Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

[boutons_deux]

Manafort offers $12 million in assets in bid to avoid house arrest


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...e=domesticNews

[boutons_deux]

McConnell: No need to pass bills to protect Mueller

The Senate majority leader also expressed skepticism of legislation requiring social media companies to disclose the buyers of political ads.

McConnell also threw cold water on legislation requiring social media companies to disclose who pays for ads — part of a bipartisan effort intended to thwart future Russian attempts to secretly interfere in an election.

"I’m a little skeptical of these disclosure-type proposals that are floating around, which strikes me would mostly penalize American citizens trying to use the internet and to advertise," McConnell told Hewitt.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...tection-244546

of course, let the Russians, etc run wild with fake news all over Internet to keep the Repug base excited, pissed off, etc.

[Spurminator]

I'm not sure how disclosure of ad buyers amounts to penalizing citizens. So now that Pizza Hut ad on Facebook will have a disclaimer that it was bought by Pizza Hut, Inc. Who is that penalizing?

[djohn2oo8]

When was the GOP platform on Ukraine gutted? on yes July 2016

[spurraider21]

tide turning

Startling Report Finds Evidence Democrats May Have Attempted To Influence 2016 Election

WASHINGTON—Revealing that newly discovered ads and online articles could have been part of a coordinated campaign, a startling new report released Friday found evidence that Democrats may have attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. “Although it’s unclear if the efforts had any impact, it seems plausible that a loosely connected series of social media posts and grassroots word-of-mouth campaigns about the 2016 election could have originated in the Democratic Party,” said report author Mic e Lipkin, citing several clandestine pro-Clinton ad buys on Facebook and a small-scale, mostly ineffectual anti-Trump research endeavor that was indirectly traced back to several DNC donors. “It’s shocking in the least to discover the DNC dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars to shape the American democratic process; however, we are confident this hidden attempt at influencing the election had little to no effect on the final vote totals.” Lipkin also warned it was entirely possible that the Democrats might attempt to interfere in the 2020 election as well.

[djohn2oo8]

[boutons_deux]

‘Now he’s alone’: Trump’s reign of rage and divisiveness has left him isolated and under siege

President Donald Trump’s chaotic leadership style, his high-handedness with advisers and constant urge to attack when question or criticized have left him isolated and bereft of allies — both in the White House and in the Republican Party.Politico said on Saturday that Trump has allowed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to push out his closest West Wing allies and confidants and now the combative chief executive is feeling cut off from his support network.

“I think he’s been humbled,” the friend said. “But he has no friends left in his own administration. He trusted Jared, but Jared’s in a box, fighting his own battles. He had Keith, he had Corey every now and then. Now he’s alone.”

Trump’s longtime personal bodyguard Keith Schiller left the White House earlier this year, as well as Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — who claims he turned down a job at the White House because the salary was “chump change.”

a portrait of a president frustrated by his lack of political and personal support — but who apparently can’t see that he is reaping the dividends of his own fecklessness, divisiveness and his driving need for vengeance.

“Trump has relished personal fights and nursed grudges;

continued to vilify Clinton and

defend his own legitimacy amid the expanding Russia probes;

stirred racial tensions while

measuring his success by the strength of his base; and

taken more interest in throwing elbows on cultural issues

than on the matters of policy that preoccupy Republican leaders in Congress,”

Infighting,

petty grudges,

a lack of focus and

a preponderance of “middle school cafeteria behavior” have scuttled Trump’s drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA),

“He sees things only through the framework of his reputation, not of America,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/now...d-under-siege/

tl:dnr : Trash is huge piece of

[boutons_deux]

Ex-prosecutor: We’re ‘about ten miles past the point’ where Sessions should be charged with perjury

Laura Coates told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Saturday that it’s well past time for Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions to face the consequences of

the misleading statements he gave to Congress at his confirmation hearings and in later questioning regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“At what point does [Sessions’] forgetfulness become su ious or even more?”

“Because perjury is a self-inflicted wound. And as the attorney general of the United States, he is essentially the top lawyer in the entire United States of America and

he should know better than anyone that people who have selective memory,

particularly on topics that are the subject of a criminal investigation —

let alone a Congressional investigation, as well —

really breeds and invites additional scrutiny.”

“At some point it becomes less coincidental and more criminal in nature,” she continued. Sessions

“has already put himself in great legal peril by giving these very nuanced, very caveat-based answers that ultimately keep ringing to be untrue.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ex-...e+Raw+Story%29

How will Mueller exercise his "prosecutor's discretion" toward racist prick lying Sessions?

[Pavlov]

Ex-prosecutor: We’re ‘about ten miles past the point’ where Sessions should be charged with perjury

Laura Coates told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Saturday that it’s well past time for Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions to face the consequences of

the misleading statements he gave to Congress at his confirmation hearings and in later questioning regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“At what point does [Sessions’] forgetfulness become su ious or even more?”

“Because perjury is a self-inflicted wound. And as the attorney general of the United States, he is essentially the top lawyer in the entire United States of America and

he should know better than anyone that people who have selective memory,

particularly on topics that are the subject of a criminal investigation —

let alone a Congressional investigation, as well —

really breeds and invites additional scrutiny.”

“At some point it becomes less coincidental and more criminal in nature,” she continued. Sessions

“has already put himself in great legal peril by giving these very nuanced, very caveat-based answers that ultimately keep ringing to be untrue.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ex-...e+Raw+Story%29

How will Mueller exercise his "prosecutor's discretion" toward racist prick lying Sessions?

Sessions can wait. Going after him now would play right into the Trumpistas' hands.

[Chris]

[DMC]

It's funny watching the losing side pretend they're winning because of an investigation. It happens every election cycle.

[Chris]

Fake dossier created by DNC + Rooshans = give to FBI (Comey)...leaked to MSM (Comey)...and beat into the brains of millions of Americans to create division and hate. Kyle Griffin says there are troll farms and Pokemons though so we must endure more MSM drivel and selective Liberal outrage until they write a new script.

[Pavlov]

Fake dossier created by DNC + Rooshans = give to FBI (Comey)...leaked to MSM (Comey)...and beat into the brains of millions of Americans to create division and hate. Kyle Griffin says there are troll farms and Pokemons though so we must endure more MSM drivel and selective Liberal outrage until they write a new script.

Chris, when did the full contents of the dossier leak?

[Chris]

Chris, when did the full contents of the dossier leak?

http://bfy.tw/ErKV

[Pavlov]

http://bfy.tw/ErKV

Nope. That's not it.

I'm asking you, Chris .

I don't think you actually know.

Just like the rest of you idiots.

Post the date the full contents of the dossier were leaked.

[Chris]

Nope. That's not it.

I'm asking you .

I don't think you actually know.

Just like the rest of you idiots.

Just get to your point instead of asking vague questions or did you have a point?

[Pavlov]

Just get to your point instead of asking vague questions or did you have a point?

I'll get to it immediately after you give the date of the leak of the full contents of the dossier.

[djohn2oo8]

It's funny watching the losing side pretend they're winning because of an investigation. It happens every election cycle.

FBI, and international investigations into collusion happen every election cycle? Dumbass.

[Pavlov]

I remember like it was just yesterday that a special counsel was appointed to investigate whether the Obama campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election.

[djohn2oo8]

I remember like it was just yesterday that a special counsel was appointed to investigate whether the Obama campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election.

[djohn2oo8]

I dont seem to recall Obama's campaign manager nor National Security Adv. being indicted.

[Pavlov]

How many times have we seen the winners demand the losers be investigated because the winners are being investigated by someone they appointed themselves?

Every election amirite?

[djohn2oo8]

But wait Trump said none of his people met with any Russians so it must be true right?

[djohn2oo8]

How many times have we seen the winners demand the losers be investigated because the winners are being investigated by someone they appointed themselves?

Every election amirite?

[djohn2oo8]

How many times has a sitting President fired the head of the FBI to stop an investigation into himself?

And THEN blame it on said Director being unfair to Hillary.
(snickers)