THe 110th Weakness of The Con, Don.

[JackLuis]

Another week went by and still no report from Muller, THe Trumster declared an EMERGENCY! but said it was only because he wanted to build a Wall faster than federal funding would allow.

Nancy is poised to dump on Don's shit and the Bob is still investigating. Indictments are expected of the Trumpster's spawn. Prince Jared is wanting a billion dollar loan to buy more property to raise the rent on. Our allies are wondering why they need to follow Trump when he is dancing with Bears? Milania just is wondering how much longer will Donald live?

Here are tawdry financial crimes theories contained in Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation — so far

Here are the 5 biggest right-wing outrages of the week: A terrible week for Trump’s Cabinet — but the GOP has been distracted

Let's all get ready for the "Sunday Spin."

 

[JackLuis]

WHat will Cohen say to Congress?

Mike is supposed to testify before Congress next week. What will he say in public?

Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric Trump may be major focus of Michael Cohen congressional testimony: Omarosa

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The Unindited!​

 

[JackLuis]

Trump seeking $174 billion Pentagon ‘slush fund’ that has both both Democrats and Republicans furious: report

According to a report at Politico, President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to seek to tack on a request for an extra $174 billion in a budget proposal for the Pentagon that will be part of what some lawmakers — on both sides of the aisle — call a “slush fund.”

The report states that Trump is trying to get around budget restraints without violating a 2011 law aimed at reining in the deficit.

“The White House plans to stuff as much as $174 billion of its $750 billion request for national defense for the coming fiscal year into a special war fund,” Politico reports, adding that “[h]is plan would evade federal budget limits by stashing nearly a quarter of that money in an off-the-books account.”

“It’s ridiculous if that’s what they do,” suggested Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) who sits on the House Armed Services Committee.

House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) has a harsher assessment on the chances of Trump’s proposal getting a thumbs up from the committee, telling Politico, “It’s definitely a non-starter. It would be an insult to the process to do that.”

Lies and more lies! Can't Trumpski tell the difference?

 

[KeithD]

Lies and more lies! Can't Trumpski tell the difference?

Is this a trick question?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump claims he found ‘free’ fireworks for his July 4th event — but he’s just hijacking the annual Park Service show

Deep in the details of Donald Trump’s July 4th “Salute to America” rally is the fact that it will be separate from the annual Park Service Independence celebration — and he is letting them foot the bill for his fireworks show.

In an interview with the New York Times, the president was asked about the event that will feature him (“Your favorite President, me”) as the main attraction that he announced to great fanfare — and ridicule — on Sunday morning.

Let's make this about Trumpski, aim the rockets at him!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump caves on Chinese tariff increase for the second month in a row

Now that the tariffs have cost us twice as much as his stupid WALL! The PeeResident is waving the next round of increases, cause he's sure the Chinese will back down. Are you tired of winning yet?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump didn’t know the GOP tax bill incentivizes business to offshore jobs

He didn't know because he doesn't read, odd.

 

[JackLuis]

Billionaires literally torture women for fun in the depraved world Trump is trying to create

At this point, it wouldn’t be that surprising to learn that the American billionaire class has a lavishly appointed ranch hidden away where, for a healthy fee, members can kick back, relax and hunt human beings for sport.

Last week, the country got another glimpse of the sheer depravity many of our economic betters live in, and an ugly reminder of how much their wealth and power shields them from culpability.

On Friday, law enforcement in Florida revealed the results of a lengthy investigation into the nauseatingly-named Orchids of Asia Day Spa, which authorities say was merely a cover for a sex trafficking operation that is also suspected to be involved in money laundering. Hundreds of men have been charged in the case for having sex with women whom officials say were being held captive. The most prominent of these men is Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and a friend of Donald Trump.

There are further hints that this brothel, which charged $79 an hour for sex with women who authorities say weren’t being paid, was a favorite of the monied class generally. Other prominent men busted as johns at this location include finance giant John Childs and former Citigroup CFO John Havens.

Sex slaves are cheaper than mistresses and seldom hit the news stands.

 

[phrodeau]

Billionaires literally torture women for fun in the depraved world Trump is trying to create



Sex slaves are cheaper than mistresses and seldom hit the news stands.

If you want to use human trafficking as a reason for border security, it helps if your friends create a demand for it.

 

[JackLuis]

Evidence for man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’: scientists

Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday.

“Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals,” the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.

They said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth’s surface had reached a “five-sigma” level, a statistical gauge meaning there is only a one-in-a-million chance that the signal would appear if there was no warming.

Quick, someone say, "Why is it snowing then?"

 

[rae121452]

Billionaires literally torture women for fun in the depraved world Trump is trying to create



Sex slaves are cheaper than mistresses and seldom hit the news stands.

wait!.....clintons........pedophile ring........non-existent pizza parlor basement.............

 

[JackLuis]

Isn't it about time for "Uncle Sam" to slap the smug right off of Trumpski's kisser?

Just a thought.

 

[JackLuis]

Michael Cohen's Going To F*ck Trump On Live TV Tomorrow, And HE'S BRINGING RECEIPTS

What fun! While Donald Trump is off in Vietnam doing a last ditch effort to save his presidency at his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and while all Trump's staffers are not-so-secretly worried that Trump is going to fuck it all up because he has a crush on Kim (he will) and also because Trump is very stupid (he is), something VERY INTERESTING is happening back in Washington DC! Trump's former lawyer thug fixer idiot Michael Cohen has dates to testify before Congress all week long, centering around the main event on Wednesday: public testimony before the House Oversight Committee.

Oh yeah, and Cohen's bringing receipts. You know, in case you are a concern troll like they show on Fox News, and you're wondering how we can we trust Cohen's testimony, when Cohen is a "CONVICTED FELON AND KNOWN LIAR!" We of course refer to Donald Trump Jr., who went on Fox News on Monday to whine that DADDY is in VEE-NAM doing something 'PORTANT, and it's "DISGUSTING" that the "DEMOCRATS" would bring A GUY WHO PROBABLY CHANGED JUNIOR'S DIAPERS WHEN JUNIOR WAS IN COLLEGE to testify, because that guy is DISLOYAL. WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Times change’: GOP leader awkwardly explains why the border wasn’t a ‘national emergency’ until he lost power

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday was asked by a reporter why the situation at the southern border only became a “national emergency” once his party lost control of the House of Representatives last fall, and he paused awkwardly before answering.

“Well, times change as you move forward,” McCarthy said. “When you get more reporting about the amount of drugs coming across, reports of the human trafficking and others, 60,000 people arrested each month, uhm… you have the experts telling you the challenge.”

After becoming president, however, Congressional Republicans punted on funding the wall and instead plowed ahead on a failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and passing a massive tax cut.

Yep, times change, losing the House, and the power of the purse will scare the Rethug's shitless! Quick Lumpy, start a war!

 

[JackLuis]

God Help Us, Michael Cohen Is The John Dean Of Trump Russia

Michael Cohen, Prznint Stupid’s stupidest lawyer (sorry Rudy!™) begins a three-day testimony before Congress:

Today: a closed-door session with the Senate Intelligence Committee today
Wednesday: a public session before the House Oversight Committee
Thursday: another closed-door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee.

Friends and allies of Comrade Stupid have been smearing Cohen as an admitted liar and now felon (all of which is true), hoping that it will cause everyone to discount whatever Cohen says as more lies. I think even Cohen is smart enough to bring evidence to his hearings. It might be that no one believes his story, but it is harder to ignore receipts (as all the kids say).

The press is betting that Wednesday’s public testimony will be the most damaging for a president since John Dean helped bring down Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

The LATimes has a handy cut-out-and-keep chart of what you need to know.

What if The Trumpster asks for Asylum in Hanoi? and rides back to cut a deal for a Trump Tower Pyongyang?

Can't we cut a deal for China to highjack the armoured train on the Viet border and blame the Viet's? There by giving China more South China Sea plus the troublesome Kim dynasty is over when the train is dumped in the South China Sea? WHo's going to miss either of them?

 

[JackLuis]

House Votes To Terminate Trump's 'Emergency'

Republicans and Democrats joined together to repudiate Donald Trump's fake border emergency. Now it heads to the Senate for a vote.

Today, 13 Republicans joined House Democrats to pass a resolution terminating Donald Trump's "national emergency," setting up a battle with Senators, who will be forced to vote on it as soon as it is received from the House.

This vote is not optional; it must be held. So far, the following Republican Senators have said they'll vote against it: Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, and Lisa Murkowski. One more defection and it will go to Donald Trump, who will have to veto it, setting up what is likely to be a legal battle landing in the Supreme Court.

“I haven’t reached a total conclusion,” McConnell said, waffling. “I wouldn’t go to me for a simple will. I did go to law school, but we had some real serious lawyers in there discussing that very issue.”

Oh. Well, here's something that doesn't need any "serious lawyers." Donald Trump himself admitted it wasn't an emergency, he just wanted to hasten his wall for his hardcore base. That is not an emergency, and every single Senator in that chamber should honor their oath of office and terminate the emergency with a unanimous vote.

What about the Law Mitch? 18 days Mitch, stall any longer and YOU are the sucker in this round of Trumpsuckers barrel.

 

[JackLuis]

Elie Mystal Nails It: Mueller Is 'Coming At Trump Like Syphillis'

MYSTAL: I think what it tells us is SDNY is going to be part of Donald Trump 's life for the rest of his natural life. SDNY is coming at Trump like syphilis. It's gonna make him crazy, and it's never going away. Everybody's so worried about, like "Oh, the Mueller report. Is it going to happen this week? Is it gonna happen next week? When is it going..." SDNY is going to be HERE. It's going to be here NOW. It's going to be here when Trump is out of OFFICE. It's going to be here for his FAMILY, it's going to be here for his GRANDKIDS if he's not careful. So, overall what we see today is SDNY continuing to pull threads on the Trump Organization, which appears to be pretty criminally implicated in the lots of different ways and they continue to pull that thread.

Oops!

 

[JackLuis]

HOLY JESUS F*CK! Your Michael Cohen Liveblog!

The internet said Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight Committee would be 'SPLOSIVE, and the internet was for once correct! Cohen came not to offer a different take on Donald Trump and his presidency, but to beat Trump about the face with a shovel, make Trump dig his own grave with the shovel (it's a special shovel with little handlebars made for fun-sized hands), and then say fuck it and shoot Trump into space instead. It's going to be amazing to watch Republicans trying to make excuses for Trump after this, but we have a feeling they'll stay calm and protect President Crime Boss.

Cohen's opening statement hit the Twitter late last night, and it is at once HOLYSHIT mindblowing, yet also just confirmation of all the worst we know and assume about Trump. Here is the thesis statement he will deliver, which breaks some WHOA IF TRUE breaking news:

I guess Mikey won't "take a bullet" for Lumpy! Mike spills ALL the beans!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump should be concerned that GOP hasn’t defended him ‘on the substance’ at Cohen hearing: Christie

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Chris Christie, a Trump surrogate and the former governor of New Jersey, warned why the White House should be concerned about the House GOP response to Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony.

“There hasn’t been one Republican yet who’s tried to defend the president on the substance,” Christie told ABC News during an intermission in the hearings. “I think that’s something that should be concerning to the White House.”

Yes that's true. Maybe we just skip to the Impeachment now?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ally Alan Dershowitz gets gloomy over Cohen hearing: ‘This is not a good day for the president’

The law professor told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he was “shocked” by how much of the privileged communication between Cohen and his former client was revealed during the testimony

“This is not a good day for the president, clearly, to have his lawyer and intimate disclose so many things about him that don’t belong in the public domain,” Dershowitz told the veteran ABC anchor in a phone interview during the hearing’s recess.

Republicans have failed to refute any of Cohen’s allegations against Trump: Fox News’ Chris Wallace



GOP are ‘making no effort to find truth’ in House and are ‘failing their Constitutional responsibilities’: Ex-CIA director

 

[KeithD]

Trump ally Alan Dershowitz gets gloomy over Cohen hearing: ‘This is not a good day for the president’

Again, this is a function of Trump's total inability to take care of anyone but himself. He just handled Cohen abominably. Trump is totally inept as a manager.

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Rep AOC gets Michael Cohen to admit under oath that Trump committed insurance and tax fraud

“To your knowledge, was the president interested in reducing his local real estate bills, tax bills?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.

“Yes,” Cohen replied.

“How do you do that?” she asked.

“What you do is deflate the value of the asset and put in a request to the tax department for a deduction,” Cohen answered.

Oh, state charges!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Trump finally went to Vietnam and his getting killed back home’: Seth Meyers

While testifying, Cohen unloaded on multiple crimes that Trump has allegedly committed. He called out Trump for being a “racist” and a “con.”

He also said that Trump was aware of a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

“He just listed off a bunch of alleged crimes committed by the president on national TV,” Meyers said.

“It’s so ironic. Trump finally went to Vietnam and his getting killed back home,” Meyers joked.

Can we Impeach his ass now?

 

[KeithD]

‘Trump finally went to Vietnam and his getting killed back home’: Seth Meyers



Can we Impeach his ass now?

The Republicans in the Senate would have to choose to be Americans.

 

[JackLuis]

Meanwhile...

GOP unloads border angst on Pence

Senate Republicans expressed deep skepticism about Trump’s emergency declaration at a closed-door meeting with the vice president.

With the Trumpster out of the country, Mike is having to take the heat from the Senior House.

Vice President Mike Pence faced a wall of resistance from Senate Republicans on Tuesday as he tried to sell President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border, according to multiple GOP sources.

The pointed reception at the GOP lunch raised further doubts among Senate Republicans that the administration will be able to hold down defections on a crucial vote to block the president in the coming weeks.

“There was a lot of passion from some of our members. And I think there is some skepticism. People are just genuinely concerned that we’re doing the right thing,” said one Republican senator, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.

How much longer can Trumpski hold on to the Senate? When will Mitch cut his losses?