2017

For Thursday …

New White House Communications Director Anthony Scarmucci continues to be a loud distraction for the administration. For Trump, that's a good thing. Keeps the eyes off the other crimes.

Jeff Sessions may have struck a deal to stay in his position. The deal isn't with Trump, but possibly Mueller's team.

The Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke just threatened the state of Alaska over the health care bill. Senator Lisa Murkowski voted no on the Republican health care bills so far. Zinke, almost certainly acting on orders from Trump, threatened Alaska with further isolation. That's like threatening a German with more efficiency.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina just threw down the gauntlet. He's looking to introduce legislation that makes it illegal to fire a Special Counselor without judicial review. He said to the press afterwards that any attempt by Trump to fire Jeff Sessions or Robert Mueller would "be the beginning of the end of Trump's presidency."

Everything above this line happened before Noon EST. It's gonna be one of those days.

Daily Check-In 7/26/2017

Not sure if I mentioned it yesterday, but Trump politicized a Boy Scouts Jamboree.

In a surprisingly well-written tweet, which means it was done by someone else, Trump announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military. This was done on twitter, not through the official chain of command. When he does something in the morning, it's most likely to deflect some incoming stuff.

Another one of Paul Manafort's associates, Dymitro Firtash, has been named by the DOJ as a high level associate and major figure of Russian Organized Crime. Firtash, who makes money from Gazprom, is looking at RICO charges and fighting extradition to the U.S.

Trump's appointment for the head of the DOJ Criminal Division represented Alfa Bank from February until June when he was officially nominated. He learned of the offer in April.

The Trump-Sessions drama continues. Not only has the Keebler Nazi not quit, but Senator Chuck Grassley just announced on twitter that there is no room on the schedule to interview any AG nominees until 2018.

The Rumor Mill is chasing two tales today. Take all of this with a grain of salt.

Louise Mensch is following up on a story about a meeting in Scotland on or around June 24, 2016. It's still in the early stages, but her and others are looking into how this meeting between the Trump Campaign, Cambridge Analytica, and a few others forged the bot and media strategy for Trump, utilizing the Russian Bot Army. More on this as it develops.

Claude Taylor continues to report that NYAG Schneiderman is chugging along with his investigation of Trump Org in New York. Several hints were dropped about the scope of the investigation (a couple hundred targets), some of the new crimes being investigated (human trafficking), and a possible timeline for indictments (6-12 months). Something interesting, Donald Trump has yet to step foot in New York since he took office.

Claude and Louise have both been wrong before, but they've also been months ahead of the curve. They've broke several stories well ahead of the MSM. I'll explain why in a later article.

Daily Check-In 7/25/2017

Some of the events that happened in the last 24ish hours.

President Trump continues to berate USAG Jeff Sessions online, asking why he isn't going after HRC's emails. When Trump projects like this, it's usually because someone gave him bad news.

STAT and the APA have rescinded the Goldwater Rule in regards to Trump. This rule prevents psychologists and psychiatrists from discussing a public persons mental state without consulting with the person. The Goldwater rule goes back to the 1960's, as a direct result of doctors questioning the mental fitness of Barry Goldwater. Expect to see a lot more "Trump is sick" stories about his mental wellbeing.

The House passed their version of the Russian Sanctions bill by a vote of 419-3. Even the Falcons couldn't blow that big of a lead.

The Senate is trying to take away health care from millions of Americans to fund a tax cut.

Even more closed door meetings with Jared Kushner and the House Intelligence Committee.

Ivanka Trump lawyered up. More on why in the next session.

The Rumor Mill is working overtime today. Take everything in this section with a grain of salt.

NYAG Schneiderman is expanding the Enterprise Corruption case to include possible human trafficking charges against Trump's modeling agency. There was a significant Bust by Europol recently in which over 100 perpetrators were arrested and over 900 victims were rescued. (I'll explain how we got here in a later article.)

In the evening, an answer was given as to why Trump goes to Mar-a-lago so much … that's where his side piece lives. And yes, Melania knows. The divorce papers are already signed, and have been for a while.

As for why Ivanka lawyered up, she's in deep. She's not a bystander in this, but a ring leader. Her name was all over a bunch of shell companies that are being investigated for illegal gambling, she's involved with some of the meanest Kazakstan has to offer, and is supposedly one of the biggest money launderers for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Daily Check-In 7/24/2017

Today's check-in for Monday, July 24th, 2017.

President Trump continues to berate the Keebler Nazi, Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the press for recusing himself from investigating anything related to the campaign.

This comes on the heels of news from Friday night where it was leaked that the Intelligence Community has SIGINT (Signals Intelligence, like recordings of conversations and phone calls) of Jeff talking about campaign details with then Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. The Rumor Mill's been saying these tapes existed for awhile, and that they may have been leaked to the press from inside the White House as an attempt to build a public case for Sessions' firing, allowing Trump an end-run attempt at firing Bobby Three Sticks, aka Special Counselor Robert Mueller III.

In Trump's tirades, he floated the possibility of replacing the Keebler Nazi with Rudy "Noun/Verb/9-11" Giuliani. This was shot down by Rudy himself in a CNN interview. Further, he went on to say Jeff Sessions did the right thing by recusing himself. Ouch. On top of that, according to the Rumor Mill, Rudy's up to his eyes in legal trouble, following the October FBI fiasco. More on that later.

Recusing is the legal term for removing yourself from the workflow due to a potential conflict of interest. It's very common in the legal world. If a lawyer worked for Lawfirm A, then left to become a judge, it would make sense, even be expected, that they shouldn't hear a case from an old client of theirs. In Jeff's case, he was a senior member of Trump's campaign team, and was placed into the spot where he was going to have to investigate himself.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may be on the verge of quitting. Word has it he's been upset for a while, he didn't want the job in the first place, and Trump attacking the Keebler Nazi may be the straw that broke the camels back.

Jared Kushner testified before a closed session of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. In his testimony, he identified a couple more meetings that he had with Russians that weren't previously made public. In one of those meetings, a Russian gave him a literal bag of dirt. Say what you will about them, Russian spies know how to troll.

The new White House Communications Director, Anthony Scarmucci, is warming up nicely to his new job. By that, he caused Sean Spicer to rage quit, said a few bold face lies, and then outed Trump as the source of his craziest line of the weekend "Putin said that Russians didn't hack the election cause if they did, we'd never catch them." His next appearance will be in a Used Car Sales Lot in New Jersey as he waits for Futurama royalties.

Finally, the Senate gets ready to vote on their version of the health care bill, which could take away coverage from 32 million Americans while doubling premiums for everyone. This would kill 50,000 people per year. But the Koch Brothers would get a tax write-off!

That's it for today.