Saturday, May 18, 2019

GOP lawmaker says Trump’s conduct meets ‘threshold for impeachment’


AG Barr has deliberately misrepresented the Mueller report. He has started examinations of the conduct of Intell/FBI personnel without a predicate-for political reasons. He is protecting the President. He does not stand up for the good people he leads. He is not fit to lead DOJ.


Enjoy this clip of Fox News Judge, Andrew Napolitano, simply and soundly nailing Donald Trump on more impeachable conduct.


JUST IN: US Golf Association investigates after golf scores "erroneously" recorded for Trump


"Trump’s Air Force One video trashing Bill de Blasio may have violated law Looking a bit closer at Trump's bashing video, an ethics watchdog spotted a big problem: Over Trump’s left shoulder is the presidential seal. A big no-no, per an ethics lawyer."


Everybody Is Wrong. Trump Impeachment Hearings Will Help Democrats.


Dozens of graduates walk out in protest of Pence commencement address


I get the same intel as Cotton. He is greatly exaggerating the situation to spur us to war. Don’t fall for it.


Trump’s Insistence on Staying at His Own Resorts Just Blew Up in His Face


Toyota smacks Trump down for saying they’re ‘not welcome’ with reminder that 475,000 US jobs hinge on their presence


“Most of my rapes are consensual rapes or date rapes after a party. It’s unfortunate but [rape victims] need to live with the consequences of their actions.” - BARRY HOVIS (R) from Cape Girardeau


Evidently Tulsi Gabbard’s social media coordinator has a “list” of Twitter accounts it instructs campaign volunteers to troll. Here’s a partial version


Chelsea Manning has to go to jail for defying a subpoena. Bill Barr and Steven Mnuchin won’t miss a cocktail party.


The only reason to “change the rules” of counterintelligence investigations is if you know they were never broken in the first place. These rules have been in place for decades and no one in the GOP ever complained...until one of their own got caught.


The Pelosi non-impeachment route while risk averse, robs Congress of meaningful discovery and the public of much-needed testimony. It also gives Trump complete narrative control. We need to arm voters with the truth and we need him on his back feet.


Judge rules Pepe the Frog copyright lawsuit against InfoWars will go to trial


#BREAKING Austrian far-right vice-chancellor resigns over video scandal


Elizabeth Warren said Congress should implement federal laws protecting reproductive care in the event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.


Trump ‘is capable of horrific, horrific deeds’: MSNBC anchor warns that ‘Democrats better get this one right’


Tulsi Gabbard’s Campaign Is Being Boosted by Putin Apologists


Kamala Harris questioning Brett Kavanaugh


‘Spoken like a true fascist’: The internet reacts in fury to Trump threatening to jail investigators for ‘treason’


With the exception of number 6, Trump has committed 9 of the 10 acts that made up Article 1 of Nixon’s impeachment.


The President of the United States is recommending long jail sentences for the FBI agents who investigated a credible threat from a hostile foreign power. This is a very dark time in America's history.


On CNN right now, 19 undocumented workers who say they were employed by the Trump Organization for years.


All you need to know about Heinz-Christian Strache - the Far Right Austrian Vice-Chancellor busted talking illegal access to government with a purported Russian multi-millionaire - you can find in this bizarre entrance to one of his rallies.


China has a $3.65 trillion war chest to counter U.S. tariffs


The Trump administration’s attitude to climate change, and our country's fate, in one sentence from @SecBernhardt: "I haven't lost any sleep over it."


Sen. Jeff Merkley: "John Bolton would very much like to go to war and has said multiple times, 'Look, Iran will never stop their nuclear program. The only way to respond it to destroy it.' He sees the world and he says 'I don't want negotiations, I want bombs.'"


De Blasio hits back at Trump: 'Con Don' is 'very low energy'


His frontal lobe is turning into Swiss cheese. Demand a neuropsych evaluation.


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Nationwide protests planned over abortion bans


"Banning abortion won't stop it from happening any more than Prohibition eliminated alcohol consumption,"


It’s Mnuchin’s call to act in defiance of Congress and the law. He’s acting not because of a legal opinion but because he’s afraid of incurring Trump’s wrath. He is breaking the law because he is too weak to uphold it.


If he's not arrested now, then this is how our democracy dies. Because those charged with enforcing the rule of law didn't. This isn't politics, but the corrupt testing the lines of the law. They cross the line without consequence, then what's the law?


The president claiming the FBI’s investigation was “TREASON“ reminds me that a Russian once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” That shouldn’t happen in America. Who will stand up?


As I stated tonight on @AC360, AG Barr's comments on the Russia investigation are not only unprofessional for the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, they are a lie.


Evidently Tulsi Gabbard’s social media coordinator has a “list” of Twitter accounts it instructs campaign volunteers to troll. Here’s a partial version


Federal court moves to unseal Jeffrey Epstein documents


Let's all remind ourselves that releasing tax returns is not at all an extraordinary demand to make of a president. This administration is fighting tooth and nail to block the basic transparency that we have rightly expected of presidents and presidential candidates for decades.


House Ways & Means' Rep. Bill Pascrell suggested that Steve Mnuchin may be subject to a fine, a contempt vote or even possibly jail time for ignoring what he said was the clear intent of the law. "I would throw the book at these guys," Pascrell said


EXCLUSIVE from @KCStar --> National Republicans are prepared to intervene in the Kansas Senate primary to ensure that conservative firebrand Kris Kobach does not win the party’s nomination


Something I didn't know existed--an $8,000 dishwasher.


Florida mayor offers solution to housing detained migrants: "Bring them to the Trump hotels"


Mr. Trump is retreating to delusion, paranoia, and megalomania. Read his tweets and ask yourself, "Should this man have any responsible job, let alone be president?"


He’s worried about this. The tweet is absurd. And remember, Trump was advised by the FBI that Russia was trying to subvert the election & still didn’t report contacts & offers of help from Russia to the campaign to law enforcement & lied about them to the American people.


New tonight: Flynn contacted GOP Mueller critic while cooperating with special counsel


So our AG is basically an infowars style conspiracy theorist?


A Pennsylvania school district did a shooting safety drill with a teacher dressed in an Arab headscarf, or kaffiyeh. It says it was part of a "costume" not meant to represent a specific culture. Local Muslim groups called it "appalling."


Deep in this Channel 4 investigation about Arron Banks bankrolling the Nigel Farage rehabilitation project: Documents show Arron Banks paid Fox News host Tucker Carlson *£12,000* to interview Nigel Farage at a US “Brexit policy luncheon”


Migrant families being flown to San Diego from Texas in U.S. border crisis


Obama announces fund dedicated to supporting Democratic party's 2020 nominee


“Our democracy should not be held hostage by right-wing courts, and women should not have to hope that Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump’s Supreme Court will respect the law.”


GOP governor: Trump's plan to send migrants to Florida is "not acceptable"


Flynn + Trump + Mueller Report = Holy Shittlestix (Updated)


Here’s 1984 audio of Trump pretending to be “John Barron” and trying to convince a Forbes journalist to list him as wealthier than he was:

ICYMI

Fox News poll: On the Russia investigation, who do you trust more?


Comey hits back at Barr, Trump: "Who Will Stand Up?"


Russia Today piles in to join @Ruptly in its support of Chelsea Manning


John Deere has lost its cautious optimism about Trump's trade war with China amid sinking earnings and an uncertain demand for products, Bloomberg reports. Farmers are delaying equipment purchases to cope with the financial fallout of Trump's trade war


So the same @mattgaetz under bar investigation for intimidatin’ Michael Cohen before his Congressional testimony suddenly leaks compromisin’ DMs from Flynn as Congress expresses interest in his testimony?


.@TuckerCarlson is trying his best to get a Congressional representative killed.


NEW: DHS's cybersecurity arm just emailed staff there asking them to deploy to the border. The email indicates that the agency has not yet found enough volunteers to satisfy DHS Headquarters' request.

What the...

The Treasury Secretary has refused to turn over Trump’s tax returns on the advice of — Bill Barr.


It would be really helpful for journalists reporting on Barr's unhinged attempts to drum up a there there to note: 1) HILLARY was also under CI investigation, one conducted in the press. 2) HILLARY was also investigated based off oppo research, Clinton Cash.


BREAKING: President Trump has posted an 18-hole golf score to @USGA Golf Handicap Information Network for first time this season - a 68(!) on a course with a 75.3 rating/139 slope.


The Senate confirmed Jeffrey Rosen 52-45 to replace embattled Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, despite Democratic criticism he wasn’t ready for the job


.@Jim_Jordan claims the report exonerates him. It does not. It says the sexual abuse was an open secret widely known to coaches and asst coaches at the time he was there. It notes the investigation did not ascertain specifically which coaches knew what when.


Pence was warned, too, by @RepCummings in November 2016.


Acid washed? Like jeans? Are demand notices physically powerful? Have you received any? Are you indicted? Are your children? Are you scared? You sound scared. You’re going to prison, Traitor.


BREAKING: Flynn secretly messaged @mattgaetz in 2018: "You stay on top of what you're doing. Your leadership is so vital for our country now. Keep the pressure on,


EPA declines to recoup profligate Pruitt spending


Trump judges send cultural wink with Brown v. Board of Ed evasion


Here's Why Carla Bruni Once Said Donald Trump Was "Obviously A Lunatic"


What an embarrassment of an AG. Misstating facts, waving political poms poms for his boss, spouting Trump twitter catch phrases, fumbling for laughable excuses, and attacking his own DOJ.


Fearing 2018 repeat, GOP stokes culture wars to rally base


Congress members caution Trump on being duped into war with Iran


Who needs a DoJ IG report when you have Twitter? Fat Orange Duce has already pronounced the 2016 CI activities of the US IC to be "TREASON." Yes, this is really happening. There is no bottom


OBAMA WARNED YOU TO YOUR FACE


Obama told him not to hire Flynn. Trump did it anyway. Yates warned the White House that Flynn was compromised. Trump fired Yates and kept Flynn in place for 18 more days, until the media got wind of the problem and the White House caved under pressure to fire Flynn


It’s time for the Congress hold this law breaking administration to task. All violators of Committee subpoenas need to feel the inherent contempt powers of the House. Time for the hammer to fall


.⁦@politicoalex⁩ scoop: The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn, just over a year after he was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting employees over a decade.


After ramble-mocking Elizabeth Warren in an official speech to realtors, Trump says, "She's got a lot of pent-up anger. She's an angry person."


Federal appeals court rules Trump decision to end DACA was illegal


Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "I think the president every day gives grounds for impeachment in terms of obstruction of justice."


In a secret recording from 2017, Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party is heard discussing a deal with a purported Russian millionaire to trade state contracts for campaign support


"Flynn sent Twitter direct messages to Rep. Matt Gaetz on 4/03/18, encouraging Florida Republican (Congressman) to "keep the pressure on." It's not clear if Flynn sent additional messages to other lawmakers."


WATCH: @SenatorDurbin asks: Why isn’t the Senate moving legislation to secure our elections? A top Republican Senator admits: @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation to secure our elections.


BREAKING: Flynn sent Twitter direct messages to Rep. Matt Gaetz, encouraging the Florida Republican to "keep the pressure on." ⁦


Democrats consider next steps for subpoena-defying Trump admin


Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin tells House Ways & Means Chair Richard Neal he will not comply with the subpoena for Pres. Trump’s tax returns: