Sunday, June 3, 2018

How @GOPLeader "disqualified himself" for Speaker of the House during a "shameful" appearance on the Sunday shows, according to @SteveSchmidtSES


Rudy Giuliani now says that Trump could have shot James Comey and still couldn’t be indicted for it.


Melania Trump attending closed event Monday evening with Gold Star families, per @KateBennett_DC. Press not allowed in


The mayor of San Juan, @CarmenYulinCruz, with an update on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria


Rick Santorum accuses Obama of having "exacerbated racism"


.@newtgingrich: "Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this [Trump] campaign to where it is right now."

2016

Why Did the US Ambassador to Germany Defend a Human Trafficker?

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On election night 2016, Michael Cohen told a handful of people at Trump Tower that he wanted to be mayor of New York.


One State Department official tells The Daily Beast he is "fucking disgusted" by Mike Pompeo’s decision to meet with the foreign minister from Hungary, who’s leader is a Putin ally and who won re-election on an anti-Semitic, Islamophobic platform.


A Mississippi congressman is urging his Connecticut colleagues to meet with NAACP members to discuss concerns about racial discrimination at the Coast Guard Academy:


The American ambassador in Germany has just implied that he would like to unseat the current German government


NEW: First Lady Melania Trump will not attend the G7 or Singapore summit with President Trump, @FLOTUS Communications Director Stephanie Grisham tells me


Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than substantive. They mostly fall into one of these four categories.


Preet Bharara says Trump pardoning himself would be 'almost self-executing impeachment'


Tiffany at Camp David thing is factual and is weird.


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Concerns over retaliatory tariffs from Mexico have cost Iowa pork producers roughly $560,000,000, the Des Moines Register reports


Here’s what 2 independent journalists @traciemac_Bmore and I found out about Paul Manafort’s past from open sources in Sep. @realDonaldTrump your recruiters are either incompetent or takes orders from Moscow. Blood Money - Narativ


‘Learn to read’: NRA’s Dana Loesch and Russia critic Louise Mensch throw down on Twitter — and it’s bonkers


You KNEW that Paul Manafort [along with your dad's former top aide Brad Zackson] had been named as co conspirators of Russian mafia boss Semion Mogilevich in a federal racketeering case a few years before the campaign but YOU hired Manafort anyway.


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Pentagon to take up federal security checks: report


The fascist president compares democrats to Nazis because NOTHING MATTERS.


Read the transcript of the conversation among GOP leaders obtained by The Post


Trump. Russia. The whole story, a 3-part special investigation, starts Monday. We hope you're going to love this one,


The United Steelworkers Union is calling on the Trump admin to exempt Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs, saying that the tariffs are "wrongheaded" because they would hurt the industry in both countries


The Russians Might Be Listening to Trump’s Bedtime Chats With Sean Hannity


Ex-Trump aide on the president's ability to keep secrets: He’s a "f--king" gossip


Border wall construction begins in San Diego, will feature “anti-climbing" plate


I think the most ironic thing will be when Republican elected officials start taking huge political damage from the economic catastrophe of a trade War and Trump blames them


Where is Melania? Rumours and jokes continue to swirl after first lady's Camp David no show


Melania Trump is married to a man with a history of domestic abuse & sexual violence. Her lengthy unexplained absence is disturbing.


Melania day 24


Dreamers


Scott Pruitt, who has reversed Obama-era EPA rules, enjoys cozy ties with a coal baron who got him a superfan experience at a big Kentucky game


Going from reality tv host to macro-economic savant is a natural progression.


It is kind of odd for the President’s lawyers to be citing this comment—with which I have some passing familiarity—as evidence that @Comey was content with the White House’s interactions with the FBI. The entire point of the conversation was the FBI needed protection...


Finance ministers at G7 meeting ask their U.S. counterpart to take message of disbelief, disappointment over tariffs back to Washington


How does a withdrawal from NAFTA impact consumer prices, retail imports and jobs?


In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers said he "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times" about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians. But here are FIVE TIMES @JaySekulow and @PressSec previously denied Trump's role in the misleading statement.


Obama vs Trump on average monthly job growth

Obama vs Trump

Top economist blasts Trump tariffs on US allies: It's the start of a "psychopath's trade war"


Sitting GOP senators who voted to toss President Clinton from office for obstruction of justice:


The President of the United States dictated a letter trying to cover-up a meeting that his son, son-in-law, and campaign manager eagerly took, which offered “high-level,” sensitive information about his opponent as part of the Kremlin’s support for him—and then lied about it.


The President can’t obstruct justice because he is the top law enforcement officer. The President can’t have a conflict of interest. Like a king before Magna Carta the President IS the law. And Congress is too busy with its own corruption to care.


“The avg. IQ of a black person is about 20 points lower than the avg. IQ of a white person.” –White nationalist candidate Arthur Jones


The latest blow to struggling family farms: Rising interest rates


My aunt's lawsuit against a coal company in Illinois is getting national attention. It turns out 2,290,000m3 of ash in unlined pits along a scenic river isn't the best idea


Texans mind. 1 in 4 Texas jobs depend on trade with Mexico. Nearly 1 million jobs in our state are linked to trade with our southern neighbor. Last year alone, Texas had $97 billion in exports to Mexico.


Ben Carson is appointing the son of a close friend as HUD deputy chief of staff. We’ve already had to sue Carson’s HUD over records on why his family is so active at the agency.


New report says nearly half of Afghanistan's children are not attending school because of war, poverty, child marriage and other factors.


Deutsche Bank's Slow Bleed Continues as a Pivotal Month Begins


The MAGA ETF has only one strategy. It buys companies that back Republicans


G-7 Members Condemn U.S. Trade Actions


Razan al-Najjar was a volunteer medic. As she ran towards the wounded in her white coat and medical ID, an Israeli sniper shot her right through the chest—murdering a 20-year-old woman trying to save the lives of others at the cost of her own.


So, Dana, as you say it wasn't an "official" trip and you've only received $2500 from Russia, can you tell us why @NRA is preserving records on its interactions with Alexander Torshin, the Putin-linked banker? Are you under law enforcement investigation?


Looks like the UK National Crime Agency is going to start targeting Putin cronies with Unexplained Wealth Orders to confiscate their UK assets. If true, this will be a powerful step


As hurricane season begins, many people in the Virgin Islands say they're not ready.


No, Trump can’t pardon himself. The Constitution tells us so.


Everything keeps coming up Misfud


EXCLUSIVE: Sheriff Clarke ‘Attacked Black Lives Matter on Putin’s Orders’


Does Rush Limbaugh matter anymore? He is the most popular talk radio host in the country, yet barely registers with Donald Trump.


Audit shows NRA spending surged $100 million amidst pro-Trump push in 2016

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North Korea's state-run news agency says Syria's President Bashar Assad wants to meet Kim Jong Un


Kobach Mr Voter Suppression running for Governor?


Immigrant sues Trump's border control after it seized his life savings without cause


North Korea gets relief from international sanctions only when it gives up nukes, U.S. Secretary of Defence James Mattis says


China warned the United States on Sunday that any deals the two countries reach on trade will be void if President Donald Trump's threatened tariff hike on Chinese goods goes ahead.