Those, that are not for tRump, are against tRump

[bodysong]

tRump attacks, often

Does tRump attack people in public, so that his minions will know who to target ?


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome (AOCDS)


The latest conservative to succumb to AOCDS is Grace-Marie Turner

On Tuesday Turner ranted in the Wall Street Journal that Ocasio-Cortez “has little regard for the system that made it possible for her to be elected to Congress”. Turner also lamented that the congresswoman “leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance – of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom – and still succeed”.

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I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.


11:55 AM - 28 Feb 2019


"Ocasio-Cortez hit the bigoted nail on the head with that."

"After all, what Turner was essentially saying in her op-ed was that minorities should respect a system that doesn’t respect them. That Ocasio-Cortez, who “doesn’t come from a rich and powerful family”, doesn’t have an Ivy League education, and has Puerto Rican heritage, should be grateful she is allowed to exist in America, let alone succeed. And that AOC certainly shouldn’t mess with the laws of nature and history that mean rich white men, and a few rich white women, are our leaders and superiors. Turner, and conservatives like her, are terrified by Ocasio-Cortez because she symbolizes a new generation who aren’t going to shut up and be grateful, but are intent on changing an unequal system."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance—of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom—and still succeed."

11:22 AM - 28 Feb 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-republicans-ignorance

 

[Pocketshaver]

your pretty damn dense.

What you cant comprehend is that the liberal agenda is unnatural.

If liberal science was studied, it would say a puppy and a kitten can make a baby duck together.

 

[bodysong]

The Minions Have Minions

Corallo received a call from a reporter who told him that one of Kushner’s minions had been dispatched to trash Corallo’s reputation.

“What did you do to Jared and Ivanka?” the reporter asked him.

One source described as “close” to Trump’s legal team told Ward that such actions were common among Trump White House officials who crossed either Kushner or first daughter Ivanka Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ja...rmy-vet-refused-serve-trump-white-house-book/


Mark Corallo, an Army veteran who once served as a spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, says that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner waged a smear campaign against him after he refused a job at the Trump White House.

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/13/ja...-who-refused-to-serve-in-white-house_partner/


Mark Corallo
@MarkCorallo1

Dear Mr. President, this is worse than just "bad optics." It's sleazy. You could start draining the swamp by removing your in-laws.

4:22 AM - 7 May 2017


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Here's a slide shown during Kushner Co. event in Beijing identifying @realDonaldTrump as "key decision maker" on EB-5 investor visa program

4:34 PM - 6 May 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...711e53-eb49-4f9a-8dea-3cd836fcf287_story.html

Yet shortly after the caustic tweet, Corallo was surprised to find himself being asked to become the White House’s communications director. He turned that offer down, pleading that he needed time with his family. Then he was asked to be a communications consultant for the legal team. He agreed on the condition that he would never have to say anything negative about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who he said “walks on water.”

As Corallo settled into his position, however, his concerns about the actions of Ivanka Trump and Kushner only increased, according to Vicky Ward’s book “Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html?noredirect=on

 

[bodysong]

This is my opinion

tRump was supplied with one Poster Boy, that would give him the opportunity to attack a source of tRump critics. Colleges and universities that provide education, enlightenment, and insight.

tRump signed an executive order, today.

(tRump waved his puppet-poster boy around, during the photo-op.)

This EO will take away free speech rights away from students that stand against racism, bigotry, sexism, and victimization of LGBT.

Orders are to coddle tRump supporters on university campus, give them everything they want, protect them from the consequences of using hate speech against the real students that study at the higher education institutions. Give tRump supporters an opportunity to spread disinformation, and Far Right Extremist propaganda. Troll students, bully students, beat students, abuse students.

The "freedom" of tRump's outside invaders will cost universities millions of dollars, because they will be forced to host people that will provoke disruption, chaos, violence.


The penalty for not coddling tRump supporters, is that universities will lose research funds, grants, loans.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...leges-free-speech-program-level-data-and-risk

President to deliver on promise to punish colleges that don't show they guarantee free speech on campus, and includes language on outcomes data and risk sharing.

But it's unclear what force it will carry.

The executive order essentially directs federal agencies to ensure colleges are following existing requirements. And it doesn't spell out how enforcement of the order would work.

It will direct 12 federal grant-making agencies to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget to certify that colleges receiving federal research funds comply with existing federal law and regulations touching on free academic inquiry, a senior administration official said in a call with reporters Thursday morning. The directive doesn't apply to federal student aid programs.


http://time.com/5556429/trump-execu...A+time**Ftopstories+**8TIME**A+Top+Stories**9

Trump isn’t actually advocating for “free speech,” he’s working to make it easier for far right extremist groups and their positions to enter the marketplace of ideas – unencumbered, and without context or warning, on the nation’s colleges and universities. It is a literal attempt to move the nation to the right – or alt-right – starting with college-aged Americans.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/trump-to-sign-executive-order-mandating-campus-free-speech/

Our American education system, is just another part of America that tRump is willing to damage and destroy.

 

[bodysong]

Robert Mueller Submits Report On Russia Investigation to Attorney General Barr


The report is expected to provide the most comprehensive accounting so far about what the special counsel and his office have uncovered since his appointment following the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.

Mueller's office took over an FBI counterintelligence investigation that had been underway at that point for nearly a year.

President Trump goes back and forth about what he accepts about the Russian interference; he even briefly absolved Russian President Vladimir Putin in person at a 2018 summit in Finland.

But all along, Trump has maintained that the notion that his campaign had conspired with the Russians was a "hoax," one he said was perpetuated by what he called biased conspirators and Democrats desperate for an excuse about why they lost the 2016 election.

The president also frequently referred to the investigation led by Mueller as a "witch hunt" begun by Democrats based on unproven claims.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/638169023/...russia-investigation-to-attorney-general-barr


"I write to notify you pursuant to 28 C.F.R. 600.9(a)(3) that Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III ..."


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AG Barr to the House and Senate Judiciary committees: "I write to notify you pursuant to 28 C.F.R. 600.9(a)(3) that Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters"


2:07 PM - 22 Mar 2019

Here comes the fight!

 

[bodysong]

The White House on Thursday rejected congressional Democrats’ demands for documents relating to President Donald Trump’s private discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin — escalating tensions between the Trump administration and Congress over a crucial piece of Democrats’ oversight ambitions.

“The committees’ letters cite no legal authority for the proposition that another branch of the government can force the president to disclose diplomatic communications with foreign leaders or that supports forcing disclosure of the confidential internal deliberations of the president’s national security advisors,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO to the chairmen of three House committees seeking documents and witness interviews.

Schiff and Engel have been consulting with House General Counsel Douglas Letter about the best ways to legally compel information about Trump’s private conversations with Putin.

The chairmen have not ruled out the possibility of issuing subpoenas, and Democrats have in the past demanded to speak with the State Department interpreter who was present for some of Trump’s private conversations with Putin.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/white-house-democrats-russia-probe-1230487

Democrats consequently say some concerns of privacy should be put to the side in order to obtain documents about Trump’s talks with Putin, and get to the bottom of whether the Russian leader is holding some type of leverage over the President.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/po...0190321-bhuomru33rh4vjyzilgyhi6dbu-story.html

 

[bodysong]

The Mueller Report Is Getting A Lot Of Attention. Here's How We Got Here


Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/6865...ting-a-lot-of-attention-heres-how-we-got-here

pic

The day that tRump was given the news that he would be taking the fall for Russiagate

(Notice that Putin is wearing poker face, that does not disguise the beaming happiness of his smug attitude.

Trump's expression

"You fucked me over, you bastard."
"Fuck, I fell in Putin's trap."
"He lied, there is no way out."
"Putin will not help me out of this hole."
"I'm fucked"

The three House Democratic chairman had demanded earlier this month that the White House and the State Department turn over, by last Friday, “all documents and communications, regardless of form and classification, that refer or relate to any communications between President Trump and President Putin, including in-person meetings and telephone calls.”

That deadline came and went without a response from the White House. Administration officials have adopted a hardline approach to the myriad congressional investigations, often ignoring the committees’ deadlines altogether.

But investigating Trump’s ties to Russia is a top priority for Democrats under their new House majority, and they’ve left all options on the table — including subpoenas — to try to force the White House’s compliance.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/white-house-democrats-russia-probe-1230487

Her Emails!


In a statement Thursday, White House deputy press secretary Steven Groves said the White House will review Cummings' letter and "provide a reasonable response in due course."

The House committee's investigation comes after Ivanka Trump last year dismissed any comparison to the use of private email by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which prompted an FBI investigation and inspired the "Lock Her Up" chant at then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign rallies.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...vanka-trump-not-preserving-all-official-email

Hillary Clinton faced A Witch Hunt

Two year investigation
7 million dollars of taxpayer money was wasted

Hillary Clinton faced marathon of 11 hours of questioning before the House Select Committee on Benghazi

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsall...an-11-hour-grilling-before-benghazi-committee

"They said a lot of bad things about Hillary Clinton. In the end, Hillary was not..."

Michael Cohen, the president’s former longtime attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty to a host of charges including tax evasion and bank fraud.

Soon after the former Trump confidante entered his pleas at a Manhattan federal courthouse, comedian Kathy Griffin and others jumped on a tweet Cohen sent in December 2015 that read: “@HillaryClinton when you go to prison for defrauding America and perjury, your room and board will be free!”

As of Wednesday morning, the tweet is gone (though a cached version can still be found)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nton-prison-came-back-haunt-him-now-its-gone/

President Trump Intensifies Attacks Against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation

Mueller was appointed following the recusal two months earlier of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. That action entangled Rosenstein, whose memo castigating Comey was cited by the White House as justification for his firing. In addition, Rosenstein didn’t appoint Mueller to write a report — that’s simply the ordinary course of action laid out in the special counsel regulations.

 

[bodysong]

In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) went further, adding that Barr “must not give President Trump, his lawyers or his staff any ‘sneak preview’ of special counsel Mueller’s findings or evidence, and the White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public.”

“The American people have a right to the truth. The watchword is transparency,” they wrote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Barr “needs the time” to review it.

“The attorney general has said he intends to provide as much information as possible,” McConnell said. “As I have said previously, I sincerely hope he will do so as soon as he can, and with as much openness and transparency as possible.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said he will work “to ensure as much transparency as possible, consistent with the law.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...94e954-4ce9-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

Nov. 14, 2018

Mitch McConnell Blocks Bipartisan Bill to Safeguard Mueller Probe

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018...-protect-mueller-probe-jeff-flake-judges.html

 

[KeithD]

If the report is actually in a file, it's going to get released in full somehow sometime. Such things just can't be held close for very long.

And fuck whatever Lindsey Graham says he's going to do. He's got his nose as far up Trump's ass now as Devin Nunes does.

 

[JackLuis]

If the report is actually in a file, it's going to get released in full somehow sometime. Such things just can't be held close for very long.

And fuck whatever Lindsey Graham says he's going to do. He's got his nose as far up Trump's ass now as Devin Nunes does.

Get your popcorn and beverages ready, the Sunday Talk shows will be nine ring circuses!

 

[bodysong]

Trump hints at payback for 'evil' enemies over Mueller report


"There's a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things," Mr Trump said, "I would say treasonous things, against our country."

"And hopefully people that have done such harm to our country, we've gone through a period of really bad things happening.

"Those people will certainly be looked at, I've been looking at them for a long time.

"And I'm saying, 'why haven't they been looked at?' They lied to Congress - many of them, you know who they are - they've' done so many evil things."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47699611

 

[bodysong]

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a Democratic resolution on Monday to request a full release, arguing that Barr should simply be allowed to continue his professional work without Senate pressure.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...l-says-mueller-found-no-trump-conspiracy.html

2,800 subpoenas, almost 500 search warrants and interviews with about 500 witnesses!


In a joint statement, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, the senior Democrats in Congress, argued Barr’s letter raised “as many questions as it answers”.

“For the president to say he is completely exonerated directly contradicts the words of Mr Mueller and is not to be taken with any degree of credibility,” they said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/24/mueller-report-donald-trump-barr-congress-russia

 

[bodysong]

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“I‘ve been fully exonerated by a report I won’t let you see, but here’s a short letter by a man I installed as AG because he wrote an odd memo about how I couldn’t have obstructed justice after I spent a year pressuring my first AG to violate a criminal conflict of interest law.”

5:21 AM - 25 Mar 2019

Soledad O'Brien
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This is so odd watching journalists run with a summary of a report, but call it THE REPORT, and leaving open no option that there might be some um... inconsistencies. Maggie is quoting Mueller from a letter Mueller did not write. It’s kind of odd.

6:01 AM - 25 Mar 2019

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Anyways, I don’t want to be a tinfoil hat guy or anything but having watched Trumpniks put forward easily debunked lies about crowd sizes and everything else one shouldn’t totally discount the possibility that Barr’s summary is totally inaccurate.

1:56 PM - 24 Mar 2019 from Washington, DC

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My issue is: they’re not framing this as a ‘summary’ from the AG, but as the REPORT which they have not seen.

6:08 AM - 25 Mar 2019


Walter Shaub Verified Account
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They should call the Barr report a press release.

5:59 PM - 25 Mar 2019

 

[bodysong]

2019 AG William Barr

New York Times writer William Safire referred to him not as “Attorney General” but, instead, as “Coverup-General,” noting that in another scandal—having to do with Bush selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein—Barr was already covering up for Bush, Weinberger, and others from the Reagan administration.


Barr successfully covered up the involvement of two Republican presidents—Reagan and Bush—in two separate and perhaps impeachable “high crimes.” And months later, newly sworn-in President Clinton and the new Congress decided to put it all behind them and not pursue the matters any further.

Now, by cherry-picking Mueller’s report and handing Trump the talking points he needed, Barr has done it again.

The question this time is whether Congress will be as compliant as they were in 1993 and simply let it all go.


https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/tr...t-struck-again/?utm_source=push_notifications

Both Trump and senior Republican leadership are already calling for a repeat of ’93; what remains to be seen is if the press and Democratic leadership will go along like they did back then.

 

[bodysong]

Secrecy


“Kushner, Inc.”: Vicky Ward on the Greed, Ambition & Corruption of Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump Pt 2

VICKY WARD:

And then Jared does something extraordinary: He closes the White House logs, the White House visitor logs, so that no one can see who he’s meeting with in the White House. And we only discover a whole year later, when John Kelly says, “No, no, the White House logs have got to be open,” that he’s met with Citigroup and Apollo, who have meanwhile given his family firm loans, and he’s met with Lloyd Blankfein, then the CEO of Goldman Sachs, at a time when Goldman Sachs had an investment in a company that Jared had not only actually put—he hadn’t put it on his White House disclosure form, and he hadn’t divested. I mean, this is—I mean, this is just remarkable. And no one knew. And the American people have a right to know who’s going in and out of the White House.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/22/extended_conversation_with_vicky_ward_on


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Trump administration says it will stop making White House visitor logs public, reversing Obama's (incomplete) transparency push.

10:58 AM - 14 Apr 2017


The Trump administration says it will not make public the names of those visiting the White House, reversing the Obama administration's policy.

White House communications director Michael Dubke said in a statement that the decision was due to the "the grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually," NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Dubke added that the logs would be disclosed "as outlined under the Freedom of Information Act." FOIA does not apply to the president or his immediate staff.

One recent visitor to White House grounds recently resulted in a scandal: House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, who went there last month to view classified information.

"There was outcry over how he briefed the president and the press but did not share the data with his colleagues on the committee," The Two-Way reported. Nunes later announced that he has temporarily stepped aside from his committee's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...-no-longer-release-visitor-logs-to-the-public