Trump: yes, we have no Steve Bannon

[PerkingFaintly]

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."

Not much joy here either.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-bannon-ann-coulter-milo-yiannopoulos-invited-to-berkeleys-free-speech-week/article/2632524

Placemarking.

Waiting.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-seeks-grand-jury-testimony-pr-execs-who-worked-manafort-n796066

thehill.com/policy/defense/348045-trump-signs-order-barring-transgender-people-from-enlisting-in-military

I expect there may be some legal issues.

Good luck to those in the path of the storm.
In all senses.

So it appears that he has pardoned 'Sheriff Joe'. On CNN.

It's coming.

www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/08/25/donald-trump-pardons-sheriff-joe-arpaio/599835001/

Thanks for the new thread Perking.

The Sanfrancisco rally has been cancelled.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/25/patriot-prayer-san-francisco-rally-cancelled-dog-poo

Feels like there is a lot going on this weekend - North Korea, Hurricane Harvey, attacks in Brussels and Buckingham Palace.

Still outraged, still trying to pay attention.

Gorka is out.
thefederalist.com/2017/08/25/breaking-sebastian-gorka-resigns-from-trump-administration/

Friday night dump by all accounts.

thefederalist.com/2017/08/25/breaking-sebastian-gorka-resigns-from-trump-administration/

“Millions of people believe in, and have chosen, you and your vision of Making America Great Again. They will help eventually rebalance this temporary reality.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been pardoned. Just heard it on our local news

Jules‏Verified account @jules_su 4m4 minutes ago
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This is insane.

• Gorka resigns
• Arpaio pardoned
• Trans military ban
• Harvey now Cat4
• NK launches missiles

• Trump goes on vacation

Hope you are far away from the hurricane, Across.

Gorka goes...

thehill.com/homenews/administration/348063-gorka-resigns-from-wh-report

Friday night news dump. In the middle of a hurricane. Cynical much?

Begs the question of where Sessions is in all this.

foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/25/pardoning-joe-arpaio-would-be-a-constitutional-crisis-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2AEditors%20Picks

And a link to the NK missile info, as per lions's post.

edition.cnn.com/2017/08/25/asia/north-korea-fires-projectile/index.html

As far as you can get lion. I'm sitting in a caravan on a beach just north of SF. Cold and foggy here. Going home Sunday to temps of 104f.

'By Arpaio’s own admission, the number of uninvestigated sex crime cases eventually swelled to more than 400. Many of the victims were children.'

www.propublica.org/article/the-joe-arpaio-i-knew

Not just the racial profiling but this horror.

It sounds lovely.

Trump bypassed the DoJ to get this done (CNN).

This is an interesting read from a couple of days ago on the consequences of the planned pardon.

www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/trump-arpaio-pardon-arizona-sheriff.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

More on the legal and constitutional aspect.

'Criminal contempt is different: It is an offense against the federal courts themselves. The act being punished by a federal criminal contempt conviction is the refusal by an individual, and in Arpaio’s case by a high state public safety official, to carry out a lawful order issued by a federal district court. Given that, such a pardon is a direct challenge to the authority of the federal courts to judge when someone has violated the court’s own directives.'

www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/president-trump-pardoning-joe-arpaio-abuse-federal-clemency-power/