When a nation’s children marched, and their President ignored them - Trump cont.

[TheClaws]

For me, the Parkland children being belittled and abused in so many ways is utterly heartbreaking to witness. But they have been more adult than the adults in their response. They have shown us what faith means, and bravery. POTUS? He is made much, much smaller.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3198255--In-politics-stupidity-is-not-a-handicap-We-know-this-now-Trump-thread-cont

He really believes it, which is worrying. It's the 'L'etat c'est moi' thing.

Well, oopsie. You backed the most corrupt candidate out there. I have never figured out why Fox insist on featuring these two vacuous - and I don’t apologise for stating that - women. @DiamondandSilk have had their Facebook feed pulled in the last day or two as well; this is liberal “racial discrimination” apparently, not because they are inciting and disseminating hate/idiocy.

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.@DiamondandSilk: "We see the corruption that's going on in Washington, and we didn't like it. That's why we voted for @realDonaldTrump." fxn.ws/2GIXMmM @IngrahamAngle

Sorry - another Fox one but this one is funny. In this one, Mother Teresa gets a mention. I’ll remind everyone that Mother Teresa is a Saint and need never worry about lawyers.

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.@dbongino: "We would all be in legal jeopardy if Bob Mueller was after us. Mother Teresa would be in legal jeopardy if Bob Mueller was after us." fxn.ws/2GKQDyh @IngrahamAngle

Comeys offices are being searched by FBI, according to the Times this morning.

Sorry that should be Cohen, his lawyer, who paid Stormey.

A Time piece.

Michael Cohen is in trouble: we just don't know exactly why yet

Piping up with a tinto de verano hangover to point out mother Teresa was problematic and believed in penance through suffering rather than working to alleviate the pain of those who were dying.

Have been enjoying the holidays thanks lion The silence has been blissful and it’s hard to envisage leaping back into twitter and all other trump associated melee ignores the fact I’m on this thread

I'm ignoring you then.

A Business Insider piece.

The Justice Department had to go to extraordinary lengths

Awful nights sleep, woke up at 3am, checked Twitter and heard all about Cohen and the search. Trump being his usual thick self, saying it was an attack on the whole country during some sort of round table press conference...
He looked like he already had the straight jacket on, he had his arms wrapped round himself (really guilty body language) and he was rocking back and forth.
Let's hope this is a new phase.

Had no sleep at all.

From the Time piece:
(My bold)

The search warrant that details what the FBI is investigating and wanted to seize hasn’t been made public. But experts agree this latest development should concern Cohen. Simpson was contacted to talk about Cohen’s legal woes for this piece around midday Monday.

Her first mental note was a prescient one, occurring to her hours before the story of the raid broke: “You’ll know he’s in deep deep doo-doo,” she says she thought, “if they ever raid him personally.”

I mention that only because I now have to stay up (circumstances) and I may be away with the fairies later.

El Trumpo is going to be sooo distracted. The wolves are after the village sheep but the rats are nibbling away at his own personal grain store. Which way does he turn?

Hope there are unicorns with the fairies Cozie

Ha, Pain--I was going to say the same thing about the sainted lady.

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'The Democrats are not doing what’s right for our country. I will not rest until we have secured our borders and restored the rule of law!'

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-talks-donald-trump-denuclearisation-negotiations-pyongyang-south-korea-a8296836.html

'“The US has confirmed that Kim Jong-un is willing to discuss the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” a senior administration official said. The Trump White House has long said that if the North Koreans were not ready to discuss halting their nuclear programme, the two countries could not negotiate.

There are questions, however, about how North Korea defines denuclearisation, which Washington and Mr Trump regard as Mr Kim’s regime abandoning its atomic weapons programme.

“It means the removal of the threat posed by us, not them,” according to Evans Revere, a former senior US State Department official.'

Carol Leonnig (WaPo, who broke the Cohen/FBI raid story), on 'All In with Chris Hayes' yesterday. Good background. (Chris's 'All In' podcast is my go-to for an early morning catch-up.)

Morning, all :-)

mobile.twitter.com/nytmike/status/983500891700584448
And ... another trail of breadcrumbs for Mr. M.

Cohen's lawyers (Squire, Patton & Boggs) were also raided by the FBI.

Interesting that they are also the lawyers for Cambridge Analytica.

Hmmm

The plot very much thickens and the schadenfreude is starting to taste very good indeed.

Trump's reactions at the press conference were basically rabbit in headlight blabbering about witch hunts, firing Mueller , Hillary's emails.....think it's brown trousers time for Donnie.

twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/983460001179193347?s=19

Kick ass Madeleine Albright presents her book "Fascism, a warning"

Bingo.

She says 'See Something, Say Something, Do Something'

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/holocaust-survivor-on-far-right-in-trumps-america-its-1929-or-1930-berlin_us_5acb8aa3e4b0337ad1ea5a71

www.nbcnews.com/news/military/russia-has-figured-out-how-jam-u-s-drones-syria-n863931?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

It's a bit confusing, but if I've understood right, Squire Patton Boggs have not themselves been raided. They were renting out space in their office suite to Cohen (which people on that Twitter thread say is common for legal firms), and it's only Cohen's space which has been raided.

However, no one can pretend it was just an office let, because of the following from September 2017:

Squire Patton Boggs announced a “strategic alliance” with Cohen back in April, with Cohen helping the firm land new clients and working out of Squire Patton Boggs’ offices in New York, Washington and London.
www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-influence/2017/09/15/former-trump-lawyer-still-working-with-squire-patton-boggs-222315

That's Squire Patton Boggs who are also lobbyists for Gazprom, BTW.