Michael Flynn’s lobbying firm hands over docs to House Judiciary panel
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s company submitted several thousand pages of documents to the House Judiciary Committee as part of the panel’s sweeping investigation of alleged obstruction of justice and other actions by President Donald Trump. ...

... On Tuesday, Republican aides to the committee confirmed that the panel had received more than 8,000 pages of documents from at least eight individuals and entities, the vast majority of which came from the NRA, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Trump confidant Tom Barrack. Others confirmed to POLITICO they had submitted documents as well; Brittany Kaiser, a former employee of onetime Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica, confirmed through an attorney that she had shipped documents to the panel on Monday.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/2...y-panel-1228630

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #5575

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5574

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #5573

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5571

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #5570

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5568

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19 blacked-out pages of Cohen search warrant suggest legal peril for Trump
Newly released documents that were used to get search warrants for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen include a lengthy section related to an "illegal campaign contribution scheme" that is completely redacted.
The obscured material could underscore the president's legal peril in the investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to some legal experts.
Trump should be "utterly terrified" about the lengthy redacted section, national security lawyer Bradley Moss said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/19/cohen-se...egal-peril.html

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Absoluter Bull Shit

" “illegal campaign contribution scheme”

Die Sache wurde im Fall John Edwards endgültig geklärt.

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😂😂😂

Enjoy the reading:
Stop Comparing Donald Trump’s Campaign Finance Fraud With John Edwards’s Case
The agreements today should forever end this stupid connection between Donald Trump's alleged crimes and John Edwards's acquittal.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/12/stop-com...-edwardss-case/

The Campaign Finance Case Against Donald Trump is a Strong One: Just Ask John Edwards’ Prosecutors
https://www.justsecurity.org/60415/prose...law-violations/

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Genau so ein Blödsinn wie vorher.
Der einzige, der bisher wegen “illegal campaign contribution scheme” verurteilt wurde ist Obamas Wahlkampf.

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Ach ja, Maerchenstunde der Trumpski Fans in ihrer hasserfuellten Hilflosigkeit. Und ein Beleg dafuer, dass du vorstehendes ueberhaupt nicht gelesen hast. Trumpski Fans haben es ja auch in der Regel nicht so mit dem lesen von unliebsamem -das ist bekannt. :-)

Dennoch hier noch mal die Fakten:
Trumpski's Fixer geht 3 Jahre in den Knast. Und das ist erst der Anfang.

Mal ganz abgesehen von den anderen Gangstern des Trump Kartells, die ebenfalls schon abgeurteilt wurden. Der Kampaign Manager hat letzte Woche erst 7 Jahre bekommen. Die ganze Geschichte stellt von Umfang und Schwere her Watergate laengst in den Schatten. Und wir stehen erst am Anfang.

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Wie gesagt, wenig Hirn, wenn überhaupt.
Manafort war 5 Monate im Wahlkampfteam beschäftigt.
Cohen war verurteilt, aber NADA wegen Trump.

Ja, Watergate im Schatten der Clinton-Obama-Verschwörung.

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Two-thirds of Americans think Trump is a criminal and most believe Michael Cohen over president, poll finds
'Michael Cohen, a known liar headed to the big house, has more credibility than the leader of the free world', says pollster

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...obox=1551868895

New report implicates Trump in same crime that’s sending Michael Cohen to jail
Both allegedly lied to banks about their net worth to receive a loan. Only one is going to prison.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-implicat...n-501979c1453d/

So far only one....so far.

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5567

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Und trotzdem ist Trumpski mit 41% unter Wasser. Was soll erst mal werden, wenn die Wirtschaft kippt?
Mal von seinen legal troubles -die ja erst noch kommen- ganz abgesehen.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5578

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Two-thirds of Americans think Trump is a criminal and most believe Michael Cohen over president, poll finds
'Michael Cohen, a known liar headed to the big house, has more credibility than the leader of the free world', says pollster

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...obox=1551868895

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5580

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5567

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Und trotzdem ist Trumpski mit 41% unter Wasser. Was soll erst mal werden, wenn die Wirtschaft kippt?
Mal von seinen legal troubles -die ja erst noch kommen- ganz abgesehen.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5578

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Two-thirds of Americans think Trump is a criminal and most believe Michael Cohen over president, poll finds
'Michael Cohen, a known liar headed to the big house, has more credibility than the leader of the free world', says pollster

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...obox=1551868895

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Zweidrittel der Amerikaner glauben, dass Trump ein Krimineller ist, und 41% finden seine Amtsführung gut. Finde den Fehler. (Okay, wir reden hier nicht von Italien, wo so etwas möglich wäre, sondern von einem hochmoralischen Land wie den USA.)

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Leaker, Liar, Hacker, Hoaxer: The Russian contractor who infiltrated Anonymous
Years before the Russian-operated persona Guccifer 2.0 appeared on the internet to claim they were a hacktivist responsible for the DNC breach, a hacker with alleged ties to the Russian government used similar obfuscation strategies. Using numerous false identities and several distribution platforms, they released hacked materials, both genuine and forged, while often lying about the real documents’ provenance. In 2016, refined versions of these tactics would infamously be used by the linked and Russian sponsored fronts Guccifer 2.0, DCLeaks and CyberBerkut.
https://emma.best/2019/03/20/the-russian...ated-anonymous/

IG investigating Shanahan over Boeing comments
The Pentagon's inspector general has begun an investigation into Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's reported Boeing bias, the IG's office said Wednesday.
"The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules," DoD IG spokesperson Dwrena Allen said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/2...ng-ties-1284597


FBI joining criminal investigation into certification of Boeing 737 MAX
The FBI has joined the criminal investigation into the certification of the Boeing 737 MAX, lending its considerable resources to an inquiry already being conducted by U.S. Department of Transportation agents, according to people familiar with the matter.

The federal grand jury investigation, based in Washington, D.C., is looking into the certification process that approved the safety of the new Boeing plane, two of which have crashed since October.
The FBI’s Seattle field office lies in proximity to Boeing’s 737 manufacturing plant in Renton, as well as nearby offices of Boeing and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials involved in the certification of the plane.
The investigation, which is being overseen by the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division and carried out by the Transportation Department’s Inspector General, began in response to information obtained after a Lion Air 737 MAX 8 crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on Oct. 29, killing 189 people, Bloomberg reported earlier this week, citing an unnamed source.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/bo...boeing-737-max/

Trump Has Now Shifted $1.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business
Donald Trump has charged his own reelection campaign $1.3 million for rent, food, lodging and other expenses since taking office, according to a Forbes analysis of the latest campaign filings. And although outsiders have contributed more than $50 million to the campaign, the billionaire president hasn’t handed over any of his own cash. The net effect: $1.3 million of donor money has turned into $1.3 million of Trump money.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexande...s/#13ab46d37aaf

The way he is sticking to two losing topics for him - McCain and George Conway - makes me think the Mueller report coming soon, he is insane, or both.
-Amy Siskind-

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...346&oe=5D031D8D

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5585

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The way he is sticking to two losing topics for him - McCain and George Conway - makes me think the Mueller report coming soon, he is insane, or both.
-Amy Siskind-

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...346&oe=5D031D8D

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Aides struggle to see strategy in Trump’s Conway, McCain fights
The president has repeatedly forced people around him to make painful choices between their loyalties.

He is a “whack job,” a “husband from hell,” and a “stone cold LOSER.” Those were just some of the insults President Donald Trump hurled on Wednesday at a once little-known corporate litigator who happens to be married to one of his top White House aides, Kellyanne Conway.

“It does not appear to be a great use of our time to talk about George Conway or dead John McCain. ... Why are we doing this?”

The Conway and McCain feuds nonetheless revealed a handful of truths about the president and his White House, starting with the president’s hair-trigger sensitivity over accusations of mental instability. After the author Michael Wolff raised questions about Trump’s mental health in a 2018 book, the president lashed out — despite warnings that he was only inflating Wolff’s book sales — and insisted that he was a “stable genius.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/2...-mccain-1230497

Trump Crashes George and Kellyanne Conway’s Dispute About Him
This isn’t a bid for a reality show. This is reality, where this president attacks his adviser’s husband and she stands with the president.

You’d think there were nothing going on in the world given how much time Trump has spent attacking Conway and the late John McCain, the war hero who Trump insists isn’t one and who he contends handed off the Steele dossier to the FBI during the campaign in an attempt to hurt him. He didn’t. ...

Trump went on a two-hour self-indulgent rant before CPAC like a third-world despot and shortly after Conway tweeted similarities between the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Trump’s behavior. That prompted Trump’s latest rash of responses culminating in this morning’s tweet that Conway is “VERY jealous of his wife's success & angry that I, with her help, didn't give him the job he so desperately wanted.”
To be clear, Conway turned down the job of Solicitor General when he concluded Trump would be at constant loggerheads with his Justice Department after he fired James Comey. ...

Trump raved on, “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
He knows about husbands from hell, but does he know the Conways have children old enough to read?

Good luck convincing folks that Conway is just another coffee boy. Conway introduced his wife to Trump after he represented the developer in a dispute. The Conways then bought an apartment in Trump Tower. Donald often asks George for free legal advice. Both have been guests at Trump’s formal social occasions although Kellyanne goes out more often without her husband, who prefers staying home and reading.

But it’s not a spat between the Conways that’s at issue. No one can see inside someone else’s marriage.
It’s Trump’s impulsive, over-the-top reaction to criticism from one partner in that union that’s revealing.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cras...spute-about-him

Trump: ‘I Didn’t Get Thank You’ For Approving John McCain’s Funeral Arrangements
“I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted,” the president said during a speech about the economy on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump continued his attacks on John McCain on Wednesday, complaining to a crowd in Lima, Ohio, that he was not thanked for approving the senator’s state funeral arrangements.

The Washington Post reported that Washington National Cathedral likely approved the senator’s state funeral arrangements, that congressional authorization is needed for lying in state at the Capitol and that Trump had to approve only the military transportation.

The president signed a proclamation ordering that the flags at the White House be lowered to half-staff to honor McCain after his death. Customarily, they remain lowered until a person’s interment, but Trump had the flags raised to full staff after only one day, then returned them to half-staff after a public outcry.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-mcc...4b0d952b2230769


Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters:
"John McCain was, and in our hearts remains, the man Trump could never be.
And Trump knows it. It's a classic case of male fears of inadequacy."

"He is not tough. He's a draft dodger, and appears to be a physical coward with a big mouth."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sjCCaGvK0

Wie ein Kommentator richtig bemerkt, hat der Präsident wieder einen Fauxpas begangen: Er umarmte einen weißen Jungen, keinen schwarzen oder Latino. Wenn das nicht Zeichen seines unverbesserlichen Rassismus ist.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5590

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sjCCaGvK0

Wie ein Kommentator richtig bemerkt, hat der Präsident wieder einen Fauxpas begangen: Er umarmte einen weißen Jungen, keinen schwarzen oder Latino. Wenn das nicht Zeichen seines unverbesserlichen Rassismus ist.

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Redistricting Edge Saved GOP From Deeper Midterm Losses
Democrats won more votes, regained control of the U.S. House and flipped hundreds of seats in state legislatures during the 2018 elections. It was, by most accounts, a good year for the party.

Yet it wasn’t as bad as it could have been for Republicans.

The AP’s analysis indicates that Republicans won about 16 more U.S. House seats than would have been expected based on their average share of the vote in congressional districts across the country. In state House elections, Republicans’ structural advantage might have helped them hold on to as many as seven chambers that otherwise could have flipped to Democrats, according to the analysis.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-r...-midterms-gains

Former Murdoch Executive Says He Quit Over Fox's Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
In recent days, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel and some of its corporate siblings have faced renewed and withering criticism for how they depict Muslims and immigrants. Calls for boycotts of shows and pressure campaigns on advertisers ensued.

Last weekend, a Muslim news producer said she quit Fox's corporate cousin, Sky News Australia, over its coverage of Muslims in the wake of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques. Her post went viral.
Now, add the voice of one of Murdoch's former senior executives, who says he left his job in late 2017 over the coverage of Muslims, immigrants and race by Fox News and other Murdoch news outlets.
"Scaring people. Demonizing immigrants. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country," former News Corp. Senior Vice President Joseph Azam tells NPR in his first public comments on his former employer.
"It fundamentally bothered me on a lot of days and I think I probably wasn't the only one," he says.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705441083...muslim-rhetoric


What listening to hundreds of hours of Tucker Carlson will teach you
Media Matters researcher Madeline Peltz on what the Bubba tapes taught her about Fox News’s embattled primetime host.
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/20/18272964/m...ers-bubba-tapes

Kushner accused of using private messaging for official White House business
The president's son-in-law is apparently making the same mistakes the Trumps vilified Hillary Clinton for.
https://thinkprogress.org/kushner-privat...s-315bcd6166e5/

Congress is investigating the Trump administration's reckless use of private email accounts to handle government business — including discussions about sharing sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia.

Trump's deputy national security adviser apparently used a personal AOL email account to discuss the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
This could be a violation of federal law and a national security risk — and what's more, it was done in coordination with a major donor to Trump's inaugural committee.
https://shareblue.com/kt-mcfarland-used-...ear-technology/

Vietnam Veterans of America 'chagrined' Trump won't let McCain 'rest in peace'
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) asked President Trump to let the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) "rest in peace" in a statement on Thursday.

“We are chagrined by the President’s inability to let a fellow Vietnam veteran rest in peace,” VVA National President John Rowan wrote in the letter. “Mr. Trump, it’s time to move on. Help us heal our Nation and honor those who have served and sacrificed.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/435171...n-rest-in-peace



Profiles in Chickenshit From the Grand Old Party as Trump Spits on John McCain’s American Greatness
It’s time for McCain’s old Senate colleagues to tell the president to shut the f*ck up and stop smearing a real hero, or give up whatever dignity and decency they have left.

Damn near every elected member of the Republican Party failed another easy test this week as Donald Trump lost his grip on reality and spent days attacking the late Sen. John McCain. They tripped over their own dicks in the face of Trump’s egregious bullying, racing for political cover and sacrificing their few remaining shreds of dignity because they fear this mad president more than they love their own honor.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-spit...-in-chickenshit

George Conway: Trump 'thinks he needs to be re-elected to avoid indictment'
Conway, who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, came under attack from Trump this week after Conway questioned the president's mental fitness — a jab he made again on Friday.

The two have engaged in a bitter fight over Twitter and in presidential interviews with reporters all week.
“THINK about the fact that we don’t just have a mentally unstable president—but a president who thinks he needs to be re-elected to avoid being indicted. (At least in that one respect his thinking is clear.),” Conway tweeted.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...-needs-to-be-re

https://www.facebook.com/jestelmann/vide...56787366720259/

So much about the rising stars of the Dims: "You are a middle-aged, rich white guy pretending to be a latino, skateboarding, twelve years old kid". Just the person I would like to see in the Oval Office dealing with the Chinese and the Russians. :-)

Mike Pompeo thinks it’s “possible” that Trump is a biblical savior
President Donald Trump is many things: U.S. president. Wealthy businessman. Father of Tiffany Trump. A Gemini. A biblical savior.

Well, that last one is up for debate, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it’s at least a possibility, in an appearance Thursday night on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?” host Chris Mitchell asked Pompeo.
“As a Christian, I certainly believe that’s possible,” Pompeo replied.
“I am confident that the Lord is at work here,” he added.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/qvy9...4sqhD7jRO16UZzo

Und so manifestiert sich der Wahnsinn in diesem Lande taeglich mehr.
Wenn es dann letztlich zu einer grossen Conflagration kommt, dann will natuerlich jeder von Anfangan es gleich gewusst haben. Klar.

Muellers Anti-climax.