Thursday

Mueller subpoenaed Trump Team for Russia-Related Documents

This story just came across the wire, but this is big.

Mueller subpoenaed the Trump Team for any documents related to their contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.

I know I’ve talked about this before, or at least it sounds like it, but this is a little different.

First, it’s proof that a subpoena has been issued against people currently in the White House.

Second, Mueller feels like they’re not getting everything. Before now, the campaign team has been voluntarily sharing information, but if they’re getting subpoenaed, it’s bad. Subpoenas are used for two reasons by prosecutors. They gain new information, and they show what is being withheld.

Finally, look at the timing. Mid-October. Before the Manafort arrest, but after George Papadopoulos pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.

What I think happened was that George provided them with a ton of information, and when they realized that Trump was holding out, they issued this subpoena.

Kushner Received Wikileaks Mails

Speaking of subpoenas, the Senate Judiciary Committee gave one to Jared Kushner.

Why?

Because Jared didn’t share his emails about Wikileaks with them.

How do they know about those mails? Not only were they mentioned in the news, but they have copies of those mails from other people. They have copies that Jared sent to others, and from other people sent to Jared.

He’s not that good at this, is he?

Chuck Johnson, The Go-Between

Chuck Johnson is a name we’ll hear a lot more going forward. He was the go-between for Julian Assange and Roger Stone. He arranged a meeting between Assange and Dana Rohrbacher to discuss a possible pardon.

And Chuck also worked on the campaign.

Trump Worth 1/10 of Stated Value

This isn’t such a surprise given Trump’s personality and history, but after studying his revenue streams, Trump’s New York Business has been externally valued at far less than what Trump has claimed.

Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner to be Interviewed Soon

Two high level members of the White House are set to interview with Mueller’s team in the next week. Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner.

Prosecutors don’t ask questions without knowing the answers ahead of time. At this point, they are setting a trap for them, baiting them for a lie.

My guess is that Hope tells the truth, but Jared lies.

Flipping the Turk

This is worth checking out. One of the people in a December 2016 meeting with Mike Flynn and Turkish Representatives was indicted several weeks ago in Southern District New York.

Earlier this week, that man was released on his own recognizance. It could be nothing, but the Rumor Mill is buzzing about this. This could be a cooperating witness against Flynn, Rudy, and a few others.

Wait and see.

Senator Al Franken Accused of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior

Al Franken was accused of sexual assault and harassment while on a USO tour in 2006.

Short version: one of his comedy sketch ideas involved a kiss, and there was a photo of him “groping” a woman while sleeping.

Al’s Response is Here. He accepts responsibility, knowing that sometimes his comedy ideas are in bad taste years later, and he calls for an ethics investigation on himself.

The Multiple Times Trump has been Accused of Rape

Just in case anyone has forgotten.

That’s it for today. I’m not sure what’s coming tomorrow, but I’ve got a feeling it’ll be unexpected. Also, I’m trying a different format tonight. Partially to see how it looks, and mostly because by the time I realized I did it this way, I was already halfway through the article. Oh well.

Thank you, and have a good one.

HSIOW. Holy Shit, It’s Only Wednesday

MORE WOMEN COME FORWARD ACCUSING ROY MOORE OF DATING THEM WHILE THEY WERE TEENAGERS

The sixth and seventh women have come forward, accusing Roy Moore of hitting on them while they were teenagers and he was in his thirties.

We are well past the point of random coincidence. Combined with further details that he was banned from the Gasden Mall for his constant and continued harassment of the underage girls working there, and that the YMCA banned him from their premises after he solicited girls for sex (yes, you read that right), he is a Grade A Creep.

This puts every single decision of his under scrutiny. Every judicial action gets a look. Every comment, every stance that he’s made in public gets thrown under a microscope.

This is on top of his shady, and likely illegal actions with his charity that he uses like an ATM.

By the way, his wife has gone on the offensive against the women accusing her husband of chasing after girls. She’s gone after them on social media, lying all over. And those lies are easily disproved, like saying that the restaurant that one woman worked at didn’t exist in 1977 when it did, or forging a letter of endorsement from 53 pastors by changing the date and text of the letter to reflect current events, or that the yearbook signature was a forgery.

By the way, Kayla Moore, then Kalya Kisor, was Classmates with Beverly Nelson, the fifth accuser.

I shit you not.

STEELE DOSSIER “70-90% ACCURATE”, SOURCES WERE NOT PAID

According to The Guardian, the Steele Dossier is “70-90% accurate.”

Before anyone gets their panties in a twist and scream “so, it’s wrong!”, let me explain how this works.

The Steele Dossier is a Raw Intelligence document, meant to serve as a guide to more in-depth raw and unrefined information. It uses sources like HUMINT (human intelligence, like investigative work), RUMINT (rumored intelligence, like gossip), and SIGINT (signals intelligence, like intercepted calls and mails).

Think of it like a first draft treatment for a novel or screenplay. A lot of the basics are there, like the main characters, plot points, and general settings, but things can change between the first draft and final version. Minor characters get combined or dropped, or a scene gets moved from Kiev to Milan due to … reasons.

Another important story about the Dossier is that Congress told the Trump Administration that none of the sources were paid.

This is important for two reasons.

First, one of the big talking points used to discredit it was that the sources were paid, and their testimony should be discarded.

Second, because the sources weren’t paid, and many of them may have even been killed, this information gains a little it more substance.

This increase in chatter about the Dossier could mean that something about it is likely to drop, perhaps some new piece is about to get verified. It could be nothing, but then again, Several pieces have already been confirmed.

UNITED KINGDOM CONFIRMS RUSSIAN CYBERATTACKS, 150,000 TROLL ACCOUNTS USED IN BREXIT

The Russians have attacked the IT infrastructure of several British utilities and other infrastructure . These attacks are not the first time that Russia has incurred into British sovereignty. Their role in Brexit is still being uncovered. Over 150,000 Twitter accounts were used by the Russians in support of Brexit.

SIX DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

Oh, by the way, This just happened. Multiple Articles of Impeachment were filed today against Donald Trump.

Don’t get too excited, we’re nowhere near the endgame yet.

These are preliminary moves to build a paper trail, and serve as a signal for others. As support for impeachment grows, more politicians will jump on board.

There were several attempts made at impeaching Nixon before he eventually resigned.

Remember, Mueller is still investigating Trump and hasn’t returned any indictments against him…yet.

That’s it for today.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Tuesday

SESSIONS TESTIFIES BEFORE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

The Keebler Nazi went to the House Judiciary Committee today. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee today, and surprising to no one, had difficulty recalling any of his conversations with campaign officials about Russia. Even when he was in the room.

I told Representative Ted Lieu on Twitter that I was putting $20 on Jeff lying under oath. How do I collect my Twitter bucks?

RUSSIAN WIRE TRANSFERS REFERENCE 2016 ELECTION, POSSIBLE DISINFORMATION FROM RUSSIA

According to BuzzFeed, about $380,000 worth of wire transfers from Russia were routed around the world, ending up in America. At least one of those transfers had a memo line referring to the 2016 election.

This is where things get weird.

This seems like it should be a smoking gun, but something just feels off. This is just a little too good.

I’m not the only paranoid person out there. Team Patriot feels the same way. They feel that this might be deza, or disinformation from the Russians to muddy the waters.

TRUMP SKIPS LAST DAY OF ASIA TRIP

This could be related to a press conference scheduled for 9am tomorrow.

Oh, by the way

PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED WEDNESDAY MORNING TO DISCUSS ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT

I wouldn’t get too excited on this yet. Most of the articles listed didn’t mention any specific crimes, but were more about various reasons they didn’t like Trump.

Still, worth keeping an eye out for.

TRUMP MENTIONED WIKILEAKS 145 TIMES IN LAST MONTH OF CAMPAIGN

145 Times. That’s how often Donald Trump mentioned Wikileaks during the last month of the campaign.

TRUMP MEETS MEDVEDEV IN MANILA

Yet another meeting with Russians.

This time, he met with Medvedev, the Prime Minister and former President of Russia.

RT REGISTERS AS A FOREIGN AGENT

RT, formerly Russia Today registered as a Foreign Agent under the FARA Act. They have been identified as a propaganda department for Russia.

SHELDON ALDERSON LEAVES BANNON

Sheldon Alderson, Las Vegas billionaire has cut ties with Steve Bannon, about a week after Robert Mercer did the same.

JILL STEIN CALLS JULIAN ASSANGE A HERO

This is an older article, but just want to remind everyone that Jill Stein was a mouthpiece for Russia and Wikileaks.

Once again, here is my favorite picture of Jill Stein…

MIKE PENCE IS A FRAUD

Remember, Mike Pence has denied knowing anything since at least October 2016, even after it has been proven that he’s lying.

Pence benefits from being surrounded by idiots. It makes him look competent by comparison. He’s a lousy politician, but next to the rest of Team Trump, he looks like Lyndon B. Johnson.

BILL BROWDER: WHY PUTIN HATES ME

One of GQ’s Most Interesting People explains why Vladimir Putin hates him and wants him dead.

That’s it for today. I have a long list of stories I need to clean up and figure what I want to write about. Hopefully I’ll get to that before the weekend.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

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