The slog of this authoritarian shitshow is grinding us all down. My inspiration has gone into hiding with Melania. Knock yourselves out! (Trump cont.)

[boatyardblues]

Does what it says on the tin. 🤷‍♂️

Here’s the last thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3258057-I-Spy-with-My-Little-Eye-Something-Beginning-with-T-Traitorous-Treasonweasels-in-Trumptown-Trump-contd

Loyalty list.

foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/13/trumps-vino-vixen-compiles-loyalty-list-of-u-s-employees-at-u-n-state-mari-stull-political-appointee-state-department-international-organization-united-nations-political-retribution-chaos-dysfunction/

The statement looks so much better by gaslight:
'Pompeo insists Singapore joint statement contains within it North Korea's commitment to complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization and so drawing interpretations that it doesn't because all of those words aren't included is just wrong'
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BREAKING: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York as his attorneys leave case, sources tell @ABC News.

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'Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof. Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!'

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former: DOJ Inspector General; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Counsel: Iran-Contra Independent Counsel;

'This is a big mistake and a very bad precedent. It guarantees that @POTUS will politicize and weaponize the OIG report before it is released. It's bad for DOJ, OIG, and the country.'
mobile.twitter.com/mrbromwich/status/1006866319072006144

'Here’s the full exchange between Sec. Pompeo and a reporter during his trip overseas, per a transcript released by @StateDept —> '
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McAllen, Texas (CNN): 'The undocumented immigrant from Honduras sobbed as she told an attorney Tuesday how federal authorities took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center, where she was awaiting prosecution for entering the country illegally.'

Strategy. Mueller doesn't make this sort of mistake.
@NatashaBertrand
Oh boy. Looks like releasing this unredacted was a mistake--special counsel has just re-filed this and other docs with redactions. (Kilimnik's name is redacted, too, interestingly.)
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Unredacted government exhibit showing alleged attempts by Manafort and Kilimnik to influence witness testimonies has been released. The witnesses, journalists Alan Friedman and Eckart Sager, produced the messages to the FBI.

mobile.twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1006990593350873088

Sickening cruelty, lion.

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1. Something is cooking in DC in the Manfort case. Still trying to figure it out. First today the Court ordered a memo Mueller filed in May regarding sureties in Manafort's bail package. Here is docket with the order text and copy of the motion. The exhibits are still

mobile.twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1006991455326384128

www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/george-simona-papadopoulos-life-after-russia-investigation-guilty-plea-w521446

Cruelty is the word that increasingly springs to mind, isn't it?

New Yorker.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/G-6-plus-Trump-12980278.php?t=668e15a9a6

'So tax his operations. Freeze his assets. Refuse to grant visas for Trump organization staffers. The United Kingdom could even shut down his golf course in Scotland.'

Etc.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dennis-hof-nevada-republican-candidate-state-seat-win-pimp-trump-a8396636.html

'A reality TV pimp who idolises Donald Trump has become the Republican candidate for a seat in Nevada‘s legislature.

Dennis Hof, who owns seven legal brothels, beat a three-term incumbent for the chance to face off against Democrat Lesia Romanov in November’s elections, and is likely to be the favourite.'

religionnews.com/2018/06/13/catholic-bishops-rebuke-trumps-asylum-changes-suggest-policy-is-a-life-issue/

shareblue.com/special-counsel-robert-mueller-court-filing-cooperating-witnesses-russia-probe/

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-negotiating-style-is-pure-art-of-the-moron

Dennis Hof, who owns seven legal brothels, beat a three-term incumbent for the chance to face off against Democrat Lesia Romanov in November’s elections, and is likely to be the favourite.'

There is seemingly no barrel which the GOP will not scrape. So much for standards in public life. Still, ss the saying goes, shit rolls downhill and when you have a POTUS as morally bankrupt as Trump its no surprise that the minions are equally awful.

Dennis Hof is a Trump redux, but on a minuscule scale. He's well known in certain parts of northern Nevada as a morally bankrupt cheat.

www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/dennis-hof-brothel-owner-and-pimp-wins-nevada-gop-primary

Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that Trump would suspend US war games with South Korea before Trump announced it himself at the press briefing. That suggests Kim’s people were on the phone to Beijing straight after the meeting cos they recognized how big a concession it was

Oh my. They were probably laughing their socks off. Let’s see: China has spy technology installed in the US courtesy of the ZTE deal Trump made; the military exercises are potentially called off in a critical area courtesy of a deal Trump made; does anyone want to add anything?

This is strange and indefensible. KJU runs a repressive dictatorship. He has killed his own family members. He executes his underlings in gross fashion for relatively minor infractions. (fall asleep in a meeting? Be killed by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience.) He operates gulags that also imprison children. But “a lot of people have done some really bad things”. Yes, you could name many nations were similar things have happened, but the US isn’t actively befriending them, or those nations nations have naturally died away - as they should.

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“A lot of other people done some really bad things. I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done,” Trump said, defending Kim Jong Un.

Report from 4 NK defectors in Times2 today. Interesting viewpoint on the Kim dynasty and his motives.

OIG report today:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/the-reckoning-facing-the-fbi/562685/

Isn't it amazing that whenever 45 is questioned on something he always diverts... Charlottesville - very fine people on either side. NK human rights - lots of nations do bad things. He will never ever stand up for anything if it affects his cult fanbase.

I have been laughing at his pathetic comeback to Robert de Niro saying Fuck Trump.

"“I watched him last night, and truly believe he may be punch-drunk.

“Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies.“I guess he doesn’t realise the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!”

It's like a daft teen would write, I wonder how he knows what sort of IQ RobertdeN has... he really is pathetic. He's that person who always has to have the last word.