Thursday, November 29, 2018

Trump tariffs blamed for slowdown, less hiring at new Volvo plant in South Carolina


"If Mueller is proceeding without being throttled, without being stymied and he’s proceeding at this kind of a pace... everything is aiming right at the President personally and that's got to be very unsettling for them"


Last year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Cohen’s outreach on the Trump Tower Moscow deal received no response. As Cohen’s plea demonstrates, they lied. They helped Trump by providing false corroboration. This is a counterintelligence nightmare.


James Comey has filed a petition in DC federal court challenging a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for closed, non-public testimony


"The Trump Organization planned to give Putin a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow"


Trump says he misses New York


WSJ now reporting: “Investigators obtained emails about the project from late 2015 and January 2016...in which Mr. Cohen communicated with or copied Mr. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter, Ivanka Trump”


lol police inform Laura Loomer that Twitter isn't pressing charges and she can stay chained to their door as long as she wants


Breaking: GOP Senator Tim Scott has decided to oppose the nomination of controversial federal judge Thomas Farr, effectively ending his chance of being confirmed. With GOP Senator Jeff Flake and all Democrats voting no, Farr will not have enough support to pass.


Trump Pal Bought IAmAF**got.Com and VaginaBoy.Com, Then the Sites Attacked His Enemy


BREAKING Russia rejects Trump's canceled meeting, Kremlin ready for contact


From MSNBC: Snoop DAG Rod Rosenstein is still overseeing the Mueller investigation and Whitaker hasn’t taken over the machinations according to @nytmike from the NYT.


BREAKING: US official: No criminal charges filed against 42 migrants arrested during caravan protest that ended with tear gas.


In both of his guilty plea hearings, Michael Cohen has gone beyond the court filings to make clear his criminal actions were specifically on Trump's behalf


This is significant: Trump's business negotiations were happening with Putin’s office directly, not just with real estate developers in Moscow


Being a sad sack to own the libs


In the past 24 hours...


Federal agents showed up unannounced at the Chicago City Hall office of Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over windows, according to the Sun-Times. Burke has apparently been Trump's lawyer on reducing his property taxes in Chicago.


The bulk of POTUS’ bilateral G20 meetings have been cancelled mid-flight. Translation: he’s going to sit in his hotel room and pout for the majority of the trip.


Opinion: Tucker Carlson, neo-Nazi favorite


Mark Warner: "There seems to be a trend here amongst so many of the President's closest allies, that they don't tell the truth. Although, you've also got a White House that seems on a daily basis not to have its facts straight."


.@ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Michael Cohen expected to plead guilty to lying to congressional committees investigating Trump collusion, sources tell @ABC.


Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning. Expected to enter guilty plea for false statements to Congress coupled with dozens of hours of testimony potentially damaging to Pres Trump--Special Counsel values testimony.


Cohen pleading guilty to lying to Congress about the Russia probe!


BREAKING NOW: @ABC Special Report on breaking news in the Mueller investigation imminent.


Journalists have abruptly been alerted to a hearing in a “USA v. John Doe” case at the federal court in Manhattan at 9am this morning.


How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood


The prison reform bill is being held prisoner by Mitch McConnell


Another previously unreported detail: The professor who told Papadopoulos about Russia’s dirt on Clinton told Simona Mangiante—before she met George—that she should “pretend to like Trump” if they did meet.


"Trump, a princeling who was raised in luxury [and] never held accountable for any of his countless personal and business betrayals and failures... is not good with stress," writes @TheRickWilson: "Playtime is over, and Donald doesn't like it."


The details of Katie Johnson’s allegations are deeply disturbing & graphic. She describes Epstein violently raping her AFTER Trump did, furious that Trump stole the girls virginity not him. Knowing Trump, is it hard to believe him capable of forcibly raping a 13 year old Virgin?


House GOP’s lame-duck tax package would cost $55 billion, CBO says


Trump ramps up attacks on Mueller


Police found over 50 firearms - including AK-47s and sniper rifles - and Nazi memorabilia in the home of a California man charged with making criminal threats to kill. “I can’t even put into words what could’ve been forthcoming,” an officer said


The world is slowly turning against Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman even as Trump digs his heels in


Attacks on Hillary’s Health Started After a WikiLeaks Tip


Robert Mueller appears laser-focused on Roger Stone. These emails explain why.


The Trump administration is using information gathered from asylum-seeking children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to arrest, detain, and deport their family members and other potential sponsors


Like clockwork. Boy, is he an easy mark. No wonder the Russians and Saudis were able to get him in their pocket


Ukrainian leader says Putin wants his whole country, asks for NATO help


Everyone needs to watch this amazing @Maddow segment on @NancyPelosi.


The president and his legal team are now admitting out loud in public that they are colluding with a convicted felon to surreptitiously gain intelligence on the prosecution that is investigating the president.


"The U.S. has lost three-tenths of a year in life expectancy since 2014, a stunning reversal for a developed nation, and lags far behind other wealthy nations."


A presidential pardon may not cure Paul Manafort's legal troubles, experts tell @ABC


Trump predicted he'll never win a Nobel Peace Prize before going off on a tangential rant about missing out on an Emmy Award for "The Apprentice." THERE ARE NO WORDS ... except the phrase UTTER TERROR comes to mind.


A segment by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest operator of local TV stations in the U.S., defended the tear-gassing of migrant families at the border


Hillary Clinton: "We have a president who is part of the cover-up as to what happened in that consulate or embassy when Mr. Khashoggi was murdered."


Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has canceled panel votes on almost two dozen judicial nominations, as Jeff Flake holds firm on his pledge to oppose Trump's nominees until the Senate votes on a measure to protect the special counsel.


The deadline to find a new UN ambassador is approaching quickly with no obvious front-runner


Russia blocks Ukrainian Azov Sea ports: minister


What would actually happen if Trump actually closed the border with Mexico?


Fact Checker: A tour through the tumbleweeds of Trump’s thoughts on the Fed


Runaway teen Virginia Roberts was working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago when she was lured by child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein into a life of depravity & sexual abuse. Epstein 'lent' her to other men, including his attorney, Alan Dershowitz.


Jerome Corsi tells me he lied, is ready to die in jail, and Roger Stone may think Corsi was the intermediary to Wikileaks


In a way he can. My scoop: Mueller has audio of Kislyak discussing funneling Russian money to the GOP. His phone was hacked by the good guys and turned in to a recording device

ICYMI

BREAKING: Our new report finds that the child uninsured rate in on the rise again after many years of progress.


What Obama Talks About When He Talks About Trump At an appearance in Houston on Tuesday, the former president had no trouble explaining a reference to Trump as Voldemort


Opinion: The stunning implications of the Manafort-Trump pipeline


Trump administration agrees to allow Saudi Arabia to acquire a sophisticated missile defense system


Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will reportedly have 20 minutes of alone time in Buenos Aires


Warren demands lobbying firms come clean on Saudi ties


Trump's buddy Jeffrey Epstein, whose sex parties Trump attended in the 90's, is the news again.


The Senate narrowly votes to advance a controversial judicial nominee with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie


Why President Donald Trump is talking about a "chicken tax"


Fox News is taking never tweet literally. But they won't explain why.


Jerome Corsi admits to @AriMelber that he lied to Congress, and that he tried to get stolen Clinton emails back to the Trump campaign in 2016 with the intention of helping the campaign.


Randy Credico is upset. "What Roger Stone is confided in me about your depraved sexual behavior and your venal economic crimes is enough to put you in prison and then orange jumpsuit to match your hair for the rest of your fat life"


Veterans Affairs Dept. tells congressional staffers it won't repay underpaid GI Bill recipients, sources say.


Merkel: We sanction Russia for the sake of international law


“Espionage” may soon become a highly relevant part of the national vocabulary for the first time in decades. Note, I’m not tossing the “T” word (“treason”) around. Its narrowness under Art. III would make that a mistake. Espionage isn’t treason. But it’s a very big deal.


NEW: Trump getting his Brexit briefings from … Nigel Farage


An explosive letter has been sent to Schiff's office claiming that Papadopoulos coordinated with Russians with Trump's knowledge in the weeks following the election. Authorities are taking the letter "very seriously"


Mitch McConnell is actively blocking the will of the people by not allowing the bipartisan effort to protect Mueller go through. As Trump keeps losing his grip, who knows what he'll do.


Deutsche searched in money laundering probe over Panama Papers


Explosive news from parliament today. Colins reveals Facebook knew in 2014 that Russia hacked users' data. Mueller's indictments show this was exactly when the Kremlin set up troll factory to target US voters. Why wasn't this disclosed to congress?? What else isn't it telling us?


It's the first time in more than a year that U.S. oil has tumbled below $50


New reporting shows that Trump made late night calls to Roger Stone from blocked numbers during the campaign, around the time Russia was harvesting DNC emails


Deutsche Bank shares plunge as Frankfurt prosecutors search HQ in money laundering probe


Donald Trump pays tribute to his "doppelgänger" Elvis Presley with a special version of "Jailhouse Rock"


Trump’s labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, cut a secret deal with a billionaire pedophile


"I personally witnessed Mr. Trump physically threaten the life and well-being of the Plaintiff if she ever revealed any details of the physical and sexual abuse suffered by her at the hands of Mr. Trump."


There are so many heinous facts shared in this deeply and expertly reported story but the one I keep coming back to is the utter indifference of so many people in the justice system to young girls who were sexually assaulted and raped. Epstein is scum but so are his enablers.


Latest: Rog Ratfucker and Fatboy Jerry KNOWINGLY pushed lies about poor Seth Rich when they knew the Russians hacked Hillary's emails. These people are beneath contempt. PS it was a KREMLIN lie about Seth they pushed, btw. Another coincidence, surely.


Epstein was accused of FORCING 50 MINORS to have sex w/ him 3x a day. Accosta (prosecutor) approved a deal shutting down probe into whether there were OTHER PEOPLE who took part in the crimes. ACCOSTA IS NOW TRUMP’S Secretary of Labor, providing oversight of human


the briefing conducted by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should erase the notion they are responsible adults in the room.


Trump defends sharing photo of Rosenstein behind bars: "He should have never picked a special counsel"


Opinion: Tunisia’s tough lesson for Mohammed bin Salman


"I don't think anyone has been told the truth about what Jeffrey Epstein did," said Michelle Licata, now 30. "He ruined my life and a lot of girls' lives. People need to know what he did and why he wasn't prosecuted so it never happens again."


Epstein could have spent life in prison, but he only served a little more than a year in jail. Why? A secret deal was struck — an extraordinary plea arrangement — with help from future Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.


More than 2,300 migrant teens are sleeping in a huge tent city in the Texas desert where the federal government waived FBI background checks on staff meant to care for them. And it's still growing.


Trump threatens to declassify 'devastating' documents if Democrats 'want to play tough'


Trump even more egregious than Nixon in attacking investigation


I thank @HouseDemocrats for putting their trust in me. I look forward to continuing our work to create a more open, transparent Congress committed to working #ForThePeople to fight corruption, rebuild America’s infrastructure, & lower prescription drug costs!


“The now discredited Witch Hunt” declared the man who not only asked Russia to hack HRC’s “emails” on live TV, but then declared his love for the Russian intelligence front publicly exposing said hacked emails, again on live tv.


The president of the United States just retweeted a tweet questioning when Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, and others will be put on trial for treason.


Unlike Nixon, Trump misconduct piling up in full public view


Church sign winning


Mueller asked Trump about RNC changing its stance on Ukraine during campaign: report


Papadopoulos’s Russia Ties Continue to Intrigue the FBI


Trump enacted a new law. Computer systems weren’t ready for it, and screwed a bunch of vets out of money. Now the VA says it won’t pay them because it would be too hard to figure out what they’re owed. Really?


New: Dems just surpassed 60 million House votes. For perspective, the previous midterm record was 44.5 million, set by Republicans in 2010.