Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

lol mccain is a no on healthcare according to the post

https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=FD3E4602-DFAF-4705-BB95-C8791E4BBAAC

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a7e7d8d482e974646f26a3/58b1fc4bf7e0ab0baa031569/5936d9ac44024363000e7ab4/1496767127607/2x03_Stair_car.png?format=1500w

Pelosi etc call for kushner's sec clearance to be revoked

It may be useless but I appreciate the gesture

The Congress does have some oversight of the IC - they can ask the DNI to do stuff, and pester the DNI about stuff that hasn't been done until it becomes painful. They just can't force the hand of the POTUS.

I worry about the erosion of what's acceptable so pushing back on bullshit like Kush having a TS/SCI "because I said so" is good

I dont see a "no" in that mccain statement, just a bunch of amendments

Also the reason his lawyer isn't even applying for a clearance isn't because he's a drunk. It's because there's significant risk he's been an accessory to crime and the background investigation could uncover it and he'd get kicked off the bar

me neither, but the post has him as a no on their whip count. on the other hand they have heller as an "unknown" rather than "has concerns", so what do they know.

xp k conway signage is real
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/kellyanne-conway-uses-visual-aids-to-challenge-russia-collusion-narrative/

Well shit, she has pieces of paper. Guess we libtards are wrong.

wow

Excuse me while I run around howling and gnawing at my own limbs

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-excerpt-transcript.html

Shit did that get posted? Sorry. New to me.

"Let’s be the smart people not the stupid people."

ok yes let's

Jesus Christ man.. Trump aint never gonna pay his own bills is he?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-legal-team-faces-tensions--and-a-client-who-often-takes-his-own-counsel/2017/07/13/07361fc6-67eb-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?utm_term=.bf615a6d7538

Another question is who will pay the legal fees for the president and administration officials involved in the Russia inquiries. Some in Trump’s orbit are pushing the Republican National Committee to bear the costs, said three people with knowledge of the situation, including one who euphemistically described the debate as a “robust discussion.”

Although the RNC does a have a legal-defense fund, it well predates the Russia investigations and is intended to be used for legal challenges facing the Republican Party, such as a potential election recount.

The RNC has not made a decision, in part because the committee is still researching whether the money could legally be used to help pay legal costs related to Russia. But many within the organization are resisting the effort, thinking it would be more appropriate to create a separate legal defense fund for the case.

Nothing makes me despair of life more than reading a Trump interview transcript.

Chuck Ross is probably the only good thing about the Daily Caller (he's broken some interesting stories this year) so keep an eye on this

6 people were in that Trump Tower meeting, but we've only heard about 5...story tk

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 14, 2017

i'm guessing either Keyser Soze or Ted Nugent

More fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-legal-team-faces-tensions--and-a-client-who-often-takes-his-own-counsel/2017/07/13/07361fc6-67eb-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?utm_term=.7214c2e4b122

The challenge for President Trump’s attorneys has become, at its core, managing the unmanageable — their client.

He won’t follow instructions. After one meeting in which they urged Trump to steer clear of a certain topic, he sent a tweet about that very theme before they arrived back at their office.

Ah I see it's the same one linked earlier -- but I do love that opening anecdote.

Hmm

https://www.justsecurity.org/43077/dnc-hack-lawsuit/

On Wednesday, three victims of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) cybertheft and subsequent document release by WikiLeaks filed a federal lawsuit against Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and Roger Stone. While there are many hurdles to be cleared, this litigation could eventually become a vehicle for discovery of documents and evidence in a judicial proceeding driven by private litigants. That means that a life-tenured federal judge will make determinations based on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and relevant substantive law without the potential political chokepoints presented by a partisan Congress and compromised Executive.

Also

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sources-trump-lawyers-knew-russia-emails-back-june-000320831.html

President Trump’s legal team was informed more than three weeks ago about the email chain arranging a June 2016 meeting between his son Donald Jr. and a Kremlin-connected lawyer, two sources familiar with the handling of the matter told Yahoo News.

Trump told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that he learned just “a couple of days ago” that Donald Jr. had met with the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, hoping to receive information that “would incriminate Hillary” and was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” A day earlier, on Tuesday, Donald Jr. released the email exchanges himself, after learning they would be published by the New York Times.

Trump repeated that assertion in a talk with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Paris Wednesday night. “I only heard about it two or three days ago,” he said, according to a transcript of his talk, when asked about the meeting with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June 2016 attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chief, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

But the sources told Yahoo News that Marc Kasowitz, the president’s chief lawyer in the Russia investigation, and Alan Garten, executive vice president and chief legal officer of the Trump Organization, were both informed about the emails in the third week of June, after they were discovered by lawyers for Kushner, who is now a senior White House official.

filed a federal lawsuit

starting to get a whiff of jarndyce and jarndyce

This 5-10 minute gap between the stupid lies and the presentation of evidence refuting the lies is pretty impressive.

Can i just say

MAGAnomics

But on the lighter side!

President Clinton at the George W. Bush Library tonight. pic.twitter.com/YcgCBoN3Ys

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 14, 2017

horny little Puck

looks like he's hunting legs to hump

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Lethal_Weapon_3_Poster.jpg

Didn't know they had statues of both of them at the W library... duder never gets to stand alone.

Apologies for bringing this up in the Trump thread, but I wanted to point out that THIS is how you do government scandal/rule of law when issues arise. This guy was a senator of our Green party (Greens are much more respected here than in the UK, for comparison) and a fucking brilliant senator - fought the good fight particularly on first nations issues, and internet issues. He found out he had dual citizenship recently (ugh how he didnt check before now breaks my heart) but immediately did the right thing and was open, honest, and stepped down.

USA senate - you need to learn from this.

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorLudlam/posts/10155634120909470

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/14/hawaii-judge-allows-grandparents-travel-ban-240543

afaict though there's likely reason NOT to learn from that, the whole point of the USA is ahistoricism. which, is only fun when half of twitter is trying to define treason.

tbf to myself, i tried to post something more thoughtful from my phone and it didn't work so i wondered if i was banned. imo every healthcare bill mcconnell spits out will fail (in my experience, people don't love it when you double down on them in the same calendar year), it's fucking nutso that JK still has clearance and that, frankly, either tabloidism lives (a new scandal!) or something hard breaks in government soon.

like i guess my question is, when does this transfer in the popular imagination from 'scandal!' to frank rich's deepest fears about democracy?

because the evidence is there, we just need a public sphere to hang em in

trayce that's extraordinary!

xposts

guess who’s having fun on his vacay pic.twitter.com/45PgZ8GKeC

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 14, 2017

Thanks Tracer - yes it is! Honest politicians with integrity seem so rare these days it felt like it should be mentioned. Which is freaking sad.

NBC is reporting that "a former Soviet intelligence officer" was at the Trump Tower meeting but has declined to name him. It's clearly Rinat Akhmetshin, the guy coordinating Prevezon's campaign so idk why they won't say so.

He is reported to have told Politico a while back that he used to work (against his will) for Soviet intelligence but told RFEL, in an interview, that this was false and he has never worked as a spy.

another victim of the wrong, failing Fake News media

That guys name sounded familiar to me and I remembered reading this one a few weeks back.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/rohrabacher-prevezon/index.html

I just read more of Trump's comments during his press conference with Macron and realized that 'most people' is a construction he uses not just to express his ignorance but also as an attempt at normalizing his (or his family's) abnormal psychology ('most people would have taken that meeting,' re: Jr.'s Russian dalliance).

A little something from yesterday. Last paragraph of note:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/07/13/politics/peter-strzok-special-counsel-russia-fbi/index.html

Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought on Peter Strzok, a senior FBI official who oversaw the Hillary Clinton email investigation, to help manage his investigation into Russian election meddling, according to two US officials briefed on the matter.

Strzok helped oversee the beginnings of the Russia probe last summer at the FBI.

A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment.

Strzok joins a team of more than 25 people. That team includes attorneys, FBI employees and support staff, according to Peter Carr, the spokesman for special counsel.

The team has now moved into new office space in southwest DC, about a mile away from Justice Department headquarters. The special counsel's initial office space lacked secure meeting rooms, known as SCIFs, for reviewing classified materials.

Anyway, seem to be ever increasing numbers of people in that Don Jr meeting room.

There definitely weren't more than six.

(Cue retweeted photograph taken at the meeting showing more than six people present.)

ustice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought on Peter Strzok, a senior FBI official who oversaw the Hillary Clinton email investigation, to help manage his investigation into Russian election meddling, according to two US officials briefed on the matter.

Cool -- maybe they'll find new emails, clarify things.

Oh man...is it possible that they'll wind up reviewing Trump Tower security camera footage at some point? One can dream.