March 22 to March 27, 2019. My last post before this was Daily Check-In 03/22/2019 right after news broke that Mueller submitted his report to the Department of Justice.
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
Barr Submits His Summary
- Nadler says he will call on Barr to testify over DOJ handling of Mueller report
- READ: Barr’s letter to Congress summarizing Mueller findings
- Reuters Live Updates: What is in the Mueller report?
- Attorney general issues key findings from Mueller’s Russia report
- Attorney General delivers summary of special counsel’s report.
- House Democrats to call on Barr to testify about Mueller report
- Mueller did not find Trump conspired with Russia
- Why Did Barr Share Only Four Incomplete Sentences From the Mueller Report?
- Who is Attorney General Barr, the man deciding what parts of the Mueller report to release?
- William Barr Did What He Was Hired to Do
- “A Crime in Public View”: How William Barr Pardoned Donald Trump
- A former prosecutor explains why Barr’s hasty obstruction conclusion should raise red flags
- Barr Authored Memo Last Year Ruling Out Obstruction of Justice
- Barr is wrong: Obstruction of justice doesn’t require another underlying crime
- Has “Cover-Up General” William Barr Struck Again? Barr’s history of helping Republican presidents in legal crises may explain why Trump brought him back in to head the Justice Department
- Hiding the Full Mueller Report Is Another Gift to Vladimir Putin
- Holder: Barr burying Mueller report, just ‘beginning’ obstruction
- Mueller did not find evidence the Trump campaign conspired with Russia, attorney general says
- Mueller Report Emboldens Russia, Increases Chance Of 2020 Election Interference, Experts Argue
- Mueller report fallout: Trump, Russia, others react to Barr summary
- Pelosi says Barr believes Trump is ‘above the law’
- Pelosi: No Reason To Trust Barr, That Boot-Licking Hack
- Preet Bharara: Mueller Aimed To ‘Punt’ To Congress, Barr Snagged Ball To Spin For Trump
- The “Barr Summary” Is Meaningless. Release the Entire Report.
- The White House will get the Mueller report before the public does in case it wants to make redactions, Barr says
- Here’s what Rep. Nadler says about Mueller report
- Special Counsel: No Russia Collusion ‘Despite Multiple Offers’
- Special Counsel did not find any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election
- President Trump on Mueller report findings: ‘This was an illegal takedown that failed’
- Mueller report finds no evidence that Trump campaign colluded with Russia: Justice Department
- House Judiciary chair vows to haul in the attorney general for questioning over the Mueller report
- Robert Mueller Report Attorney General Barr Part II
- Renato Mariotti: Well, now we know what Attorney General Barr was doing for the last two days. He was “engaged in discussions” with DOJ officials to make a hasty decision about obstruction of justice because Mueller decided not to make one.
- Katie Brenner: Per a DOJ official: #Mueller was not consulted in the creation of this letter to Congress, nor was he at the department today. It was the product of Barr, Rosenstein and advisors including from the office of legal counsel.
Welcome to the crazy spin and deflection part of the investigation. William Barr, Attorney General for Trump, released a summary that Mueller didn’t find evidence of collusion with Russia, nor did he find enough evidence for an obstruction of justice indictment.
So yeah, the fix is in.
Barr’s summary, which was less than four pages, contains no quotes from Mueller’s report longer than a sentence fragment, has minimal sourcing, and is designed to obfuscate and distract. It defines collusion so narrowly that only direct and knowing coordination between the Trump Campaign officials that were members of the campaign at the time and direct members of the Russian government, the Internet Research Agency, or the GRU count. This would not include Roger Stone, who talked with Wikileaks and the GRU since he was not an official member of the campaign at the time. This doesn’t include Erik Prince or George Nader’s work since they weren’t members of the campaign at the time. This doesn’t include Paul Manafort or Rick Gates working with Konstantin Kilimnik, since “Kostya from the GRU” isn’t an active member of the GRU. Their work with Oleg Deripaska doesn’t fit this definition since he isn’t a member of the Russian Government.
So, actions that meet the legal definition of a criminal conspiracy don’t fit for Barr’s definition of collusion.
As far as obstruction goes, Mueller left that to Barr to choose whether to charge Trump. Barr, who has gone on the record many times saying that a President cannot obstruct justice, did not elect to charge Trump.
Any idea that William Barr is not a bad actor went flying out the window with the appearance of the rule of law.
Tweets and stories from before the summary was released
- Mueller’s Findings Will Remain Confidential at Least Another Day
- President Trump spends the first 24 hours after the Mueller probe ends in Twitter silence
- After claiming ‘no collusion’ 231 times, Trump says nothing about the end of the Mueller investigation
- Tea Pain: Congratulations, @realDonaldTrump. With the Mueller probe over, you’re now only under 17 criminal investigations!
- Bob Bensch: (UPDATE) The minimum number of *active* investigations targeting Trump, many involving pre- and post-election multinational collusion: ✅SDNY✅EDNY✅EDVA✅USDC-DC✅NYCDA✅NYAG✅NJAG✅MDAG✅DCAG✅SCO*✅FBI✅CIA✅HPSCI✅SSCI✅HJC✅HOC✅HFSC✅HWMC *Ongoing cases.
- John Dean: Trump and his minions think they dodged a bullet. I have a notion — only a recurring thought — that Mueller delivered a bomb to AG Barr, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Trump in a way that doesn’t cause him to start World War III. Barr knows he works for a psycho.
- Ming: Is Barr taking heart medicine yet?
- Caroline Orr: The summary is just the first step, and it’s only delivered to congressional leaders. After that, Barr will consult with Rosenstein and Mueller regarding what information to release to Congress and the public. That’s where to focus.
- Caroline Orr: #BREAKING: Per @NBCNews, Attorney General William Barr will NOT be submitting a summary of the Mueller report to Congress today. (From Saturday)
- MSW Podcast: It seems like all trump supporters have collectively forgotten that a couple of weeks ago, Mueller team member Von Grack was appointed to head a new FARA enforcement unit at the DoJ. They probably weren’t aware.
- Medhi Hassan: Imagine, just imagine, if Mueller had been silent for past 2 years, held everything back, & then on Fri evening, announced 37 (!) indictments, including of Trump’s lawyer, national security adviser & campaign manager. We’d be in shock. The White House would be in chaos & crisis. THREAD
- PostimusMaximus: If we are being realistic, Kushner/Ivanka crimes seem less Mueller more “Whoever is handling the saudi/qatar/china/financial stuff. Jr you could say the meeting to get dirt was a crime maybe? That would depend on a few things. And Trump himself wouldn’t be indicted.
- Kaz Weida: You know what the Mueller report anxiety feels like? It’s like midterm elections. It took a while for the scope of the wave to take shape. Because the Resistance had high expectations, the slow trickle win didn’t take the shape of the crashing wave we were expecting. (THREAD)
- MSW Podcast: Barr will not submit the Mueller report summary conclusions today according to the DoJ. Interesting…
- PostimusMaximus: Hope everything is less crazy today. Though we are still probably stuck in bad-takesville.
Narrator: We’re still stuck in bad-takesville.
Shock and Confusion
- James Comey says he is confused by Mueller’s decision on obstruction
- Comey: Imagine if it was Obama and Iran, not Trump and Russia
- Comey: Trump’s Comments On Firing Me Sounded Like Obstruction Of Justice
- Rachel Maddow Lists The Questions ‘Driving Me Nuts’ About Barr’s Summary Of Mueller Report
The Cover-Up
- McConnell blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be released publicly
- Mitch McConnell blocked a resolution to release the full Mueller report, 3 days after saying he wanted ‘openness and transparency’ about it
- Mitch McConnell Blocks Resolution to Release Full Mueller Report
- Mitch McConnell tries gaslighting on Obama, Russia
- Mitch McConnell Wants to Bury the Mueller Report, Of Course
- McConnell blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be released publicly
- McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time
- McConnell blocks vote on release of Mueller report for 2nd time
- McConnnell blocks resolution to release full Mueller report
- Caroline Orr: Mitch McConnell may not just be covering for Trump here — he may be covering for himself, and for the Republican Party.
- Thread by @RVAwonk: “Mitch McConnell may not just be covering for Trump here — he may be covering for himself, and for the Republican Party. We already know tha […]”
- MSW Podcast: When we get the full Mueller report, MSW is going to read it in it’s entirety as a podcast.
- Twitter reacts to Mitch McConnell blocking resolution to release full Mueller report: “Trump is guilty”
- Tea Pain: BREAKING: Mitch McConnell moves to block release of Mueller Report. To paraphrase Leonard Cohen, “There’s a leak in everything. That’s how the truth gets out.”
- Angry White House Staffer: This is why I’m so damn confused / pissed at Barr right now. I have other reporter contacts telling me they’re hearing exactly the same thing. If true, they won’t be able to sit on this forever.
- Virginia Heffernan: Good Source (Thread of screenshots from a source describing how bad the report is for Trump)
- Trinity Resists: June 2018—AG Barr wrote an unsolicited 19 page memorandum to DAG Rosenstein called Mueller’s “Obstruction” Theory on why a sitting POTUS should not be indicted. 👉https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/549-june-2018-barr-memo-to-doj-mue/b4c05e39318dd2d136b3/optimized/full.pdf … Barr never would’ve found obstruction on Trump. He did exactly what Trump wanted him to do.
- Look at All the Weasel Words Bill Barr Used to Protect Trump
- ArsonCrafts: “Collusion” (at least per Barr’s letter) appeared to be narrowly defined-down to two things: 1. Agreement or coordination with Internet Research Agency 2. Agreement or coordination with GRU (particularly, with respect to the “hacking” component, not necessarily distrubution). What about “collusion” in the sense of any quid pro quo, such as Trump Tower Moscow in exchange for easing sanctions??? If Barr’s definition of collusion is all Mueller could look at, much had to be farmed out by Mueller elsewhere.
- Opinion | Trump won with illicit help. He abused his power. His AG is blocking a full reckoning.
- Caroline Orr: #BREAKING: Citing “national security concerns,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just blocked a non-binding resolution to make special counsel Mueller’s full report publicly available. The non-binding resolution to release the full Mueller report was brought forth by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The House version passed unanimously. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham are the only senators who objected to the measure.
- Angry White House Staffer: Make no mistake about this selective “leaking” from DOJ. This is just Barr authorizing people to speak to reporters on background — you know, the thing McCabe supposedly got fired for — to push the narrative.
- Tea Pain: The Mueller Report was filed almost 72 hours ago and we’ve yet to see a single complete sentence from it. #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport
- Nadler: Barr Won’t Commit To Releasing Unredacted Mueller Report And Evidence
- The longer the Mueller report is hidden, the bigger the political problem
Remember the names of those blocking the release of the report.
Congressional Reactions
- ‘Undoubtedly there is collusion’: Trump antagonist Adam Schiff doubles down after Mueller finds no conspiracy
- Adam Schiff Threatens to Subpoena Mueller’s Evidence If Necessary
- Attorney General Barr Faces Bipartisan Pressure To Make Mueller Report Public
- Attorney General Expected to Miss Deadline for Giving Mueller Report to Congress, Will Not Commit to Releasing It In Full
- Bill Barr agrees to testify on “very substantial” Mueller report
- Democrats demand Barr release full Muller investigation report
- Dispute erupts over Mueller’s findings on Trump, Russia and obstruction of justice
- House Democrats Request Mueller’s Full Report Be Sent by April 2
- Key Democrat says Mueller report summary puts matters ‘squarely in Congress’ court’
- Republicans and Democrats brace for renewed battles over Mueller report
- Republicans block U.S. Senate Democrats’ move on making Mueller report public
- Sen. Hirono on Mueller report: “There’s more to come”
- Sen. Whitehouse statement on Barr Summary: “Now is not the time for a cover-up”
We Want To See The Report
- Democracy Requires a Public Mueller Report
- Democratic chairmen call on Barr to submit Mueller report to Congress by April 2
- Trump’s attorney doesn’t want Trump’s ‘confidential’ written responses to Mueller released
- Watchdog sues for full release of Mueller report
- Release the Report
- Privacy Advocates Sue Justice Department, Seeking to Compel Full Public Release Of Mueller Report
- National security expert: No point in DOJ covering up Mueller report because staffers will just leak it anyway
- Nobody Has Actually Seen the Mueller Report
- Pelosi calls Mueller report summary ‘insufficient,’ seeks full report
- Poll: 84 percent want Mueller report made public
- If Mueller’s report is great news for Trump, why can’t we see it?
- I wrote the special counsel rules. The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report.
Reactions from the Rumor Mill and Beyond
- George Conway: Mueller report must have ‘something pretty damning’ if it can’t exonerate Trump
- ‘If. F******. Only’: Monica Lewinsky Imagines Life if Ken Starr’s Report Got Mueller Treatment, Released as AG Summary
- It’s Mueller time but don’t forget: Trump has undermined the very idea of America
- Liberal Redneck – Mueller Report Schmueller Report – YouTube
- Majority of Americans Say Trump Interfered in Mueller investigation: Fox News Poll
- Michael J. Stern: “No indictments doesn’t mean no evidence.”
- Monica Lewinsky: ‘If only’ the Starr report was handled like Mueller’s
- Mueller report ‘undoubtedly’ proves conspiracy, obstruction: Judge Napolitano
- Reaction to the Mueller Report News Has Been a Goddamn Embarrassment
- Two covers off the New York Times, 45 years & 3 weeks apart.
- Watergate Figure John Dean Suspects Barr May Be Hiding Something ‘Fairly Ugly’.
- Adam Schiff: Mueller spent two years investigating obstruction of justice and found evidence that “does not exonerate” Trump. Barr took two days to set aside that evidence. The entire report must be published and evidence provided to Congress so the American people can judge for themselves. Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to establish conspiracy, notwithstanding Russian offers to help Trump’s campaign, their acceptance, and a litany of concealed interactions with Russia. I trust Mueller’s prosecutorial judgement, but the country must see the evidence.
- Rick Wilson: Trump fluffers trying to dunk on me, begging for a reply. Bless your hearts. Y’all enjoy your day.
- Greg Olear: Barr did a book report on War & Peace and concluded it’s not about Russia. Maybe we should reserve judgment until we read what Tolstoy wrote?
- 911corlebra777: It would seem IC ain’t buyin it. I don’t know what Barr’s motivations are, but one thing is clear to me, his summary has further divided America & runs contrary to the evidence that was in front of our own eyes, & that we know US & Allied IC hold
- Renato Mariotti: It’s not that Mueller couldn’t make a decision about obstruction. It’s that he didn’t want to, possibly because he is cautious and understood its potential impact on the nation. Yet Barr took it upon himself to do, in two days, what Mueller was unwilling to do after two years.
- Tea Pain: Let’s be clear. Bob Mueller did not “exonerate” Trump. William Barr did.
- Alyssa Milano: Well, if there was nothing in the report why won’t they just release it? If the report fully exonerated him or his family, he’d have it all out in seconds. Wouldn’t he?
- Andrew Laufer, ESQ: Ok folks. What ‘Barr’s Brief’ of Mueller’s report barely touches upon are the prosecutions which have been farmed out to a number of USAOs. It also doesn’t mention any state AG actions which were also coordinated with Mueller’s team. Further, it doesn’t discuss prosecutions /1. THREAD
- Thread by @lauferlaw: “Ok folks. What ‘Barr’s Brief’ of Mueller’s report barely touches upon are the prosecutions which have been farmed out to a number of USAOs. […]” #MuellerReport
- Joe Walsh: Unanswered questions: 1. Why did everybody on Team Trump lie about Russia? 2. What is the obstruction that Mueller found? 3. We know Russia was trying to help the Trump campaign. Did Trump himself know that Russia was helping? The whole Mueller report must be made public.
- Emptywheel: Folks, this letter doesn’t even clear Trump of “collusion,” or even “conspiracy.” FAR from it.
- Greg Olear: I’m not gonna lie: with the possible exception of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, yesterday was the worst I’ve felt since Election Day 2016. I barely slept, tossing & turning & doubting my own sanity. Which is EXACTLY what these traitors want. Some thoughts: [THREAD]
Check the Rumor Mill for the full text of this thread.
- PostimusMaximus: Ok you know my thoughts. Going to avoid toxic hellscape twitter again for the rest of the day. (You should do the same!) All I can really say is to breath, the world isn’t ending, we are stuck where we’ve been looking for answers. Our battle continues onward.
- Countercheckist: Let. The. Process. Play. Out. All of it.
- John Schindler: Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Bluto knew. So does @RepAdamSchiff. Dems taking the House in NOV means this is far from over. The fight’s just been kicked to the Hill now. But Trump clearly knew what he was doing when he appointed Barr AG.
- Louise Mensch: Thread: Yes, I see what Barr says. I do not resile from any of my reporting. I believe my sources. I trust @SpeakerPelosi to get the report. I trust Mueller. Let’s see his report. Now let’s examine what the letter says, ideally calmly. THREAD
- Thread by @LouiseMensch: “Thread: Yes, I see what Barr says. I do not resile from any of my reporting. I believe my sources. I trust @SpeakerPelosi to get the report. […]”
- Caroline Orr: As you evaluate information & reporting on the Mueller report over the next few days, remember that everything we are hearing is based on what Attorney General Barr is telling us. In other words, the guy who was hand-picked by Trump is now hand-picking the info you’re getting.
- Walter Shaub: No. Trump asked Comey to let Flynn go; had McGahn tell Yates to buzz off and pry into a FISA warrant; fired Comey; fired Sessions; and, with help from Congress, attacked DOJ & FBI. What kept him from shutting it down were his own incompetence and the will of the American people.
- MSW Podcast: Anyone who tells you there is NO evidence of coordination or obstruction is wholly incorrect. That is not what this summary says.
- Angry White House Staffer: I’m going to add Barr to my wall of shame, right next to Kavanaugh. I know many of you probably feel like I let you down — I do too, and I’m sorry. I still want to see the full report. This stinks. Mueller didn’t spend two years indicting people for lying about Russia for this.
- Joe Walsh: EVERYBODY on Trump’s team who had contacts with Russia lied about those contacts with Russia. EVERYBODY. Including Trump. I sure hope the Mueller Report tells us WHY everybody on Team Trump lied about Russia.
- Tea Pain: Trump is “happy” to… 1) Release his tax returns 2) Sit down with Mueller 3) Release the Mueller Report Which should we expect first?
- Joe Walsh: We all need to accept the results of the Report, but we can’t do that until we all see the Report.
- For Democrats, the Mueller report turns their politics upside down
The Beat Goes On…
- After Mueller: The Ongoing Investigations Surrounding Trump
- Don’t Believe Trump or Barr. The Investigations Are Just Beginning.
- Um, no, the Mueller investigation wasn’t a waste — and it definitely wasn’t a hoax
- FBI expected to brief House and Senate ‘Gang of 8’ on Mueller’s counterintel findings
- Fox’s Judge Napolitano: ‘There Is Something There’ on Conspiracy in Mueller Report
- Robert Mueller Deferred Obstruction Decision Because ‘Special Counsel Regulations Are Defective,’ Ex-Mueller Assistant Says
- The Critical Part of Mueller’s Report That Barr Didn’t Mention
- The Mueller Investigation| FRONTLINE 2019 – Part one goes inside the president’s confrontations with the Department of Justice and the FBI in the early days of the Russia investigation.
- Andrew Laufer, ESQ: The OSC isn’t permanent. This is exactly why Mueller has been passing off matters, like Michael Cohen, to other USAOs. Awfully quiet at Mar-a-Lago this weekend…..
- Shimon Prokupecz: Rick Gates’ case before Judge Amy Berman Jackson will be handed off to the DC US Attorney’s Office, the special counsel’s office said on Saturday. @kpolantz
- Countercheckist: Pay attention, patriots. OSC’s investigation has morphed into an octopus w/ tentacles spanning DC, SDNY, EDNY, EDVA etc etc. This ensures said cases can’t be killed, and doesn’t rest everything on a single court case in a single venue. Relax. Let the process play out.
- Andrew Laufer, ESQ: No. Not at all. Rick Gates is still cooperating on multiple investigations and Mueller has seeded numerous prosecutions with other USAOs, like Michael Cohen, since the OSC isn’t permanent.
- Julia Ainsely: Breaking: @KenDilanianNBC reports that the FBI is prepared to brief the Gang of 8 on the findings of Mueller’s counterintelligence investigation into Trump (i.e. whether the president is under the influence of a foreign power)
- Angry White House Staffer: (I told you we weren’t close to done) Patience, folks. This was always going to be Congress’ job one way or another. I say again: for there to be enough derogatory information in Mueller’s report that Trump’s partisan AG acknowledged no exoneration, there’s way more coming. Reminder: Barr’s summary mentioned NOTHING of CI at all. Other than perhaps alluding to “other cases”
- Christopher Wylie: Whatever this report says, here’s what I know: when I was at Cambridge Analytica, the company hired known Russian agents, had data researchers in St Petersburg, tested US voter opinion on Putin’s leadership, and hired hackers from Russia – all while Bannon was in charge.
- Mmpadellan: There are PLENTY of instances where murderous gangsters and thugs were not convicted because of insufficient evidence. It doesn’t make them innocent. FUN FACT: Al Capone, known gangster and murderer, was convicted of tax evasion. #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport
- Evidence Suggests Trump Definitely Committed Bank Fraud
- Ex-Trump aide: Hope Hicks threatened to conceal documents on Trump Tower statement
- AOC tweets ‘But his WhatsApp’ at Kushner news. Hillary Clinton responds, ‘Tell me about it’
- Graham encouraged McCain to turn Trump-Russia dossier over to FBI
- Grand jury in Russia probe is ‘continuing robustly’
- Let’s not lose sight of the real scandal: Trump was elected with Russia’s help
- Mass Protest Vowed If Demand for Public Release of Mueller Report Not Met
- Majority in Fox News poll says Trump has tried to interfere in Russia investigation
- Most Americans believe Russia has ‘kompromat’ on Trump
- Prosecutors left a trail of breadcrumbs about Trump’s finances, and House Democrats are now digging deeper
- Seth Abramson: “What we call the “Trump-Russia” investigation is a web of criminal, counterintelligence, and Congressional investigations… Mueller is part of the “criminal” investigation… And here’s the key: all three of these investigations are ongoing.”
- Why so many of President Donald Trump’s aides lied to protect him in Russia investigations
- Forget Mueller. Forget Impeachment. A Million People Should Surround the White House and Demand Trump’s Resignation
We still haven’t seen the report, but it’s important to remember that there is a ton of other work going on. Including the grand jury investigating Russia, multiple states investigating the Inaugural Committee, 4 or 5 Congressional investigations, and enough work in the state of New York to drown Trump and his family for decades.
Supreme Court
- Supreme Court rejects foreign company’s bid to review Mueller subpoena
- U.S. top court rebuffs mystery company in Mueller subpoena fight
- Steve Herman: #SCOTUS refuses to hear a bid by an unidentified company owned by a foreign government to contest a grand jury subpoena related to the special counsel’s investigation.
- Brad Heath: The Supreme Court said today it won’t hear the case of a mystery company, owned by a mystery country, challenging a subpoena from Mueller’s grand jury.
- Adrienne Cobb: SCOTUS will not consider overturning the appeal of the mystery company fighting a grand jury subpoena. This means the company will continue to be fined $50k a day until it complies with the subpoena.
CONGRESS
- Kyle Griffin: Judiciary Committee member Ted Lieu tells @MSNBC that House Democrats have sent document preservation letters to the Justice Department to make sure that all of Robert Mueller’s work is preserved.
- Waters: Deutsche Bank providing Trump financial records for House probe
- Deutsche Bank Providing Donald Trump Financial Records as Investigations Continue after Mueller Report
- Deutsche Bank turns over records on Donald Trump’s business to Maxine Waters’ committee
- Elijah Cummings Seeks 10 Years of Trump’s Financial Records
- Elijah Cummings: The White House hasn’t turned over a single piece of paper to my committee
- Cummings: We could be headed toward constitutional crisis
- House Oversight Committee requests 10 years’ worth of Trump’s financial records to answer questions raised by Michael Cohen’s testimony
- Nadler: DOJ withholding underlying evidence of Mueller report would be ‘equivalent to a cover up’
- Nadler: Trump Has No Right To Executive Privilege Over ‘Evidence Of Wrongdoing’
- Democrats are ‘absolutely’ willing to go to the Supreme Court if full Mueller report is not released, Nadler says
- Schiff brushes off calls for resignation: ‘I am more than used to attacks by my GOP colleagues’
- Schiff defiant: ‘Undoubtedly, there is collusion’
- Whether Trump Obstructed Justice Isn’t the Attorney General’s Call to Make. It’s Congress’ Decision.
- Ocasio-Cortez mocks Sen. Mike Lee: ‘If this guy can be Senator, you can do anything’
- Sanders, Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez hang transgender pride flags in Congress
- Senate Democrats push to match House’s ethics and election reforms
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- FBI releases documents on Trump Organization after years of resistance
- As Mueller Report Lands, Prosecutorial Focus Moves to New York
- Greg Olear: “Reports…about Trump’s son Don Jr. being aware he was ‘going to be indicted’…have been floating for weeks. No report indicated that it was only going to be Mueller to indict him…state charges were always the only alternative guaranteeing justice would be served….”
- Line crossed: Three SDNY chiefs say Trump can be indicted
- Lawyer Who Bested Roy Cohn Tapped for Big Gig in SDNY
- ‘We know how to do this better than anybody’: Southern District of NY on the job after Mueller probe ends
- Federal Prosecutors in California Are Now Looking Into Trump’s Inaugural Committee
- “She Was Not Involved”: E-mails Show Ivanka’s Lawyer Asked for changes to Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET A.K.A INDIVIDUAL-1
- Caroline Orr: Speaking to reporters moments ago, Trump called the Mueller report a “complete and total exoneration.” The report literally says: “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
- Walt Shaub: Yesterday, Trump claimed Mueller’s report exonerated him totally and completely, found no wrongdoing whatsoever, held him and his team entirely blameless. Today, Trump and McConnell are doing all they can to hide that report from you.
- Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop.
- Trump: Mueller Probe ‘Would Not Have Happened’ If Barr Had Been AG Then
- Trump Accuses FBI Officials Who Investigated Him of Treason
- Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama’s Affordable Care Act
- Trump Could Be ‘Useful Idiot’ Who Has Been Victim Of ‘Greatest Collection Of Coincidences,’ Congressman Suggests
- Trump Fed Pick Stephen Moore Owes $75,000 to IRS, Court Document Says
- Trump Is Bullying the Media Into Falsely Exonerating His Russia Corruption
- Trump ‘Pathologically Incapable Of Telling The Truth.’ Schiff Says Mueller Shouldn’t Have Accepted Written Response From President
- Trump rips McCain, says he gave Steele dossier to FBI for ‘very evil purposes’
- Trump said “he trusted an ex-KGB agent” over FBI and “lied” about “connections with Russia,” MSNBC’s Scarborough reminds viewers
- Trump surprises Republicans — and pleases Democrats — with push to revive health-care battle
- Trump wants to give 62 cents of every dollar to the military. That’s immoral
- Kid Rock and “down to earth” Donald Trump enjoy Florida golf resort trip that probably cost taxpayers millions
- Trump won with illicit help. He abused his power. His AG is blocking a full reckoning.
- With Mueller gone, can Trump pursue his dream of a Russian reset?
- With Mueller’s probe finished, Trump faces question of whether to pardon aides caught up in it
- Donald Trump is very committed to taking away your health insurance
TRAITOR TOTS
- Graham delivers laughs — and loyalty — at Mar-a-Lago dinner
- Bill Kristol: “Graham did not mention Trump’s repeated criticism of his longtime friend, the late Sen. John McCain.” I hope when each of us is gone our longtime friends will not to be too timid to defend our honor in the presence of our enemies.
- Jon Cooper: BREAKING: GOP Rep. Devin Nunes paid $148,979 to a political consultant who’s worked for candidates and political parties in Russia. This same consultant was also in Russia in 2016, and appeared on the Russia Today propaganda network in July of 2017. Uncovered by @TheDemCoalition.
- Betsy DeVos Took Money From the Special Olympics to Enrich Herself
- Five Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago would cover Betsy Devos’s proposed Special Olympics cuts
- ‘Shame On You’: Betsy DeVos Slammed For Trying To Defund Special Olympics
- Big Show passionately rips Betsy DeVos apart for her Special Olympics budget cut
- Devin Nunes Event Axed After Planned ‘Cattle Call’ Protest To Honor Cow Twitter Account
- Kellyanne Conway is no ‘badass’ – and she’s certainly no feminist
CULT 45
FIGHTING BACK
- Julia Ainsley:People are asking about reading the Barr letter while this guy carried on in the background. Yes it was aggravating, but the same rights that protect his behavior also protect my right to deliver the news. As long as they stay peaceful, I have no problem with protesters.
- Opinion | George Conway: Trump is guilty — of being unfit for office
- Ralph Nader: Americans Should Be Demanding Trump’s Resignation
- Dear Colleague: The American People Have a Right to the Truth, The Watchword is Transparency
- Democrats largely give up on impeachment in wake of Mueller report
- Warren reintroduces bill requiring presidential divestment
- We need to stop giving Trump a pass on his ignorance
PUERTO RICO
- ‘Enough with the insults’: Puerto Rico’s governor says Trump won’t meet about Hurricane Maria recovery
- Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island
- Trump complains to senators that Puerto Rico is getting too much hurricane relief funding
- Trump says hurricane-hit Puerto Rico has received too much aid
EMERGENCIES, SHUTDOWN, & IMMIGRATION
- House fails to override Trump veto on southern border emergency
- Pentagon announces $1 billion transfer for border barriers, angering Democrats
- Trump says barbed wire ‘can be a beautiful sight.’ Many border communities disagree
- House Armed Services chairman denies $1 billion transfer for Trump wall
- Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says
- Man stopped by ICE uses “know your rights” training, prevents immigrants’ arrest
- U.S. has hit ‘breaking point’ at border amid immigration surge, Customs and Border Protection commissioner says
- Gay, transgender detainees allege abuse at ICE facility in New Mexico
- ‘This is not Mexico’: Texas official criticizes county judge for speaking Spanish
- After a fight with Hispanic men, he shot the first Hispanic man he saw, police say. His victim was a cop.
- Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism
- Facebook says it will now block white-nationalist, white-separatist posts
RACISM, RIGHT WING TERRORISM & WHITE NATIONALISM
- Man who toppled over 100 headstones at Jewish cemetery in St. Louis sentenced to 3 years probation – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Mali violence: Men disguised as hunters kill at least 134 Muslim farmers
- Undercounting hate: FBI will not report its hate crime numbers again this year as required by law
- Neo-Nazi sympathizer pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for plowing car into crowd of protesters at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville
- Omar: White supremacist attacks are rising because Trump publicly says ‘Islam hates us’
- Self-professed neo-Nazi who drove into Charlottesville crowd pleads guilty to federal hate crimes
- U.S.’s biggest Christian charity reportedly channeled $56.1 million to purported hate groups
- GOP congressman quotes Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to slam Trump’s adversaries as liars
- Charlottesville students walk out of class after racist threat closed schools
- Omar requests ‘accountability’ for GOP lawmaker who quoted Hitler on House floor
- Rep. Omar: Gay Conversion Therapy Is ‘Torture’
- The untold story of Roseanne Barr’s explosive tweet — and what came next
SCOTUS & COURTS
- Steve Herman: #SCOTUS refuses to hear a bid by an unidentified company owned by a foreign government to contest a grand jury subpoena related to the special counsel’s investigation.
- Brad Heath: The Supreme Court said today it won’t hear the case of a mystery company, owned by a mystery country, challenging a subpoena from Mueller’s grand jury.
- Adrienne Cobb: SCOTUS will not consider overturning the appeal of the mystery company fighting a grand jury subpoena. This means the company will continue to be fined $50k a day until it complies with the subpoena.
- North Carolina GOP Bragged About Gerrymandering. It Still May Not Be Enough To Convince SCOTUS.
- The Supreme Court is seizing power from the presidency because Donald Trump is stupid
- The U.S. Deserves Its Own Nuremberg Trials
- Judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, Arkansas
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Epstein
- Judge overseeing key Jeffrey Epstein-related suit dies
- Lincoln’s Bible: Fresh hell. Judge overseeing key Jeffrey Epstein-related suit dies https://politi.co/2TXOdqZ via @politico
- Why NASA’s historic all-female spacewalk isn’t happening
- Women who say they were sickened by breast implants demand FDA action: ‘I was not warned.’
- FDA wants women to get breast-density information along with mammogram
- Women need better information on breast implants, panel says
- Teen boys rated their female classmates based on looks. The girls fought back.
COLD WAR 2.0
- Garry Kasparov: The private-state nature of corrupt criminal dictatorships like Putin’s Russia confounds law enforcement the way hybrid war confounds traditional military response.
- Thread by @Kasparov63: “The private-state nature of corrupt criminal dictatorships like Putin’s Russia confounds law enforcement the way hybrid war confounds tradit […]”
- Travis Atkins died smothering a suicide bomber’s blast in Iraq. Now he’ll receive the Medal of Honor.
- Assad loyalists are turning on Syria’s government as living standards deteriorate
- Egyptian singer banned after claiming lack of free speech
- In Ukraine’s bizarre presidential race, one long-shot candidate is looking for a spouse
- John Brennan: North Korea ‘Duped’ Trump Into ‘Mindlessly’ Quashing Sanctions
BREXIT
- Brexit: Theresa May bows to pressure and suggests she will resign if her deal passes
- No majority for any of Brexit options
- ‘One million people’ on march to demand second EU referendum
- Theresa May says she will resign as prime minister after she ‘delivers Brexit’
#NEVERAGAIN
Parkland
- Parkland student dies in ‘apparent suicide’, police say
- David Hogg: How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government / school district to do anything? Rip 17+2 🧡😭
- Shannon Watts: The aftershocks of the Parkland shooting tragedy continue to reverberate throughout the community, and the death toll from that day is still rising more than a year later. Today is the one-year anniversary of the March for Our Lives. Congress owes it to our children to ACT.
- Starving for attention in order to stop gun violence | Opinion
- Emma Gonzalez: Please give this article a few moments of your time, the Hunger 9 in our own Liberty City is doing a hunger strike to bring attention to the gun violence they face
- David Hogg: Stop saying “you’ll get over it.” You don’t get over something that never should have happened because those that die from gun violence are stolen from us not naturally lost. Trauma and loss don’t just go away, you have to learn to live with it through getting support. Also putting a msd strong sticker on everything and acting like everything is fine while everyone is in pain yet no one is talking about it is not how we stop this.
- ‘Heartbreaking’: Sandy Hook Father Dies in Apparent Suicide
- Three tragic deaths reverberate across U.S. amid steady rise in suicides
- No guns for teachers, American educators say, demand mental health resources instead
- Study suggests mass shootings can inadvertently promote the idea of using guns to empower oneself
NRA Australia Interference
- 911corlebra777: The PM has spoken. One Nation repeatedly met with NRA officials & Koch industries officials.I don’t know what US law covers the American side, but the fact they agreed to meetings with One Nation, a far right political party, is horrific
- Scott Morrison: Reports that senior One Nation officials courted foreign political donations from the US gun lobby to influence our elections & undermine our gun laws that keep us safe are deeply concerning. Australia’s gun laws are world’s best thanks to John Howard & we will not be changing them. Thankfully our Gov has also made laws to criminalise taking foreign political donations so foreign lobbyists cannot seek to influence our politics. It took a Coalition Gov to do both.
FIXING THE INTERNET
- Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism
- Facebook says it will now block white-nationalist, white-separatist posts
- How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack
- Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom’s Best Efforts to Kill it
- Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again?
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- Adrienne Cobb: Yet again, the GOP and Russia are pushing the same narrative
- Julia Davis: Even before seeing the #MuellerReport, the Russians are triumphant, believing that the Special Counsel’s investigation “against #Russia and Trump” did not yield any evidence of “collusion.”
- Trump ramps up attacks on the media following Mueller report summary
- Trump’s campaign asks networks to ban guests who’ve made misleading claims. Uh, guys?
- ‘I am pissed off’: Hannity and other Fox News hosts rage at Democrats, media over Mueller report
- Rudy Giuliani Falsely Claims Robert Mueller Was Paid $30 Million for Probe, Fox News’ Sean Hannity Doesn’t Correct Him
737
- Boeing and FAA near completion of 737 Max 8 flight control system overhaul
- Flight cancellations mount as FAA keeps Boeing 737 Max planes grounded
- They didn’t buy the DLC: feature that could’ve prevented 737 crashes was sold as an option
- Boeing rejects calls for broader oversight of flight safety Global aviation industry converges on Renton, Wash., as Boeing details 737 Max software fix
- Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max makes emergency landing in Orlando
- Global aviation industry converges on Renton, Wash., as Boeing details 737 Max software fix
TRADE WAR, HEALTH CARE, & ECONOMY
- As more museums say no to Sackler donations, family trust halts its giving
- As opioid crisis explodes, few youths get drug treatment — especially youths of color
- How Billionaires Are Using Hate to Divide Us – The only way to deal with them is with solidarity
- GoFundMe CEO Says His Site Has Revealed Massive Problems With US Healthcare
- ‘Jesus Christ himself isn’t worth 500 times his median workers’ pay’: Disney heiress criticizes CEOs for high salaries
- Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials
- Massive charges $227,000 haunt woman after emergency, out-of-network OHSU stay for heart attack
- Purdue Pharma, state of Oklahoma reach settlement in landmark opioid lawsuit
- Trump’s ‘economic illiteracy’ caused the US-China trade war, says professor
- Trump’s tariffs are costing Americans $1.4 billion each month
- U.S. Posts The Biggest Monthly Budget Deficit In American History
- We Already Spend More Than Medicare for All Would Cost Us
- Sanders: ‘You’re damn right’ health insurance companies should be eliminated
- House GOP leader McCarthy sought to deter Trump from pursuing destruction of Obamacare
- Elizabeth Warren comes out in support of a national right-to-repair law for farm equipment
- Analysis | Ocasio-Cortez’s righteous — and accurate — anger about poverty and the environment
STUDENT ISSUES
- Yale rescinds admission of student linked to scandal involving soccer coach
- David Hogg: It’s crazy how the bathrooms in Congress literally look better than almost every classroom in the United States.
- Report: U.S. government wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools and still fails to adequately monitor grants
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- ‘WTF Is Wrong With Them’: Republicans Horrified as Trump Goes After Obamacare Again
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Removing Trump Won’t Fix Problem With GOP Or ‘Dark Money That Funded Him’
- America’s Corruption Is a National Security Threat
- Barbara Bush failed to grasp how the Bushes helped pave the way for Trump
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Avenatti Charged
- Michael Avenatti is accused of trying to extort Nike
- Attorney Michael Avenatti charged with extortion by federal prosecutors in New York
- PostimusMaximus: Avenatti is totally helpful and going to become President though guys. Reddit told me so!
- He’s defended Michael Jackson and Colin Kaepernick. Now Mark Geragos is tangled up with the Avenatti case.
- A brutal attack almost killed her husband. It transformed Abby Maslin into a different person.
- Charges dropped against ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying about a hate-crime attack, his attorney says
- Why prosecutors dismissed the charges against Jussie Smollett
- Duke settles research misconduct case, agrees to pay U.S. government $112.5 million
- An unsolved homicide haunted a city for decades. Officials say the killer was there all along.
PRIESTS & RELIGION
- Joel Osteen’s protégé says the devil is trying to ‘mute’ him after his mistress releases suggestive voicemails
- A Secret Database of Child Abuse
- What caused the clergy sex abuse crisis? Catholic universities are pushing for debate on the answer.
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- Why NASA’s historic all-female spacewalk isn’t happening
- Women who say they were sickened by breast implants demand FDA action: ‘I was not warned.’
- A cruise ship sailed into an intense cyclone. These warning signs showed trouble was brewing at sea.
- Hangover-free alcohol could be available in just a few years
- How 3-D Printing Could Break into the Building Industry
- In blow to climate, coal plants emitted more than ever in 2018
- In the 1970s, the U.S. Army went to war with an unlikely foe: Starlings
- This anxiety-inducing fitness test purports to tell you how long you’ll live. We investigated.
- Welcome to Babcock Ranch, the Sunshine State’s first solar-powered town
- Florida neighborhood besieged by thousands of poisonous toads ‘covering every square inch’
- Male Birth Control Pill Passes Human Safety Tests
- A helicopter landed in a California poppy field during the super bloom, and officials are furious
- A senator’s argument against the Green New Deal: A machine gun-toting Ronald Reagan riding a velociraptor
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tears Into Republicans Painting Green New Deal as “Elitist” – “Tell that to the kids in the south Bronx…tell that to the families in Flint.”
- An HIV treatment cost taxpayers millions. The government patented it. But a pharma giant is making billions.
- Butterflies were symbols of rebirth. Then they started disappearing.
- Senate defeats Green New Deal, as Democrats call vote a ‘sham’
- The White House And Federal Scientists Are Pushing The Myth That Marijuana Is Laced With Fentanyl
- He won the lottery 14 times using math. But his biggest jackpot still came down to luck.
ELECTIONS
- Florida agreed to let felons vote. Now Republicans are trying to limit who is eligible.
- It’s Time to Kill the Electoral College, One of America’s Original Sins
- Poll: Voters prefer popular vote over Electoral College
- Majority of Americans support getting rid of the Electoral College
- North Carolina GOP Bragged About Gerrymandering. It Still May Not Be Enough To Convince SCOTUS.
- Obama cautions freshman House Democrats about the price tag of liberal policies
- Voter Turnout Is Surging — And Mitch McConnell Is Terrified
THINKING AHEAD
- New Fox News Poll Has Biden Unseating Trump
- Denzican Grimes: Friendly reminder that in 2020, the Senate seats of Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell are up for grabs. Voting out Trump, Graham and McConnell in the same year would be wonderful.
- Report: Election administration failures affected 278000 voters in Texas in 2018. That is larger than the margin of Cruz over Beto.
- Beto calls for nationwide marijuana legalization: ‘Why are we still arresting and jailing people?’
- Beto O’Rourke is getting all the attention, but Elizabeth Warren’s economic policy proposals are leading the 2020 pack
- Buttigieg surges to third place in new Iowa poll
- Buttigieg: ‘I do not approve’ of Chick-fil-A’s politics, but ‘I kind of approve of their chicken’
- Buttigieg: Trump ‘should never have been able to come within cheating distance of the Oval Office’
- Openly Gay, Openly Christian Buttigieg Challenges the Religious Right
- Kamala Harris makes a point in Houston: It’s not just O’Rourke and Sanders who can draw crowds
- Elizabeth Warren Says America Should ‘Never Elect A Man Like Donald Trump Again’
- Elizabeth Warren says she doesn’t trust William Barr’s judgment on Donald Trump, Mueller report obstruction decision
- Win-win? Trump and 2020 Democrats both argue the end of the Mueller probe offers advantages.
- 2020 Democrats Are Calling for Abolishing the Electoral College—It Nearly Happened a Few Decades Ago
- Joe Biden on Anita Hill: ‘To this day, I regret I couldn’t come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved’
- Stacey Abrams predicts female or minority candidate will prevail as Democratic presidential nominee
PROGRESS IS PROGRESS
- NJ approves bill allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives
- Veterans talking veterans back from the brink: A new approach to policing and lives in crisis
- Kliff Kingsbury plans to give Cardinals ‘cellphone breaks’ because they need ‘that social media fix’
IN OTHER NEWS…
- Apple auditions for Hollywood: The making of a streaming service
- Apple’s ‘show time’ event puts the spotlight on subscription services
- Looking for Cinderella? Check out Anteaters and the South
- Review | Apple now wants to be your cable provider, newsstand, credit card and arcade. But will it save you money?
- The Rapper And The Billionaire: How Ice Cube And Jeweler Carolyn Rafaelian Got Together To Bid For A $10 Billion Chunk Of Disney
- What is ‘Us’ about? Winston Duke is ready to tell you.
- Review | ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ finds a little life left in the mockumentary format
- Review | Ariana Grande reached the height of her fame by making heavy feel light
RUMOR MILL
- Eric Garland: The gaslighting will increase. Defy it. The truth about treason is in front of everyone’s face. THREAD.
- Greg Olear: I’m not gonna lie: with the possible exception of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, yesterday was the worst I’ve felt since Election Day 2016. I barely slept, tossing & turning & doubting my own sanity. Which is EXACTLY what these traitors want. Some thoughts: [THREAD]
I’m not gonna lie: with the possible exception of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, yesterday was the worst I’ve felt since Election Day 2016. I barely slept, tossing & turning & doubting my own sanity. Which is EXACTLY what these traitors want. Some thoughts: [THREAD]
1/ Obvious: Barr’s summary is NOT the full report. People much smarter than me pointed out all the strange things about it:
Greg Olear added,
2 Ari Melber notes there is not a single full sentence quote from Mueller. Neal Katyal tore it to pieces on MSNBC. Barb McQuade said “I’ve never seen anything like this before”. Unbelievably, Mueller was not even consulted about the letter. …
2/ The likeliest explanation is that Barr is a bad actor. I mean, he DID write that asinine attack on the OSC, which prompted Trump to hire him. Maybe he really does feel that way. At best, Barr was a very conservative establishment Republican. At worst? He’s a traitor.
3/ Barr’s absolution does not change the facts on the ground. Trump & his minions REALLY DID meet with Russians—many, many, many times—during 2016. If those meetings don’t constitute coordination/conspiracy/collusion, then what do those words even mean?
4/ At the time, Steve Bannon said they couldn’t collude with the GOP in Pennsylvania, let alone the Kremlin. So: Trump’s excuse for all the Russia meetings is that he’s a stupid, disorganized, ineffectual dipshit. If that’s the case, this is almost worse than him colluding.
5/ But let’s look at what Barr asks us to believe…and Mueller, too, if Barr’s summary winds up being delivered in good faith. [Note: there were reports last week of a squabble between Barr & Mueller…now we can guess why].
6/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Trump hired Paul Manafort, well known to him as a Russian mob actor, to run his campaign.
7/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Dimitri Simes, a top FSB agent, recruited Jared Kushner and organized the Mayflower Hotel event of 27 April 2016, so Candidate Trump could meet Sergei Kislyak in person.
8/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Maria Butina, a Russian spy, infiltrated the NRA’s leadership and slept her way through lower-rung GOP.
9/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Junior, Jared & Manafort met at Trump Tower with two Russian agents and a money laundering expert to discuss “adoptions.” (Bonus: IT WASN’T OBSTRUCTION when Junior and Trump both lied about it).
10/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Carter Page, one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers, spoke at the New Economic School in Moscow, meeting with the Russian Deputy Prime Minister (!) and the CEO of Rosneft (!!).
11/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chair, shared US polling data with a Russian spy.
12/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Kislyak met with Jeff Sessions, JD Gordon, and Carter Page at the RNC in Cleveland—or when they changed the language in the Republican platform, at Trump’s request, to align the GOP position on Ukraine w/Putin’s own position.
13/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Michael Cohen went to “Prague” (or someplace near there) to pay off Russian hackers.
14/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Jeff Sessions, the first Senator to endorse Trump, met with Kislyak in his Senate offices. IT WASN’T OBSTRUCTION when Sessions lied about this meeting to Congress.
15/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Kushner and Mike Flynn snuck Kislyak into Trump Tower for a secret meeting, and IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Kush suggested having a backchannel through the Russian embassy, so Trump & Putin could communicate privately.
16/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when a big-wig at a Qatari shell company met with Trump, Flynn, and Cohen at Trump Tower, in the wake of the Rosneft deal mentioned in the Steele dossier. (Qatar helped facilitate the deal w/the Russian company).
17/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Kushner met Sergei Gorkov, VEB president, at Newark Airport in December 2016, even though VEB was on the sanctions list. IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Gorkov left the meeting and flew directly to Putin to report back.
18/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Erik Prince and Elliott Broidy, shadow reps of Trump, met with a Russian wealth fund manager in the Seychelles.
19/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Cohen and Felix Sater met with a Putin agent at the Loews Regency in NYC in January 2017 to negotiate the lifting of sanctions.
20/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION OR OBSTRUCTION when Trump met with Kislyak and Sergei Lavrov, the chief FSB spy in the US, in the Oval Office the day after he fired James Comey for Russia-related reasons—and at Kushner’s urging.
21/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Roger Stone coordinated with WikiLeaks, a Russian intelligence cut-out, to help Trump in the election. Junior and Senior Trump extolling WikiLeaks was also not coordination.
22/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when the Trump campaign worked with Cambridge Analytica (#CamAnal) to sabotage the election. Or when Trump ordered Bannon to bring Brittany Kaiser from Cambridge Analytica to the US immediately (h/t @TomJChicago).
23/ IT WASN’T COORDINATION when Trump went on TV and begged Russia to hack HRC’s emails.
24/ The obstruction examples are even MORE egregious, and I won’t bother with them here.
25/ Any document, whether authored by Barr, Mueller, or the reincarnated spirit of Otto von Bismarck, can’t JUST tell us there wasn’t coordination. It MUST explain why ALL of these examples listed here ARE NOT coordination. If it can’t, it’s just Vichy PR.
26/ The bad guys are going to gloat today. It’s going to be awful. It’s going to make you want to vomit. Try not to take it in. Try to ignore it.
This is NOT over, no way, no how. The traitors WILL pay for their crimes. SDNY, EDVA and the NY AG are ready to roll. OSC still has Stone, Gates, Flynn to handle. Justice deferred is still justice. WE SHALL PREVAIL. [END]
- Thread by @gregolear: “I’m not gonna lie: with the possible exception of Kavanaugh’s confirmation, yesterday was the worst I’ve felt since Election Day 2016. I bar […]” #CamAnal
- Truth Takes Time
- Alias Vaughn: I finally wrote my 1st piece on the Mueller investigation. This should have happened months ago, but the tragedy of my mother’s cancer and her passing prevented me from posting on my page on The Maven, a great site I’ve been cooperating with. I now start.
- Tea Pain: “We all assumed Bob Mueller would swoop in, carpet-bomb the Trump Treason Team with dozens of indictments, mount his trusty steed “Justice,” and ride off into the sunset.”
- Post | Tea Pain USA | @TeaPainUSA | All aboard the Tea Pain Train!
- PostimusMaximus: Its pointless to argue with people acting in bad faith online, but its important to keep making something clear : Everything that was reported by actual news outlets, and by the indictments, still happened. So regardless of what @ggreenwald ‘s dumb ass wants to say, it matters.
- Ming: I only concede that I have not worked hard enough. Trump and the foreign influence that birthed and sustains him must go.
- Tea Pain: Republican snowflakes are demandin’ we apologize to Trump, so here goes…. “Donald Trump, we are truly sorry the interactions with the Russians you lied about don’t amount to criminal conspiracy.”
That’s it for the last few days. More like the past week. Like I said in my last post, I’ve got my hands full dealing with some family issues. I hope to get back to a somewhat regular schedule soon, but we’ll have to see how things go. My father had a massive stroke at some point last week. I don’t want to go into too many details now, but there’s a lot that I have to deal with. My brother and I have to take over his finances and care, but he sure as shit didn’t set himself up for success. I would like to thank everyone that has reached out and offered to help. Where and whenever possible, I’ll take it.
As much as I’d like to promise to get back to daily updates, I can’t. Not only do I not promise anything, I also know that there’s so much on my plate now that I have to take some time off here and there to get caught up with those issues. For example, I now have to take care of his budget while handling mine, and I have to do it while keeping all funds separate. I don’t want to accidentally pay one of his bills from my account then get put on the hook for it.
It also makes me realize how much I need to do and set up for my family. If something happens to me, I need to make sure they’re taken care of. Nothing is promised to us but the here and now. Tomorrow is just a promise that will one day be broken.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen on any front. I feel like I’ve missed the last big game with an injury. I know I could have and should be on the line fighting this battle, but I just can’t stay focused for too long. It probably also doesn’t help that in the last week I’ve had maybe 4 hours of downtime combined. I’ve also spent a lot of time on a new subreddit, /r/raisedbynarcissists. It’s helping me cope with a lot fo stuff I’ve gone through and am going through right now.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
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