The 123rd Week of Don's Derangement

[JackLuis]

The 123rd Week of Don's Derangement opens with Maxine Waters opening salvo!

Maxine Waters reveals ‘illicit funds’ from Deutsche Bank are a focus of her investigation into Trump’s finances

“The documents that have been subpoenaed, can you sort of broadly describe them?” Hayes asked. “What is the goal here and what are the categories of documents you are seeking.”

“We are absolutely concerned about money laundering,” Waters replied.

But that is not all her committee is investigating.

“We concerned about illicit funds, we are concerned the loans he has gotten from Deutsche bank,” she continued. “No other bank would lend him money and he sued Deutsche Bank at one point, but Deutsche Bank has been lending him and his family huge sums of money and at the time of his election, he owed them about $300 million.”

“And so we want to understand that relationship, we want to understand his relationship to Russia. We want to understand his finances and financing,” she added.

It might be nice to see who the DB sold Donald's Debt to, as well.

 

[JackLuis]

Tom Steyer was right all along: Trump should be in prison and Democrats’ fears about impeachment are nonsense

One week ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that her caucus should not deviate from its 2020 focus on health care and the economy in pursuit of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. It is a position to which she’s held firmly since retaking the gavel in January, and according to the Washington Post, not a single House Democrat objected to her request.

That was a week ago.

It’s clear that Pelosi is now in a bind because her initial strategy of attempting to build the case for impeachment through investigations has been effectively thwarted by Trump with his policy of no cooperation across the board. Democrats find themselves in a box where the only way get the transparency they seek would be through the impeachment, which everyone knows will ultimately fail, at least in the sense that the Republican-led Senate will fail to convict Trump no matter what evidence comes forward. Failing to impeach, on the other hand, is a political calculation that proves more impotent with each passing day.

“Every day, the leadership of the Democratic Party admonishes Donald Trump’s pattern of reckless lawbreaking and corruption. But when pressed about what they plan to do about it, they fail to act,” Steyer said in a statement issued alongside the ad’s release. Democrats’ message, in other words, is that Trump is horrible and dangerous and a grave threat to the country and Constitution — but not bad enough to require them to do anything about it.

Like bunch of 'Nancy Boys!'

 

[JackLuis]

With Trumpski out of the country, Silver Mike gets froggy!

Mike Pence tells West Point grads they are going to war: ‘It will happen’ — maybe even ‘in this hemisphere’

Vice President Mike Pence warned graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy to expect that they will be shipped off to war — maybe even in the Western Hemisphere, CBS News reported Saturday.

Pence spoke to the 980 graduating West Point cadets — the most diverse graduating class ever — who are now commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.


“It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life,” Pence warned.

“You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen,” the vice president said.

“Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere,” Pence added ominously.

But Mike won't lead the first wave, he'll be in back offering Hopes and Prayers.

 

[JackLuis]

‘The president’s insane’: Senior Trump official confides in insider account of White House

I've said that for years! Well... I said, "That Fucker's Nutz," but same thing.

In a review of CNN’s Jim Acosta’s forthcoming book, “The Enemy of The People,” Guardian reviewer Martin Pengelly reveals some telling quotes that the CNN White House correspondent relays, including one White House official confiding that President Donald Trump is mentally ill.

According to the report, Acosta’s sources “are often blunt in their assessment of their boss. A ‘senior White House official’ tells Acosta: ‘The president’s insane.’ A ‘former White House national security official says staffers were not sure the president had not been ‘compromised’ by Russia.”

As Pengelly explains, “The notion that the media was the ‘enemy of the people’ emerged swiftly and caused great consternation among a press corps spooked by virulent abuse at Trump rallies. Acosta cites three unnamed sources who say the controversial line of attack originated with Steve Bannon, then Trump’s chief White House adviser.”

“In his book, Acosta admits to sometimes ‘grandstanding’ and ‘showboating,'” the reviewer explains. “He also says he ‘opts for the bait’ when questioning Trump, ‘which bothers some people.’ Of concerns he may be biased against the president, he writes: ‘Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn’t really serve us in the age of Trump’.”

Very polite, these scared Rethuglicans.

 

[JackLuis]

Chris Wallace forces Lindsey Graham to watch old clips of himself calling for Clinton’s impeachment

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with old video clips of himself calling for then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

“It is your job to supply us with the things we need to provide oversight over you,” Graham said at the time regarding White House subpoenas

and

“Mueller is the final word on this for me,” Graham replied, ignoring Congress’ oversight role. “If Clinton had stiffed Ken Starr, that’s different. What [Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY)] is doing is trying to destroy the president and his family.”

“If I were the president, I’d fight back against this political revenge coming out of the House,” he added. “Mueller was the man of the law. Mueller was an independent voice that we all trusted to be fair. I don’t trust House Democrats to be fair.”.

To be fair... That Fucker's Nutz!

 

[phrodeau]

Grandstanding and showboating are the same thing.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s advisers want him to stop attacking Joe Biden — because it’s only helping the former veep with voters

According to a report at the Washington Post, White House advisers to Donald Trump are encouraging him — sometimes to no avail — to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the main subject of his ire and not former Vice President Joe Biden.

The reason? They fear Trump’s attacks on Biden enhances his run to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 presidential election.

Yep, That Fucker's Nutz!

 

[JackLuis]

George Conway piles on ‘transparent’ Trump for hiding his health, wealth and academic records

One such passage, states, “Pelosi ‘hit on something that is core to his con. His whole life is about the cover-up. He has covered up his academic record, his health reports, his dalliances with women, his finances, his family history.’”

Another reads, “‘One of the biggest motivating factors in Trump’s life — other than food, greed, sex and revenge — is mythmaking. Deep down, he knows he’s a pathological liar and he’s not the person he says he is. But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.’”

But Bill Kristol replied that Not only is he a pathological liar, but... "That Fucker's Nutz," or words to that effect.

 

[JackLuis]

Outrage after Trump uses loophole to send US bombs to Saudis: ‘This isn’t how democracy works’

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Critics of the U.S.-supported bombing of Yemen rebuked the Trump administration on Saturday after it ducked congressional approval by invoking emergency powers to approve billions of dollars in American-made arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

“Selling more weapons to Saudi Arabia doesn’t make America safer or align with our country’s values,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a tweet. “It only benefits defense contractors and @realDonaldTrump’s alarming desire to sow chaos abroad.”
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With those perhaps most affected by the arms sale—Yemeni civilians—voiceless in the decision, Amnesty International USA and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) highlighted the devastation wrought by American weaponry.
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“We know arms manufactured in the United States have been used in deadly strikes against civilians,” he added. “U.S. munitions have been found in the remains of bombed homes, hospitals, and hotels throughout Yemen’s devastating war, killing almost 7,000 people.”

'Merica, Bringing Terror to the Whole World Wholesale.

 

[phrodeau]

Outrage after Trump uses loophole to send US bombs to Saudis: ‘This isn’t how democracy works’

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/trump-saudi-afp-300x161.jpg



'Merica, Bringing Terror to the Whole World Wholesale.

One could say it happens fast and furiously.

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-Trump staffer expects impeachment to occur — and predicts it will ‘destroy’ the president

San Nunberg, who first began working as a political advisor to Trump in 2011, was interviewed by Donny Deutsch on MSNBC’s “Saturday Night Politics.”

“First of all, do you see a more unhinged guy than you saw two, three, four years ago?” Deutsch asked.

“More unhinged, no,” he replied.

“What I see is somebody who really doesn’t get the joke anymore, who personalizes everything to the point where you hear him this week he’s unable to say that he wants to do better for the country, he wants to work on infrastructure despite what the Democrats are doing to him,” he explained. “He’s flat out said ‘If you investigate me, I’m not going to pass anything for this country’ and it’s really something I’ve never heard a president say.”

“Bill Clinton did it so brilliantly during his impeachment and I think that’s one of the reasons why I think he ultimately won and why this impeachment — which I think is an outcome which is going to happen — is going to destroy him,” Nunberg predicted.

Or maybe he'll stroke out Nancy keeps chiding him?

 

[JackLuis]

Nancy Pelosi treating Trump like an ill-behaved child is actually working

Trump is only fighting with Pelosi because he’s trying to deflect from his financial scandals: MSNBC analyst

If Nancy distracts Trumikins while the Committees dig into his actions that Muller laid out for them, perhaps trump will blow a gasket and Impeachment will not be necessary, or they will find his Tax Fuckery and be able to hang his ass out like a common Capone?

 

[JackLuis]

For trying to stop wars in Iraq, Yemen, Iran, says Bernie Sanders, ‘I make no apologies’

Bernie Sanders reaffirmed on Saturday that he makes “no apologies” for his opposition to the Iraq war—and a possible future one in Iran—and took a jab at one of the Iraq war’s star cheerleaders.

Chicken Hawks are fierce, Chicken Hawks are bold, until the shells start flying at them. BIll Kristol needs to STFU!

 

[KeithD]

For trying to stop wars in Iraq, Yemen, Iran, says Bernie Sanders, ‘I make no apologies’



Chicken Hawks are fierce, Chicken Hawks are bold, until the shells start flying at them. BIll Kristol needs to STFU!

Well, yes, but Bernie does it from having no policy ideas on problems in the Middle East whatsoever.

 

[JackLuis]

Well, yes, but Bernie does it from having no policy ideas on problems in the Middle East whatsoever.

Oh yes not fucking around in Not-America is not an Idea that is appealing to Chicken-Hawks who support the Military/Industrial/Spy/Zionist complex is it?

 

[KeithD]

Oh yes not fucking around in Not-America is not an Idea that is appealing to Chicken-Hawks who support the Military/Industrial/Spy/Zionist complex is it?

Not fucking around in Not-America is not a viable foreign policy. the Not-Americans don't give you the option not to have a policy and responses. The United States isn't Lichtenstein. It doesn't have the option not to be involved. Bernie Sanders doesn't have the foggiest notion what to do in the foreign policy field.

 

[JackLuis]

Not fucking around in Not-America is not a viable foreign policy. the Not-Americans don't give you the option not to have a policy and responses. The United States isn't Lichtenstein. It doesn't have the option not to be involved. Bernie Sanders doesn't have the foggiest notion what to do in the foreign policy field.

So you believe that America has the right, no the responsibility, to fuck around influencing elections, bombing anyone who pisses off the PeeResident, or the Neo-Cons, and invading anyone who objects to being fucked over. this is so not the 60's with Commies under every bed.

If you are pissed the the Russians 'influenced' our elections by posting on Facebook or buying up Pol's, why are you not pissed off about the CIA fuckery?

Oh Right, you were one of the Fuckers not the Fuckee.

 

[KeithD]

So you believe that America has the right, no the responsibility, to fuck around influencing elections, bombing anyone who pisses off the PeeResident, or the Neo-Cons, and invading anyone who objects to being fucked over. this is so not the 60's with Commies under every bed.

Making up positions for me and then arguing against them isn't the least bit noble. It isn't even a valid argument. So, back up or fuck off.

 

[JackLuis]

Making up positions for me and then arguing against them isn't the least bit noble. It isn't even a valid argument. So, back up or fuck off.

Sorry to have gotten under you skin Pilot, but you sound like a Trumpite True Believer sometimes.

 

[JackLuis]

Giuliani claims in bizarre interview that he abruptly canceled Ukraine trip because of a ‘trap’ set by Soros

Rudy, STAY AWAY FROM THE BROWN ACID!

 

[JackLuis]

Conservative columnist slams press for doing Trump’s job for him

On Sunday, the New York Times published a story chronicling all of the predictably juvenile insults President Trump has hurled at his Democratic rivals in the crowded primary.

Writing in the Washington Post, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin chides the Times for doing Trump’s work for him and amplifying negative framing about his challengers.

“The New York Times gives prominent placement on its home page to list all of President Trump’s juvenile nicknames for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including the racist Native American slur directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),” Rubin writes.

“This serves no purpose other than to highlight his name-calling and reinforce his abusive conduct.”

She also calls out cable news for not pushing back on administration lies.

Hear the Joe and MIcha, you are complicit for your conduct in 2016, when you didn't point out the "Your Friend" DJT was a fucking idiot. Shame, Shame, SHAME!

 

[JackLuis]

Federal prosecutors probing $1 million Trump inaugural donation

A $1 million donation that real estate mogul Franklin Haney made to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is now being investigated by federal prosecutors in New York, ABC News is reporting.

Haney’s $1 million contribution to the Trump inaugural committee came at a time when he was hoping to acquire Alabama’s Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant and needed regulatory approval. But two years later, that acquisition still hasn’t come about.

It's been two years, haven't they audited the Inaugural Fund yet? What happened to the Millions that were not dispersed to the "List of Stars" who performed, and the catering the Vanka hired?

Maybe Congress should look into that?

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s bank records could reveal why he ‘is not loyal to the United States’: Ex-White House ethics chief

Richard Painter, the former chief ethics attorney for President George W. Bush, explained Monday on MSNBC why Democrats are interested in obtaining Donald Trump’s banking records.

“If those banks want to do business inside the United States, they’re going to turn those records over right away. This is a matter critical to our national security,” Painter said.

 

[JackLuis]

Rep. Gregory Meeks says Kim Jong-un is ‘playing’ Trump: ‘The real low IQ person is the president’

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) on Monday reacted to President Donald Trump’s remarks in Japan that he is not “personally bothered” by North Korean missile tests.

Meeks told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that there was likely nothing Kim Jong-un could do that would make Trump disavow the two leaders’ relationship.

“I think Kim is playing the president,” Meeks said. “He played him in the first summit. He played him at the second summit. So Kim realizes that the real low IQ person is the president and he can continue to play games with him all along until Kim gets what he wants. In fact, Kim has already gotten what he wants. The world stage.”

Dumby Donald may be the winning nick-name.

 

[JackLuis]

You didn’t allow black people into your hotel: Twitter slams Trump for thinking he has the African American vote in the bag

I don't see the NAACP standing up for the Demented Don.