Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

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**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

Witnesses interviewed by Mueller just revealed he crossed Trump’s red line in Russia probe

Robert Mueller has turned his attention to Trump’s relationship with Russian oligarchs and the business deals they partnered on in the years before he decided to run for president.

His concern appears to be that the nature of those business relationships influenced his decision to pursue the White House in 2016.

“Questions to some witnesses during wide-ranging interviews included

the timing of Trump’s decision to seek the presidency potentially compromising information the Russians may have had about him, and why efforts to brand a Trump Tower in Moscow fell through”

For over a decade prior to that coming out party, however,

Trump had done business with Russian oligarchs on multiple occasions on deals totaling in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

“The lines of inquiry indicate Mueller’s team is reaching beyond the campaign to explore how the Russians might have sought to influence Trump at a time when he was discussing deals in Moscow and contemplating a presidential run,”

In the years leading up to the election, the Trump Organization’s portfolio in Russia and other former Soviet republics con uously expanded,

http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/2...ussia-probe-2/

If another Repug Pres tried to get Trash a Top Secret clearance, I'm sure it would be denied

**djohn2oo8** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

I love my country. I’m quoting a wanted criminal because he dry ed you.

You're quoting a foreign wanted criminal who hates America because you hate your country. Sad.

**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

‘Corrupt, en led snake’: GOP strategist Rick Wilson drags ‘beta-male’ Kushner over ‘greedy, sloppy’ business dealings

Republican strategist Rick Wilson on Tuesday assailed Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner, scorching the “corrupt, en led snake” whose

“stench of venality and desperation hangs around him like stripper perfume.”

“It’s even harder when you’re a corrupt, en led snake who repeatedly lies about your finances to federal investigators and serves as

a living, breathing poster child for privileged venality,”

“It’s even harder when you’ve rather clumsily attempted to use both your familial relationship and proximity to the president of the United States to save your family’s failing real estate empire.”

Noting Kelly—who “compromised himself and his supposed values to accommodate and indulge President Trumphausen’s

various whims, impulses, urges, feuds, and paranoid episodes”—finally decided to revoke Kushner’s access to top secret U.S. intelligence,

“What he knows after a year in this position makes him the juiciest intelligence target in the world,”

Trump now has the option of following Kelly’s advice or bowing to “the simpering ‘But Daaaaaaaady’ whinge of Princess Ivanka and restore Jared to his full suite of security clearances.”

“This battle was only ever going to end one way, and in the war of the Deep State vs. Team Trump, the bad guys often make it easy by being greedy, sloppy, and stupid,” Wilson wrote. “Jared was all three.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/cor...e+Raw+Story%29

So, does daddy Trash override Kelly and restore JK to Top Secretness? or will that action be itself a top secret?

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9833-fac ious-disorder-imposed-on-self-munchausen-syndrome

**clambake** · 02-28-2018

yep, what say we all take a look at the money.

who's with me?

**Pavlov** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

brilliant move by Sessions as Horowitz is an Obama nominee. The left won't be able to scream partisan once Horowitz starts dropping nukes

Brilliant move by Trump to take a direct public on both Sessions and Horowitz -- right, TSA?

**djohn2oo8** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by Pavlov

Brilliant move by Trump to take a direct public on both Sessions and Horowitz -- right, TSA?

4-D chess.

**RandomGuy** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

All demotions/resignations came from evidence uncovered by the OIG investigation. Do you care to wager on this going nowhere yes or no?

Like I said, the new normal. It went no where. Nothing to wager.

The governmental show marches on.

**TSA** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by Pavlov

Brilliant move by Trump to take a direct public on both Sessions and Horowitz -- right, TSA?

Brilliant move by Trump. You are dumber than I thought and took the bait. Trump just told the public Horowitz is an Obama appointee. Trump is clearly distancing himself from Sessions and Horowitz so when the two of them drop the hammer the left can't say Trump forced them to act.

**TSA** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by RandomGuy

Like I said, the new normal. It went no where. Nothing to wager.

The governmental show marches on.

How can you claim the OIG investigation went no where when it hasn't even been completed?

**Pavlov** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

Brilliant move by Trump. You are dumber than I thought and took the bait. Trump just told the public Horowitz is an Obama appointee. Trump is clearly distancing himself from Sessions and Horowitz so when the two of them drop the hammer the left can't say Trump forced them to act.

"distancing himself by publicly ting on him"

I'm going to conclude Fox and Friends talked about FISA this morning and Grandpa was triggered.

**djohn2oo8** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by Pavlov

"distancing himself by publicly ting on him"

I'm going to conclude Fox and Friends talked about FISA this morning and Grandpa was triggered.

And he just called Sessions brilliant

**Spurminator** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

Brilliant move by Trump.

When did you lose your shame? What does it feel like?

**djohn2oo8** · 02-28-2018

**Blake** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by TSA

brilliant move by Sessions as Horowitz is an Obama nominee. The left won't be able to scream partisan once Horowitz starts dropping nukes

Originally Posted by TSA

Brilliant move by Trump. You are dumber than I thought and took the bait. Trump just told the public Horowitz is an Obama appointee. Trump is clearly distancing himself from Sessions and Horowitz so when the two of them drop the hammer the left can't say Trump forced them to act.

Brilliant moves all over the board

**RandomGuy** · 02-28-2018

Originally Posted by boutons_deux

the fraction of anonymous purchases of [Trump] properties through s companies has ‘skyrocketed’ from 4 to 70 percent.”

What is the president hiding?

**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

Manafort pleads not guilty, has not flipped, so is going to be tried in two jurisdictions

**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

Trump Wonders Who Will Read Classified Do ents Aloud to Him Now That Jared’s Gone

WASHINGTON —With Jared Kushner losing his top security clearance, Donald J. Trump is concerned that there will be no one to read classified do ents aloud to him anymore, White House aides have confirmed.

The aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that

Kushner’s recitation of top-secret do ents had become something of a bedtime ritual for Trump.

“Jared would kind of tuck him in and then start reading aloud a do ent about, say, North Korea’s nuclear program or whatnot,”

one aide said. “It got to be something that the President would look forward to.”

Whenever Kushner was away on business trips to the United Arab Emirates, China, or other foreign countries, other members of the White House staff would try to fill in for him at bedtime, but Trump would always petulantly reject them.

“He’d be, like, ‘You’re no good. I want Jared,’ ” the aide said.

According to the aide, Kushner had

a “special way” of reading classified do ents to Trump, “very slowly and leaving out any long words.”

“He’d read in kind of a high, whispery voice that the President found soothing,” the aide said.

“Within seconds, he was fast asleep.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-wonders-who-will-read-classified-do ents-aloud-to-him-now-that-jareds-gone

**boutons_deux** · 02-28-2018

Hope Hicks’s evasiveness highlights how far Trump is pushing the envelope on executive privilege

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks joined a growing list of administration officials on Tuesday who have pointedly refused to answer even basic questions from Congress about their interactions with President Trump.

she would not discuss anything from the inauguration forward.

nonpartisan experts and veterans of previous administrations say Trump appears to be

pushing the limits further than his predecessors and beyond what legal precedents allow for.

“What is new and really troubling … is that we’ve seen it quickly become routine that

the administration sends out a witness who says,

‘I categorically can’t discuss this whole set of really important issues because I want

to preserve the ability of the president to assert executive privilege.’

And then there’s no follow up by either the administration or Congress.

Essentially, they are allowed

to create the shadow of executive privilege, and

then they sort of just hide under that shadow. …

They don’t even have to elaborate on or really test the privilege.

So far, the administration has gotten away with it with remarkable ease.

So it’s not surprising they keep doing it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1

yep, Trash promised to up and ignorant precedents, rules, regs, laws ... to protect his criminal self.