Thursday, March 28, 2019
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
Barr Summary and Mueller Report
- ‘There’s nothing routine about this’: Barr’s move to send Mueller’s report to the White House before the public sets off alarm bells
- A Mueller mystery: How Trump dodged a special counsel interview — and a subpoena fight
- Attorney General Barr agrees to testify before House committee
- Barr Won’t Commit to Turning Over Full Mueller Report: Source
- Comey: ‘It doesn’t make sense’ that Mueller didn’t rule on obstruction of justice
- Mueller Report Exceeds 300 Pages, Raising Questions About Four-Page Summary
- Mueller’s report is more than 300 pages, attorney general tells top Democrat
- Lincoln’s Bible: The panic resumes. Wonder why… Maybe a 3 page memo with a cover page and oddly plucked excerpts did not exonerate? Wut you think?
- Angry White House Staffer: For a report that supposedly exonerates POTUS, there sure are a lot of republicans who don’t want it to be public 🤔
At least 300 pages. The Barr Summary was 3 pages and a cover, yet didn’t contain a complete quoted sentence. Plus, he’s sending it over to the White House first for them to redact and edit before it gets to Congress?
The Fix is in. If there’s one thing I’m confident of in this mess, someone from the White House will leak the report almost immediately. They’ll do so with Whistleblower protections, too.
- Adam Schiff Blasts Republicans: They ‘Think It’s OK’ Russia Meddled in Our Election
- Adam Schiff Presents His ‘Evidence of Collusion’ | The House Intelligence Committee chairman and foe of President Trump delivered a fiery speech on Thursday morning
- Adam Schiff’s Clapback at Republicans Lays Out the Case for Releasing the Mueller Report
- Trump-Russia collusion evidence detailed by Schiff in damning address in Congress: ‘You might think it’s ok’
Butina
- Maria Butina, Russian who conspired to infiltrate NRA, to be sentenced April 26
- Special counsel briefly interviewed Maria Butina, sources say
- Natasha Bertrand: Can confirm…and if there is an NRA money laundering angle here, it wasn’t part of Butina’s case, I’m told. She was asked by Mueller’s team about JD Gordon and other contacts w/Trump’s campaign.
Kushner
- Jared Kushner interviewed by Senate Intelligence Committee
- Jared Kushner seen leaving secret Senate Intelligence Committee hearing room, days after Mueller report submitted
The Beat Goes On…
- Mueller grand jury continuing ‘robustly,’ as U.S. prosecutors take over subpoena fight with foreign state-owned company
- No, the FBI did not say Michael Flynn did not lie, as Donald Trump said
- Former CIA leaders give ‘briefing book’ to 2020 candidates to counteract ‘fake news’ and ‘foreign election interference’
- Ex-Trump aide details president’s alleged effort to cover up the Trump Tower meeting
- Prison ‘street cred’ and a standing ovation: George Papadopoulos on doing time ‘in Trump Country’
- Want to know what’s next in Russian election interference? Pay attention to Ukraine’s elections
Saudi Arabia
- Trump Admin Weirdly Eager to Hand the Saudis Nuclear Secrets
- Trump administration authorized nuclear energy companies to share technological information with Saudi Arabia
- U.S. approved secret nuclear power work for Saudi Arabia
CONGRESS
- Adam Schiff Blasts Republicans: They ‘Think It’s OK’ Russia Meddled in Our Election
- Adam Schiff Presents His ‘Evidence of Collusion’ | The House Intelligence Committee chairman and foe of President Trump delivered a fiery speech on Thursday morning
- Adam Schiff’s Clapback at Republicans Lays Out the Case for Releasing the Mueller Report
- Schiff on Trump: ‘I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic’
- Schiff recites long list of Trump’s Russia contacts after Republicans call for his resignation
- Trump-Russia collusion evidence detailed by Schiff in damning address in Congress: ‘You might think it’s ok’
- Under partisan fire, Adam Schiff presents his case without apology
- Schiff shames grandstanding GOP with litany of Trump corruption
- Napolitano: Schiff is ‘Correct’ to Conclude Mueller Report Will Have Evidence of Conspiracy
- Watch: Adam Schiff lists all the ways he says Trump campaign colluded with Russia, shuts off Republican’s Mic
- Adam Schiff: I say this to the President, and his defenders in Congress: You may think it’s okay how Trump and his associates interacted with Russians during the campaign. I don’t. I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt.
- Rick Wilson: Stiffen your spines, folks. Fight is still on.
- PostimusMaximus: Journalists : If you fall into this “journalists messed up” meme of the alt-right bunch you actually are idiots. The reporting is all correct. Everything that was reported to have happened still happened. (Its the entire reason I started doing this stuff to begin with) Thanks
@RepAdamSchifffor making this as clear as possible. Everything that happened with Russia still happened. None of it was ok. - Answering the liberal clamor, Pelosi rolls out limited proposals on health care and environment
- Pelosi to Mika: I intend to use ‘full force’ to have report released
- Pelosi: ‘Arrogant’ Of Barr To Expect That Dems Would Blindly Accept His Summary
- House votes to condemn Trump ban on transgender military service
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- Trump’s Financial Statements Are so Full of Lies That His Accountants Put a Warning Label on Them: Newly Obtained Documents Show the Brazen Methods with Which the President Inflated and Deflated His Assets to Banks and Insurance Companies.
- Trump’s odd financial statements: Omitted debts, overvalued assets and broken accounting rules
- Trump said investigating his finances would be a ‘red line.’ New York prosecutors are about to cross it.
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A INDIVIDUAL-1
- Trump may not be a Russian agent. He’s just a Russian stooge.
- Trump says he is rescinding his proposed cut to Special Olympics budget amid a bipartisan outcry
- Trump told Hannity he won’t rule out pardoning Michael Flynn and others in first interview since Mueller probe ended
- Trump pressures wary Republicans to produce replacement for health-care law
- Trump: If Barr Had Always Been AG, Mueller Probe ‘Would Not Have Happened’
- Trump’s spin on the Mueller report not sticking with Americans
- Trump’s Treachery Goes Way Beyond Russia: He’s not working for Putin. He’s working for any dictator who flatters him.
TRAITOR TOTS
- Trump Ally Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University Landed Pentagon Contract Months After Trump’s Election
- Bernhardt’s past lobbying casts shadow in interior secretary confirmation hearing
- Rand Paul blocks resolution calling for Mueller report release
- This Lindsey Graham quote perfectly explains the GOP’s codependent relationship with Trump
CULT 45
- As Grand Rapids awaits Trump, both sides of the political divide find their anger stoked by the Mueller report
- It took Trump 90 seconds to lie about the “Mueller report” during Michigan speech
FIGHTING BACK
- Dem accuses McConnell of ‘collusion’ for blocking Mueller report release
- Dems demand Mueller’s full 300 pages, mock ‘scaredy-cat’ GOP
- Poll: After Barr Letter, Overwhelming Majority Wants Full Mueller Report Released
PUERTO RICO
- Statehood bill could make Puerto Rico a state before 2020
- U.S. lawmakers unveil bill to make Puerto Rico 51st state, as Trump escalates feud with island officials
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN, & IMMIGRATION
- ‘We Are Running Concentration Camps’: Images From El Paso Stir Outrage Over Migrant Treatment
- Man stopped by ICE uses ‘know your rights’ training, prevents immigrants’ arrest
- Trump renews threat to close the southern border, blasts Mexico on immigration
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
- Booker: Trump is ‘complicit’ in white supremacist violence
- Buttigieg: ‘Americans are being radicalized’ by Trump administration
- Nathan Bernard: . @benshapiro is threatening to sue @TheEconomist for exercising free speech. Prosecutors recently found the alt-right terrorist who shot up a mosque in Quebec City was a Shapiro superfan, studying Ben’s content closely before killing. Extremists heed Ben’s words, he’s their sage.
SCOTUS & COURTS
- In veteran’s disability case, Supreme Court considers junking longtime deference to federal agencies
- Supreme Court declines to stop Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- NRA Opposes Expansion of the Violence Against Women Act
- College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
COLD WAR 2.0
- How to Sell a Massacre
- EU states unanimously announce: We do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
#NEVERAGAIN
Australia
- How to Sell a Massacre
- Al Jazeera English: THREAD Days after the Christchurch massacre, New Zealand banned assault rifles. But in Australia, the right-wing @OneNationAus party wants to weaken gun laws with the help of the NRA. Our 3 year undercover investigation reveals #HowToSellAMassacre http://aljazeera.com/howtosellamassacre …
- 911corlebra777: Part 2 is currently airing in Australia right now. For American peeps, the NRA offered to ghost write articles for Australia’s One Nation Party. Not sure if the NRA has broken US FARA laws here
- Al Jazeera English: In part 2 of #HowToSellAMassacre the NRA set up a meeting for One Nation at US energy giant Koch industries. In return, One Nation offered them extraordinary influence on Australian politics. Watch now: https://aje.io/dq2f3
NRA Attacking Parkland Students
- NRA officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show
- NRA safety officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show
- Exclusive: NRA Official Sought Sandy Hook Hoaxer To Question Parkland Shooting, Emails Show | HuffPost
- Sebastian Murdoc: NEW: An @NRA official emailed a Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist who has harassed the parents of dead children to question the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last year. “Just like [Sandy Hook], there is so much more to this story,” The NRA’s Mark Richardson said in an email obtained by HuffPost. “[The Parkland shooter] was not alone.” The man he emailed, Wolf Halbig, has gone on Infowars and discussed the sick theory that 6-year-old Avielle Richman didn’t die. The child’s father, Jeremy, died Monday in a suspected suicide.
- Sara Danner Dukic: This is what the NRA is doing with Cambridge Analytica and our metadata.
- NRA Opposes Expansion of the Violence Against Women Act
- Supreme Court declines to stop Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks
FIXING THE INTERNET
- U.S. Must Put a Ban on Google Helping China Develop a Global Digital Dictatorship
- Vermont House overwhelmingly approves community broadband
- FCC “fined” robocallers $208 million since 2015 but collected only $6,790
- HUD charges Facebook with housing discrimination over its targeted advertising platform
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Republican Party says it will personally target reporters critical of Trump
- Fox’s Napolitano predicts Mueller report will prove Schiff ‘correct’ on some collusion
- Fox’s Judge Napolitano: Schiff ‘Is Correct’ That Mueller Report Will Show Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion
WHITE HOUSE CHAOS
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TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, & ECONOMY
- A $768.4 million Powerball ticket was sold in Wisconsin. Here’s why huge jackpots are the new normal.
- Alaska’s governor wants to give more cash to residents — and cut public services
- Homeless, living in a tent blocks from the U.S. Capitol — and working full-time
- If the GOP built their ideal health-care system . . . it’d be Obamacare
- Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan to step down immediately
STUDENT ISSUES
- ‘Think of the mothers of sons’: Notre Dame mom begs female students to stop wearing leggings, sparking protests
- Their parents dragged them into the college bribery scandal. Can a PR expert pull these kids out?
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Rick Wilson: Senate leadership staffer: “We’re putting the special olympics $ back in. They had to go and fuck up a good day.” My reply: “Are you new here?”
- Republican Party says it will personally target reporters critical of Trump
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- ‘Bye, Jayme,’ man who kidnapped girl and murdered her parents says as he leaves court
- A fifth-grader was injured in a classroom fight with another student. Days later, she died.
- K-Pop Crime Cartel Revealed as Korea’s Burning Sun Scandal Expands
- U.S. jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man in Roundup cancer…
- Trump says FBI and Justice Department will review the Jussie Smollett case
PRIESTS & RELIGION
- John Gray asks Relentless Church members to give $250K to help pay for church roof
- Mike Huckabee Thinks Chick-fil-A Has a Legal Right to Be in Every Airport
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- Christopher Titus: I would like clean air and water. It would be nice to use renewable energy and create a new economy that made us a leader in new technologies, I’d like to let the coal miners out of the mines and let them install solar panels in the fresh air. I that makes me ELITE okay.
- ‘Sleep is critical to human existence’: Judge orders county jail to stop constantly waking up female inmates
- ‘Weather’s going to be turnt, right?’: A news team’s experiment in teen slang left viewers ‘cringing’
- After Cyclone Idai, bodies litter Mozambique’s fields, and the true death toll may never be known
- American scientists to climb Mount Everest to study pollution
- As vast swaths of Australia dry out, a mental health crisis takes shape
- California’s water infrastructure could be tested this spring as massive winter snowpack melts away
- First living HIV-positive donor provides kidney for transplant in medical breakthrough
- The Doomsday Vault’s home is already altered by climate change. A report says it could get worse.
- Want to rescue a dog from overseas? It might carry a new strain of disease, researchers say.
ELECTIONS
THINKING AHEAD
- Americans evenly divided on whether Trump or a Democrat will prevail next year, poll finds
- Booker: Trump is ‘complicit’ in white supremacist violence
- Buttigieg: ‘Americans are being radicalized’ by Trump administration
- Joe Biden’s treatment of Anita Hill poses new problems as he ponders a presidential campaign
- Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Fla., joins the Democratic presidential field
- Former CIA leaders give ‘briefing book’ to 2020 candidates to counteract ‘fake news’ and ‘foreign election interference’
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
RUMOR MILL
- MSW Podcast: Well, it appears as though we won’t find out who the mystery company from country A is for a while because it’s part of a “robust” open and ongoing grand jury investigation. YOU DON’T SAY.
- Tea Pain: Trump to Hannity: “I was the most innocent human being.” …to ever be implicated in multiple felonies. #Individual1
- Scott Stedman: Really weird, why are Fox News hosts claiming to know the page count of the Mueller report?
That’s it for Thursday. This update is pretty short and light on extra content. I’m still trying to get back in the swing of things. This past week has left me exhausted and dejected. I need some time off from everything, but I can’t get it. Every time I go to relax or unwind for a few minutes, another person has questions that only I can answer. I’m ready to take a nap right here at the keyboard, but that would be a bad idea.
I’ll try to rest a little this weekend. Highly unlikely, but I’ll try.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
None of this is Normal 