Monday.  What could possibly go wrong on a Monday?

WIKILEAKS AND TRUMP JR CORRESPONDED FOR OVER A YEAR

The Atlantic reports on multiple Twitter DM conversations between Julian Assange and Donald Trump, Jr.  These conversations were handed over to one of the Congressional committees digging into the Russian Affair.

Some of the more interesting tidbits from this include Assange admitting to hacking the putintrump.org website by guessing their password, coordinating information drops, asking for dirt on Donald Trump for them to leak to look “more impartial”, advised him to not concede if he lost on election day, and for Trump to recommend that Assange should be appointed as the Ambassador from Australia.

After the first series of DM’s on September 20, 2016, Donnie Jr. emailed Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Jared Kushner.  Jared then forwarded this mail to Hope Hicks, who was Trump’s Personal Assistant at that time.

Need more proof that President Donald Trump was in the loop?

“Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us,” WikiLeaks went on, pointing Trump Jr. to the link wlsearch.tk, which it said would help Trump’s followers dig through the trove of stolen documents and find stories. “There’s many great stories the press are missing and we’re sure some of your follows [sic] will find it,” WikiLeaks went on. “Btw we just released Podesta Emails Part 4.”

Trump Jr. did not respond to this message. But just 15 minutes after it was sent, as The Wall Street Journal’s Byron Tau pointed out, Donald Trump himself tweeted, “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!”

FIFTH WOMAN ACCUSES ROY MOORE OF IMPROPER BEHAVIOR, SEXUAL ASSAULT

Another woman has stepped forward to accuse Roy Moore of coming after her while she was a teenager.  This time, he wasn’t quite so gentlemanly, as he tried to force her to give him felatio in his car, and then threatened her when she didn’t.

By the way, he signed her yearbook.

JD GORDON LAWYERS UP

I’m going to make a list of everyone who has lawyered up, and add this member of the NatSec team to it.  He’s one of the people that George Papadopoulos worked with and briefed.  Or was it Carter Page?  Or both?  I think both at this point.

UNQUALIFIED JUDGE PICK HUSBAND OF McGAHN’S CHIEF OF STAFF

The New York Times reports that Brett Talley, a 36 year old who’s never tried a case as a judge and yet is still up for a Federal Judge appointment, is married to Ann Donaldson, Don McGahn’s Chief of Staff.

Nothing like a little nepotism now and then.

CLAPPER DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT PAPADOPOULOS MEETING WHEN HE MADE HIS ASSESSMENT ABOUT RUSSIA

James Clapper didn’t know about the June 9 meeting, or George Papadopoulos until recently.

The former Director of National Intelligence didn’t know about these meetings, but still knew enough to know that there was some serious conspiratorial stuff going on.

7 MAJOR REPUBLICAN DONORS FEATURED IN PARADISE PAPERS

Ever wonder who’s behind the push for the GOP tax cut plan?  Even better, why they want to remove the passthrough tax?

Here’s a list of the people that are major political donors for the Republican Party, and also hoard money offshore.

TRUMP BEING PLAYED BY PUTIN

As if anyone was surprised, Trump is being played by Putin.  This comes as a shock to …. absolutely no one.

PODESTA GROUP CLOSING

Being associated with a known money launderer and lobbying for a foreign goverment without FARA registration is bad for business.

The Podesta Group, one of DC’s largest lobbying firms, will be closing at the end of the year.  They have been swept up into the Russian Investigation due to their ties with Manafort Davis.  They lobbied on behalf of the Party of Regions in Ukraine, Putin’s puppet party.

RUSSIAN MONEY IN SILICON VALLEY

Here’s a good write up on how deep Russian money is tied into Silicon Valley.

Just in case anyone wonders why Russian Trolls seem to flourish on Social Media, but their opponents

ALL OF THE KNOWN MEETINGS BETWEEN TEAM TRUMP AND RUSSIA

The Washington Post has your back.  Beware, there’s about 30 contacts confirmed.  So much for a nothingburger.

RUSSIAN BOTS STICKING UP FOR HANNITY

Some conservatives are smashing their Keurig coffee machines.  This is stupid, so let me sum up…

Sean Hannity defended Roy Moore and his child molesting behavior.  People started a boycott against Hannity’s advertisers for supporting him supporting a child molester.  Keurig pulled their advertising.  Russian Twitter Bots started a Boycott Keurig hashtag.  This inspired Sean’s fans who are cool with child molestation to smash their expensive coffee machines.

I heard Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are also pulling their advertising because of this.  Feel free to break phones and delete accounts.

MOORE THREATENS TO SUE WASHINGTON POST

Go right ahead.  It worked GREAT for Bill Cosby.

PAPADOPOULOS

Business Insider reports that George emailed Stephen Miller the day after his meeting with The Professor.  Miller was the “High Level Senior Advisor” from the indictments.

He’s screwed.

That’s it for today.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

-Katy Tur

Friday. Time for a NEWS DUMP

MIKE FLYNN ACCEPTED BRIBES FROM TURKEY, PLANNED A KIDNAPPING PLOT AGAINST AN ENEMY OF ERDOGAN

Mike Flynn is in some deep shit. Not only does he have deep ties to Russia, but he also had secret meetings with Turkey, and lobbied on their behalf WHILE A MEMBER OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

He argued on behalf of Erdogan’s regime, and has been caught receiving more than half a million dollars from them.

He convinced the U.S. Government to delay arming Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS, a move that was restored after Flynn was fired.

He supposedly received millions in secret payments from Turkey.

Mike Flynn also proposed a plan to kidnap a cleric critical of Erdogan.

By the way, his son was involved in a lot of the espionage/sedition/treason he took part in.

Yes, I just used the T word.

TWO HOUSE MEMBERS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY MUELLER

Dipshit Cowpoke and Russia’s Favorite Representative are at it again.

Devin Nunes attended a breakfast with Flynn and members of the Turkish Foreign Ministry. About 40 people attended this on January 18, 2017, and the invitation said that Reince Priebus might show up.

Dana Rohrbacher had meetings with Mike Flynn, and there is an email trail thanking Dana for his time.

Mueller is looking into both men.

AT LEAST 25 HOUSE REPUBLICANS NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION IN 2018

This is much faster than normal trends, and is likely to be just the beginning.

THE GOP AND ROY MOORE

Let’s step away from espionage for and talk about something a bit more light hearted.

Child molestation, statutory sexual assault, victim blaming, and the fact that the GOP hasn’t run away screaming from Roy Moore.

I discussed yesterday the level of weirdness of men dating teenagers.

I thought about it a little, and realized there is an acceptable range for boys to date a 14 year old girl. 12-18, with both of those being the extreme edges, where there have to be some extenuating circumstances.

Now, the GOP is left with a choice.

Is this who they are? Are they so desperate to win an election, that they’ll endorse a pedophile and/or ephebophile? That last one is an adult who is sexually attracted to adolescents, just in case hairs need split.

Did the Party of Family Values become the Party of Racism, Sexual Assault, and Traitors?

PAPADOPOULOS LIED TO FBI OUT OF LOYALTY TO TRUMP

Being loyal to Trump gets one a long prison sentence. Wearing a wire gets 0-6 months, and a $500 fine.

TRUMP AND PUTIN “BUMP INTO” EACH OTHER IN VIETNAM

Trump has met with Putin more often than Theresa May, Justin Trudeau, or Marcon.

MUELLER TO INTERVIEW HOPE HICKS

Rumors were floating around that Hope was sleeping with one of the Trump’s, or even Corey. Let’s see how this goes, now that Carter has thrown everyone under the bus.

RUPERT MURDOCH TRYING TO BUY CNN

How else to destroy media credibility than to buy all of the media outlets?

Also, another rumor I heard on Reddit: Putin is dating Rupert’s ex. They are Eskimo Brothers.

SPICER MAY HAVE VIOLATED CONSENT DECREE

This could come back to bite the Republicans in the ass long term.

SHEPARD SMITH THE LONE VOICE OF REASON AT FOX NEWS

He was the only host or journalist that didn’t talk about Uranium One in October. Instead, he delivered the news.

MARK CUBAN REPORTEDLY TALKING TO STEVE BANNON ABOUT 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL RUN

This one is a little weird, but this is 2017, and I just saw an article about George Takei sexually assaulting a model back in 1981. This could easily be a ruse, a nihilist trying to destroy and destabilize America, or a businessman asking a consultant how they did it.

OPINION POLLS MOVE FOLLOWING INDICTMENTS

After the first indictments and arrests were announced, the public opinions of Mueller have increased, and the majority of Americans think that Trump had contact with the Russians.

BILL BROWDER AND CARTER PAGE: KIEV POST FRIEND AND FOE OF THE WEEK

Congratulations, Bill. And Fuck You, Carter.

TRUMP TOWERS IN TURKEY

This is worth looking into. It seems like everywhere he has properties, he’s entangled with the law. What is he hiding in Turkey?

HOW MUELLER WORKS A CASE

Ask the Wives of Enron how he works.

WILL WE HEAR ABOUT CHINA SOON?

I’m wondering if we’re going to start hearing more about China, and how they were working with the Russians to steal the election? This needs more space and time to talk about, but the Steele Dossier mentioned that Trump’s ties in China were even more corrupt than Russia.

We’ll find out.

That’s it for today. See yinz later.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Thursday.

GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS REPRESENTED TRUMP TO UK AND ISRAELI SETTLERS

The “coffee boy” met with the UK government officials, as well as Israel Settlers.

It’s getting harder and harder for the Trump Administration to keep up their facade that George Papadopoulos was a low-level nobody.

GOODLATTE RETIRING

Republican House Representative Bob Goodlatte announced his retirement earlier today. He will not seek re-election in 2018.

He is the head of the House Judiciary Committee, and if any impeachment motion ever sees the light of day, it pretty much has to go through that committee, and it has to go through him.

PROSECUTORS SEEKING PLEA DEAL WITH MANAFORT SON-IN-LAW

The Wall Street Journal reports that prosecutors are seeking to make a deal with Jeffrey Yohai, Paul Manafort’s son-in-law. Though charges haven’t been brought against him yet, Jeff helped Paul on several real estate deals.

Jeff helped him launder his money, and is looking at some serious criminal charges. Throwing Paulie Walnuts under the bus might keep Jeff out of jail.

SCHILLER INTERVIEWED, TALKS ABOUT RUSSIAN HOOKERS

Keith Schiller, Trump’s long term bodyguard, talked to the Special Counselor about many things, including their trip to Moscow in 2013.

Schiller claims that the Russians offered Trump 5 women, but they turned them down.

Reports from the IC say that something happened on that trip, but there is some question about whether or not the claims of the “pee-pee tape” are accurate. For more insight, check out Wilderness of Mirrors in the Speed Round.

STEPHEN MILLER INTERVIEWED BY MUELLER

The highest ranking White House advisor yet to be interviewed by the Special Counselor is Stephen Miller. Aside from being a white supremacist, and a prodigy of Steve Bannon, he is a complete douchenozzle.

14 YEARS OLD, DUDE

Four women allege that Roy Moore made sexual advances towards them while they were teens and he was in his 30’s.

One of the girls was 14, and he got her phone number while her mom was in a custody hearing.

Another girl, he asked out after speaking to her high school civics class.

Another, he asked out IN FRONT OF HER MOTHER while working at the photo hut. She was 16, and this was two years after he first told her he’d “keep an eye on her.”

The fourth he bought drinks for her while she was 18, below the drinking age.

All of this while he was a prosecutor in Alabama.

What in the actual fuck?

I could understand if one time he asked out a girl, wasn’t sure about her age, she told him, he backed off, and that was it.

But no, fuck that. Here we have a lawyer and West Point grad, in his 30’s, the town’s most eligible bachelor, and he’s trying to fibgerbang a high school freshman.

It’s an age difference of 18 years. That’s less than half of his age at the time, 32. The traditional half+7 still leads to 23.

Here’s what bothers me the most. How many kids did he sentence to jail for doing less than he did?

TRUMP TO MEET PUTIN IN VIETNAM

Trump is planning to meet with Putin. Again. Again.

SPEED ROUND!

ROBERT KRAFT, OWNER OF NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS, IN PARADISE PAPERS WITH OFFSHORE HOLDING

PARADISE PAPERS HIGHLIGHT OBSCENE INCOME INEQUALITY

WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: FAKE TRUMP SEX TAPES EXIST WITH REAL ONES

STEM CANDIDATES WINNING RACES

AL FRANKEN HINTS AT REGULATORY OVERSIGHT OF TECH COMPANIES

GIBRALTAR LOOKING AT ADDING THEIR VERSION OF THE MAGNITSKY ACT

USING MOVIES TO LAUNDER MONEY

SCHILLER WENT ON McDONALDS RUNS AS TRUMP BALLOONS TO 345 POUNDS

INTERVIEW WITH BILL BROWDER

That’s it for today. I have no clue what’s coming tomorrow, but there are rumblings about 34 sealed cases in DC District Court that may have ties to Mueller. I’m not sure how things will unfold, but it could be a very busy day.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

HSIOW. Holy Shit, It’s Only Wednesday

JUDGE ISSUES GAG ORDER IN MANAFORT & GATES CASE

The judge in the Paul Manafort case issued a limited gag order on their attorneys today. This is to mitigate the media circus that is being fed by “leaks” from the defense.

MIKE FLYNN WORRIES ABOUT HIS SON’S LEGAL TROUBLES

CNN reports that Mike Flynn is in deep shit, and so is his son. I’ve talked about this a few times recently, and it’s nice to see a quick turnaround on one of Louise’s stories.

This builds the narrative that has been on the Rumor Mill for a while; Flynn flipped to save his son’s life. Both of them are looking at espionage charges, which carries the death penalty. Building this narrative that Flynn is worried about his son preps the masses for his turning states evidence against Donald Trump.

CBO SAYS GOP TAX BILL WILL ADD $1.7 TRILLION TO DEFICIT OVER NEXT DECADE

The Congressional Budget Office has scored the GOP tax bill, and it’s bad. It will add $1.7 trillion to the deficit by 2027.

COREY RECALLS DETAILS EMAILS AND CONTACTS WITH CARTER PAGE AFTER HAVING “MEMORIES REFRESHED”

Following Carter Page’s epic bus throwing under last week, Corey Lewandowski, former Campaign Manager for Donald Trump, suddenly remembered his emails with the Sheldon Cooper of Treason.

He said that he told Carter he could go to Russia on a personal trip, but he’s not representing the campaign.

I hate Corey. Out of everyone in this scandal, I might hate him the most for a completely irrational reason that I’ll get into later. So says Cinna the Poet.

ROGER STONE BEGS FOR DONATIONS TO HIS LEGAL FUND

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.

Roger Stone is out begging for donations to cover his legal bills of half a million dollars.

Maybe he shouldn’t have worked with Russian hackers to edit and distribute stolen emails.

RUSSIA BARS SOME CANADIANS IN RESPONSE TO MAGNITSKY ACT

Canada caught Russia off guard with the speed they passed their Magnitsky list. Normally, Russia tries to negotiate their way out of sanctions, then issue a preemptive list of officials banned from Russia.

Not with Canada.

They were so fast, that by the time they were sending lawyers over to negotiate, Canada was already voting on the bill.

So, Russia issued their banned list of Canadians, made up of the lawyers and legislators that decided to punish Putin and his cronies for their bad behavior.

By the way, Russia has been caught screwing with the Canadian election.

INFOWARS “STOLE” OVER 1000 STORIES FROM RT

BuzzFeed reports that InfoWars, the Alex Jones conspiracy theory site, has copied more than 1,000 stories from RT, formerly known as Russia Today.

They copied stories from dozens of other sites, but RT was far and away the leading victim.

RT claims that they did not give InfoWars permission to use their stories, and they do not have a wire service that they could have taken the stories from.

This gets interesting. Alex Jones has long been a proponent of the Russian narrative, and has appeared on RT several times. He pushes conspiracy theories and propaganda like nobody else.

And he was caught stealing from RT, whose propaganda he peddles.

If they sue him, then if any type of agreement exists, it’ll come out. If they don’t, they look like they’re working with him, and that ties Alex Jones to a known foreign agent.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of out of court settlement to make this disappear.

Too bad for Alex, it won’t disappear. He’s been under investigation for a while.

That’s it for today. By the way, this is post 101 on this blog, in about as many days.

Thank you for reading. And have a good one.