Get Ready for Mueller’s Phase Two: The Middle East Connection
The ‘Russia investigation’ is set to go global. In court filings due to drop in 2019, prosecutors will unveil Middle Eastern countries’ attempts to influence U.S. politics.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-ready-...east-connection

In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steele wrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.

“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201...utm_medium=push

The Russians Meddled In Our Democracy, But They Had All-American Help
The guilty pleas continue to pile up around the man who sits in the Oval Office. There’s obstruction of justice, campaign finance violations, lying to the FBI, setting up a meeting between Putin and Trump, money laundering, failure to register as a foreign agent and using Russian sources to get “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.

And then there’s Maria Butina, an alleged Russian spy who worked closely with the NRA. She is charged with espionage and, it was reported this week, is cooperating with authorities. Meanwhile, Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R-Utah) Representative Kevin McCarthy and other high-ranking GOP officials simply shrug off the mounting evidence of criminality around their president.

How did the United States of America get to this moment? ....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opi...4b0835fe326495a

Ein exzellenter langer Artikel. Uebersetzungswert.

Scott Dworkin@funder
BREAKING: Russian spy Maria Butina just admitted in federal court to engaging in a conspiracy against the United States with the Russian Gov’t. Butina said she acted "under direction of" Russian Gov’t official Alexander Torshin. This is devestating for the NRA, Russia & Trump.

8:34 AM - 13 Dec 2018

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4504

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Scott Dworkin@funder
BREAKING: Russian spy Maria Butina just admitted in federal court to engaging in a conspiracy against the United States with the Russian Gov’t. Butina said she acted "under direction of" Russian Gov’t official Alexander Torshin. This is devestating for the NRA, Russia & Trump.

8:34 AM - 13 Dec 2018

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Benghazzzz: House GOP Says Goodbye To Its Never-Ending Clinton Investigations
The last GOP-led House Oversight hearing of President Trump’s first term will be, fittingly, focused on the Clintons.

As their time in the majority comes to an end, and their parting shot at the Clintons is a subcommittee hearing on the Clinton charity, some House Republicans are frustrated that they haven’t been able to capture their great white whale before they hand over the gavel — and subpoena power — to the Democrats.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-r...-investigations

The Corruption of the Republican Party
The GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...corrupt/578095/

Exzellenter Artikel.

200 Milliarden Dollar Defizit – im November
Unter der Führung von Donald Trump machen die Vereinigten Staaten viele neue Schulden. Ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht.

Obwohl sich die amerikanische Wirtschaft weiter robust entwickelt und die Arbeitslosigkeit niedrig ist, nimmt die Regierung viele neue Schulden auf, um Ausgaben zu finanzieren. Im November haben sich ihre Ausgaben auf 411 Milliarden Dollar belaufen, teilte das Finanzministerium in Washington mit, die Einnahmen hingegen auf 206 Milliarden Dollar. Das infolgedessen entstandene Defizit in Höhe von mehr als 200 Milliarden Dollar ist das höchste jemals in einem November gemachte.

Zur selben Zeit des vergangenen Jahres betrug es noch 139 Milliarden Dollar. Gestiegen sind besonders die Ausgaben für das Militär und für die Zinsen, die Amerika zahlen muss für seine Schulden.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/u...t-15941256.html


U.S. Budget Deficit Hits Widest on Record for Month of November
The U.S. posted the widest November budget deficit on record as spending doubled revenue.

The U.S. ran the largest deficit in six years in fiscal 2018, the first full year of Donald Trump’s presidency when his Republican party enacted a tax-cut package and raised federal spending for the military and other priorities. The measures have added to the growing federal deficit, which is forecast to push past $1 trillion by 2020 when the U.S. next holds presidential elections.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...nth-of-november

https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/pa...ID=ansmsnnews11

Frankreichs umstrittener Star-Schriftsteller Michel Houellebecq hat sich als Fan von US-Präsident Donald Trump geoutet. Der Milliardär sei "einer der besten amerikanischen Präsidenten, die ich jemals gesehen habe", schrieb Houellebecq in eine, am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Beitrag für das New Yorker "Harper's Magazine".

Natürlich muss Houellebecq "umstritten" sein, wenn er Trump gut findet. :-)

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4509

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https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/panorama/houellebecq-outet-sich-als-gro%C3%9Fer-trump-fan/ar-BBQWry2?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Frankreichs umstrittener Star-Schriftsteller Michel Houellebecq hat sich als Fan von US-Präsident Donald Trump geoutet. Der Milliardär sei "einer der besten amerikanischen Präsidenten, die ich jemals gesehen habe", schrieb Houellebecq in eine, am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Beitrag für das New Yorker "Harper's Magazine".

Natürlich muss Houellebecq "umstritten" sein, wenn er Trump gut findet. :-)

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Poll: 62 percent say Trump isn't telling the truth in Russia probe
More Americans want Democrats — not Trump — in charge of setting policy, a new national NBC News/WSJ poll finds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-th...-russia-n948226

Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President

... Right now, right this minute, a substantive case can be made that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony crime. This was the term that became popular after Watergate as a way to refer to Richard M. Nixon.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o...yiuz8_X1RW3RI-c

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4512

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Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President

... Right now, right this minute, a substantive case can be made that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony crime. This was the term that became popular after Watergate as a way to refer to Richard M. Nixon.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o...yiuz8_X1RW3RI-c

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #4513

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4512

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Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President

... Right now, right this minute, a substantive case can be made that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony crime. This was the term that became popular after Watergate as a way to refer to Richard M. Nixon.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-o...yiuz8_X1RW3RI-c

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Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow ‘Up To November 2016’
Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal “all the way up to...November of 2016.” Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress over his role in pushing for the Moscow project, told a federal judge that the discussions stopped in June 2016.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/giuliani-p...ia=twitter_page

Mann, mit so einem Lawyer fuer Trumpsky...., der nimmt Mueller die halbe Arbeit ab. :-)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jxKhwM-...WYirT73_IP/view

Ein Verschwörung gegen Papst Franziskus, angeführt - man glaubt es nicht - von Fürstin Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. Was ist los bei der NYT? Eine Verschwörung, in die nicht Putin und seine Trolle verwickelt sind - so etwas gibt es doch gar nicht.

Trump’s Sister, A Federal Judge, Was Heavily Involved In Brother’s Tax Fraud
Judge Maryanne Barry Trump played a significant role in the Trump siblings' tax evasion schemes.
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...GO_wU4PO3fH6hsg

Christian author: Trump is under attack from ‘multidimensional Luciferian advanced beings’
Last week, End Times author Paul McGuire appeared on the Jim Bakker Show and declared that President Trump is currently engulfed in “the greatest spiritual battle in the history of all mankind.” He expanded on his claim on his radio program this Thursday, this time clarifying that the battle is with “advanced beings” who possess “supernatural multidimensional” powers.

And it gets even weirder.
“The physical battles that we see in our world and nation right now are a direct manifestation of the spiritual battles going on in the invisible realm,” McGuire said in an audio clip flagged by Right Wing Watch.
http://deadstate.org/christian-author-tr...8To8E4p7wc9hf-A

Mimi Rocah@Mimirocah1
Something must be coming this week. He’s on a rampage. Enough already.
2:00 PM - 16 Dec 2018

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...21a&oe=5C8D1385

How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise
The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller’s probe is finished.

As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, they’ll have to contend with a legal narrative that’s taken fuller shape through a flurry of court filings and news reports that began landing about three weeks ago and extended through Friday afternoon: Members of Trump’s presidential campaign — and possibly “Individual 1” himself — may have orchestrated a number of criminal conspiracies that took root before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, continued after Trump won the election, and have tainted the White House’s policies and torn at its operations ever since.

The breadth of investigations is so sweeping — as many on social media and reporters with the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News have already noted — that few of the worlds Trump inhabits have escaped prosecutors’ attention. The Trump Organization, the Trump Foundation, the Trump family, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, the Trump inauguration, and the Trump White House are all being probed for wrongdoing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articl...ve-proliferated

Russia is winning its war of disinformation
U.S. intelligence says Russia sought to disrupt the 2016 and 2018 elections and sow discord. Regardless of what Robert Mueller does, Russia did it — and is still at it.

"Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election ... used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office."
https://www.axios.com/russia-misinformat...ed72d2f993.html

Der grosse Staatsmann von Trumphausen:

https://www.facebook.com/dctribunemedia/...16238918586388/

A Surge in Foreign-Influence Prosecutions
Authorities indict two former associates of Michael Flynn for acting as illegal agents of the Turkish government in the United States.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...by-case/578407/

A child occupies the White House — and the world knows it
Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

There is an inherently parental role to being president of the United States. The person holding that office is supposed to know more than we do about dangers facing the country and the world, and is entrusted with making the appropriate decisions to keep us safe and secure. The president is supposed to keep us from falling. What happens when the president is the biggest child in the room — any room? It upends the natural order of things as surely as if a child’s parents started throwing tantrums and talking like a second-grader.

I’m not sure the country has fully comprehended the damage being done by a president who misbehaves so frequently, it’s a news story when he doesn’t. Globally, the United States has lost its power, its aura of seriousness and decisiveness that once made autocrats hesitate before crossing us. Now we are a country that can’t seem to stand up to a ruler who orders the murder and dismemberment of a dissident who was a legal U.S. resident or call out Russia’s intrusion into America’s democratic process. Children know how to scream and sulk; they don’t know how to take control and restore order. They don’t know how to plot out a responsible position and then act on it. A child occupies the White House, and the world knows it.

A friend’s young son thought it was really funny when the president called someone “Horseface.” He giggled when he saw the president on TV telling a reporter that her question was “stupid” and that all her questions are stupid. Nine-year-olds should be able to look up to the president of the United States, not feel that the president is one of them.

Immaturity in adults has serious consequences. My friend, the author Marianne Williamson, once said, “Adults who behave like children do adult damage.” We’re starting to see some of that damage, most recently at the southern border. This president has slammed shut America’s door as loudly as a petulant child slams his bedroom door and shouts, “Go away.” The result is that thousands of migrants are living in squalid conditions just beyond the U.S. border, trying to keep babies from getting sick. This is adult damage, and there will be more.

What will happen if the country faces serious danger? I was 10 years old in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation about the Cuban missile crisis. I remember sitting on the floor in my parents’ bedroom watching him on television. I remember asking my father if we would go to war. He replied, “I hope not. But the president is doing the right thing.” Kennedy’s somber confidence did make me a little less afraid. At the end of the speech, he said: “The cost of freedom is always high — but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose is the path of surrender or submission. Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right.”

Who would speak to the nation like that if global turmoil turned into a crisis that threatens America’s future?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...m=.2f189e11fe32

Verblasste Lichtgestalt

VON CHRISTINE KEILHOLZ am 3. Dezember 2018

Er war der Sonnyboy unter den Staatschefs, doch ein Jahr vor den Wahlen zweifeln immer mehr Kanadier an der Führungsstärke ihres Premierministers Justin Trudeau. In seinem Land spüren die Anhänger von US-Präsident Donald Trump Aufwind. Ein Porträt

https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/just...YepG9kKeLBqzPM4

Och, Manno, erst Obama, dann Macron und jetzt auch Tschastin. Und jetzt spüren die Trump-Anhänger in Kanada Aufwind. Droht ein kanadischer Trump? Wo der Tschastin doch so kultur- und gendersensibel war...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/glob...m=.e3520f8a1834
(Gut, es war ein Sikh-Tempel, keine Kirche, sonst wäre es natürlich "gefährlich und beleidigend" (T. Farron). Aber wie war das nochmals mit cultural appropriation?)
Aber gendersensibel ist der Gute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_q9yrwKAU
(Hmm, wie war das nochmals mit mansplaining?)

Naja, als Deutscher kann ich auf Robert Habeck hoffen und als Italiener auf Nichi Vendola.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichi_Vendola