Trump talk: HOW MUCH for that inauguration?

[PerkingFaintly]

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

Putin's backchannel fundraises for Putin's favourite congressman

CNN: Amid Seychelles Scrutiny, Erik Prince To Raise Money For Rohrabacher
talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cnn-amid-seychelles-scrutiny-eric-prince-to-raise-money-for-rohrabacher

4000

I think you should change your name to "The Notorious Roussette"

Pain Bearing in mind no one takes much notice of what I write on Twitter, I was a bit

@CNN
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Florida school shooting, rips new NRA ad: "If this was put out by a terrorist organization, we would be raising the terror threat level in this country. Why are we letting this lobby have anything to do with DC?" t.co/552cWBiuVo t.co/ciOcWYKwHx

WH leaks or worse?
Were some people warned about the "surprise" steel tariffs?

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/business/wp/2018/03/07/carl-icahn-denies-he-knew-about-trumps-steel-tariff-announcement-before-dumping-stocks/?__twitter_impression=true

45 needs to be careful that he doesn't upset Huckleberry. I don't think he could weather her resignation as well..........

I'd love to see her flounce. I can imagine a big meltdown in front of the cameras 'I can't do this anymore, I'm out!', tears up her notes, throws them like confetti then crashes through the back wall.

In case you haven't seen it, Fekko.

www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/opinion/trump-birth-control-backward.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Reuters Politics
@ReutersPolitics
JUST IN: Federal judge sets July 10 trial date for Manafort on tax and bank fraud charges

Manu Raju
@mkraju
Schiff calls for Lewandowski subpoena, saying he would only answer “relevant” questions, not discussing topics such as the misleading statement about the Don Jr meeting w Russians and the firing of James Comey. He said witnesses can’t choose what topics they want to answer

Caroline O.
@RVAwonk
NEW: The Russian-funded Internet Research Agency released an anti-Hillary Clinton video game weeks before 2016 election

money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/technology/hilltendo-russians-anti-clinton-video-game/index.html

This is really interesting

The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News

Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating farther, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.

www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/555104/

The dealmaker: Mueller witness helped broker $4.2 billion Iraq-Russia arms deal

www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/03/george-nader-mueller-investigation-russia-iraq-arms-deal.html#ixzz59BuJoRpI

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
Funny coincidence — the top diplomats from Russia and U.S. are staying in same hotel on separate African tours on same night.

But Lavrov and Tillerson can’t agree on whether they want to meet.

Tillerson and Lavrov Book Same Ethiopian Hotel—and Can’t Agree on a Meeting

www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-03-08/summit-that-wasn-t-at-ethiopian-sheraton-is-new-u-s-russia-spat

What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
His 2013 visit paved the way for a scandal that shook the world.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/russian-connection-what-happened-moscow-inside-story-trump-obsession-putin-david-corn-michael-isikoff/

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
Chilling.
From the twitter account that trolls and harasses British journalists and MPs.

Wow. Look at who else retweeted this Russian Embassy tweet. Sergey Nalobin. The Russian "diplomat" who targeted Conservative Friends of Russia, Boris Johnson, the Bow Group & Matthew Elliott (later CEO of Vote Leave)...and who left the UK in controversial circumstances.

When I say "controversial" what I mean is that Russia Today reported that he had been "expelled" by the Foreign Office for being a suspected spy...

And here he is with Boris. Though...I can't find that tweet now. Deleted?

And then, this arrived. From Ambassador Yakovenko. Who had starring role in the Robert Mueller's indictment of George Papadopoulos & played role linking Trump campaign to Kremlin.

The article in question:

amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/brexit-ministers-spy-russia-uk-brexit

I’m not sure about the mueller thing because I think the telegraph retracted their original reporting and I can’t find the channel 4 piece he’s referring to:

Mike Hind
@MikeH_PR
Is it just my perception, or are the ardent Brexity types on Twitter curiously taking the indiscriminate deployment of nerve agent on British soil quietly in their stride?

Hat tip to @Channel4News for establishing a possible link between Sergei Skripal & Trump-Russia via a connection with Christopher Steele. Motive.

Also

J.J. Patrick
@J_amesp
There’s a lot of massively xenophobic, fiercely patriotic Leavers on Twitter and Facebook who seem to be mounting a powerful defence of a foreign power for attempting to kill a British spy on British soil.

Do you not think this is a bit odd?

Sorry, not mueller but Christopher Steele. The original telegraph reporting was that Steele used Skripal as an unnamed source but I believe they retracted that.

Scrotus is on TV to 'announce' the tariffs (that he blurted out the other day). We tried to watch, we really did! But we just couldn't. His bullshit spoken in that smarmy, fake-sincere, almost whiny "bee-LEEEVVE me" voice is like fingernails on a blackboard. We just can't do it and are now watching a documentary about the Nurnberg Trial. Far better to watch a TV programme showing evil actually getting it's just deserts rather than to watch that fat monkey making a mockery of everything we hold sacred!

He has some steel workers there and was going on about "I know your families, you know that don't you? Great people, they're the best Americans". Gee, I though that was the coal miners, no, first responders, no, the white supremacists, no, the NRA. That fuckhead drags out the same PR crap every time.

I saw he might be granting exemptions to Canada and Mexico as leverage for nafta? Which I think contradicts the “rationale” for the tariffs

Saw as in read, not from watching him. Can’t bear it either

I mean

Paul McLeod
@pdmcleod
“Your father is looking down on you, he’s very proud,” Trump tells steel worker at his press conference.

“He’s still alive,” the guy responds.

Aaron Blake
@AaronBlake
Daily Caller now running op-eds from Putin-allied Russian oligarchs criticizing Mueller probe

(((DuneMyThang™)))
@Kris_Sacrebleu
Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch and a central figure in the #TrumpRussiaInvestigation is now writing op-eds for the Daily Caller, where he, among other things, laments the "deep state" and attacks the #MuellerInvestigation

I've had just about enough of this shit. #MAGA

Well done Roussette. Must have been fun to watch.

Kitten posted its first tweet today. Seriously.

It said trumpuuuuuuuuuuuuu

which I thought was rather good. No idea where the trump part came from, I didn't start the tweet that way.