"After all that kissing arse at the Vatican, in Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia, I'm all touched out" says exhausted POTUS. Trump continued.

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In haste, I will post the old thread shortly.

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Trump advisers also hosted secret meeting with crown prince of Abu Dhabi, near Trump's new Dubai golf course wapo.st/2qsfbDs pic.twitter.com/T7GbBn4brr

Kyle Griffin‏Verified account @kylegriffin1 4m4 minutes ago
NYT FLAG: Russian oligarch once tied to Paul Manafort is seeking immunity to testify before Congress
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-paul-manafort.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=t.co/L2dcZA2ZTK?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/oleg-deripaska-paul-manafort.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=t.co/L2dcZA2ZTK?amp=1 …

Methinks Kushner is in trouble, and then vís a vís..

Eric Lipton‏Verified account @EricLiptonNYT 4m4 minutes ago
White House Backs Down on Keeping Ethics Waivers Secret nyti.ms/2r759vp

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Also on Saturday, before flying home, Pres Trump visits with and addresses US military personal at Sigonella Naval Air Station on Sicily.

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How Worried Should Jared Kushner Be? www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-worried-should-jared-kushner-be?intcid=mod-latest …

Speculation trump might have been at that meeting:

mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/868253726280216576

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Greg Miller says on MSNBC the anonymous letter came to Ellen Nakashima and appeared to have come from someone inside the transition.

www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55113/jared-kushner-fire-comey/

Same night they're "looking at" changing sanctions with Russia. It's not a good look

Hollow laugh

John Weaver @JWGOP
Who knew Bannon would be the "sanest" one.

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7 days and 0 questions:

Trump hid from the press on his entire foreign trip t.co/HO7MfhHuIt?amp=1

If the latest on Comey is true it is certainly hard to follow his logic.

This from Pain's link above:

'Journalists have taken notice of Trump’s cone of silence.'

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Greg Miller says on MSNBC the anonymous letter came to Ellen Nakashima and appeared to have come from someone inside the transition.

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Miller verbatim "appeared to be from someone inside the transition orinside Trump Tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing"

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(THREAD) There's ample reason to believe Trump secretly met with Russian spy Sergey Kislyak in Trump Tower in December. Here's what we know.
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(1) We know that Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn snuck Kislyak into Trump Tower on either the first or second day of December in 2016.
(2) We know the sneaking was intended to keep Kislyak's presence in Trump Tower a secret from the American media.
(3) We know the sneaking—which involved using an entrance the press could not monitor—required planning and a big risk of getting caught.
(4) We know the White House went to great lengths to keep the fact of this December meeting with Kislyak secret—and did so for months.
(5) We know keeping the secret meant issuing multiple misstatements (including Trump's own) about transition meetings with the Russians.
(6) Per The New Yorker, we know Kushner LIED about who was at the meet when the media found out about it in February. He said he was alone.
(7) We know, therefore, Kushner risked lying to the press on a very big story to keep from Americans the identities of meeting attendees.
(8) We know Trump spent nearly every day in December in Trump Tower in meetings. We know the back door wasn't used for these other visits.
(9) We know Kushner and Flynn said there was nothing odd about them meeting Kislyak, given their roles—making use of the back door bizarre.
(10) We know Kushner and Flynn could've met Kislyak anywhere in America. Why choose the place the president-elect was spending every day?
(11) We know Kushner wouldn't have lied in February to protect Flynn—by then, Flynn's repeated contacts with Russia were much-discussed.
(12) We know from today's Washington Post report that Trump was the topic of the December meeting. Specifically, a Trump-Putin backchannel.
(13) We know Flynn told Congress he had a "story to tell"—suggesting he could roll a bigger fish (the only bigger fish being Trump himself).
(14) Flynn's "public immunity proffer" implied that a superior—Trump being the only one—had done and said things Americans didn't yet know.
(15) We know Trump met Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel and lied about the details. We know his team has repeatedly lied about Kislyak meets.
(16) We know Kislyak appeared in the Oval Office when he wasn't supposed to be there—and it seemed Trump was already very friendly with him.
(17) We know Trump has never revealed any meetings with Kislyak that explain him inviting him to the Oval and trying to keep it from media.
(18) We know there were only two people high up in the Trump transition Trump trusted implicitly to keep a secret: his son-in-law and Flynn.
(19) We know days after the December meeting Trump invited a Russia pipeline advocate (Bud McFarlane) to meet him at Trump Tower with Flynn.
(20) So while we don't have proof Trump met Kislyak in December, everything we DO know points us toward that likely future discovery. {end}

Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy - sources

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN18N018

It just keeps coming

Yes, indeedy.

The Hill @thehill
JUST IN: DNC demands Trump fire Jared Kushner after reports he wanted secret communications with Russia t.co/jFkSXgcmN2?amp=1

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Real question: Was all of this breaking shortly after sundown on Friday coincidental?

The Senate Intel committee request is a serious matter.

With regard to the alleged Kushner/Kislyak thing, I'd like to know a bit more. (Eg sources and whether that was put through secure comma - which we may never know, of course.) I can't see it otherwise.

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Report: Trump to set up 'war room' to repel Russia probe attacks t.co/LSGqoMzoLI?amp=1

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Watch A Mentally Not There Trump Wander Off From Meeting And Be Brought Back By Staff @politicususa
t.co/tdZDS4kt5c?amp=1

NYT editor defends use of Manchester attack photos (video):

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40067421/manchester-attack-editor-defends-publishing-leaked-photos