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Trump talk: HOW MUCH for that inauguration?

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PerkingFaintly · 27/02/2018 17:57

Shock We can start whole new threads for less than $26,000,000.

This one only cost 23p I found down the back of the sofa:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3171217-Trump-Talk-or-Lift-every-voice-and-sing?pg=1

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Melania Trump has parted ways with adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff after news broke about Wolkoff’s firm reaping $26,000,000 in payments to help plan Trump’s inauguration, NYT reports.
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/us/politics/melania-trump-inauguration-adviser.html

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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 05/03/2018 17:36

Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
Will be testifying tomorrow at the British Parliament on Russia’s use of fake news and propaganda at 10:30am U.K. time. Lots of examples from the Magnitsky case to educate lawmakers on Putin’s modus operandi

www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-evidence-17-193/

lionheart · 05/03/2018 17:43

This should be interesting.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/monsanto-pesticides-roundup-court

lionheart · 05/03/2018 18:01

Beeb.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43281519#

The BBC has obtained leaked emails that show a lobbying effort to get US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sacked for failing to support the United Arab Emirates against regional rival Qatar.

Major Trump fundraiser and UAE-linked businessman Elliott Broidy met Mr Trump in October 2017 and urged him to sack Mr Tillerson, the emails reveal.

In other emails, he calls the top US diplomat "a tower of Jello", "weak" and says he "needs to be slammed".

Mr Broidy says Qatar hacked his emails.

lionheart · 05/03/2018 18:03

NB: This does not show the videos.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43280890#

The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.

It is not clear why the release of the video - via an IS outlet on messaging app Telegram - was delayed until now.

The video consists mainly of raw footage, including images apparently filmed using a helmet camera belonging to one of the soldiers.

The video seems to suggest that the attack was carried out by IS militants.

DancingLedge · 05/03/2018 18:03

That NRA video!!
I can't get more than a fragment to play, but the transcript!Shock

OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/03/2018 18:04

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134
bloody hell! If the story is correct, it's a poisoned russian spy in England.

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PerkingFaintly · 05/03/2018 18:05

Ooh, thank you Pain, I'll try to catch that Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Commons committee tomorrow, when Browder appears. It's the 10:30 am session.

I'd also like to catch the Information Commissioner a bit after him, but might be too tired. I was knackered after watching Dix.

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PerkingFaintly · 05/03/2018 18:06

OMG, this is the Salisbury incident! Shock Feck!

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lionheart · 05/03/2018 18:07

An anti-racism campaigner spent a year infiltrating the fringes of the white nationalist alt-right, and saw the real-world effects of extremist online ideology in Charlottesville.

Patrik Hermansson had thought the day's drama was over.

He had arrived at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, early in the morning of 12 August 2017.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43131290#

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PerkingFaintly · 05/03/2018 18:10

I'd assumed it was just the usual "oops I made chlorine by accident" sort of jobby. Everyone taking precautions but no big deal.

Of course, it could turn out to be something like that, but former Russian spy critically ill due to contaminating substance... Not good.

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lionheart · 05/03/2018 18:14

Not good.

lionheart · 05/03/2018 19:56

He has a lot to fear but then I suspect that was already the case before his association with Trump.

[[https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyers-payment-to-porn-star-was-reported-as-suspicious-by-bank-1520273701]

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 05/03/2018 20:01

He has kept shady company for decades, it’s true. I can’t work out nunberg

John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
Sam Nunberg to @KatyTur, as he vows to blow off Mueller subpoena: "I think my lawyer's going to dump me"

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 05/03/2018 20:02

Natasha Bertrand
Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
.@KatyTurNBC: "Do you think they have something on the president?"
Sam Nunberg: "I think they may."

Still, Nunberg says, "I'm not interested in handing over all my emails with Steve Bannon or Roger Stone..."

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 05/03/2018 20:04

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/former-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-called-before-grand-jury-says-he-will-refuse-to-go/2018/03/05/24c8b86a-20a9-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html

lionheart · 05/03/2018 20:11

He's just had a bit of a turn on MSNBC.

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