Trumpwatch: Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere

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Let's hope he is done soon.

I can't immediately recall hearing Rosenstein speak, before. A recent piece.

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Bar Association of Montgomery County’s Law Day Celebration

www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-bar-association-montgomery

www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-msnbc-segment-explodes-dershowitz-calls-lawyer-richard-painter-un-american-liar/

Well.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/05/trump-team-hired-spy-firm-dirty-ops-iran-nuclear-deal?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

'Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.'

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/arming-teachers-has-already-led-to-a-slew-of-gun-accidents-in-schools/

Figures.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-immigration-judges-caravan-ohio-speech-asylum-seeker-migrant-a8338256.html

slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/trump-manages-to-anger-both-french-and-british-citizens-with-nra-speech.html

Take 2.

Fox News
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Verified account

@FoxNews

TONIGHT: Rudy Giuliani joins @JudgeJeanine at 9p ET on Fox News Channel!

CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
President Trump floats "closing up the country for a while" over border security (link: cnn.it/2FNGBLt )

Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
When he tells you who he is,
BELIEVE HIM.

This isn’t just about “immigration.” This is about freedom of movement too.

You think he’s going to let you OUT, if he consolidates power the way he is trying to do?

Melissa McEwan
@Shakestweetz
Remember when I said Trump wanted to build a wall to keep us in as much as keep people out? Welp.

And so you all are aware...... A Newsweek piece.

Russian internet crackdown

Giuliani can’t get his alternative facts straight. This is essential when working with the POTUS, I feel.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/386388-giuliani-calls-mueller-probe-tremendous-distraction-and-totally

Ah well.

A Politico piece.

Judge rejects Mueller team request

Giuliani is a true disgrace. These are his words of wisdom on Judge Jeanine/Fox News/State TV just earlier.

Caroline O. @RVAwonk
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"The only crimes committed here have been committed by the government." -Rudy Giuliani.

A reminder: The Mueller probe has resulted in indictments against 19 people and 3 companies, including 4 Trump campaign officials — 3 of whom have already pleaded guilty.

twitter.com/owillis/status/992854500670140423

4year old in Alabama feeds the homeless 'Don't forget to show love'

...and I have something in my eye.

Friedrich, a Trump appointee based in Washington, sided with Concord and said the arraignment will proceed as scheduled Wednesday afternoon.

This may be a continuing trend. They've mobilised their chums in the judiciary now.

SNL opener: all star summary of what's happening in Trump world.

More SNL

'Why is it taking so long'

Referring back to cozie's MSNBC article, I'm an avid listener these days.

This never fails to get me even though I've only recently seen the pics

I thought the SNL sketch wa hilarious! Ben Stiller was the perfect Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels playing herself...

www.mediaite.com/tv/snl-goes-all-out-with-cameo-packed-cold-open-a-storms-comin-baby/

(apologies if this is a repeat of other links)

I haven’t been following the visuals as closely, so seeing that the real Harold Bornstein was every bit as much a Simpsons character IRL as in the first SNL clip was hilarious. They have so much rich material to work with ATM, depressing as that is for real world consequences.

It’s really shocking that trump asked foreign agents to run opp research on Americans. Oh no hang on, that’s partly the basis of the witch hunt is being conducted on so it can’t be true.

Another government, another shitshow

Revealed: The emails between Boris’s Foreign Office and Analytica
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/05/05/revealed-the-emails-between-boriss-foreign-office-and-analytica/

The organisers also told SCL that they wanted to “explore with you our early data strategy for foreign policy and seek your views in shaping this.”

They added that they hoped to “craft a common approach” to data among “like-minded international partners” with the stated aim of developing “a community of thought leaders on diplomacy in the information age”.

Re Lion's link up thread to the Guardian report.

The sitting President not a campaign hired a firm to find dirt on the personal lives of former WH aides? Who paid for this?? I know people are cynical about Washington, but, no, this is NOT how things work. This is Nixonian, pure Watergate stuff.
twitter.com/ronaldklain/status/992867200410243072?s=21

So, Trump literally tore a page from the Putin Propaganda Playbook in a scheme (w. a foreign country) to deliberately lie to the American people and undermine the Iran deal. If that's not violating your oath and blatant corruption, please, tell me what is.
twitter.com/marcyrw/status/992995332916039680?s=21

A damn good point. If Trump was willing to contract a foreign intelligence service to undermine U.S. policy as president, do you really think he wouldn't be willing to work with a foreign government to undermine his opponent as a presidential candidate?
twitter.com/rvawonk/status/992996197286711296?s=21

The answer is "Yes"

Hmm, maybe I meant the answer is "No"