Trump will shrink Bears Ears during Utah visit Monday, when five tribes promise to sue him
President Donald Trump will fly into Utah on Monday to announce that he’ll shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, sources familiar with the trip confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Trump will travel to Salt Lake City, where he’ll explain why he’s changing the boundaries of the two monuments, the sources said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the trip.
The president is not expected to visit either monument or stay in Utah overnight. ....

Environmentalists and tribes have said they will seek legal action to stop any changes, which they don’t believe the president can do under the 1906 Antiquities Act.
“The tribes view this as an affront to themselves and their own self-determination,” said Natalie Landreth, senior staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund. “All of us, all five tribes, will be suing jointly the day he makes an announcement.”
Five tribes — the Hopi, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni and the Ute Indian Tribe — make up the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition that advocated for the monument. Landreth said they have not determined which federal court the group would file the lawsuit in but that it would be about violating the Constitution’s separation of powers.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017...rand-staircase/

Uzbekistan incident raises suspicions of Russian involvement in Cuba attacks
A newly revealed incident reported by a USAID officer who is based at the American embassy in Uzbekistan is raising suspicions Russia may have been involved and could have had a hand in bizarre attacks targeting U.S. diplomats in Cuba, according to American sources.

In September, the officer and his wife reported, according to one source familiar with the incident, what may have been at least one acoustic attack similar to those experienced by the diplomats in Havana.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uzbekistan-...linkId=45258659

Navajo Nation delegate rips Trump: Code Talkers aren't 'pawns to advance a personal grudge'
A Navajo Nation Council delegate ripped President Trump after the president called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) "Pocahontas" during an event honoring Navajo Code Talkers.

In a statement, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty said Trump's "careless" comment is the "latest example of systemic, deep-seated ignorance of Native Americans and our intrinsic right to exist and practice our ways of life."
"The intentional disregard of the historical trauma of Pocahontas as a sexual assault survivor directly resulting from colonization is disturbing," she added.

Crotty said the Navajo people aren't strangers to prejudice, discrimination and marginalization "perpetuated by western culture."
"Our woman and children are targets of violence. We must speak out against such ignorance in every instance, in hopes for a better future for our children and our land," Crotty said.

Crotty said Trump's remark is "problematic" and it diminishes the experience of Pocahontas.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...-arent-pawns-to

Mueller's Russia Probe May Now Include Flynn's DIA Tenure
BuzzFeed News requested documents relating to Michael Flynn from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014. The agency denied the request this month, citing ongoing "law enforcement investigative activities."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/mue...0vO#.vyqv52ZagY

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2803

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Navajo Nation delegate rips Trump: Code Talkers aren't 'pawns to advance a personal grudge'
A Navajo Nation Council delegate ripped President Trump after the president called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) "Pocahontas" during an event honoring Navajo Code Talkers.

In a statement, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty said Trump's "careless" comment is the "latest example of systemic, deep-seated ignorance of Native Americans and our intrinsic right to exist and practice our ways of life."
"The intentional disregard of the historical trauma of Pocahontas as a sexual assault survivor directly resulting from colonization is disturbing," she added.

Crotty said the Navajo people aren't strangers to prejudice, discrimination and marginalization "perpetuated by western culture."
"Our woman and children are targets of violence. We must speak out against such ignorance in every instance, in hopes for a better future for our children and our land," Crotty said.

Crotty said Trump's remark is "problematic" and it diminishes the experience of Pocahontas.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...-arent-pawns-to

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Mal zum Thema "Baron Trumphausen"... In Wahrheit ist das Gekrampfe an den US-Universitäten viel schädlicher als die Flunkereien der Politiker, die des Präsidenten miteingeschlossen.

https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/kolumnen/wahr...akten-ld.121535

And this is number one, the fun has just begun!

Früherer Trump-Berater - Flynn bekennt sich in Russlandaffäre schuldig

Michael Flynn bekennt sich schuldig, das FBI in der Russlandaffäre belogen zu haben. Die US-Justiz hat den ehemaligen Nationalen Sicherheitsberater von Präsident Trump angeklagt.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/mi...-a-1181331.html

Kushner Is Said to Have Ordered Flynn to Contact Russia
Now that the retired general has pleaded guilty, the president's son-in-law could be one of the next dominoes to fall.

... ABC News reported Friday that Flynn is prepared to tell Mueller's team that Trump had instructed him to make contact with Russia during the campaign itself. If those contacts involved the emails the U.S. intelligence community charges Russia stole from leading Democrats, then Mueller will have uncovered evidence of actual collusion between the president and a foreign adversary during the election. Impeachment could then be in the cards. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/...-contact-russia

Stocks close lower after Michael Flynn report sends Wall Street on wild ride

- ABC News reported that Flynn would testify that he was directed to make contact with the Russians.

- The major averages hit their session lows on the report.

- Gold and Treasuries spiked higher following the ABC report as investors fled to market safe havens.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/us-stock...the-agenda.html

Flynn to testify Trump 'directed him to make contact with the Russians': report
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to testify that President Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during the 2016 campaign, according to a report by ABC News.

Flynn is saying that Trump "directed him to make contact with the Russians," ABC's Brian Ross said Friday, just moments after Flynn entered a guilty plea for lying about his contact with Russians during the presidential transition period.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...ontact-with-the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWALA6vgoY

Dazu passt am besten folgender Kommentar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pr2cUC2Aw

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2811

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWALA6vgoY

Dazu passt am besten folgender Kommentar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pr2cUC2Aw

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U.S. Supreme Court Lets Trump’s Travel Ban Take Full Effect for Now

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-effect-for-now

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politi...omey/index.html

Langsam kommt etwas Licht in die Geschichte.

Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2812

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2811

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWALA6vgoY

Dazu passt am besten folgender Kommentar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3pr2cUC2Aw

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Und zu Deinem Kommentar passt am besten:

"Die Identitäre Bewegung (auch Identitäre Generation, kurz Identitäre) bezeichnen sich mehrere aktionistische, völkisch orientierte Gruppierungen, die ethnopluralistisch-kulturrassistische Konzepte vertreten".

https://www.identitaere-bewegung.de/

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Taking Stock, Pt. 1: The Race for Russia

... But two overall points are clear. 1) The transition needed to make sure Obama did not create an escalation of tensions that made Trump’s rapprochement impossible. 2) More based on point two than on point three, it’s clear McFarland knew that Russia had in fact intervened in the election. Otherwise why anticipate a report that “catches Russians red handed”?

If the fullness of what happened during 2016 became known (even if it was only Russian actions on behalf of Trump and not Trump advisors conspiring with Russia) that would make the grand bargain impossible, as McFarland clearly understood. It had to become a fait accompli before the full story emerged. Indeed, if the Trump Team could get in place before most of the information was revealed it might never become known at all since they would take over the key agencies doing the investigating. The urgency of reaching out to Kislyak was to make sure a rapprochement was still possible by late January. Yet it was the fact that Flynn got caught doing so that became the central reason the Trump Team’s plans for January and February were eventually dashed. ...

...What matters for our purposes is that only days after the inauguration the two trains were colliding – the investigators and the press were catching up with the Trump team’s efforts and about to upend them. ...

Despite the claim that Flynn had gone rogue and that Vice President Pence was lied to, details that emerged in the Flynn plea documents make clear that Flynn’s discussions with Kislyak were widely discussed among President Trump’s top advisors. Pence almost certainly knew about them, though we as yet have no direct proof of this. Events were moving rapidly. A string of denials about Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak were hit with a rush of leaks that refuted each in turn. By February 13th Flynn was out. The next day President Trump asked Comey to drop the investigation into his activities. Comey politely refused. Events were moving quickly and badly.

Various reports, including Isikoff’s, tells us that the staff planning for a rapprochement which was kicked off in the administration’s first days continued. Indeed, in the months since we’ve seen it pop up here and there. There have been repeated hints of discussions to return the diplomatic compounds seized by the Obama administration in late December. In his May trip to Europe Trump had to be coaxed and prodded to commit to the defense of NATO allies. We saw it in Trump’s bizarre and semi-secret Oval Office meeting with Kislyak and Lavrov just after firing Comey. Still, it seems clear that by mid-February, with Flynn fired and the Russia scandal dominating the headlines, any hope of an immediate and thorough-going reset in relations with Russia were abandoned as unrealistic.
While the desire is clearly still there, it has been the drama of the unfolding investigation, rather than a grand partnership with Russia that has dominated the news and the administration ever since.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/taki...race-for-russia

Jared Kushner’s ‘failure to disclose’ list grows to include illegal Israeli settlement foundation
Kushner has already revised his security clearance application three separate times.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner failed to disclose to the federal government his position as the co-director of a foundation that funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, according to a Newsweek report published Sunday.

This latest failure to disclose is one in a growing list that includes:
- Kushner’s failure to disclose to the Senate judiciary committee emails sent to Trump’s campaign team about WikiLeaks and a “backdoor overture” from Russia during the 2016 presidential election campaign, according to The Guardian.
- And Kushner’s failure to disclose business ties to a Russian oligarch who helped Russian government institutions invest in the social media platform companies Facebook and Twitter, according to a November report in the HuffPost.

The latest disclosure revelation was unearthed by researchers at American Bridge, a progressive research and communications organization, and shared with Newsweek, which independently confirmed Kushner’s omission on various financial disclosures.
“The researchers suggested Kushner’s failure may have been more than an inadvertent mistake, but instead an attempt to avoid ‘potential conflicts with his job negotiating Middle East peace,’” according to Newsweek.

...The information comes on the heels of reports on Friday that indicated that Kushner may have attempted to influence a United Nations Security Council vote against an anti-settlement resolution that condemned the structure of West Bank settlements. The resolution passed shortly before Trump took office. ...

Experts and officials told Newsweek that Kushner’s failure to disclose his “role at the foundation — at a time when he was being tasked with serving as the president’s Middle East peace envoy — follows a pattern of egregious omissions that would bar any other official from continuing to serve in the West Wing.”
https://thinkprogress.org/jared-kushners...n-62e74312856a/

We’ll See More of This
Note a few things we now know from the follow-on reporting on the Flynn plea agreement.

The senior transition official who Flynn called into to confer on his conversations and negotiations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak was KT McFarland. Flynn conferred with McFarland and McFarland conferred with a group of other senior officials which, as I noted last night on the basis of the contemporaneous pool reports, appears to have been Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Reince Priebus.

McFarland had been tapped to serve as the Deputy National Security Advisor, a position she held until May. Her main qualification for the job was a long stint as a “Fox News National Security Analyst” ...

...In other words, McFarland is a clown, a product of the New York GOP/Fox News/Roger Ailes ridicu-verse. The larger group she and Flynn were conferring with about carrying on a covert negotiation with the Russian Ambassador were basically people of the same caliber with the exception of Priebus, who is a fairly seasoned political operative but not someone with foreign policy experience. ...

We already know that Kushner was one of the most vocal advocates of firing Comey. McFarland’s role in that critical weekend is noteworthy since we now know she was tightly connected to one of the central questions Comey was investigating – not only the broader Russia scandal but the specifics of Mike Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak which Trump had already asked Comey to leave alone.

Again, at every stage, when the key decisions get made, Trump is with the worst of his advisors, the least qualified, most aggressive and enabling, the most dishonest and corrupt. It’s a recipe for bad outcomes since Trump is in his element.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/well-see-more-of-this

Mueller Subpoenas Trump Deutsche Bank Records
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller zeroed in on President Donald Trump’s business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG as his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections widens.

Mueller issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest lender several weeks ago, forcing the bank to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family, according to a person briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because the action has not been announced.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...on-client-trump

Trump's Russia defense in disarray
President Donald Trump's legal defense against Robert Mueller's unrelenting special counsel investigation is beginning to look as chaotic as his early days in the White House.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/t...se-in-disarray/


2016 RNC Delegate: Trump Directed Change To Party Platform On Ukraine Support
President Trump may have been involved with a change to the Republican Party campaign platform last year that watered down support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine, according to new information from someone who was involved.

Diana Denman, a Republican delegate who supported arming U.S. allies in Ukraine, has told people that Trump aide J.D. Gordon said at the Republican Convention in 2016 that Trump directed him to support weakening that position in the official platform.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790...ukraine-support


Trump’s Threat to Take Down the GOP Still Stands
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie don’t know if Donald Trump will remain a Republican, but they believe Republicans owe him their loyalty.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/...-podcast-216010


Trump adopts Nixonian strategy, claims president is above the law
Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.
President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been indicted. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser and one of his closest confidants, has flipped and is cooperating with special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Trump himself sent out a tweet over the weekend that, according to legal experts, makes the case against him for obstruction of justice.

This morning, in a seemingly coordinated effort, Trump embraced the idea that he did not obstruct justice because the “President cannot obstruct justice.”
The argument is an attempt to justify Trump’s actions in February, when he pressured former FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation of Flynn and then fired Comey when he refused to comply.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-feels-wa...e-ae9c854d80ab/


Pence pleads ignorance as Russia probe deepens
The vice president has been absent for key moments involving senior administration figures, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Pence’s aides have maintained for months that their man was out of the loop, blissfully ignorant of contacts between the Trump campaign and various foreign actors, from the Russian ambassador to WikiLeaks.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/0...-mueller-278785

Snapshot: Trump Approval Ties Weekly Low, at 35%
President Donald Trump's weekly job approval dropped to 35% for the week ending Dec. 3, matching the lowest weekly average of his tenure so far.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/223253/snaps...ly-average.aspx


Democratic Party Maintains Edge in Party Affiliation
Forty-four percent of U.S. adults identify as Democrats or are independents who lean to the Democratic Party, while 37% are Republican identifiers or leaners. Democrats have maintained an edge of between five and nine percentage points on this measure of party affiliation throughout 2017, after holding a narrow advantage in late 2016.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/223124/democ...ffiliation.aspx

Mueller has arrested 4 ex-Trump advisers in 6 months, signaling peril ahead for White House
After six months of work, special counsel Robert Mueller III has indicted two top advisers to President Donald Trump and accepted guilty pleas from two others in exchange for their cooperation with his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election - a sign of mounting legal peril for the White House.

With the guilty plea Friday by former national security adviser Michael Flynn - one of Trump's closest and most valued aides - the investigation has swept up an array of figures with intimate knowledge of the campaign, the transition and the White House.
It appears to have swiftly expanded beyond Russia's interference in the campaign to encompass a range of activities, including contacts with Russian officials during the transition and alleged money laundering that took place long before Trump ran for office.
And Flynn's agreement to fully cooperate with investigators suggests that Mueller is not done yet.

Mueller has moved so swiftly that it has left Trump's team grasping for answers about how far the probe might ultimately reach.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/natio...1202-story.html

Steve Bannon Lays Into Romney: No Room for Decency in Today’s GOP
Mittens poked at Roy Moore on Twitter. Bannon immediately smeared him on military service grounds (!) and religious ones (!!). So long, integrity.

Watching former Trump aide Steve Bannon defend Roy Moore by mocking Mitt Romney tells you all you need to know about American conservatism in 2017: We reward bad behavior and punish decency. ...

... There’s a chapter in Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom that explains “Why the worst get on top.” In it, the author warns that in a totalitarian regime, “the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful.” ...

...In today’s conservatism, decent men are rejected, while the voters clamor: “Give us Barabbas!”

In many ways, I see what is happening in Alabama has the continuation of the degradation of the party of Lincoln and Reagan. The parallels between Trump and Moore are pretty obvious. If Moore wins, as it appears he might, it will be further proof that this is Donald Trump’s party, and that good behavior is for suckers, while shamelessness will get you everywhere. Or, as Hayek might say, in today’s GOP, the worst get on top.
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Flynn Said Russian Sanctions Would be ‘Ripped Up,’ Whistle-Blower Says
Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, told a former business associate that economic sanctions against Russia would be “ripped up” as one of the Trump administration’s first acts, according to an account by a whistle-blower made public on Wednesday.

Mr. Flynn believed that ending the sanctions could allow a business project he had once participated in to move forward, according to the whistle-blower. The account is the strongest evidence to date that the Trump administration wanted to end the sanctions immediately, and suggests that Mr. Flynn had a possible economic incentive for the United States to forge a closer relationship with Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/po...stleblower.html

Eine exzellente Analyse.

The three ultra-rich families battling for control of the Republican party
... To understand that, you need to look back to the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision in 2010, which opened the floodgates for wealthy donors in political races. Since then, corporations and the rich have plowed money into both parties. Three extremely wealthy families, the Mercers, the Kochs, and the Adelsons, all prominent donors to the Republican party, now seem locked in a struggle over the future of the GOP. ...

....The Mercers, for years content to quietly donate to the Kochs’ political network, started to act alone after the Republicans’ failure to unseat president Barack Obama reportedly led Rebekah to decide (paywall) the Koch network was full of “fools.” The Koch brothers, stung by the 2012 election loss, doubled down on state races, while the Adelsons poured their money into a political action committee run by former George W. Bush chief of staff Karl Rove. ...

...The influence of these three families offers a stark illustration of how extreme wealth can distort a democracy.
Each family is closely tied to the Republican leader of one branch of government: Robert, Diana, and Rebekah Mercer helped propel Trump’s bombastic rise to the White House. Industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch funded the Tea Party and its protege, House speaker Paul Ryan. And while casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Ochsorn are on the party’s more moderate wing, they have long stood behind the calculating, conservative Senate leader, McConnell, who even before the Tea Party’s rise was known as an extreme obstructionist (paywall), dedicated to stomping out the bipartisan compromises that historically made the US government work. ..

https://qz.com/1085077/mercers-vs-kochs-...publican-party/