Trump 2018: Resistance is Never Futile

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To pick up on the Star Trek motif.

Looks like Sessions and Trump are still going after sanctuary cities.

Eric Schneiderman
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I'm leading 15 AGs & filing an amicus brief to protect NY cities & police departments from funding cuts threatened by the Trump admin against sanctuary cities.

The law is clear: the admin cannot strip a city or a PD of critical funding just because they don’t like its policies. pic.twitter.com/KfUwamKPYo

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/05/the-guardian-view-on-the-trump-presidency-a-reckless-and-undignified-spectacle

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New filing in Fusion GPS v. John Doe Bank: Response to motion
www.documentcloud.org/documents/4344194-Response-to-motion.html

Brad Heath
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Fusion GPS' bank has turned over subpoenaed transaction records to the House intelligence committee.

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Free legal advice to the WH: An ex-staffer's statement cannot both be (a) an inappropriate disclosure of a confidence, and (b) wildly false. No one is violating a contractual non-disclosure provision if they are disclosing things that you say didn't happen. So, pick a theory.

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We need to read carefully. Grassley-Graham say Steele lied about the distribution of information in the dossier. Not the info itself, no?
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Correct. The accompanying SJC press release says: "This referral does not pertain to the veracity of claims contained in the dossier. The referral is for further investigation only, and is not intended to be an allegation of a crime." www.businessinsider.com/dossier-author-chris-steele-referred-to-doj-by-grassley-and-graham-2018-1 …

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Elizabeth de la Vega
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Replying to @NatashaBertrand
Well, this is even stupider/more corrupt than it originally appeared.

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This CNN segment is going viral lots of tweeters saying @RepRohrabacher acted like a bully when @AnaCabrera tried to ask Q's and fact-check him it starts around 2 min mark: snpy.tv/2AxDip4

Bill Browder
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Putin loving Congressman Dana Rohrabacher going into a full scale meltdown on CNN. Clearly employing the philosophy of ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity’

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Mike Pence’s chief lawyer, Mark Paoletta has resigned. Typically an attorney who believes he's working for someone who is obeying the law, won't step down at what surely is the peak of his professional career.

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Rep. Chris Stewart joins other Republicans in calling for AG Jeff Sessions to step down. cnn.it/2E9TdML

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um www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/roy_moore_accusers_home_burns.html …

Roy Moore accuser's Gadsden home burns; arson investigation underway

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1/ As I told @NatashaBertrand of @businessinsider, the criminal referral by Senators Grassley and Graham appears to either be a PR stunt or an attempt to use their position to influence DOJ charging decisions.

2/ It raises a lot of questions. Why not make this referral in private? What information do they have that is not already in the possession of the FBI? Why not wait until their investigation is complete?

3/ It appears to be an effort to undermine the Russia investigation or feed into a talking point used to criticize the investigation.

4/ The way the referral was made is consistent with that intent. Criminal referrals are meant to provide information to the FBI that it doesn’t otherwise have, not to produce press coverage. /end

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.@DavidCornDC has a good point: Why are Republicans more upset about Christopher Steele than Vladimir Putin?

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/republican-senators-target-christopher-steele-and-the-reason-is-obvious/ …

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#BREAKING: Trump freezes US funding to UN agency helping Palestinian refugees: report hill.cm/0yZdGFc

FBI documents: Andrew McCabe had no conflict in Hillary Clinton email probe

amp.usatoday.com/amp/1007672001?__twitter_impression=true

Amy Siskind
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The FBI is fighting back, using that weapon called the truth!

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At this hour, a red-eyed Sean Hannity—who looks as if he’s been crying HARD—is desperately, half-heartedly droning on about alleged wrongdoing at the Clinton Foundation. Not a word about the latest Trump catastrophe. Hannity is now as relevant as a fanny pack.

6:44 PM - 4 Jan 2018

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We will want Mr. Corallo to come before our committee. Given Don Jr.’s refusal to testify about his conversation with his father about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, Corallo may shed invaluable insights. pic.twitter.com/uh7E6eZ3G4

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Newly released FBI documents show that Andrew McCabe had no conflicts when he assumed oversight of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. usat.ly/2Ay9jgQ

www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/5/1730174/-Report-says-Fire-and-Fury-has-some-skilled-White-House-staff-considering-imminent-departures

This is quite something amid the toxic swamp stuff.

www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/sarah-silverman-s-response-to-a-twitter-troll-is-a-master-class-in-compassion-1.4471337

It is.

I am reading Seth Abramson's tweets as he reads the book.

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Apparently, in September 2016, Steele briefed five top U.S. media organizations about what his top-shelf (MI6-derived) Russian HUMINT was saying about Trump—NYT, WP, CNN, Yahoo!, and The New Yorker—and all declined to do anything with it. To be clear: anything at all.

‘You have an obligation to step forward’: Shep Smith unloads on Trump aides who think he’s mentally unfit

www.rawstory.com/2018/01/you-have-an-obligation-to-step-forward-shep-smith-unloads-on-trump-aides-who-think-hes-mentally-unfit/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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Joon Kim has been running the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of NY since Trump fired Preet Bharara -- now Joon Kim is out too:

Newly Appointed U.S. Prosecutors Inherit Major Cases

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/nyregion/united-states-attorney-new-york.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&referer=t.co/6ksQfTpQKL?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/nyregion/united-states-attorney-new-york.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&referer=t.co/6ksQfTpQKL?amp=1

Omg, lol, I've been trying to understand why other journos talk about Michael Wolff the way they do. Here is an advert MW starred in, in 2013.

To recap.

washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/a-year-in-trump-corruption/

I like to go to alternate news channels for balance.

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.@GeraldoRivera on claims 'Fire & Fury' book that say @POTUS' advisers, family questions his mental fitness for office: "This is a patent lie. This is absolutely not true...It is unfair, it is so screamingly inequitable to accuse @POTUS of being someone who lacks intelligence..."