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We’re all going on a WITCH HUNT! We’re not scared ...we persist. (Trump cont.)

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TheClaws · 08/05/2018 04:35

In response to one of Trump’s incoherent WITCH HUNT! tweets in the last 12 hours, Rep. Adam Schiff sent this:

Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff 12 hrs
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Adam Schiff Retweeted Donald J. Trump

Given all the secret meetings with the Russians, the denials, the false statements, and the guilty pleas, your attacks on the Republican, respected, decorated, Vietnam Veteran running the investigation could not be more false, or transparent.

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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/05/2018 16:26

Kushner trying to push legislation through that will make prisoners lives a bit easier. While commendable, I wonder why the interest in prison conditions? Wink

Ryan J. Reilly
‏*@ryanjreilly*
Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee is marking up a Jared Kushner-backed bill that could help out some white collar felons in federal prison.

This Jared Kushner-Backed Bill Could Be 2018's Last Shot At Federal Prison Reform

The president's son-in-law has been a "driving force" of the legislation, which focuses on the re-entry of federal prisoners. Many say it doesn't go far enough.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kushner-criminal-justice-bill_us_5af0a4bee4b0c4f1932576c2

A revamped bipartisan prison reform bill introduced this week with the backing of president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner outlines steps to improve the lives of some federal prisoners. But it has drawn opposition from many advocates for change who want a more comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system.

The FIRST STEP Act, introduced by Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), is expected to be marked up in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The legislation focuses on lowering recidivism of federal prisoners and would require the federal Bureau of Prisons to create evidence-based rehabilitation plans for all inmates. If passed the legislation would allow some federal prisoners to earn more credit towards reduced sentences for “good time” and would require federal prisoners to be placed within 500 miles of their homes. It would also ban the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners and encourage compassionate releases for elderly and terminally ill offenders.

Gumpendorf · 09/05/2018 16:31

I've read Kushner's interest in prison reform stems from his father's experience when he was jailed for ? tax fraud a few years ago.

Lweji · 09/05/2018 17:30

Lucky escape

lionheart · 09/05/2018 18:43

Probably for the best (from their perspective).

www.rawstory.com/2018/05/white-house-refuses-say-trump-knew-payments-michael-cohen-firm-linked-russian-oligarch/

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 18:54

It is pretty much a 'Have you stopped beating your wife?' sort of question.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/05/2018 19:02

Tom Winter
@Tom_Winter
NBC News: In a new statement (their third) Novartis says they paid $1.2 million to Michael Cohen, had one meeting with him and determined he would be "unable to provide the services that Novartis had anticipated related to US healthcare policy matters."

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna872481

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 19:29

Novartis paid $1.2 million to Cohn before one (unsuccessful) meeting?

lionheart · 09/05/2018 19:44

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/russian-leverage-over-trump-fact-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-devin-nunes.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw

'In the waning weeks of 2016, when the intelligence community and many politicians were passing around terrifying reports about Donald Trump’s links to Russia like samizdat, the frightening possibility arose that the sanctity of the United States government might be compromised in a way no living American had experienced. This was just one of the unnerving things about the rise of Trump, and it was one that many well-informed observers doubted. Russia, after all, was poor and weak. To imagine that a country with an economy smaller than Canada’s or Italy’s could leverage a superpower ten times wealthier beggared the imagination. And yet that paranoid, absurd belief seems to be creeping closer to reality than seemed possible even in those dark postelection days.'

lionheart · 09/05/2018 20:29

www.cjr.org/first_person/trump-jerusalem.php

'Before I knew it, my little American enclave in the Middle East became an outpost of Trump country. The sexton of my synagogue began wearing a MAGA hat, and longtime friends began parroting Trump’s anti-press talking points. They were already suspicious of the Israeli press, fed a steady diet of anti-media attacks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. By early 2016, Joe Federman, the Associated Press’s Jerusalem bureau chief, had begun to characterize the government’s condemnations as “incitement against the foreign media.”'

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 23:08

.... 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake).....

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 23:44

They banned Irn Bru? Shock

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 23:46

It's the first time I've heard that orange staining isn't acceptable. Grin

cozietoesie · 09/05/2018 23:51

Sorry. In Trumpworld that is.

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TheClaws · 10/05/2018 01:21

Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff
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Adam Schiff Retweeted Donald J. Trump
The President’s assault on freedom of the press continues as he threatens the credentials of reporters who expose his malfeasance. America must be vigilant: A people loses its freedom not by sudden approach, but by steps so small it doesn’t see tyranny coming.

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TheClaws · 10/05/2018 01:25

91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake)

Interesting, but not unexpected, that he believes negative news about him is automatically ‘fake’. It does give an insight into how his mind works.

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cozietoesie · 10/05/2018 01:27

Doesn't it, though?Grin