Tuesday, November 20, 2018
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
- Trump has submitted answers to written questions from special counsel Mueller
- Trump submits answers to special counsel’s questions about Russian interference
Rumor Mill Reactions
- 911corlebra777: After 16 months, the Special Counsel now has a baseline to compare Trump’s answers, with those of others & the SIGINT. It will move very fast from here I suspect
- Tea Pain: WHOOP! WHOOP! The laundry is in the hamper! This could be the last thing Mueller was waitin’ on.
- Mueller She Wrote Podcast: OMG OMG OMG! According to my super space beans, this is the action that kicks off the dominoes. HOLD ON TO YOUR TURKIES! #beans
- Scott Stedman: Transition Team Questions
Washington Post confirms that Trump refuses to answer questions about the transition period from November 2016-January 2017.
Scott Stedman added,
Matea GoldVerified account @mateagold
Trump’s legal team was going to submit answers to Mueller last week, but there were “questions raised about the legitimacy of the investigation that we had to discuss and look into,”
What happened in that time period? Here’s a quick list. 1. Erik Prince and George Nader flew to the Seychelles and Prince met a Russian banker in an attempt to set up a secret backchannel to the Russian govt.
George Nader paid Joel Zamel of Psy Group $2,000,000. We still don’t know why.
Michael Flynn called the Russian ambassador and talked about sanctions, something he later lied about.
KT McFarland wrote in an email that Russia “has just thrown U.S.A. election to [Trump]”
The Rosneft deal went through. Christopher Steele alleged that Carter Page and other members of the Trump campaign were offered a brokerage fee of the transaction.
Michael Cohen met with the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg at Trump Tower.
Maria Butina and top Russian official Alexander Torshin discuss the upcoming selection of the US Sec of State. Christopher Steele would write that Russian officials told the Trump team not to select Mitt Romney.
Jared Kushner met with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank to attempt to set up a secret backchannel.
A flood of Russians, including Vekselberg and Shustorovich donate to the Trump inauguration.
Arron Banks met with the Russian Ambassador to the UK and passed contact information for the Trump team to the Ambassador.
Carter Page, while under a VISA warrant, flew to Russia and spent at least 5 days there.
I’m gonna stop here but you get the point. The transition is an ESSENTIAL part of the Russia investigation. Trump doesn’t want to answer questions about it.
To be honest, I’m surprised this happened as fast as it did. When Trump said they would submit the answers by Thanksgiving, I assumed he was lying like usual. But no, his team actually submitted their answers.
Well, some of them.
They’re refusing to answer questions about the Transition Team. You know, the time when Mike Flynn talked to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions, when Jared Kushner lobbied the U.N. on behalf of Ben Netenyahu, when they had multiple meetings in Trump Tower with oligarchs about setting up a backchannel, and when Erik Prince and George Nader went to the Seychelles for their meeting with Putin’s banker.
The Rumor Mill was pretty excited about this because Trump submitting his answers on this front is seen as the last impediment to the Oncoming Storm. After scrutinizing these answers, they’re expecting the Justice Train to roll into town. I tend to agree, but I’m still a little skeptical about the timing.
How long would it take them to review Trump’s answers? It depends. If he listened to his lawyers and they wrote the answers, then they’ll be longer and in legalese, phrased in a way to prevent them from being used as an obvious lie. If Trump really did answer them himself, it might take longer as they debate whether or not crayons are an acceptable writing utensil for legal questions.
- Collins breaks with Flake, refuses to compel vote on protecting Mueller
- Litigation Documents Related to the Mueller Investigation
- Mueller Controversy: Trump Has Repeatedly Broken His Oath of Office. Now It’s Up to Congress to Hold Him Accountable.
- Mueller is coming – and Trump can do nothing to stop him | Spectator USA
- Mueller might soon bring charges that even Trump die-hards can’t trivialize
- Special counsel Robert Mueller just filed a new 3,000-word sealed motion in secret subpoena case
Special counsel Robert Mueller just filed a new and extensive motion that is being kept under seal for the grand jury, according to Politico reporter Darren Samuelsohn.
The reporter posted a screen capture from the update showing Mueller made the November update as part of “Case Name: In re: Grand Jury Subpoena.” It explained, “The following transaction was entered on 11/20/2018 3:49:22 PM EST and filed on 11/20/2018.”
Another NEW sealed motion just filed — apparently from Mueller — in the mystery grand jury subpoena case we’ve been tracking here at
@politico – This one is 3,074 words. http://ow.ly/UyKY30mGZe1
To put 3,000 in perspective, an average 12 point Times New Roman font page will be 250 words when double spaced. 3,000/250 = 12 pages. That’s a decent length document. This post with all of the links will be between 5,000 to 6,000 words, but it’s mostly links, and not written by an attorney.
- Julian Assange Isn’t Worth It – OpEd by Bradley P. Moss
- Eric Garland on Julian Assange’s Lawyer Thread
- What the Watergate ‘Road Map’ Reveals about Improper Contact between the White House and the Justice Department
- The Eerie Parallels Between Trump and the Watergate ‘Road Map’
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- We now know more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s finances than we do Trump’s
- Donald Trump’s Resort in Ireland Has Lost Money for the Fourth Consecutive Year
- From August 11, 2018: A goat herd is helping Trump pay tens of thousands of dollars less in property taxes on his New Jersey properties
- Most charities that deserted Trump’s Florida club after Charlottesville haven’t come back
- Ivanka Trump Is Just Another Wannabe American Oligarch in Her Father’s Orbit
- Ivanka Trump Pocketed Millions From D.C. Hotel After Her Father Became President
…But, Her Emails!!!
- Ivanka Trump Repeatedly Used Personal Email at White House, Review Finds
- Ivanka Trump’s Email Use Prompts Call for Probe as Ex-Administration Official Says it ‘Certainly Looks Bad’
- Ivanka’s emails show the law ‘does not apply’ to the Trump Family
- ‘Fox & Friends’ spent months blasting Hillary Clinton’s email use. Ivanka Trump got 25 seconds.
- Trump defends Ivanka’s private email usage by saying ‘Hillary Clinton’ 5 times in 40 seconds
- Trump defends daughter Ivanka’s use of personal email for government work
- Hold ‘Crooked Ivanka’ accountable
- Dem senator: ‘Should be some kind of investigative effort’ into Ivanka Trump
- House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump’s use of personal email for government business
- House Dems Will Investigate Ivanka Trump’s Email Practices.
- House Oversight Dems to investigate Ivanka Trump’s personal email use
- Gowdy requests info on Ivanka Trump’s personal email use
- Jim Sciutto: Breaking: Oversight Chmn & Republican Trey Gowdy sent letter to WH Chief of Staff Kelly asking for more info about Ivanka Trump’s personal email use, seeking responses by Dec 5. One question he asks is “whether the emails in question contained sensitive or classified information”
- Fox News barely covers Ivanka Trump private Emails after destroying Hilary Clinton after 2016
- Fox News contributor: ‘Unforgivable’ for Ivanka to use private email after witnessing 2016 campaign
- Lock her up?
- Lock her up? Ivanka Trump claims she didn’t know private email use was bad
- Toobin On Ivanka Trump’s Use Of Private Email Account: ‘Irony Is Dead!’
- Trump’s Old Tweets About Hillary Clinton’s Email Look Really Bad For Ivanka Trump – “She is the only one with judgement so bad that such a thing could have happened!”
- Will Trump Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate Ivanka?
- Richard Painter: If a federal employee illegally uses personal email for government business, federal investigators have the right and duty to search ALL of that email and find out what else pertains to the U.S. government (or to Russia or Saudi Arabia, etc). Mueller, U.S. House, start looking!
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET
- Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton
- Bombshell: Trump ordered Hillary Clinton, James Comey prosecution
It’s a Maggie Haberman story. That means keep an eye out for what else is coming on the horizon. There’s a good chance this story was leaked to her to cover up something worse.
TRUMP VS. MILITARY
- Former General: President Trump is Losing Support Among Military
- Former Officials Slam Trump Over Bin Laden Raid Comments
- Spicy Mic: Dear @realDonaldTrump You are UNWORTHY to be Commander in Chief You are an UNAMERICAN & UNPATRIOTIC President By the Numbers: 20 Vets per day x 365 x 2 = 14,600 Vets who took their lives during your 2 year @WhiteHouse hotline delay $2.3M YOU WASTED. THREAD
- White House discusses possible Trump visit to troops in Iraq or Afghanistan
- ‘He’s afraid people want to kill him’: White House discusses possible Trump visit to troops in Iraq or Afghanistan
- Paul Ryan defends Navy admiral after Trump’s criticism
- Commander in Chief? HARDLY
- Trump says it took too long to find bin Laden, but where is ISIS leader al-Baghdadi?
- Spicy Mic: Play Toys
The fact that
@realDonaldTrump created mass hysteria over the caravan and then wasted $220M but more importantly@POTUS thinks OUR Armed Forces are his “play toys”. Fork you, you forking mother forker. How about Trump calls the VA & push for the GI bill paychecks. Oh wait…Sept 2018, “340,000 students attending school using the GI Bill received slightly smaller housing payments in August”
October 2018 if
@realDonaldTrump actually CARED & RESPECTED OUR Military and our Veterans. 1) he’d pick up the goddamn phone and light a fire (bad pun) 2) he’d call the VA & Congress into the WH & demand immediate actions 3) THIS IS BULLSHITFTR the Forever GI bill was set to take effect on August 1, 2018, it was delayed until Sept 4th. I wish the MSM would call
@realDonaldTrump OUT on the INSANE levels of vacancies within his administration. HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT or lack ofI very rarely highlight the good OR decent Member of the
@HouseGOP But@DrPhilRoe has long been a vocal champion for our Veterans & occasionally knows exactly what to say. Supporting our Veterans should transcend all party lines = hence bipartisanshipAlso I’ve tried to write a blog about how Trump uses our Military like play toys but each time (4 attempts) I’ve gotten so mad I had to walk away The fact the
@GOP LIED and defended@realDonaldTrump unseemly attack on Admiral McCraven is just despicable
WHITAKER
- Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million
- Before joining Justice Dept., Whitaker made more than $900,000 from charity, took ‘legal fees’ from company accused of fraud
- Trump DOJ Chief Whitaker Received $900,000 From Right-Wing Group
- Senator Chuck Schumer: Letter about Whitaker
Did Matthew Whitaker share confidential information about Mueller’s investigation with President Trump?
@TheJusticeDept Inspector General must investigate now.
Let’s take page 3, I’ve highlighted the two items that warrant scrutinizing 1)
@MattWhitaker46 claimed@factdc only paid him $500,000 THATS A DEMONSTRABLE LIEHere this thread shows you
@factdc IRS990 They paid@MattWhitaker46 $626,000 Unless Whitaker is saying FACTDC filed a false IRS990sMatthew G Whitaker PC he shows 2018 administrative dissolution
https://sos.iowa.gov/search/business/(S(r1fakbjpvq02qc55rlgghkmn))/download.aspx?f=nj4BSVPFAuoIQF93TXTzMUygTwQS40WHC0LDA0FWy1GNc8P9SglKk7YCX1V2-5s1PEXYRzjLTIhfcmG4BZAxMfgD1LL0K71SewO7TWepFu4ayGpHknQSj9fr2watg_IZ5SdTvmusB_Wvjbh9KE6TrRzolJvcLHoTSnN6sJV2eWA1 …
Really
@MattWhitaker46 that’s what you’re going with you didn’t claim any income or liabilities for MEM or Lincoln Saving Bank Lord one of two https://twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1063893649526792192?s=20 …This is BONKERs he didn’t disclose the City of Des Moines HUD backed loan or Lincoln Savings Bank WTFINGF
FIGHTING BACK
- Trump’s public attacks on the ‘enemies of the people’ echo Nixon’s private press war — except worse
- Watergate’s John Dean: Nixon would tell Trump ‘he’s going too far’
- Trump’s political safety net hangs by a thread
- Liberal Group Asks FTC To Probe Trump’s Participation In ‘Deceptive Advertising’
RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
- PBS Frontline: Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
- How America’s Perpetual Warfare Abroad Is Fueling an Increase in White Supremacist Violence in U.S.
- More than 40 members of Ghost Face white supremacists gang indicted in eastern Georgia
- Kansas County Commissioner Who Joked About ‘Master Race’ Resigns
- Swastika Defaces Duke University Mural Honoring Synagogue Shooting Victims
- Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes’s path to the far-right frontier
KHASHOGGI & SAUDI ARABIA
- Trump continues to question CIA conclusion that Saudi crown prince was responsible for Khashoggi’s death
- Trump defends Saudi Arabia’s denial about the planning of Khashoggi’s death
- Trump says US is ‘standing with Saudi Arabia’ despite Khashoggi murder
- Trump says US stands with Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi killing
- Trump’s full statement giving Saudi Arabia a pass for Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, annotated
- ‘We may never know all of the facts’: Trump defiantly stands with Saudi Arabia before release of CIA report on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
- Angry White House Staffer: Remember when Obama “bowing” to King Abdullah was a big scandal? Still worse than Trump’s “it is what it is” comment re: Khashoggi’s murder according to conservative media. Which should tell you everything you need to know about conservative media.
- Ex-CIA chief calls on Congress to declassify CIA findings on Khashoggi killing
- READ: Trump’s statement on Saudi crown prince and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
- Senators demand determination on Saudi crown prince’s role in Khashoggi murder
- Shep Smith: Trump ‘insulted the murder victim and sided with the Saudis’
- Trump: Who Can Really Say Whether the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Ordered the Killing of a Journalist? Also, Arms Sales!
- With Saudi Arabia as with Russia, Trump’s view muffles his administration’s
- Rebecca Ballhaus: Trump just now: “I don’t make deals with Saudi Arabia. I don’t have money from Saudi Arabia. I have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.” Trump in August 2015: “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million.”
- Saudi royals want to stop crown prince from becoming king and appoint his uncle instead
- Trump says no new punishment for writer’s murder
Pompeo: Accessory to Murder After The Fact
- Trump team reportedly helped Saudi Arabia cover up murder of US journalist
- Pompeo handed Riyadh a plan to shield MBS from Khashoggi fallout, says source
- Caroline Orr: Pompeo Hand Delivered Instructions to MSB
The plan includes an option to pin Khashoggi’s murder on an innocent member of the ruling family in order to insulate those at the very top. That person hasn’t been chosen, & Saudi leaders are reserving the plan in case pressure on MbS becomes too much.
Pompeo’s trip to the Gulf kingdom came exactly two weeks after Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. A source told
@MiddleEastEye that Pompeo went to Riyadh to **advise the Saudis on how to handle the fallout**The day after his meeting with MbS, Pompeo told journalists that the Saudis didn’t want to talk about the facts in Khashoggi’s case and neither did he. “I don’t want to talk about any of the facts,” Pompeo said. “They didn’t want to either.”
The State Department did not answer
@MiddleEastEye‘s repeated requests for comment today (Monday) regarding the nature of Mike Pompeo’s visit to Riyadh (when he met with MbS).So if this report is accurate, the US Secretary of State hand-delivered a plan to the Saudi ruling family to help them cover up the murder of a US journalist at the behest of the Saudi crown prince. “wow” doesn’t quite cut it here.
Pompeo’s plan for the Saudi leadership included several steps, a source said. When Pompeo declared on Oct. 18 that Saudi Arabia should be given “a few more days” to complete its investigation into the case, he was giving them time to begin implementing his plan, the source said.
“They [the Saudi leadership] have done everything [Pompeo] wanted to execute,” the source said.
Remember when Rex Tillerson was fired as Secretary of State for not being loyal enough? (Daily Check-In 03/13/2018) Apparently that loyalty means covering up a kidnapping, torture, and murder. If you’re suspect of the source, the Middle East Eye originally broke the Khashoggi killing, as well as many further updates in the case. Let’s see if this gets picked up by other sources over the next couple weeks.
SCOTUS
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- ‘Pro-life’ bill allows possibility of death penalty for abortion providers and pregnant people
- U.S. judge strikes down Mississippi ban on abortions after 15 weeks
- A Judge Ruled That Mississippi’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Is “Unequivocally” Unconstitutional
- Judge notes ‘sad irony’ of men deciding abortion rights as he blocks Mississippi abortion law
- Ex-President of Michigan State Charged with Lying about Nassar Case
IMMIGRATION
- 2020 Democrats challenge Trump’s use of troops at Mexico border
- In blow to Trump’s immigration agenda, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
- Senator Jeff Merkley: It’s been FOUR MONTHS since the @realDonaldTrump Administration was ordered to reunite families separated at the border, and there are STILL children in custody, with potential plans to expand and accelerate the child-snatching policy. Inhumane and unacceptable.
- Troops Rushed To Border To Guard Against Caravan Leaving Before Migrants Arrive
- Trump administration paying undercover informants in migrant caravan: report
- U.S. adds more barriers, razor wire at Mexico border amid fears of a crowd surge
- General in charge of border mission wants to begin redeploying troops
- ‘He may not rewrite immigration laws’: Trump’s asylum ban blocked by federal judge
COLD WAR 2.0
- Bill Browder: BREAKING: Lithuanian Parliament votes 88-0 to immediately consider withdrawing from Interpol, along with other democratic countries, if Russian candidate Prokopchuk is elected as head of Interpol
- Seimo rezoliucijos „Dėl Interpolo ateities“ projektas
- Opinion | Putin is about to gain control of the world’s main law enforcement organization
- Foreign Troops Except Russia Should Leave Syria, U.S. Envoy Says
- Netanyahu’s Government Survives — But Maybe Not for Long
- The international community must guarantee security to Rohingya refugees | TRT World
- A welcome rebuke: Mike Pence pressures Myanmar on Rohingya, reporters
- ‘He may not rewrite immigration laws’: Trump’s asylum ban blocked by federal judge
- Internet data headed for Australia diverted via China
#NEVERAGAIN
- Gunman in Mercy Hospital killings targeted his ex-fiancee, an emergency room physician
- ‘THIS IS OUR LANE’: The NRA told doctors to mind their business. Then a man shot up a hospital.
- John Purakal, MD.: I knew her, trained with her, saved lives with her and tonight, tried to save her life. Tonight, I broke down in front of my coworkers when we lost her, and tonight I held hands with her mother in prayer. Tonight, we lost a beautiful, resilient, passionate doc. Keep singing, TO.
- Shannon Watts: .@NRA spokeswoman blaming victims for their own deaths and injuries. She believes as a civilian she could have been the armed hero – even though a trained officer was killed. Reminder that the NRA fights in DC and every state legislature to let domestic abusers keep their guns.
- Shannon Watts: Marcy Hospital Shooting Victims
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Kevin Roose: Today’s top stories on Facebook* are from: 1. Ben Shapiro 2. Ben Shapiro 3. Daily Caller 4. 9Gag 5. TMZ 6. UNILAD 7. Franklin Graham 8. Fox News 9. The Other 98% 10. Fox News *link posts only, last 24h, ranked by total interactions, data from @crowdtangle
- Internet data headed for Australia diverted via China
- Perspective | Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should — at least — step down as Facebook chairman
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- ‘Fox & Friends’ spent months blasting Hillary Clinton’s email use. Ivanka Trump got 25 seconds.
- Trump defends Ivanka’s private email usage by saying ‘Hillary Clinton’ 5 times in 40 seconds
- NBC will reportedly pay Megan Kelly $30 Million so she will “go away “
- A turkey has spent more time on-camera in the briefing room this month than the press secretary
- Trump’s public attacks on the ‘enemies of the people’ echo Nixon’s private press war — except worse
- Watergate’s John Dean: Nixon would tell Trump ‘he’s going too far’
- White House says there are new ‘rules’ for reporters, but press members haven’t agreed to them
- Chuck Todd rips ‘absurd’ White House rules: No serious journalist will follow these
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
TRADE WAR AND ECONOMY
- A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump’s Trade War Has Aided Few
- He’s an architect in Manhattan. He got $3,300 from Trump’s farm bailout.
- Dow falls nearly 500 points as stocks erase 2018 gains
- Dow tumbles 600 points, wiping out all gains this year
- The incredible U.S.-to-China soybean nosedive, in one chart
- Trump pushes forward with Medicaid work requirements in Ketucky
- U.S. Accuses China of Continuing IP Theft Amid Trade War
- U.S. recession chances edge up, risk Fed delivers fewer hikes: Reuters poll
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Misogyny has become central to the Republican mission — and the GOP is dying as a result
- Tea Pain: The soul of the GOP is dead for three reasons. 1) Paul Ryan’s lack of courage 2) Mitch McConnell’s lack of morals 3) Donald Trump’s lack of…well…everything.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- Woman claims Avenatti dragged her by arm across floor
- The many important people who vouched for wife-beater and former judge Lance Mason
- He claims he’s America’s deadliest serial killer with 90 victims. Police believe him.
- Lee’s Summit Couple Among 13 Indicted for $62 Million Cocaine Conspiracy
LGBT+
- These 38 GOP Lawmakers want LGBT Protection Removed in the New NAFTA Deal
- States stand with transgender community as federal protections erode
PUFF, PUFF, PASS
- Rep. Joe Kennedy III: It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level
- Joe Kennedy calls for legalizing marijuana at the federal level
- Massachusetts mayor first in line as recreational marijuana sales begin
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- With disease in shelters and hotels at capacity, wildfire evacuees desperately seek refuge
- GOP county chairman deletes image calling wildfires ‘God’s punishment for liberal California’
- Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers
- Why NASA wants to look at flying tourists to space — a dramatic change for a by-the-book agency
- New peanut allergy drug could herald a ‘sea change’ in treating food allergies, but is not a cure
CONGRESS
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Pelosi Opponents Lack Diversity, Could Make Democrat Leadership More Conservative
- Ocasio-Cortez flames Sarah Palin’s criticism: Isn’t it a little early to be bringing out the big guns?
- Swalwell defends Pelosi: We need her ‘on the mound’
ELECTION 2018
- Democrat Xochitl Torres Small is the apparent winner in New Mexico House race, boosting Dem majority
- Democratic Challenger McAdams Declared Winner in Race Against Mia Love, Flipping the Conservative Utah District
- Democrats need to be ruthless on fixing voting. They’re paying a steep price for neglect.
- Don’t Be Naive: Avoiding Calling Trump Supporters Racist Won’t Convince Them to Vote for Democrats
- Embattled Hyde-Smith posted photo of herself in Confederate hat
- Ex-Facebook President Sean Parker Funded Race-Baiting Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Super PAC
- GOP gerrymandering: Democratic votes not matched by seats gained
- It’s over. Democrat Ben McAdams ousts Republican Rep Mia Love by 694 votes
- Mia Love loses lead, Utah House race ‘likely’ to go to Democrat
- Republicans cheated to win, and we all lost
- Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election
- The Mississippi Senate runoff, Dems’ last chance for one more 2018 upset, explained – Mike Espy could become the first black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
- Walmart asks GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for campaign donation back because of outrage over ‘hanging’ comments
- Walmart seeks refund from Hyde-Smith after ‘public hanging’ comment
- Cindy Hyde-Smith called for a “front row” seat at a lynching. Now donors want their money back.
- Robert Gehrke: After Salt Lake County’s canvass, Love shaves off another six votes, but McAdams now up 694. That’s the final report and it is outside the margin for a recount. Ben McAdams has won. #utpol
- Ron Perlman says he won’t work in Georgia in support of Abrams
- Mississippi Senate runoff candidates hold debate
THINKING AHEAD
- 2020 Democrats challenge Trump’s use of troops at Mexico border
- Beto is no longer not running for president
IN OTHER NEWS…
RUMOR MILL
- Ming: If you think Kremlin has all GOP comms and sock accts on facebook. you are right. those will come out too. Zuckerberg knew.
- Rick Wilson: Keep telling yourself Trump’s behavior is perfectly normal. Keep telling yourself it’s just Trump being Trump. Keep pretending that the rule of law is for losers. Keep telling yourself the jackboot will never be on the other foot.
- Democrats Have Their Own Kremlin Influence Problem, Starting with Al Gore and Maxine Waters
- Countercheckist: It is, in fact, working. Investigations take time. How long did it take for the Watergate and Starr reports? This isn’t a Law & Order episode that wraps up in an hour. But the system is working. Denying that denies the obvious… OSC’s investigation is still progressing…
- Ming: Have you noticed RU/GOP information operations failing? Why no hashtag like Nunes ‘releasethememo’ now?
- Countercheckist: Just to head this off @realDonaldtRUmp; during your Turkey pardoning ceremony tomorrow, Roger Stone and Don Jr don’t count as “Turkeys.”
- Ming: We know Zuckerberg visit Kremlin. Ming bet he on intercepts too. Maybe they become public… SELL SELL SELL
- Countercheckist: Our founders knew a wannabe tyrant like tRUmp could emerge someday. So they devised a system of govt that circumvented a tyrant’s ability to destroy our Republic, and everything it stands for. That 231 year old system is working as designed. It’s been awe-inspiring to witness.
- Ming: Why USG close almost all RU consulates except Houston? ongoing investigation Parscale, Cruz, Mercer.
- 911corlebra777: Still no movement on @FoxNews twitter account. No tweets, no likes, nothing. Weird
- Tea Pain: Wouldn’t it be cool if this Thanksgivin’ is not remembered for “turkey and dressin’”, but rather “indictments and plea deals?”
- Exclusive: Carolyne Cass Admits Mueller Rape Report Has False Information She Didn’t Want Published
- PostimusMaximus: I really don’t think people understand the scope of the Trump-Russia stuff. I wish someone else had found a way to organize and present it in my absence, because it really is just staggering. Kinda makes me wonder why no outlet (to my knowledge) has organized the sum total of their own reporting related to the investigation in the past 2 years into an organized Wiki-esque page.
- Seth Abramson: The Grand Bargain, Part 1
- Seth Abramson: The Grand Bargain, Part 2
Those last two links from Seth is like the early version of the Grand Unifying Theory of Collusion. It starts to lay out exactly how large the scope of this is, but even this doesn’t cover the whole thing. My guess is that there’s at least a third to a half that’s missing out of this. Seth’s thread ties together the entire Middle East Clusterfuck with Russia, but he doesn’t go into the deep ties in this thread between organized crime, terrorist organizations, and their associations to rogue states like Russia, and how those connected to shady businesses in the U.S., of which Trump was a part.
I don’t want to sound like a nutter when I say “It’s all connected”, but it’s all connected. Every time a new sliver of news comes out that shouldn’t be connected in any way to a vast global international conspiracy, some at-first-tenuous link arrives which then turns that sliver into another round of the most corrupt version of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon ever played.
For example, Jamal Khashoggi. A reporter went missing at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. That should be a pretty open and shut case, right? Something happened to him when he visited, and when the Saudi’s couldn’t produce proof of life, he was assumed dead. Then, things get weird. Trump jumps up to defend MBS like he was accused of sexually assaulting a minor in an Alabama Senate election, and each day a new story element comes out connecting Trump to Saudi Arabia. Kushner, Nader, Broidy, Prince, MBS, Zamel, MBZ, and so on. Everyone and their mother accuses MBS of orchestrating this brutal murder except Trump. Why? Because it’s connected to the Russian Investigation.
Another example was NEXIVM. A few months back I saw some crazy ass stories about a Self-Help MLM turned Sex Cult involving B and C level celebrities, and the leaders of that group were charged with sex trafficking, kidnapping, and human trafficking charges. That’s pretty crazy, but shouldn’t have any connection to this clusterfuck. Instead, guess who was a former member of that group, and tried using it to gain dirt on his enemies? Roger Fucking Stone.
And all of this shit doesn’t even include things like Intelligence background connections, media moguls with ties to the mob, or dumb kids with even dumber parents.
Yes, it’s all connected. No, I don’t own a corkboard covered in cut out pictures tied together with red yarn. But that would be a nice Christmas gift…
That’s it for Tuesday. I’ll try to post something for Wednesday on Wednesday night, but I make no promises. Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and most people have off on Friday. However, it’s not a Federal holiday, which means that government offices like the Special Counselor’s Office are still open. I don’t know if anything will come out this weekend, but I’ll try to cover it if it does.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
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