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if they're pros then why are they giving us anything about when they did or didn't know anything anyway, the media should be one of their resources for disseminating disinformation and pressure on witnesses etc.

I'm not shocked that Trump will sell out his own son.

i think he'd sell out everyone to protect himself, when it comes down to it

He'll personally come around to Junior's office and slap him in the face and knock him to the floor if necessary

Well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another.

An amusing watch

Tucker throws a fit when Lt. Col. Ralph Peters calls him out for defending Putin and compares Tucker to Lindbergh's comments on Hitler. pic.twitter.com/QgJGzU1GXf

— Richard W. (@IceManNYR) July 12, 2017

Some other hilarity

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/trey-gowdy-trump-russia-240432

“If you had a contact with Russia, tell the special counsel about it! Don’t wait until the New York Times figures it out!” an exasperated Gowdy said in a brief interview outside the Capitol Tuesday.

Gowdy said the “somebody needs to sit everybody down” to find out what happened.

"Someone needs to get everyone in a room and say, from the time you saw 'Dr. Zhivago' until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named Boris, you list every single contact with Russia," Gowdy said, referring to the 1965 movie.

Also

NEW: Jared, Ivanka, and Melania have been pushing Trump to get rid of chief of staff Reince Priebus. pic.twitter.com/9jvwyniCWG

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 12, 2017

yes because clearly Priebus is the problem

I'd never heard Tucker Carlson's voice before. How did he ever manage a career in anything where you can hear him speak?

akm otm - I was just typing "yeah, get rid of anyone not related to you; that'll help"

tucker carlson's career is both a complete and total fucking mystery and a devastating indictment of our national character at the same time

Yes, of course:

Don Jr. — who has gone from distress to anger to defiance — views his Hannity hit as his Nixon "Checkers" speech. https://t.co/7Fl4b8eKK2 pic.twitter.com/6afL5QRYdU

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 12, 2017

Of course he did.

Nixon got a pardon, as will any Trump family members if they so require it. Trump could probably even pardon himself

No he couldn't.

Trump can and will pardon his son. However, if he himself is impeached, he will not resign, and so when he is forcibly removed from office there will be too much bad blood for a pardon to be possible. Source: my pet raven Huggin who can travel to the future and report back.

asked trusted source if there’s a secret Senate strategy to pass health bill:

"Nope we are flying the plane into the ground at full speed."

— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) July 11, 2017

Also, utterly unsurprising but anyway

Daily Beast: Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. has ties to Russian intelligence https://t.co/JEaNciE7bW

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 12, 2017

Oh this is rich

People close to Kasowitz say the legal team views Kushner as an "obstacle" and a "freelancer" https://t.co/aZ0LkVHnrN

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 12, 2017

Trump vs. his lawyers vs. Jared Kushner https://t.co/BVBebgOlgP pic.twitter.com/wFjDPWhoYZ

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 12, 2017

xp

Opinion seems to be divided on whether Trump could pardon himself: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/24/could-trump-issue-himself-a-pardon

Apparently Nixon thought about it but decided against

Oh how they try. (They fail.)

.@jessebwatters on @DonaldJTrumpJr meeting with Russian attorney: "I believe Don Jr. is the victim here." #TheFive pic.twitter.com/z59Khs9rkq

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 12, 2017

“This is the EXACT reason they viciously attack our family!” Eric Trump, the president’s second-oldest son, posted on Twitter. “They can’t stand that we are extremely close and will ALWAYS support each other.”

^baker/haberman

"our family" in Italian: "cosa nostra".

WH official confirms that plans for Pres Trump to visit the UK in the Fall delayed until next year. Scheduling problems.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 11, 2017

Bob & Carl to reteam to write All the President's Kin

"our family" in Italian: "cosa nostra".

― A is for (Aimless)

Actually means "our thing," doesn't it?

According to Google Translate, "cosa nostra" in Italian translates in English to... (wait for it)... Cosa Nostra. thx google!

But, you seem to be correct, in that "our thing" gets translated as "la nostra cosa".

I didn't take 3 quarters of Italian in college for nothing!

they cover sandwiches in the second quarter, don't they

Getting into the weeds here a bit but

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-russia-lawyer-marc-kasowitz-alcohol-security-clearance

The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material. Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York lawyer whom President Donald Trump has hired to defend him in these inquiries, told ProPublica through a spokesman that he does not have a security clearance — the prerequisite for access to government secrets. Nor does he expect to seek one.

And yeah, as the URL says, allegedly the reason is...alcohol abuse? A bit of a blunt issue to bring up, but here we are. A lot of background information on Kasowitz's career, in any event.

Has Kushner still got the security clearance he surely shouldn't have ever been granted? If so how hasn't that been forcibly removed. Thought protocols for getting that were supposed to be objective.

Experts on federal security reviews told ProPublica that recent episodes of alcohol abuse are a major barrier to receiving clearance

ummm

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-02/7/19/enhanced/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-03/enhanced-buzz-3725-1486512436-0.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto

Let's not bring beanbag David lynch into this

Bannon just so totally resembles the WoW player in that South Park episode it's eerie

'beanbag david lynch' is a+

Someone left the beanbag in the rain.

Has Kushner still got the security clearance he surely shouldn't have ever been granted?

It's unclear. Press Secretary Go Huck Yourself would not confirm the other day. But, I mean, yeah, of course he still has security clearance. Two Scoops keeps secrets from no one. He's the International Man of No-Mystery.

regional man of no-mystery, really

Good line from The Globe and Mail here: "It’s as if the administration is trying to convince Americans that, when it comes to its relationship to Russia, it has something to hide. And if at first you don’t succeed in persuading people that you’re hiding something, well, try and try again."

Cry for him, won't you?

https://www.axios.com/trump-v-everyone-2457859131.html

Meanwhile Joe Scarborough on why he's leaving Republican Party.

That is the biggest not-news around. I thought he had left years ago!

Oh the problems.

NEW: Probes question if Trump team used campaign data to help Russians target key districts with Clinton fake news https://t.co/QBNCPl3XyV

— Kristin Roberts (@KLR_Editor) July 12, 2017

I was glad to see a few talking heads last night willing to at least tip-toe up to the line that Two-Scoops not knowing about the meeting with the Russian lawyer and Goldstone beggars belief, but things like this put it in stark relief (assuming this is accurate, of course):

I just ran Lexis news article searches.

Trump NEVER mentioned HRC's 33,000 emails before Jun 9, 2016. After, he mentioned almost daily.

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I just ran Lexis news article searches.

Trump NEVER mentioned HRC's 33,000 emails before Jun 9, 2016. After, he mentioned almost daily.
6:41 PM - 11 Jul 2017

He heard some people saying some things

Why I feel much better!

The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2017