'Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door,' Trump No. 95

[lionheart]

From Emily Dickinson.

Old thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3356297-Freedom-of-the-press-is-not-just-important-to-democracy-it-is-democracy-Trump-no-94

A pattern is developing. If Kavanaugh won't stand down, the Repugs should stand back and properly investigate, but they won't if they have the votes.

In the midst of this SCROTUS is likely to fire Rosenstein. It's hard to say which is the distraction. I did wonder if tonight's press conference was intended to distract from pre committee hearing speculation.

Ted Cruz.

Bret Stephens

The throwaway remarks about 45 are ..................

My apologies for misspelling Stephens' first name a couple of posts back. I guess I'm just used to 2 't's.

I will speak about tomorrow’s hearing on the Senate Floor at 1:15pm

https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/1044994139954335745

Interesting though given Flake's history, he's probably been got at by the big boys by now and will be giving Kavanaugh his wholehearted support.

Today I’m suing @realDonaldTrump and @senatemajldr to STOP the #KavanaughConfirmation process. What they’re doing is absolutely unacceptable and unconstitutional. RISE UP America and make your voices known.

twitter.com/JeffMerkley/status/1044993754858434560

Sen Jeff Merkley from Oregon though I don't know what suing means in this context.

It's okay for Kavanaugh, his Commander in Chief is going to help now.

edition.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/donald-trump-concerned-by-kavanaugh-defense/index.html

See.

Donald J. Trump
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'Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships - a total low-life!'

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16m16 minutes ago

'“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.'

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@MichaelAvenatti
16m16 minutes ago

'“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.'

Michael Avenatti
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@MichaelAvenatti
16m16 minutes ago

'“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.'

Michael Avenatti
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@MichaelAvenatti
16m16 minutes ago

'“False accusations?” Like those crimes your fixer Cohen pled to? You are an habitual liar and complete narcissist who also is a disgrace as a president and an embarrassment to our nation. You are so inept that your “best and brightest” are Cohen and Giuliani. Let’s go.'

Sorry about that. Mumsnet was overloaded and I was impatient.

More danger.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/

Flake was a bit unclear. I suppose the is getting his excuses in ahead of the vote. He'll likely vote yes but he's sort of asking for forgiveness and an open mind.

Flake didn't address the other accusations but focused on respecting both Ford and Kavanaugh and their families. Twitters view is he's a yes unless some huge revelation is forthcoming.

The internet is overloaded lion. I'm struggling to open links generally.

Mr O'Donnell has the floor.

Oh dear, one Russian having a very bad day:

Skripal suspect 'real name' revealed as Anatoliy Chepiga
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45656004

The Bellingcat group claims the man who was named as Ruslan Boshirov is actually Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.
British officials have not commented. The BBC understands there is no dispute over the identification.

An Indie piece.

Chepiga

Merkley seeks injunction to stop Kavanaugh vote
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/merkley-injunction-stop-kavanaugh-vote-843080

Mr. Popular:
'Trump gets foreign policy lashing at U.N. meeting.
The president sat stone-faced as international leaders criticized his foreign policy both overtly and obliquely.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/trump-un-foreign-policy-843110

On the other hand, in Foxworld:
'Nikki Haley: United Nations Laughter Not A Diss But A Sign Of Respect For Trump’s ‘Honesty’
World leaders were “falling over themselves to get a picture with him," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.'
“They loved how honest he is,” Haley said. “It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny. ... When he goes and he is very truthful, they kind of were taken back by it.”She continued: “All day yesterday, they were falling over themselves to get a picture with him, to talk about how great his speech was. ... They love that he’s honest with them and they’ve never seen anything like it, so there’s respect there. I saw that the media was trying to make it something disrespectful. That’s not what it was ― they love to be with him.”^
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nikki-haley-donald-trump-united-nations_us_5bab7019e4b0f143d10ee8f4

But Nikki said ..........
'Diplomats Say They Were Definitely Laughing At Trump At The UN
“What would resonate well at a political rally in America sounded a little awkward at the UN General Assembly.”'
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilytamkin/diplomats-un-laughed-donald-trump

I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it.
Why would any reasonable person continue to hang around people like this?

Maybe you should ask your nominee for SCOTUS about this, then, Mr. Senator:

@LindseyGrahamSC
From my view, just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it just did.
The lawyer to porn stars has just taken this debacle to an even lower level.
I hope people will be highly suspicious of this allegation presented by Michael Avenatti.
I have a difficult time believing any person would continue to go to – according to the affidavit – ten parties over a two-year period where women were routinely gang raped and not report it.
Why would any reasonable person continue to hang around people like this?

Why would any person continue to put their friends and themselves in danger?
Isn’t there some duty to warn others?
I very much believe in allowing people to be heard.
But I am not going to be played, and I’m not going to have my intelligence insulted by the Michael Avenattis of the world.
I will not be a participant in wholesale character assassination that defies credibility.
mobile.twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1044997722410037248

Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim
I'm told GOP staffers on Judiciary are preparing to release transcripts of at least some of their interviews they've conducted in the course of investigating Ford allegation. Committee also plans to release xscript of Fox News interview, which makes it go under penalty of perjury
mobile.twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1045040404717015040

'Increasingly worried, Trump takes over Kavanaugh defense'
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/26/politics/donald-trump-concerned-by-kavanaugh-defense/index.html?__twitter_impression=true