crisis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...dd0b64-e94c-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
WASHINGTON — A White House official who listened to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s leader described it as “crazy,” “frightening” and “completely lacking in substance related to national security,” according to a memo written by the whistle-blower at the center of the Ukraine scandal, a C.I.A. officer who spoke to the White House official.
The official was “visibly shaken by what had transpired,” the C.I.A. officer wrote in his memo, one day after Mr. Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a July 25 phone call to open investigations that would benefit him politically.
A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote.
“The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official’s view, the president had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own re-election bid in 2020,” the C.I.A. officer wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The official was “visibly shaken by what had transpired,” the C.I.A. officer wrote in his memo, one day after Mr. Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a July 25 phone call to open investigations that would benefit him politically.
A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote.
“The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official’s view, the president had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own re-election bid in 2020,” the C.I.A. officer wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS TRUMP ARGUMENT LAUGHABLE
“Wow, okay,” Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington responded, sounding unpersuaded. “As I said, the department is taking extraordinary positions in this case.”
Howell called the stance one of several “extreme” arguments presented by Trump administration lawyers in opposing the House request for Mueller grand-jury materials, part of a widening impeachment investigation of President Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0de590-e9c6-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html
“Wow, okay,” Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington responded, sounding unpersuaded. “As I said, the department is taking extraordinary positions in this case.”
Howell called the stance one of several “extreme” arguments presented by Trump administration lawyers in opposing the House request for Mueller grand-jury materials, part of a widening impeachment investigation of President Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0de590-e9c6-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html
For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year
in 2018 the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families in the country was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households.
The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/
REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL LOOKING AFTER THOSE HARD WORKING DITTO HEADS
in 2018 the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families in the country was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households.
The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/
REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL LOOKING AFTER THOSE HARD WORKING DITTO HEADS
Clinton-email critics pull a role reversal as Trump administration draws fire for private phone use
On Tuesday, lawmakers said that President Trump’s top envoys for Ukraine and the European Union used personal phones and an encrypted messenger app as they conducted U.S. policy on Ukraine, a matter that was revealed during House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
The most vocal defenders of the Trump administration’s actions include some of the most aggressive critics of Clinton’s handling of sensitive information, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R) of Ohio, Rep. Mark Meadows (R) of North Carolina and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who as a Kansas congressman had attacked Clinton by underscoring the solemn role of soldiers in defending U.S. secrets.
“We have soldiers today in the field, fighting to protect classified information from getting out . . . [risking] a lot of their lives to keep the information safe. And Secretary Clinton handled this in a very different way,” Pompeo told a television host in February 2016, adding that she had violated “multiple laws.”
On Tuesday, Meadows dismissed concerns about the communications of the two diplomats, Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland, saying their use of personal phones or encrypted apps was acceptable because they ultimately handed over their correspondence to the State Department.
“Based on what I’ve seen, I have no concerns,” he said in an interview.
The State Department has not responded to questions about the diplomats’ handling of information, but Pompeo has broadly defended his subordinates, saying “each of the actions that were undertaken by State Department officials was entirely appropriate.”
“The irony is that Pompeo’s diplomats are using personal devices when he personally went ballistic on Hillary Clinton for that,” the official added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...9fa357-2964-417f-a128-d543b8ac28b4_story.html
On Tuesday, lawmakers said that President Trump’s top envoys for Ukraine and the European Union used personal phones and an encrypted messenger app as they conducted U.S. policy on Ukraine, a matter that was revealed during House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
The most vocal defenders of the Trump administration’s actions include some of the most aggressive critics of Clinton’s handling of sensitive information, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R) of Ohio, Rep. Mark Meadows (R) of North Carolina and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who as a Kansas congressman had attacked Clinton by underscoring the solemn role of soldiers in defending U.S. secrets.
“We have soldiers today in the field, fighting to protect classified information from getting out . . . [risking] a lot of their lives to keep the information safe. And Secretary Clinton handled this in a very different way,” Pompeo told a television host in February 2016, adding that she had violated “multiple laws.”
On Tuesday, Meadows dismissed concerns about the communications of the two diplomats, Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland, saying their use of personal phones or encrypted apps was acceptable because they ultimately handed over their correspondence to the State Department.
“Based on what I’ve seen, I have no concerns,” he said in an interview.
The State Department has not responded to questions about the diplomats’ handling of information, but Pompeo has broadly defended his subordinates, saying “each of the actions that were undertaken by State Department officials was entirely appropriate.”
“The irony is that Pompeo’s diplomats are using personal devices when he personally went ballistic on Hillary Clinton for that,” the official added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...9fa357-2964-417f-a128-d543b8ac28b4_story.html
ALWAYS HAPPY TO MAKE A RIGHT WING KOOKS LIFE A LITTLE EASIER.
I REAIZE LIFE IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU NOW THAT ALL YOUR IGNORANCE,
LIES, GULLIBILITY, AND BLUSTER ARE FALLING DOWN AROUND YOUR EARS.
ON THE OTHER HAND EVERYTHING I HAVE PREDICTED IS COMING TRUE, BUT
THAT IS LIFE AS USUAL AND NOTHING NEW.
HAVE A NICE DAY!
CROOKED Rattled By Impeachment Inquiry Calls Mitch McConnell 3 Times Per Day
Donald Trump has reportedly been phoning Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell up to three times a day to complain about Republican disloyalty as the threat of impeachment grows.
The US president has warned Mr McConnell he will step up attacks on senators who criticise him unless they fall in line, according to CNN.
A string of Republicans have spoken out against or refused to defend Mr Trump’s apparent attempts to pressure foreign governments into helping his election campaign.
The Senate majority leader has told “a small number of Republicans” about Mr Trump’s frequent calls,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tors-inquiry-ukraine-call-biden-a9149981.html
https://hillreporter.com/is-trump-r...y-calls-mitch-mcconnell-3-times-per-day-47909
I REAIZE LIFE IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU NOW THAT ALL YOUR IGNORANCE,
LIES, GULLIBILITY, AND BLUSTER ARE FALLING DOWN AROUND YOUR EARS.
ON THE OTHER HAND EVERYTHING I HAVE PREDICTED IS COMING TRUE, BUT
THAT IS LIFE AS USUAL AND NOTHING NEW.
HAVE A NICE DAY!
CROOKED Rattled By Impeachment Inquiry Calls Mitch McConnell 3 Times Per Day
Donald Trump has reportedly been phoning Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell up to three times a day to complain about Republican disloyalty as the threat of impeachment grows.
The US president has warned Mr McConnell he will step up attacks on senators who criticise him unless they fall in line, according to CNN.
A string of Republicans have spoken out against or refused to defend Mr Trump’s apparent attempts to pressure foreign governments into helping his election campaign.
The Senate majority leader has told “a small number of Republicans” about Mr Trump’s frequent calls,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tors-inquiry-ukraine-call-biden-a9149981.html
https://hillreporter.com/is-trump-r...y-calls-mitch-mcconnell-3-times-per-day-47909
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Two business associates of Trump’s personal attorney Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance charges
In May 2018, about six months before the men began working with Giuliani on his Biden investigation, a Florida business established by Parnas received a $1.26 million wire transfer from an account whose owner was represented by a real estate lawyer who specializes in assisting foreign buyers of U.S. property, court documents and corporate filings show.
Two days later, America First, the main pro-Trump super PAC, reported receiving $325,000 from a company that Parnas and Fruman had incorporated the previous month called Global Energy Producers.
Parnas told the Miami Herald last week that the money for the super PAC donation was from proceeds from the sale of a Miami-area condominium.
Parnas and Fruman have little history of political involvement but emerged suddenly in a circle of elite Trump donors after Parnas gave $50,000 to support Trump’s election in 2016, and a pro-Trump super PAC reported receiving $325,000 last year from a company the two men incorporated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-business-associates-of-trumps-personal-lawyer-giuliani-have-been-arrested-and-are-in-custody/2019/10/10/9f9c101a-eb63-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
In May 2018, about six months before the men began working with Giuliani on his Biden investigation, a Florida business established by Parnas received a $1.26 million wire transfer from an account whose owner was represented by a real estate lawyer who specializes in assisting foreign buyers of U.S. property, court documents and corporate filings show.
Two days later, America First, the main pro-Trump super PAC, reported receiving $325,000 from a company that Parnas and Fruman had incorporated the previous month called Global Energy Producers.
Parnas told the Miami Herald last week that the money for the super PAC donation was from proceeds from the sale of a Miami-area condominium.
Parnas and Fruman have little history of political involvement but emerged suddenly in a circle of elite Trump donors after Parnas gave $50,000 to support Trump’s election in 2016, and a pro-Trump super PAC reported receiving $325,000 last year from a company the two men incorporated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-business-associates-of-trumps-personal-lawyer-giuliani-have-been-arrested-and-are-in-custody/2019/10/10/9f9c101a-eb63-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
PENCE - GOT HIM TOO!!!!!!!!!
Pence was extremely evasive — and conspicuously so.
Let’s walk through it.
Q: Were you ever aware of President Trump’s efforts to pressure President Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the Biden family?
PENCE: First of all, let’s be very clear that President Zelensky said there was no pressure. I think his words were, ‘No one pushed.’ And a clear reading of the transcript shows that there was no quid pro quo in the president’s call with President Zelenksy.
Q: Were you ever aware?
PENCE: The American people should read the transcript, and they’d do well to do that since the chairman of the
Skipping ahead a bit:
Q: Were you ever aware, Mr. Vice President, of the interest in the Bidens, the interest in investigating the Bidens was at least, in part, the reason the aid to Ukraine [was] being held up? Were you ever aware?
PENCE: I never discussed the issue of the Bidens with President Zelensky.
That was not the question — not even close.
Q: But within the administration, were you ever aware?
PENCE: What I can tell you is, all of our discussions internally, between the president and our team, and our contacts and my office with Ukraine, were entirely focused on the broader issues of the lack of European support and corruption.
So let’s try this again:
Q: But you were aware of the interest in the Bidens being investigated and that being tied to aid to Ukraine being held up?
PENCE: That’s your question. Let me be very clear: The issue of aid and our efforts with regard to Ukraine were from my experience no way connected to the very legitimate concern the American people have about corruption that took place, about things that happened in the 2016 election ... or about the issue that former vice president Biden had his son on the board of a major energy company in Ukraine at a time that Vice President Biden was running the United States’ efforts in Ukraine. I think the American people have a right to know what was going on. And, but all of our discussions, all of my discussions, with the leadership in Ukraine was entirely focused on President Trump’s priority --
Again, skipping ahead a bit:
Q: But the president himself has said he wants a foreign country to investigate his rival. Is that okay with you?
PENCE: I don’t believe that’s the case.
Q: He said it.
PENCE: And again, I know that’s the way Chairman Schiff characterized it in his manufactured version of the transcript, but the American people should read the transcript and they will see that the president did nothing wrong, there was no pressure, there was no quid pro quo. The president simply raised issues of importance and interest to the American people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...pences-conspicuously-evasive-answers-ukraine/
Pence was extremely evasive — and conspicuously so.
Let’s walk through it.
Q: Were you ever aware of President Trump’s efforts to pressure President Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate the Biden family?
PENCE: First of all, let’s be very clear that President Zelensky said there was no pressure. I think his words were, ‘No one pushed.’ And a clear reading of the transcript shows that there was no quid pro quo in the president’s call with President Zelenksy.
Q: Were you ever aware?
PENCE: The American people should read the transcript, and they’d do well to do that since the chairman of the
Skipping ahead a bit:
Q: Were you ever aware, Mr. Vice President, of the interest in the Bidens, the interest in investigating the Bidens was at least, in part, the reason the aid to Ukraine [was] being held up? Were you ever aware?
PENCE: I never discussed the issue of the Bidens with President Zelensky.
That was not the question — not even close.
Q: But within the administration, were you ever aware?
PENCE: What I can tell you is, all of our discussions internally, between the president and our team, and our contacts and my office with Ukraine, were entirely focused on the broader issues of the lack of European support and corruption.
So let’s try this again:
Q: But you were aware of the interest in the Bidens being investigated and that being tied to aid to Ukraine being held up?
PENCE: That’s your question. Let me be very clear: The issue of aid and our efforts with regard to Ukraine were from my experience no way connected to the very legitimate concern the American people have about corruption that took place, about things that happened in the 2016 election ... or about the issue that former vice president Biden had his son on the board of a major energy company in Ukraine at a time that Vice President Biden was running the United States’ efforts in Ukraine. I think the American people have a right to know what was going on. And, but all of our discussions, all of my discussions, with the leadership in Ukraine was entirely focused on President Trump’s priority --
Again, skipping ahead a bit:
Q: But the president himself has said he wants a foreign country to investigate his rival. Is that okay with you?
PENCE: I don’t believe that’s the case.
Q: He said it.
PENCE: And again, I know that’s the way Chairman Schiff characterized it in his manufactured version of the transcript, but the American people should read the transcript and they will see that the president did nothing wrong, there was no pressure, there was no quid pro quo. The president simply raised issues of importance and interest to the American people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...pences-conspicuously-evasive-answers-ukraine/
Pence claims the transcript the White House provided was manufactured by Schiff? Or was this a slip of the tongue and an admittance that the White House in fact manufactured the transcript? Makes you wonder....
AT THIS POINT THEY ARENT LEAVING MUCH TO IMAGINATION. PICTURE I PRETTY CLEAR.
READING THE ARTICLE IT IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THESE TWO AND LAUNDERING MONEY FROM RUSSIA
TO SOUTH FLA REAL ESTATE (TRUMP) THEN CASHING IT OUT INTO CAMPAIGN MONEY (REPUBLICAN "DARK MONEY" - NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT CAME FROM.
THEN SELLING THE REAL ESTATE AND GREASING SOME PALMS AND BUYING CROOKED REPUBLICANS
YOU KNOW THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES.
THIS CIRCLE WILL END UP BACK TO MUELLER NOT FOLLOWING THE MONEY.
Two Men Who Helped Giuliani on Ukraine Arrested
Two Soviet-born donors to a pro-Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections and influence U.S. politics on behalf of at least one Ukrainian politician.
In a 21-page indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan alleged Messrs. Parnas and Fruman were engaged in political activities in the U.S. on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials—including a lobbying campaign, targeted at a Republican congressman, to remove the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv. President Trump ordered the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, removed from her post in May, the Journal has reported.
Their political giving—aimed at Republicans—was funded in part by an unnamed Russian donor, the indictment alleges. Federal law bans foreigners from contributing to U.S. elections. A limited liability company created by the men was used to disguise the source of some of the money, the indictment says.
he two had lunch with Mr. Giuliani at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday, according to a person who was in the hotel and saw the three together.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...n-ukraine-arrested/ar-AAIA6MX?ocid=spartandhp
Two Soviet-born donors to a pro-Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections and influence U.S. politics on behalf of at least one Ukrainian politician.
In a 21-page indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan alleged Messrs. Parnas and Fruman were engaged in political activities in the U.S. on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials—including a lobbying campaign, targeted at a Republican congressman, to remove the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv. President Trump ordered the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, removed from her post in May, the Journal has reported.
Their political giving—aimed at Republicans—was funded in part by an unnamed Russian donor, the indictment alleges. Federal law bans foreigners from contributing to U.S. elections. A limited liability company created by the men was used to disguise the source of some of the money, the indictment says.
he two had lunch with Mr. Giuliani at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday, according to a person who was in the hotel and saw the three together.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...n-ukraine-arrested/ar-AAIA6MX?ocid=spartandhp
MAN OF SELF PROCLAIMED "GREAT & UNMATCHED WISDOM" LOSES NOBEL TO PREZ OF AFRICAN SHET COUNTRY
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel peace prize
(TRUMP WINS PRIZE FOR BIGGEST CROOK)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...cinda-ardern-among-those-tipped-win-live-news
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel peace prize
(TRUMP WINS PRIZE FOR BIGGEST CROOK)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...cinda-ardern-among-those-tipped-win-live-news
TRUMP'S Giuliani Ukraine Team: In Search of Influence, Dirt and Money
The president’s lawyer was paid by Lev Parnas, who with Igor Fruman worked on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON — When Rudolph W. Giuliani set out to dredge up damaging information on President Trump’s rivals in Ukraine, he turned to a native of the former Soviet republic with whom he already had a lucrative business relationship.
They met regularly with Mr. Giuliani, often at the Trump International hotel in Washington. And all the while, they were pursuing their own business schemes and, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday, illegally funneling campaign contributions in the United States in the service of both their political and business activities.
n weeks, the company attracted notice in Republican finance circles with major donations to committees supporting Mr. Trump and his allies. It gave $325,000 to America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC; $50,000 to a political action committee affiliated with the Trump-endorsed candidate for Florida governor in 2018, Ron DeSantis, and $15,000 to a super PAC supporting the 2018 Senate campaign of the West Virginia attorney general, Patrick Morrisey.
(DIDNT CROOKED WORK HARD FOR MORRISEY - YES HE DID)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The president’s lawyer was paid by Lev Parnas, who with Igor Fruman worked on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON — When Rudolph W. Giuliani set out to dredge up damaging information on President Trump’s rivals in Ukraine, he turned to a native of the former Soviet republic with whom he already had a lucrative business relationship.
They met regularly with Mr. Giuliani, often at the Trump International hotel in Washington. And all the while, they were pursuing their own business schemes and, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday, illegally funneling campaign contributions in the United States in the service of both their political and business activities.
n weeks, the company attracted notice in Republican finance circles with major donations to committees supporting Mr. Trump and his allies. It gave $325,000 to America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC; $50,000 to a political action committee affiliated with the Trump-endorsed candidate for Florida governor in 2018, Ron DeSantis, and $15,000 to a super PAC supporting the 2018 Senate campaign of the West Virginia attorney general, Patrick Morrisey.
(DIDNT CROOKED WORK HARD FOR MORRISEY - YES HE DID)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
I've been talking about this since 2016.
He was not allowed to. The scope of the investigation was matters of Russian government interference and coordination with Trump officials. He could only run down anything that came directly from that. The Trump-Russia connection goes back much, much further than the election.
I don't know why this should surprise anyone...all this is missing is a sexy redhead Russian honey pot....but I figure we will soon find a couple more of those too.
YEAH - MUELLER WAS JUST TO HONEST, BUT IN THE END AND INDIRECTLY HE GOT HIS MAN.
TRUMP IS LIKE A GUY WHO COMMITED MURDER - BEAT THE WRAP (SORTA) WALKS OUT OF
COURT AND KILLS THE FIRST PERSON HE SEES, AND ON NATIONAL TV NO LESS.
I HOPE THERE IS ENOUGH EGG TO GO AROUND FOR THE FACES OF ALL THE RIGHT WING DITTO HEADS.
THINK I'LL BUY SOME STOCK IN A EGG PRODUCER.
Appeals court rules against Trump in fight with Congress over president’s accounting firm records
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...933894-b9ea-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...933894-b9ea-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again
The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill, the second time in a month the administration has sent its Ukraine talking points to Democrats.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...to-democrats-again/ar-AAIE5lp?ocid=spartandhp
The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill, the second time in a month the administration has sent its Ukraine talking points to Democrats.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...to-democrats-again/ar-AAIE5lp?ocid=spartandhp
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! ALL THE PRESIDENTS ABSOLUTE RIGHTS
Trump began staking his title to absolute power in his first weeks in office. “The whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president will not be questioned,”
Trump soon stated that “I have the absolute right” to fire FBI Director James Comey. He subsequently proclaimed the “absolute right” to provide Russia with an ally’s highly classified intelligence; the “absolute right” to pardon himself; the “absolute right” to shut down the southern border; the “absolute right” to fire special counsel Robert Mueller; the “absolute right” to sign an executive order removing the Constitution’s birthright-citizenship provision; the “absolute right” to contrive a national emergency to deny Congress the power of the purse; the “absolute right” to order U.S. businesses out of China; the “absolute right” to release apparent spy-satellite imagery of Iran; and, most recently, the “absolute right” to ask other countries to furnish evidence that Joe Biden is corrupt.
Kellyanne Conway asserted Trump’s “absolute right” to give his son-in-law a security clearance over security professionals’ objections. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said current and former White House officials are “absolutely immune” from testifying before Congress. As others have noted, Trump has repeatedly said the Constitution’s Article II empowers him “to do whatever I want” and bestows on him “all of these rights at a level nobody has ever seen before.”
At a level nobody has ever seen. Now we see the corrupting effect of this claim of own absolute power:
Without troubling himself to engage in the usual consultations with lawmakers, allies and military leaders, he ordered a pullout of U.S. troops from northern Syria, setting off a Turkish invasion as well as fears of a massacre of our Kurdish allies and religious minorities (including some 50,000 Christians) and of a revival of Islamic State. He did it at the request of the repressive leader of Turkey, where Trump has boasted of his extensive business interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...b0c720-ec34-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
Trump began staking his title to absolute power in his first weeks in office. “The whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president will not be questioned,”
Trump soon stated that “I have the absolute right” to fire FBI Director James Comey. He subsequently proclaimed the “absolute right” to provide Russia with an ally’s highly classified intelligence; the “absolute right” to pardon himself; the “absolute right” to shut down the southern border; the “absolute right” to fire special counsel Robert Mueller; the “absolute right” to sign an executive order removing the Constitution’s birthright-citizenship provision; the “absolute right” to contrive a national emergency to deny Congress the power of the purse; the “absolute right” to order U.S. businesses out of China; the “absolute right” to release apparent spy-satellite imagery of Iran; and, most recently, the “absolute right” to ask other countries to furnish evidence that Joe Biden is corrupt.
Kellyanne Conway asserted Trump’s “absolute right” to give his son-in-law a security clearance over security professionals’ objections. White House counsel Pat Cipollone said current and former White House officials are “absolutely immune” from testifying before Congress. As others have noted, Trump has repeatedly said the Constitution’s Article II empowers him “to do whatever I want” and bestows on him “all of these rights at a level nobody has ever seen before.”
At a level nobody has ever seen. Now we see the corrupting effect of this claim of own absolute power:
Without troubling himself to engage in the usual consultations with lawmakers, allies and military leaders, he ordered a pullout of U.S. troops from northern Syria, setting off a Turkish invasion as well as fears of a massacre of our Kurdish allies and religious minorities (including some 50,000 Christians) and of a revival of Islamic State. He did it at the request of the repressive leader of Turkey, where Trump has boasted of his extensive business interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...b0c720-ec34-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! GIULLIANI UNDER CRIMINALINVESTIGATION
Prosecutors are investigating whether the president’s lawyer broke laws meant to prevent covert foreign influence on the government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-investigation.html
CROOKED IS TWO FOR TWO FOR LAWYERS IN JAIL.
Prosecutors are investigating whether the president’s lawyer broke laws meant to prevent covert foreign influence on the government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-investigation.html
CROOKED IS TWO FOR TWO FOR LAWYERS IN JAIL.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...nt-say-if-ex-mayor-still-attorney/3945806002/
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from attorney Rudy Giuliani, even casting doubts about whether the former New York mayor is still his lawyer.
Asked whether Giuliani remained his personal attorney, Trump said: “I don’t know.”
“I haven't spoken to Rudy,” Trump told reporters as he was leaving the White House for a political rally in Louisiana. “I spoke to him yesterday, briefly. He's a very good attorney and he has been my attorney, yeah sure.”
Giuliani told USA TODAY shortly afterward that he’s still Trump's lawyer. “He hasn't told me otherwise,” he said.
Giuliani has emerged as a central figure in the Ukraine scandal that has led to an impeachment inquiry against Trump over efforts to push Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
Trump’s remarks followed the arrest late Wednesday of two of Giuliani’s associates, Ukranian-born business partners Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, at Dulles International Airport. The two were arrested by FBI agents and charged with in connection with alleged schemes to funnel foreign money to U.S. political campaigns.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought Friday to distance himself from attorney Rudy Giuliani, even casting doubts about whether the former New York mayor is still his lawyer.
Asked whether Giuliani remained his personal attorney, Trump said: “I don’t know.”
“I haven't spoken to Rudy,” Trump told reporters as he was leaving the White House for a political rally in Louisiana. “I spoke to him yesterday, briefly. He's a very good attorney and he has been my attorney, yeah sure.”
Giuliani told USA TODAY shortly afterward that he’s still Trump's lawyer. “He hasn't told me otherwise,” he said.
Giuliani has emerged as a central figure in the Ukraine scandal that has led to an impeachment inquiry against Trump over efforts to push Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
Trump’s remarks followed the arrest late Wednesday of two of Giuliani’s associates, Ukranian-born business partners Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, at Dulles International Airport. The two were arrested by FBI agents and charged with in connection with alleged schemes to funnel foreign money to U.S. political campaigns.
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! Minneapolis mayor:"We saw Trump stiffing cities for rallies,so we said pay up
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ties-his-other-rallies-so-we-told-him-pay-up/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ties-his-other-rallies-so-we-told-him-pay-up/
THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!! U.S. forces say Turkey deliberately ‘bracketing’ American troops w/ artillery
One Army officer who has deployed to northeastern Syria and has knowledge of the situation said that multiple rounds of 155 mm fire were launched from Turkey’s side of the border and that they had a “bracketing effect” in which shells landed on both sides of the U.S. outpost.
“That’s an area weapon,” the officer said, noting its explosive effects. “That’s not something we ever would have done to a partner force.”
The officer said Turkey knew there were Americans on the hill and that it had to be deliberate.
“We had been there for months, and it is the most clearly defined position in that entire area,” the officer said.
Brett McGurk, a former special envoy for both the Obama and Trump administrations in the campaign against the Islamic State, raised concerns about the incident Friday, saying on Twitter that the United States had declared the position to Turkey.
“This was not a mistake,” he said.
“Turkey wants us off the entire border region to a depth of 30 kilometers,” or about 20 miles, he said. “Based on all the facts available, these were warning fires on a known location, not inadvertent rounds.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ng-american-forces-with-artillery-fire-syria/
GREAT JOB CONS - ANYMORE GOOD IDEAS?
LET US KNOW SO WE CAN DO THE OPPOSITE.
TRUMP IS A REAL TREASURE.
SOON WE'LL BE FIGHTING TURKEY.
One Army officer who has deployed to northeastern Syria and has knowledge of the situation said that multiple rounds of 155 mm fire were launched from Turkey’s side of the border and that they had a “bracketing effect” in which shells landed on both sides of the U.S. outpost.
“That’s an area weapon,” the officer said, noting its explosive effects. “That’s not something we ever would have done to a partner force.”
The officer said Turkey knew there were Americans on the hill and that it had to be deliberate.
“We had been there for months, and it is the most clearly defined position in that entire area,” the officer said.
Brett McGurk, a former special envoy for both the Obama and Trump administrations in the campaign against the Islamic State, raised concerns about the incident Friday, saying on Twitter that the United States had declared the position to Turkey.
“This was not a mistake,” he said.
“Turkey wants us off the entire border region to a depth of 30 kilometers,” or about 20 miles, he said. “Based on all the facts available, these were warning fires on a known location, not inadvertent rounds.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ng-american-forces-with-artillery-fire-syria/
GREAT JOB CONS - ANYMORE GOOD IDEAS?
LET US KNOW SO WE CAN DO THE OPPOSITE.
TRUMP IS A REAL TREASURE.
SOON WE'LL BE FIGHTING TURKEY.
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