Friday. Time for the news dump.

RUSSIANS, ROGER STONE EDITED DNC MAILS, THEN GAVE THEM TO JULIAN ASSANGE TO RELEASE ON WIKILEAKS

Remember when Roger Stone, one of Trump’s campaign leaders, bragged about how he was in contact with Guccifer 2.0 about the DNC emails?

Turns out that contact included editing the stolen mails to make them even more salacious than they were before.  These edits made turned the DNC mail story into one of conspiracy and vote rigging in the Democratic Primary, where the Democratic National Committee’s hand picked choice of Hilary Clinton, a lifelong Democrat, defeated the fringe candidate Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont.  Meanwhile, Hilary beat Bernie by MILLIONS of votes, and Bernie Sanders would have been a terrible choice to run for President.

Did I mention that Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian state sponsored hacker?  This person may have been a part of, or an alias for Fancy Bear.

After Roger and the Russian Hackers edited the DNC mails, they then gave them to Julian Assange, who released them on Wikileaks.

What also gets interesting is how this narrative of what the mails contained seemed to come out a day before the mails dropped.  Almost like someone knew.

 

IT’S EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF

According to one source that CBS spoke to, it’s every man, and woman, for themselves in the Mueller investigation.  Everyone is throwing each other under the bus to try to get the best deal.

This reminds of the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Two people, let’s call them Al and Bob, are arrested, and taken to separate interview rooms.  The cops interview both of them separately, and offer each of them the same deal.

If neither accept the deal, both Al and Bob are looking at 5 years in prison.

If Al accepts, and Bob doesn’t, the one who accepts gets 2 years, but the other one gets 20 years.  The opposite applies.

If they both accept, Al and Bob will both rat each other out, and both will get 10 years.

It sounds like that everyone is trying to give Mueller and his team all of the information they can, in order to not die of old age in prison.

 

MORE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE, RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME, MANAFORT, AND TRUMP

Yep.  This time, some of the same Russian Oligarchs that worked with Manafort in Ukraine also have connections with Trump’s casinos dating back to the 1990’s.

 

MANAFORT TRIAL SET FOR MAY 8, 2018, PROSECUTION PLANS A 3 WEEK TRIAL

From what the lawyers on Twitter are saying, this is a pretty quick timetable for a trial of this magnitude.  Either they have some pretty damning evidence, or everything they have is flimsy.

Considering that Mueller team member Andrew Weissman was able to successfully argue that Manafort’s lawyer was a party to these crimes and thus waived the right to attorney-client privilege, and was subpoenaed by the Grand Jury to testify against Manafort, and they’ve had a FISA warrant on Paul since last year, I’m guessing they have a pretty powerful case.

 

TRUMP KICKS OFF NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH WITH “POCAHONTAS” RACIAL SLUR AGAINST SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN. I SHIT YOU NOT.

In Trump’s morning tirade, he went after Senator Elizabeth Warren.  She claims to have some Native American ancestry, which is more common than people think.

Trump, in his morning tweet tirade, called her Pocahontas.  This might not seem like much, but there’s a good number of people that would consider it at least slightly racist.

This was also the beginning of Native American Heritage Month.  Think about that for a second.  I’m honestly afraid of what he’ll say to Senator Cory Booker in February.

 

NEWS SOURCES CITED RUSSIAN TROLLS

WaPo, NYT, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS.  All of them got fooled by the Russians.

 

CANADA ADDS 52 NAMES TO THEIR MAGNITSKY LIST

Most of them came from Russia.  19 from Venezuela, and 3 from South Sudan.  Way to go, Bill!

 

FACEBOOK HAS 60 MILLION FAKE ACCOUNTS

About 2-3% of accounts on Facebook are duplicates or fakes.  Some of those are used to spread propaganda.  Surely not all 60 million, but enough.

 

TWITTER DIDN’T TAKE RUSSIAN ACTIONS SERIOUSLY

On the other hand, Twitter seems to thrive off of fake accounts.  Thousands of fake accounts are added every day, many of them from Russian, Indian, or Chinese IP’s.  Their business model is driven by views, not content.  If views and hits are all that are important, creating armies of bots to swarm to a post to view and interact with users or posts to drive hits is all that is needed to make something appear big.

This is Twitter’s problem.  And as more information comes out, it’s only going to get worse.

 

TWITTER CUSTOMER REP DELETES TRUMP TWITTER ACCOUNT, GONE FOR 11 MINUTES For 11 glorious minutes, in one of the best “Fuck it, I’m out” moves in history, a third party contractor blocked @realDonaldTrump on their way out the door.

For 11 minutes, he did not exist on Twitter.  And the world was safe and sound.

It was quickly fixed, but reports out of the White House said that he went absolutely batshit when it was blocked.

Just imagine how bad he’ll get if he gets slapped with a gag order soon.

 

RIGHT WING BLOGGER JENNA ABRAMS WAS A RUSSIAN CREATION

I’ve never heard of her before, but apparently this blogger, who had 70.000 followers, wasn’t real, but a Russian creation.

 

TRUMP HEARD OUT GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, PER JD GORDON

Another member of Trump’s NatSec team, JD Gordon, said that Trump heard George Papadopoulos out on his Russian meeting idea during the March meeting, and didn’t say no.

Of course “Greatest Memory in the World” Donald Trump doesn’t remember that.  And yes, last week he claimed to have the World’s Greatest Memory.  This is gonna bite him in the ass.

 

PAPADOPOULOS CONSIDERED CONGRESSIONAL RUN BEFORE ARREST

According to his LinkedIn profile, George was looking into a run for Congress before he was indicted.  He asked people for help in finding staffers, campaign finance people, and what districts would be good to run in.

After his indictment, he asked for recommendations on publishing houses, saying that “he has a a story to tell.”

No fucking shit.

 

TRUMP MAY MEET WITH PUTIN IN VIETNAM ON ASIA TRIP

Trump has met with Vladimir Putin twice.  Vietnam will be the third time.

That’s more times than he’s met the Mexican or French President, or the Canadian or British Prime Ministers.

And they didn’t commit an Act of War against the United States last year.

 

LONGTIME TRUMP BODYGUARD TO MEET WITH MUELLER ABOUT 2013 RUSSIAN TRIP

Phil Schiller knows where the bodies are, both literally and figuratively.  He has been by Trump’s side for nearly 20 years.

That includes Trump’s trip to Moscow in 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant.  And to the Ritz Carlton where the “Pee Tape” was supposedly made.

 

“I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS”

When he asked by Laura Ingrahm of Fox News why he hasn’t filled senior positions at the State Department, this was his response.

This cult of personality has gone too far already.

 

TRUMP NOT HAPPY ABOUT RULE OF LAW

Trump doesn’t want to be President, he wants to be a dictator.  We still have rules and laws here in the U.S., and he’s going to find out the hard way how much that means to people.

 

“THIS IS AUTOCRAT 101” SAYS EX-OBAMA SPOKESMAN

Yep.  Just like I just said, Trump thought being President meant he could do whatever he wanted.  He was wrong.

 

CARL BERNSTEIN SAYS THIS COULD BE WORSE THAN WATERGATE

Watergate was an attempted break-in of a campaign headquarters, followed by a massive cock-up of a cover up.  A handful of burglars and a few principles in the administration knew at first, but it grew quickly.

The Russian Affair was a Presidential candidate working with a hostile foreign power to subvert Democracy itself.

40 men went to jail, with 69 indicted.  When it’s all said and done, it’ll make Watergate look like a parking ticket.

 

VESELNITSKAYA ENTRY VISA TO UNITED STATES DENIED

The lawyer from the June 9 Meeting was denied entry into the U.S.

 

DONNA BRAZILE AND DNC MAILS STORY PUSHED BY RIGHT WING BEFORE GUCCIFER 2.0 STORY BROKE

This one was a weird one to make the rounds today, but in hindsight it makes sense.  The RWM and Donald Trump were pushing the DNC rigging storyline pretty hard today.  It confused me as to why, until I saw the story about Guccifer 2.0.

This was deflection, distraction, and projection.  Pure and simple.  This is their weapon of choice.

 

CARTER PAGE NAME DROPPING JEFF SESSIONS A BIT TOO MUCH

Carter Page is a fucking idiot.  A useful fucking idiot.  One of the things that he did, a little too much in the last couple days, was drop Jeff Sessions’ name in connection to his Russian trip.  Several times.

Did Jeff know? Absolutely.

Is Carter likely a Russian Spy? I wouldn’t put it past him.

Could he be trying to implicate Jeff even further, and get it to the point that he’s pushed out of the door and Jeff is replaced with a new Attorney General who can fire Mueller?

That’s what I’m worried about.

 

IVANKA STILL USES PRIVATE MAIL FOR WHITE HOUSE BUSINESS

Of fucking course.  Irony must be a rare commodity in Washington these days.

 

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

This report needs to be released every four years, and the EPA and other departments released it to the public.  Not only does it come to the pretty obvious conclusion that Climate Change is real, but we’re causing it.

How are them coal jobs coming along?

 

CYPRUS GAVE MUELLER MANAFORT’S BANK RECORDS BEFORE INDICTMENTS

From the Manafucked Chronicles, when the Government of Cyprus gives the Special Counselor you’re bank records, showing your transaction history from Russian Mafia and Oligarchs and to businesses owned by you in the United States, that’s Manafucked.

LIN WEBER, HEAD OF MERCURY LLC, UNDER INVESTIGATION

Mercury LLC was one of the two lobbying groups that Manafort commissioned to work on Ukraine’s behalf, and they did not register with FARA while doing so.

 

REDDIT HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL IN SPREADING FAKE AND ALTERNATIVE NEWS

The fake news order goes a little like this.  Someone makes something up on 4chan or Reddit, out on the fringes like The_Donald.  The person who made it puts it on Twitter. It gets picked up on other, more popular pages, then on other media sites like Daily Caller or Breitbart.  Next thing, Fox News is running a story about it.

 

LARA TRUMP ANGLING FOR WHITE HOUSE POSITION

Eric Trump’s wife, the head of the reelection committee, and founder of Trump TV, is trying to get an official position in the White House.

 

MARY TRUMP WONDERED WHAT KIND OF MONSTER SHE CREATED

Most of Trump’s mental problems started with Mommy and Daddy.  This article goes into some details about her.

 

WHO IS THE PROFESSOR?

John Schindler writes about The Professor, a Russian Spy who worked with George Papadopoulos in London.

He has disappeared for the time being, and hopefully we catch him before the Russians do.  He has some explaining to do.

 

MNUCHIN BEHIND POWELL FED NOMINEE

Steven Mnuchin was behind the pick, no matter what Trump wants to say.

 

TRUMP NOMINATED CLUB MEMBERS TO IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT

In yet another example of blatant corruption, high ranking positions like diplomatic assignments are going to people who are members of Trump’s resorts.

 

SECOND YEAR WILL BE WORSE

If you thought this year was bad, wait till next year.  Not only will the Russian Investigation be in full swing, but the government still has many unfilled openings across many departments, and the parties will be at each others’ throats next year.

 

STRATEGIC DECEPTION FROM THE RUSSIAN PLAYBOOK

A nice little description about how the Russians do what they do, and how they do it.

 

THREE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF FREEDOM CAUCUS FILE RESOLUTION ASKING MUELLER TO RESIGN

At this point, I’m strongly in the “If you’re trying to end this investigation to protect Trump, you are a co-conspirator” camp.  There is no other way to describe it at this point.

RICK GATES FAILED TO DISCLOSE SECOND PASSPORT

This just came in a short time ago.  I’d ask how he forgot that he has a second passport, but then again, I forgot my keys on my work desk 5 times this week when I left the office.  What’s really impressive is I only worked 4 days.

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s kind of hard when the person pals around with Paul Manafort.

 

That’s it for today.  At least, most of what happened.  Trump left on his Asian trip, but as far as I heard, there were no new arrests or indictments unsealed.  Part of the trip was a rider that included some crazy requests, like having the heat in the hotels set to 81 F, 3 XXXL silk robes, which I believe are also called Parachutes, and a bunch of unhealthy food, with not a vegetable in sight.

I’ve got a couple story ideas for this weekend, assuming I get some time to write.  Since Bernie is back in the news, and there are more than a couple voices saying that he might be complicit in some stuff with Russia, which I don’t necessarily believe, I want to write about how Trump vs. Bernie would have been Putin’s best available outcome.  The other story is about an article I didn’t cover this week, about why I don’t use the T word.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

Thursday.

MORE INFORMATION COMES OUT CONNECTING MANAFORT TO RUSSIA

The Daily Beast illustrated a few more connections between Paul Manafort and Russian Organized Crime.

According to the article, his ties go all the way to the top of the Russian Mafia. Considering his ties to the Party of Regions, I’m expecting to hear that he has Putin’s cell phone by the end of the week.

MUELLER GETS DOCUMENTS FROM JARED KUSHNER

Jared Kushner is in Mueller’s crosshairs. Kushner has voluntarily given the Special Counselor documents related to his role in Comey’s firing.

Jared is an interesting case. He is the weak link in the family, and doesn’t want to end up like his dad, in prison. But he is in WAYYYY over his head, and is looking at a very long prison sentence.

Jared might try to flip. The question is, does he have enough for Mueller?

CLOVIS WITHDRAWS FROM AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT POSITION

Sam Clovis withdrew his name from consideration for the top science position in the Department of Agriculture.

Not because he’s completely unqualified, or he’s not a scientist, or he has no clue what he’s doing, but because he’s a cooperating witness with the Special Counselor.

TRUMP TEAM FOUND OUT CLOVIS TESTIFIED BEFORE GRAND JURY FROM MEDIA

Well, this is awkward. Trump found out that Sam Clovis testified before a grand jury by watching it on the news.

Right before his Senate confirmation hearing.

CARTER PAGE TESTIFIED FOR OVER 7 HOURS, SAID SESSIONS KNEW OF RUSSIAN TRIP

The Sheldon Cooper of Treason is at it again. Carter Page spoke with the House Intelligence Committee all day. For more than 7 hours. Without an attorney.

Only an idiot would represent themselves in court. Only the heir to the throne to the Kingdom of Idiots would represent themselves in front of Congress when espionage is on the table.

According to Page, he told Jeff Sessions that he was working on the campaign, and that he was traveling to Russia.

MERCER RESIGNS FROM HIS HEDGE FUND, CUTS TIES WITH BANNON, BREITBART, MILO

Robert Mercer is stepping down from his hedge fund. He is also selling his share of Breitbart to his daughter, and is separating himself from Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopolous, whom he funded on his recent tour.

Mercer, who was also the money behind Cambridge Analytica and Ted Cruz, knows that something is up, and may be trying to distance himself from everyone else.

Plus, it’s bad for business if people know that they’re investing their money with a crazy racist.

TRUMP SUBDOMAINS POINT TO RUSSIAN IP ADDRESSES, GODADDY ACCOUNT HACKED YEARS AGO, DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT

This got me a little worked up this morning. Someone, likely Russians, gained access to the Trump GoDaddy account, and used it to register extra shadow domains that pointed to IP addresses in Russia. Those addresses hosted servers that hosted malware that could spoof logins and grab ID’s and passwords.

These subdomains were online for five years, and likely had access to all of the other servers on the Trump server farm, like their email servers, their business and payment servers, and their campaign servers.

The only way that the Trump team even knew about this was because Mother Jones called them for comment. Only after this did they disappear.

Holy Fucking Dogshit! This is IT Security 101. A few commands from the command prompt, or some online tools could check the domains in a few seconds, and an NSLookup would find the IP address faster than it took to read that sentence.

And they were on the network for five years.

This is criminally negligent at best. Complicit or worse is even more likely.

They hosted their campaign information on this compromised server farm. They hosted their businesses there. Hell, Jared and Ivanka hosted their secret White House mail server there.

And the Russians had the keys.

IN OTHER NEWS…

PROSECUTORS LOOK TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST SIX RUSSIAN HACKERS OVER DNC ATTACK

TWITTER OFFERED RT 15% OF ALL ELECTION ADVERTISING

CANADA TO ADD NAMES TO THEIR MAGNITSKY LIST

CHRISTOPHER STEELE CHARGED $168,000 FOR MAKING HIS DOSSIER

MOST AMERICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP PROBE, NEARLY HALF THINK TRUMP COMMITTED A CRIME

STATE DEPARTMENT URGES HEADS OF STATE TO STAY AT TRUMP HOTEL INTERNATIONAL IN D.C.

JAMES COMEY TROLLS TRUMP WITH BOOK TITLE

RUSSIAN BOTS TARGET CLINTON, MUELLER, COMEY

That’s it for today. I said something big is goin to drop tomorrow, and I stand by that. Rumor has it that the trending hashtag will be #FlynnFriday.

I have a couple articles I didn’t write about today or yesterday, but I want to save them for bigger pieces. One will be why I don’t necessarily trust Bernie Sanders and his team, and why I don’t use the T word too much.

Thank you, and have a good one.

Finally. FFS. It’s Friday.

It’s Time. It’s TIME. IT’S TIME. FOR THE NEWS DUMP!

SEALED INDICTMENTS FROM MUELLER

THIS JUST FUCKING HAPPENED!

DANA BOENTE RESIGNS

This is a big deal. The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is retiring.

Dana Boente has an interesting story.

Late in 2016, President Obama changed the order of succession for the DOJ, lowering him down the chain. Of course, Trump reversed it, and placed Dana back in his old spot, and somehow interpreted this move as “Obama hates him, so I like him” and left him in his position.

Meanwhile, Grand Juries were convened to look into the Russian investigation, starting with Mike Flynn and Paul Manafort. These started in EDVA. This is where James Comey had at least one Grand Jury.

When Comey was fired, Boente was in the SCIF with Rosenstein when the decision was made to name a Special Counselor. That turned out to be Robert Mueller.

Boente will stay on until his replacement is confirmed by the Senate. But considering that Preet Bharara was fired in March, and replacements are still being interviewed, Dana might be on the job for a while.

One rumor going around is that he will be called as a witness, and because of this, he can’t be a prosecutor on the case. Take that for what you will.

REBEKHA MERCER DIRECTLY IMPLICATED IN SEEKING DNC AND HRC EMAILS FROM WIKILEAKS

Rebekah Mercer, billionaire funder of Cambridge Analytica, was caught asking for mails from Julian Assange.

She was asking Alexander Nix, head of CA, if he could get Wikileaks to release the mails in a particular order.

INTERN FROM CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA LEFT VOTER TARGETING SOFTWARE ONLINE

Don’t leave your incriminating work online! Seriously, this isn’t rocket science.

More interestingly, this targeting software was left unguarded and unencrypted, open for anyone who knew it was there.

SEEKING STOLEN PROPERTY IS A CRIME

Ari Melber reminds us that trying to acquire stolen property is a crime. There have been multiple attempts by the Trump Campaign to get these emails. At this point, if they didn’t collide, it was because they fucked it up so bad the Russians bailed.

WHITEFISH ENERGY CONTRACT IS AS CORRUPT AS IT COMES

Here’s a copy. Nothing says legit for a no-bid deal like a clause that says it can’t be audited or reviewed.

Any judge not completely drunk would invalidate several parts of, if not the whole of the contract.

FEMA, CONGRESS WANTS TO LOOK INTO WHITEFISH ENERGY

FEMA, the Senate, and a couple House Committees want to know how a two man company in Montana won this contract.

This is going to get interesting. The Trump Administration is doing a speed run on every type of scandal in American history. Looks like this is their Blackwater.

SANCTIONS DIVISION AT STATE DEPARTMENT SHUT DOWN BY TILLERSON REORGANIZATION

Can’t enforce sanctions if there isn’t a sanctions department.

Remember, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is one of the few Americans that have won the Russian Medal of Friendship, given to him directly by Vladimir Putin.

PRIVATE PRISON CONVENTION MOVED TO TRUMP RESORT

This comes after the Trump Administration changed the governments stance on using private prisons.

Explain to me how this isn’t a bribe.

JFK FILES RELEASED, HOW TO READ THEM

The New York Times has a good write up on how to read the JFK files that were released.

Start with the files that were not listed before.

JFK STRIPPERS, ORGIES, AND BOUNTIES ON COMMUNISTS

Bring lawyers, guns, and money.

Seriously, there’s some really good shit in here. Orgies with the Rat Pack, for fucks sake.

RUSSIAN PAPER ARMING ITS STAFF

Following even more violence against journalists in Russia, the Editor in Chief of Novaya Gazeta, will arm his staff.

Be safe out there.

SENATOR SASSE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST ROY MOORE

If Ben Sasse doesn’t like you, you’re a dick.

Expect the Moderates in the GOP to start fighting back against the fringes, especially given the other developments today.

TRUMP WANTS TO LIFT GAG ORDER ON FBI INFORMANTS FOR URANIUM ONE, ALSO WANTS ALL EMAILS OF CLINTON’S RELEASED

This is pure distraction. Trump wants to distract from the incoming shitstorm. He’s also trying to make a stink about emails again.

TRUMP ASTROTURFED BON JOVI ON BUFFALO BILLS SALE

Remember when Trump tried to buy the Buffalo Bills?

He worked with Roger Stone, Cohen, and Caputo to screw Jon Bon Jovi out of the sale.

Fuck Trump, he killed the USFL and Spring football.

RUSSIAN TROLL FACTORY MADE A HILARY CLINTON SEX TAPE

This is great for a laugh.

This is what I think of when I think of trolls. Making a sex tape with a black man and a Hilary lookalike is pretty funny and fucked up.

ASSHOLES ATTACKING LAS VEGAS SHOOTING VICTIMS, CLAIMING IT WAS A HOAX

Fuck these type of assholes. I want to feel sorry for them that they don’t know how to think, or might be sick, but going after victims is fucked up.

CATALAN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE, SPAIN TO EXERCISE EMERGENCY POWERS

Catalan has decided to declare their independence from Spain today. In retaliation, Spain will exercise their emergency powers to keep this from happening.

Keep an eye on this. It’s just a potential revolution or civil war about to break loose in Europe.

More chaos. Just like what Putin wants.

HOUSTON TEXANS OWNER BOB McNAIR ON ANTHEM PROTEST: “WE CANT’T HAVE THE INMATES RUNNING THE PRISON.”

Poor choice of words, Bob.

Just, think before you talk.

PLAYER REACTION LED TO WALKOUT

Several players walked out of practice, and might not play on Sunday.

The players have a choice on whether they should play or not. Except Lamar Miller, I’m starting him in Fantasy Football this week.

GOP WANTS TO END RUSSIA INVESTIGATIONS IN CONGRESS

The GOP wants to wrap up the Russian Investigations.

Nothing to see here, no collusion. Ignore the indictments, the SIGINT, and all of the other evidence.

GOP MAY USE BUDGET TRICKS TO END MUELLER WORK

One trick they might try to use to stop the Investigation is to screw with the funding.

Of course, if indictments are in the pipeline, cutting off the investigation could likely lead to an Obstruction of Justice charge.

ORRIN HATCH “MIGHT” RETIRE AT END OF TERM

From the “Water is Wet” Category, Orrin Hatch might retire after his term ends in 2019.

Orrin Hatch, the President Pro Tempre of the Senate, is 83 years old. Rumor has it that his health might be failing, and he might want to retire, but doesn’t want to announce it until things settle down.

By that reasoning, he’ll run for 22 more terms.

IMPEACHMENT ADS ON FOX & FRIENDS

This is perfect. Run ads calling for Trump’s Impeachment on Fox & Friends, while he’s watching.

Yes, the tiny handed racist blew a fucking gasket.

VESELNITSKAYA SHARED KREMLIN TALKING POINTS AT JUNE 9 MEETING

Of course.

And, of course she denied ever working with the Kremlin.

YURI CHAIKA WORKING WITH VESELNITSKAYA

The Crown Prosecutor, or Prosecutor General of Russia.

He is known as the King of Kompromat. He supplied this information on Hilary Clinton to Veselnitskaya, who offered it to Team Trump.

GETTING A FISA WARRANT IS HARD

Really Fucking Hard.

So, the fact that at least two people of interest, Carter Page and Paul Manafort were under a warrant, should show how serious shit is.

GORKA CALLS FOR CLINTON EXECUTION ON SEAN HANNITY

How does a Nazi get any work as an expert on National Security interviews?

Get ready for shit to fly against Gorka and Hannity.

CYPRUS TRIES TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING ACCUSATIONS FROM EUROPEAN UNION

Cyprus is trying to play off it’s role in Russian Money Laundering scandals.

Remember, Paul Manafort moved Oleg Deripaska’s money through the Bank of Cyprus, under the management of Wilbur Ross at the time.

FEINSTEIN DEMANDS WHITE HOUSE HAND OVER ALL INFORMATION ON COMEY AND RUSSIA

Diane Feinstein has sent a letter on behalf of the Senate Judiciary Committee, demanding information from the White House in its role in the Jim Comey firing.

Let’s add Cambridge Analytica, Michael Cohen, Twitter, and Facebook to the list of people and groups getting nasyygrams today.

PUERTO RICO DEATH TOLL SHOULD BE AT LEAST 911

Close to 1,000 people have died of “natural causes” since Hurricane Maria. But without a coroner to sign off on the source of the deaths, they aren’t “officially” dead due to the Hurricane.

This is just a clusterfuck of a quagmire of a disaster.

WAPO OPINION PIECE: THE GOP BATTLE TACTICS ARE THOSE OF AN 8 YEAR OLD

“I know you are, but what am I?”

If this is the official battle tactic of the Republican Party, then it is time to change how we work together.

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON FUNDED STEELE DOSSIER BEFORE THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN

The Washington Free Beacon is a Conservative group and publication.

According to Byron York, Christopher Steele wasn’t involved until after the DNC started paying the bills, but they did hire Fusion GPS.

Paul Singer. Need to look into that name, and who commissioned him.

TRUMP LEANING TOWARDS JEROME POWELL AS NEXT HEAD OF US CENTRAL BANK

This just came in from Reuters. Powell is a current Governor of the Federal Reserve.

That’s it for today. 34 stories, and I might have left a couple off. I think I might write something fun this weekend, like how Trump will fuck up the Turkey Pardon, or the origin story of the Justice League.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur