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One thing someone brought up -- is this legally different from Hillary paying Steele, a British citizen, from doing opposition research on Trump?

It was GOP peeps who paid Steele, iirc. At the behest of Jeb! ?

They keep dreaming.

Now would be a great time for Trump WH to hit the road and make some speeches to push #repealobamacare to change the subject.

— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 11, 2017

This seems like a poor choice:

https://www.axios.com/what-we-know-about-the-senate-health-care-bill-2457420090.html

The Medicaid portions of the revised bill likely will stay largely the same as the first version — including the growth rate for new per-person funding caps and the process for phasing out the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion.

This is a loss for several moderates, including Sens. Dean Heller, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Captio, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, John Hoeven and Susan Collins. It's a win for conservatives, particularly Sen. Pat Toomey.

A small tweak is likely to be added that would benefit Louisiana, a senior GOP aide told me. This would help with Sen. Bill Cassidy's concerns.

they're going the ideological purity route so they don't actually have to do anything and can say it's because they have convctions

Afaict the law says it's illegal to receive contributions, so I don't think it compares to hiring foreign nationals. Hiring Steele might be shady, but legally it compares to having a Canadian data analyst.

going the ideological purity route so they don't actually have to do anything

this. but I am sure McConnell also plans to offer side deals where he can and bust heads where he can't and hope to break the will of the moderates. it usually works that way.

So here's a quote!

Sanders, asked what POTUS says about Don Jr: ""My son is a high quality person and I applaud" his transparency.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 11, 2017

Top quality, the best. He's polished daily, and then stored in brine.

http://cdn3.meme.am/cache/instances/folder260/45709260.jpg

Asked what White House means when they say there was no "collusion," Sanders says she's referring all q's to outside counsel.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 11, 2017

I just met you /
And this is crazy /
If you're interested in collusion /
Call me maybe?

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 11, 2017

Afaict the law says it's illegal to receive contributions, so I don't think it compares to hiring foreign nationals. Hiring Steele might be shady, but legally it compares to having a Canadian data analyst.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 20:31 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This article is doing the rounds again:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446

Chalupa's work for the DNC is probably more comparable than Steele. She overtly solicited information from Ukrainian officials, apparently at the behest of the party, while a paid employee.

The legal technicalities aside, I think it'd probably take awareness that any information was illegally obtained or evidence of a quid pro quo to land Trump Jr in the dock. All of which he might tweet tomorrow so...

That Adam Goldman fellow indicates yet more reporting -- so yet more from the three sources? How badly are they wanting to burn Jr. and why?

xpost Got an opinion on the DJTJ emails?

http://www.bellybytes.com/busters/images/chalupa.png

Carne asada calling the kettle black.

what are we talking about again?

lol idk

It's about ethics in Mexican food journalism

Brimming with confidence

Were there any other meetings between Russians and the Trump campaign? Sanders: "There’s nothing that I’m aware of at this time"

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) July 11, 2017

No, no indeed

Asked if Trump is now aware of Russian effort to help him in 2016 @SHSanders45: "I’m not going to answer any questions on this matter."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 11, 2017

Putin told him there wasnt. duh! keep up

"Chalupa's work for the DNC is probably more comparable than Steele"

drop the chalupa

oh someone already made that joke

DON JR: ok so I hav this email, it says i did it

LAWYER: damn, ok. just don't show anyone

DON JR [lookin up from twitter]: don't b mad

— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) July 11, 2017

The Treasonous Trumps: next on ABC!

except it's more like

DON JR: ok so I hav this email, it says i did it

LAWYER: damn, ok. just don't show anyone

NYT: uh we also hav email so

DON JR [lookin up from twitter]: don't b mad

In 4 or 8 or fewer years, expect several of these:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/If_I_did_It_2.png

today is the day Trump truly became President

Life comes at you at a speedier pace than you might have expected pic.twitter.com/RhOfPE7kLD

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 11, 2017

Dornald Junoir for Presidetn

hahaha

Ed Rogers is such a fucking clown

and if a lickspittle apologist like *him* is concerned, that is a v bad sign

otoh Senior Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah calls the matter "overblown," describing Donald Trump Jr. as "a very nice young man.

http://www.ranker.com/list/serial-killers-who-seemed-the-most-normal/ranker-crime

As in, "he always seemed like such a nice young man, who could have ever imagined..."

Hate to state the obvious but I wonder what he would have said had it been Chelsea

Orrin Hatch, expert in pubes in Pepsi cans.

"sinister vagina-haver"

xp

expert "in"? ew

the pence tape sounds stuck, the good christian that he is: "The Vice President is working every day to advance the president's agenda, which is what the American people sent us here to do. The Vice President was not aware of the meeting. He is not focused on stories about the campaign, particularly stories about the time before he joined the ticket."

Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e with us). Two hours later, does it himself: https://t.co/FzCttGSyr6

— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 11, 2017

when you've lost Rich LOLwry, etc:

I have believed that 1) Trump’s weird defensiveness over Russia had to do with his reflex to reject anything undermining the legitimacy of his election and 2) the forgetfulness of people around him about Russia contacts was normal Washington evasion — it’s never a good time to be forthcoming if it’s going to create a negative news-cycle in an incredibly hostile news environment. But the way this story has unfolded, with Don. Jr.’s highly misleading accounts, raises the prospect that it’s something worse.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

What's Assange (hey he's still alive) getting at? That it would have been better for DTjr to send his emails to wikileaks so they could anonymously put them out there? Why?

it's yr standard "hey remember me I'm IMPORTANT!" bullshit

Had wikileaks released them people would have at least questioned their provenance. DJTJ can't even do the wrong thing right.

In the movie and in real life, as seen in the hearing videos, Senator Orrin Hatch implied that Anita Hill's Coke can claims were inspired by The Exorcist book.

According to video of the hearing, the allegation that Hatch harped on was what Hill alleged as "an occasion in which Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office. He got up from the table at which [he and Hill] were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, 'Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?'"

Oh so if it is a republican, you ask permission?

— John Podesta (@john_podesta) July 11, 2017

nice

"Now the story of a wealthy family about to lose everything, and the one son who had no choice but to release the incriminating emails..."

— Kory Stamper (@KoryStamper) July 11, 2017