Trumpwatch: Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere

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Let's hope he is done soon.

edition.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/04/27/melania-birthday-gift-late-night-epr-vstan-orig.cnn

Richard Engel on maddow doing a special on Wagner

[i can’t get a clickable link but it was the second segment on her show last night]

Interesting profile on Sarah Sanders - apparently she has a good relationship with the WH press corps.

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/27/sarah-huckabee-sanders-profile-feature-2018-218014

Link to Maddow's show (I don't know how to get a link to the specific segment, but it's labelled "4/27/18 Russian mercenaries play critical role in Syria"):

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

That link leads directly to the segment, Perking 😊. Thanks.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-tower-fire-azerbaijan-baku-latest-video-international-grand-prix-f1-new-york-building-a8326891.html

www.salon.com/2018/04/28/donald-trumps-creed-of-greed-product-of-a-society-that-puts-profit-before-people/

A reminder of that particular trump tower and it’s scandals

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

Thanks for the link perking

I don't think I'm imagining it, but am probably reading too much into it: I thought in one part of the Trump Fox call, he sounded as though his nose was bunged up. Sometimes I have the snuffles first thing in the morning and like many people I'm not usually at my most coherent on first waking up, so, you know, maybe he just had a bit of a cold or the White House heating system is rather dry.

The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump’s Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast

Trump’s first call with the Vietnamese prime minister was arranged by Marc Kasowitz, a Trump personal lawyer who has another client with business interests in Vietnam

www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-vietnam-casino

Maybe he did, Annie. Maybe he did.

Would you go on F&F in those circumstances?

If I wasn't thinking straight, maybe! And we all know how a nasty cold can mess with your head.

www.propublica.org/article/a-short-history-of-threats-received-by-donald-trumps-opponents?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=sprout&utm_content=1524327077

.......Lordy. I hope there are tapes.........

President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president’s advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/us/politics/trump-midterm-elections.html

.... Mr. Parscale has rankled Trump advisers by giving the president a perpetually rosy assessment of his poll numbers. He often tells Mr. Trump his numbers have “never been higher,” according to two advisers.....

That's enough for 45. He doesn't really care about the GOP - only himself.

You know, there is an American comedian who does an impersonation of Scrotus that is pretty good but sounds very ‘nasal’.

He sounded so unhinged on F&F that I began to wonder........

Nahhh, Across. It was 45, I fear.........

It was just one of his 'stream of consciousness' dumps - akin to most of his public speaking.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obamacare-repeal-may-be-closer-than-you-think

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/trump-senator-jon-tester-resign-ronny-jackson

Yes indeed.

And - he more or less has to say that when you think about it?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-revenge-jon-tester-montana-senate-race-veterans-affairs-senate-race-a8326186.html

Journalist Sarah Kendzior: Russian lawyer’s Kremlin confession will implicate more than Don Jr

www.rawstory.com/2018/04/journalist-sarah-kendzior-russian-lawyers-kremlin-confession-will-implicate-don-jr/

And

Michael McFaul
@McFaul
I know a lot about how Moscow works. And there is no way , in my estimation, that Veselnitskya is sent to Trump Tower to offer kompromat on Clinton to Trump campaign without Russian govt approval. Whether that is "collusion" , I'll let others judge.

Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
Bingo. No one, no Russian oligarch or operative, would freelance on a foreign political operation like this because of what would happen to them if it went against Putin’s wishes.