The 119th week of Donald's Drowning !

[JackLuis]

Trump campaign in a frenzy over possible 2020 loss of Rust Belt states that put him in the Oval Office

As President Donald Trump’s re-election bid gears up, he might be more vulnerable than ever in the three rust belt states that helped put him in the White House.

Bloomberg reports that with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden in the race — candidates who tend to poll well among white working-class voters — the President might be more vulnerable than ever in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, states that helped swing the 2016 election in his favor.

Without Shillery running, Demo's have a chance to drown Donald in his own Derp! After two years of derp and deception, Trumpettes are deserting the Donald! Hooray!!!!

Donald's shrinking base is eroding and his panic is making his derp deadly.

 

[JackLuis]

Bill Maher ‘Real Time’ panel burns Bill Barr to the ground for ‘debasing himself for a seat at Donald Trump’s table’

During the Overtime segment of HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher and his panel tore into Attorney General Bill Barr for white-washing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in the service of Donald Trump.

CNN contributor John Avlon got the ball rolling by pointing that the Trump appointee was handed a summary of the Mueller report by the special counsel himself that he could have released, only to create one of his own that was more favorable to the president.

House Intel head Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) immediately jumped in to more bluntly criticize Barr than he normally does during his cable TV appearances.

“Why did Barr want the job?” Schiff posed rhetorically. “I marvel at so many people who are so willing to debase themselves for a seat at Donald Trump’s table.”

Schiff then went on to drag Rudy Giuliani for attaching himself to Trump, humorously adding that he once was going to tweet about the former New York City mayor debasing himself too by associating himself with the president– only to be told by staffers that Giuliani debased himself years ago.

Barr has always been a Rethuglican Shill! He has had no integrity since he obstructed Justice in the HW case!

 

[My I]

Trump campaign in a frenzy over possible 2020 loss of Rust Belt states that put him in the Oval Office



Without Shillery running, Demo's have a chance to drown Donald in his own Derp! After two years of derp and deception, Trumpettes are deserting the Donald! Hooray!!!!

Donald's shrinking base is eroding and his panic is making his derp deadly.

Why would the rust belt states be upset? More than 30 steel mills have reopened and at least a dozen aluminum mills, putting several thousand people back to work. You should stop getting getting your information from places that obviously report from their imagination instead of from reality.

 

[phrodeau]

Why would the rust belt states be upset? More than 30 steel mills have reopened and at least a dozen aluminum mills, putting several thousand people back to work. You should stop getting getting your information from places that obviously report from their imagination instead of from reality.

Some mills are opening. Some are closing, too.

 

[JackLuis]

Democrats can put Mnuchin in prison right now for hiding Trump’s taxes: ex-Watergate prosecutor

On Saturday, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman appeared on MSNBC’s Joy Reid show to demand Trump’s taxes. He even went so far as to suggest that officials who are helping shield Trump’s finances from Congressional scrutiny belong in prison if they continue to do so.

“They have every right to get all of these documents and all of these witnesses, starting with the Secretary Treasurer Mnuchin who is refusing to turn over taxes even though there is a specific statute that provides that the IRS has to turn it over to Congress, and on top of it there is good reasons to receive those taxes.”

“I believe Congress has to take a very hard line,” Akerman continued. He notes that Congress has the power to hold officials in contempt which could lead to prison.

“If the Secretary of Treasury doesn’t produce those documents he’s ought to be held in contempt. And he ought to go to prison.”

But, but, it is only a LAW?

Demonrats will not enforce the LAW, if the PeeResident's Dorks refuse...or will they?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump rambles incoherently in border interview: Dems should ‘get off their ass’ and ‘solve’ my wall problem

“What we need is new laws that don’t allow this so when somebody comes in, we say sorry you’ve got to go out,” Trump opined. “We don’t need a court system. We have a court system that has 900,000 cases behind it. In other words they have a court which needs to hear 900,000 cases.”

“How ridiculous is this?” he added. “This has been building up for many years and it’s just a system that Congress can fix, Maria, and they don’t get off their ass and it’s the Democrats that can solve it so quickly because we have all of the infrastructure and I’ll have the wall up, by the end of next year, most of the wall will be up.”

"All the PeeResident's Brain Farts" would be a 500 page best seller.

 

[KeithD]

Democrats can put Mnuchin in prison right now for hiding Trump’s taxes: ex-Watergate prosecutor



But, but, it is only a LAW?

Demonrats will not enforce the LAW, if the PeeResident's Dorks refuse...or will they?

Enforcing the law would require action by the DOJ, which Trump has already taken over in a coup.

 

[JackLuis]

John Bolton likely thinks Trump is a ‘moron’ and he has to stop him from ruining everything: Ex-aide

“John is thinking, To the extent I can modify or mollify the President’s actions, I will,” he explained. “He is truly a patriot. But I wonder how he goes into work every day, because deep in his heart he believes the President is a moron.”

Given this, Bolton tailors his messaging to the president in ways that are best suited to hold his short attention span.

“Bolton gets to the point very fast,” a senior Administration official told The New Yorker. “He’s very brief, and the President appreciates that.”

Although Bolton is a much more aggressive hawk than Trump when it comes to using military force, the two of them nonetheless have a shared contempt for international treaties and institutions that they believe constrain American power, one official tells the publication.

OMG! If Bolton is the "adult in the room,' we are seriously fucked!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump has ‘no soul’: Michael Cohen describes his relationship with ‘worst human being’ in new interview

“You are going to find me guilty of campaign finance, with McDougal or Stormy, and give me three years — really?” Cohen told the magazine. “And how come I’m the only one? I didn’t work for the campaign, I worked for him, and how come I’m the one that’s going to prison? I’m not the one that slept with the porn star.”

Cohen stuck with Trump throughout a tumultuous working relationship before finally turning on his longtime boss, and agreeing to cooperate with various investigations into the president’s campaign and business dealings.

“I actually enjoyed him, interestingly enough,” Cohen said. “When he’s good, he’s great. When he’s horrible, he’s the worst human being on the planet. I mean it. He has no heart and no soul when he’s mean.”

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[JackLuis]

Trump can’t put his name on a sewage plant — so Flint is out of luck when it comes to infrastructure funding: CNBC analyst

Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO and CNBC commentator Josh Brown told MSNBC on Monday that when it comes to rebuilding the United States’ infrastructure, President Donald Trump is looking for “glamorous” projects he can put his name on — so the long-suffering residents of Flint, Michigan will probably be waiting a lot longer for a new sewage system.

“If you’re Schumer and Pelosi, it’s easy,” said Brown. “Just promise to put his name on everything. If they do that, they will get legitimate spending on infrastructure — and they’ll get to steal a lot of it, because we know what his priority is.”

“There is absolutely no appetite on the part of Trump to do water treatment for place like Flint, because you don’t put your name on a sewage system,” Brown said. “He wants to these glamorous, big bridges and tunnels. He looks at the Hoover Dam, he looks at something that has someone’s name on it, and they’re iconic.”

"Billions for WALL! Nothing for the Donald J. Trump Septic System!"

 

[JackLuis]

The reality of Trump’s economy: Growth was four times better under Jimmy Carter

Donald Trump keeps boasting about what a great economy he should get credited for creating. But his administration’s own reports don’t support his claims, which also don’t come close to what he promised voters.

Candidate Trump boasted many times that he would boost economic growth. In October 2015, he said: “I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent.”

So far, the best he has done is 4.2% in the second quarter of 2018.

Carter’s best, by the way, was 16.4% growth, four times Trump’s best so far.

The tariffs gambit was not the only stimulus Trump used to pump up his short-term numbers and trick voters not steeped in economic data, fiscal policy and trade reports.

With solid backing by from Republicans in Congress, Trump is borrowing extra trillions of dollars in our name. That’s a classic type of economic stimulus.

 

[phrodeau]

Meet the new NAFTA, same as the old NAFTA.

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On the campaign trail in 2016, candidate Donald Trump railed against NAFTA’s inequities — and vowed to do better — calling NAFTA the “worst trade deal ever negotiated."

Since taking office, his administration has worked to renegotiate the agreement. Last fall, the president’s team unveiled an updated “U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA). Unfortunately, the resulting document offers little for U.S. workers hoping to find greater job security in the face of subsidized global competition.

Overall, the USMCA’s benefits appear highly questionable, with many net gains expected to come from increased “certainty” for investors — thanks to new regulations for internet commerce and data transfer that are expected to increase investment.

But at what cost? More offshoring and job loss? The ITC claims that greater “certainty” would add 0.47 percentage points to future U.S. GDP. It’s a reed-thin margin on which to assume the deal’s benefits, particularly when the USMCA also contains a six-year sunset clause.

The USMCA simply follows the failed model of prior free-trade agreements adopted over the past 25 years, which facilitate corporate offshoring to low-wage countries while undermining democratic power. The USMCA may nibble at the edges of such long-standing precedent, but it doesn’t appear to make real progress.

 

[phrodeau]

Rod Rosenstein resigns, effective May 11, 2019.

 

[JackLuis]

So Long Rod!

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House Intel Committee to refer Erik Prince for criminal prosecution over alleged lies for Trump

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to send a criminal referral to the Justice Department alleging that Erik Prince lied to lawmakers.

While speaking to The Washington Post on Tuesday, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed the plans for a criminal referral.
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“The evidence strongly suggests that he misled our committee,” Schiff said. “When we asked whether he was asserting some privilege, he merely said he was not answering questions because the White House told him not to.”

Lock him UP!

 

[KeithD]

"Billions for WALL! Nothing for the Donald J. Trump Septic System!"

Happily, the next president can put Trump's name only on sewage treatment plants and take it off everything else.

 

[JackLuis]

House Republican leader warns Trump against infrastructure deal with Democrats

The Republican Minority Whip in the House seems to be warning President Donald Trump against an infrastructure package.

According to Politico reporter Melanie Zanona, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said that the Republican members in the House don’t have a taste for any landmark legislation that might be an addition to the deficit.

What the Rethugs don't want a Donald J Trump Memorial Septic Plant?

 

[JackLuis]

Bill Barr could well be the most odious of all of Trump’s henchmen

People in the media and politics bemoan the cynicism of our age, saying that people vote for a liar like Donald Trump because they believe all politicians lie and he’s just more colorful about it. This era is producing men and women of such grandiose mendacity that it will be a miracle if the next generation believes that anyone in politics is even capable of acting in the national interest. It’s possible that Robert Mueller may be the last of his kind in the GOP and I’m not all that sure about him either. We’ll have to see how this plays out to know whether Mueller pulled too many punches but for the moment he’s all we have left of a “just the facts ma’am” Republican straight arrow.

You certainly cannot say the same for his friend William Barr, the new attorney general. He has proved to be the most rank partisan in that role since John Mitchell, Richard Nixon’s attorney general, who spent 19 months in jail for his part in the Watergate scandal. Even though I had my suspicions that Barr had spent too much time in the right-wing fever swamps, based upon the notorious unsolicited memo he sent to the White House and his comments to the news media, like most people I was hoping that he would be one of those old-school “institutionalist” types who would look at the evidence in the Mueller report and be as appalled by this norm-busting, law-breaking, power-abusing president as the entire world has been since it was released.

Lock the Fucker UP!

Barr is now running interference between the Justice Department and the Congress. He is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee unless chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., shelves his plan to have part of the session run by committee counsel and hold a part of the hearing in closed session. Apparently Barr does not like the idea that the legal staff could follow up closely with a line of inquiry. He prefers the disjointed five-minute questioning format that never gets anywhere, which is a sad statement coming from the attorney general of the United States.

If Barr can’t face a committee lawyer, perhaps he’s not really fit to be the top law enforcement officer in the federal government.

 

[KeithD]

Of course Barr isn't fit to be a bipartisan attorney general. That's precisely why he's the attorney general.

 

[JackLuis]

Adam Schiff jabs another thorn in Trump’s side by hiring ex-FBI financial crimes chief

The former chief of the FBI Financial Crimes Section will soon be scrutinizing President Donald Trump’s finances for Congress.

Two sources confirmed to The Daily Beast that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has hired Patrick Fallon, who is expected to bring his law enforcement expertise to the investigations into Trump and his family.

“The fact that the Committee has hired someone at the former senior executive service level from within the FBI’s Financial Crimes Section is significant, and to me denotes an effort to apply significant resources to examining and analyzing financial findings,” Figliuzzi told The Daily Beast. “By the time you got to the head of the Financial Crimes section, you would have substantial white collar crime and global financial crime experience, both at the street level and the supervisory level. And his role at headquarters would have had him overseeing the bulk of all financial crime cases in the FBI.”

Lumpy Dumpling is in deep kimchee now!

Also:

‘We have commenced an investigation into Trump’s finances’: New York attorney general

 

[JackLuis]

‘What Barr did is indefensible’: Top legal scholars expertly torch AG after Mueller’s letter revealed

Attorney General Bill Barr was urged to resign prior to impeachment proceedings following the bombshell report on how he betrayed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote in a letter to Barr. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”

Uh Oh!

 

[jomar]

Of course Barr isn't fit to be a bipartisan attorney general. That's precisely why he's the attorney general.

And doing the job he was hired by Trump to do.

 

[JackLuis]

AG Barr faces his own incompetence!

S**T IS GOING DOWN! Wonkagenda for Wed., May 1, 2019

Robert Mueller was NOT happy after reading Attorney General Bill Barr's four-page book report on his damning Trump-Russia findings. Mueller was so pissed at his supposed friend that he took the unusual step of sending a sternly worded letter to Barr to let him know how angry he was. Mueller said specifically that Barr's letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work and conclusions," and that Barr's letter "threatens to undermine" the "public confidence in the outcome of the investigation." With Barr set to appear before Congress today and tomorrow, the question on everyone's mind is whether or not Barr lied under oath, with some legislators calling for Barr to step down. [Morning Maddow]

Bill Barr will testify before the Senate Judiciary committee this morning! In his opening statement, Barr says he didn't do anything wrong, and attempts to frame his past statements about the Mueller report as NO COLLUSION, TOTAL EXONERATION, blah blah blah. Evan will be liveblogging Barr's masterclass in swamp logic, so come back for that!

MSNBC legal analyst reveals how Mueller’s ‘extraordinary’ letter blows the lid off Barr’s ‘misdeeds’

Mueller’s letter to Barr is ‘screaming this is really wrong’: CNN’s David Gregory

Trump blames Obama after his obstruction of Russia probe threatens to bring down his attorney general

WATCH LIVE: Bill Barr faces questions about Mueller letter in testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee

Randy Rainbow sings Bill Barr!

 

[JackLuis]

"I will lie, cheat, steal or kill, but I will never allow my Mr. Barr to be abused by the angry, evil Democrats!"

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[icanhelp1]

Enforcing the law would require action by the DOJ, which Trump has already taken over in a coup.

You're right, enforcing the law does require a DOJ and an FBI not on the take from Hillary. "The chickens are coming home to roost"

 

[heathergives]

You're right, enforcing the law does require a DOJ and an FBI not on the take from Hillary. "The chickens are coming home to roost"

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