Daily Check-In 8/30/2017

Thursday. This is going to be a short entry tonight. Not that stuff didn’t happen, I’m just really tired today.

A report came out about an hour ago that Mueller’s federal investigation into Paul Manafort has teamed up and is sharing evidence with NY AG Schneiderman’s money laundering investigation. This has been reported by the Rumor Mill before, but is now hitting the mainstream.

Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian spy and lobbyist who was at the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, has testified in front of Mueller’s grand jury.

Supposedly, the Senate Intel Committee wants to hear from Michael Cohen and Dana Rohrbacher.

Dimtry Firtash, one of Manafort’s contacts, has been denied extradition to Spain.

There could be a potential legal review into Joe Arpaio’s pardon. This could be big, as it could put Trump’s pardon power into question.

Don Jr. is set to testify before the SIC.

The Trump Tower Moscow deal was financed by VTB, a bank that is majority owned by the Russian Government. This isn’t the VEB bank that worked Carter Page, or Sberbank, which met with Jared Kushner, nor Alfa Bank, whose servers were communicating with a server in Trump Tower. Anyway, that plan had land and money set aside for it.

I want to dig deep into the Alfa Bank story, but we’ll see what happens.

That’s it for tonight.

Thank you, have a good one.

Daily Check-In 8/29/2017

Tuesday. That time again.

SEND LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY

You know it’s bad when your former lawyer and spokesperson are both subpoenaed by Robert Mueller. How bad? Ask Paul Manafort.

It sounds like the current play is squeeze Paul like a grape until the juice comes out. These sound like they’re looking into Paul’s past in Ukraine.

THE TRUMP’S IN TEXAS

Donald Trump visited Texas today. Did he say anything about the sacrifice of the first responders, or about human compassion?

What do you think?

Trump marveled at the size of his crowd, and how he’s dealing with the greatest natural disaster ever.

Once again, all about him. NPD gonna NPD.

MATTIS FREEZES THE TRANNY FREEZE

Maybe not the most elegant section title, but Secretary of Defense James Mattis is not implementing the proposed Transgender ban in the military until after sufficient study has been completed.

This may just be a delaying action, but it could also be the DoD telling Trump that he should pound sand. Let’s see how things go.

DeSANTIS AND ROHRBACHER

Rep. Ron DeSantis, Republican out of Florida, is attempting to place budgetary limits on Mueller’s team, restricting them to 6 months and that he can’t investigate anything older than when the campaign started in June 2015.

By the way, he’s received the maximum donations from the Blatvanik’s. Maybe he’s tied up in something he’s afraid will reach the light of day?

Meanwhile, Dana Rohrbacher, Russia’s favorite member of the House, is trying to set up a meeting with Donald Trump to brief him on Dana’s recent meeting with Julian Assange. There’s a rumor circulating that Trump might be floating the idea of pardoning Assange.

Julian Assange is in charge of Wikileaks, and the only way he could be more obviously be a Russian agent would be if he were an actual bear on a unicycle.

MAGA, TRADEMARK 2012

This one just came in on Twitter, and I confirmed from This link that Donald Trump was entertaining running for President within 2 weeks of the 2012 election.

How?

He registered “Make America Great Again” as a trademark.

Below are the screenshots from the Justia website, just in case anything disappears by then.

What does this mean? Well, it could be nothing. Or, it puts everything from 2012 to the 2016 in a different light. He registered this trademark right after Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama. All actions in that time were about getting elected President. Any shady activities were undertaken while he was working to become President. The 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow. The real estate deals. The constant race baiting. All of it.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

Thank you.

Have a good one.

Daily Check-In 8/28/2017

Time for another week.

COHEN AND SATER

Two names that are coming to the forefront this week are Felix Sater and Michael Cohen.

Felix Sater is a long time “business associate” of Donald Trump, who specializes in real estate development and has had tons of contacts with the Russian Mafia, supposedly all the way up to Putin’s inner circle.

Michael Cohen is Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer. He’s been involved in a lot Trump’s shadier deals in the last decade. He’s been called Donald Trump’s Third Son.

In the last 24 hours, reports have come out that both of them had extensive contacts with Russia after the campaign had already started about opening a hotel in Moscow, with the Trump name, using financing backed by the Oligarchs/Russian Mafia, in clear violation of the Magnitsky Act. This was while Trump was running for President. Felix Sater bragged about how this deal would “win them the Presidency.”

If this doesn’t sound illegal enough, here’s a couple more pieces.

The Presidential Campaign has repeatedly claimed to have no contacts with Russia, then a couple, then a few, but none as early as October 2015.

Trump leasing his name would require rescinding of the sanctions against Russia for it to take place.

Real estate is the easiest way to launder large amounts of money.

This is big. This puts two more people with direct business ties to Donald Trump in direct connection with Russia.

Michael Cohen lawyered up in May. According to rumors, Felix Sater flipped on Trump a while back.

We are well passed the land of coincidence.

NORTH KOREA

North Korea fired a missile or three over Japan. Details are still coming in.

HOUSTON

Houston is underwater. It’s gonna a long time until that’s cleaned up. Trump is scheduled to visit Texas on Tuesday. Somehow, he’ll make himself the victim. That’s NPD for ya…

DISINFORMATION AND CATFISHING

The twitterverse is in a little turmoil. Claude Taylor announced earlier that he was fed a lot of disinformation about Schneiderman and human trafficking charges. This isn’t the first time he’s been catfished. Him, Louise, and other members of this part of the Resistance are under attack recently. More than usual, that is. Disinformation is a common trick used by the Russians, but why feed a couple people on twitter this?

To destroy credibility.

Though not always accurate, those two have been ahead of the curve. They knew a lot of the Trump connections and reported them before the MSM. From following them, I knew about Felix Sater months ago. A lot of people look up to them. And if their credibility gets trashed, so does this part of the Resistance.

Funny thing is, there’s a good chance that they tried to catfish Claude to discredit future reports that might come out about Trump’s ties to human trafficking charges. As Captain Sheridan said “Always put a little piece of truth inside of a lie. It makes the lie easier to swallow.”

TRUMP AND ARPAIO

Months ago, according to the Washington Post, Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to bury the Joe Arpaio case. He asked this because Joe was a friend.

This establishes a pattern of Trump’s complete lack of respect for the legal system, and puts the Comey requests to end the Russian Investigation in a new light.

Hopefully, this is all that happens tonight.

I’ll see you tomorrow.

Have a good one.

Daily Check-In 8/25/2017

For Fuck’s Sake, it’s Friday.

Centuries from now, when someone describes a leader doing nothing during a disaster, they won’t talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns. They’ll talk about Trump playing golf while Texas drowns.

Texas is about to get hit with a Category 4 hurricane. Harvey is the name. No, not that Harvey. Or that one. Katrina was a 4 when it made landfall, and it damn near wiped out New Orleans. Corpus Christi is right in the crosshairs.

What does Donald Trump do? Well, let’s go vacation and pardon a racist sheriff who abused his power and flouted the courts.

Instead of leading by example, or trying to lead in the slightest, Trump only cares about Trump. He’ll even try to shut down the government to save his ass.

Bob Mueller’s team issued subpoenas to PR execs that worked with Paul Manafort.

Mike Flynn is being fingered as the go between for the Russian hackers and Trump’s Campaign to deliver the DNC information.

Sebastian Gorka, Fake Doctor and Actual Nazi, was fired from the White House today. When firing a Nazi from the White House isn’t even in the top 3 stories, it’s a fucked up night.

I’m writing an article about pardons and presidential powers and limits this weekend. I might include it with the removal of a President article.

Have a good one.