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Democrats win the House, and he’s already fired Sessions: Trump thread 87

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TheClaws · 11/11/2018 23:09

We start this new thread on a brighter note: the mid-terms were a win for the Democrats, securing the House of Representatives and further seats in the Senate. This means more scrutiny for POTUS and the GOP, and bargaining power.

He’s still a feckless, vain bully, oddly admired by some varieties of Christians - enjoy the cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Democrats win the House, and he’s already fired Sessions: Trump thread 87
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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 27/11/2018 17:39

Exclusive: Workers in tent city for migrant children are not getting FBI fingerprint background checks
More than 2,000 workers in the tent city in Tornillo, Texas, have not received FBI background checks, even those directly caring for children.

news.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/gy7534/exclusive-workers-in-tent-city-for-migrant-children-are-not-getting-fbi-fingerprint-background-checks

TheNorthWestPawsage · 27/11/2018 17:42

Hope someone asks her about the non-vetted workers in the migrant camps.

Sarah Sanders to step behind the briefing room lectern for first time in nearly a month, today at 1pm/ET.
twitter.com/markknoller/status/1067471058285068288?s=21

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 27/11/2018 18:38

David P Gelles
@gelles
NEW: .
@carlbernstein
reports Mueller's team has been investigating a 2017 meeting between Manafort and Ecuador’s president in Quito in 2017, and has specifically asked if Wikileaks or Julian Assange were discussed in the meeting.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 27/11/2018 18:48

THREAD: What does today's news that Manafort held a secret meeting with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in spring 2016 tell us?
twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1067428451324317698?s=21

PerkingFaintly · 27/11/2018 18:58

Yes indeed, OYBBK.

Strong Brew and some Cake to sustain us in our sanity breaks.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 27/11/2018 22:03

Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi about WikiLeaks Dem email dump

"Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging," Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna940611

TheClaws · 27/11/2018 22:36

Kenneth Roth

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Continuing his cover up for the Saudi crown prince, Trump won't let the CIA director speak to the US Senate about why her agency concluded the prince is responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder. bit.ly/2DXXdE9

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cozietoesie · 27/11/2018 23:00

They seem to have believed that emails were .....private/loose.

TheClaws · 27/11/2018 23:03

Meanwhile in North Korea: they are giving the US a proper telling off about cooking up human rights rumours about them, apparently. While at times alarming, I do appreciate the North Koreans’ turn of phrase though some may be due to translation issues - such as “slushy farce”. (Rodong Sinmun)

Sinister Nature of U.S. Human Rights" Campaign

The U.S. is making a slushy farce even now when its hostile policy toward the DPRK called the “human rights in north” results in failure.
Recently the U.S. let the Human Rights Watch, a plot-breeding organization, make public a groundless “report” that sexual abuses against women are prevailing in the DPRK.

At the same time the U.S. is inciting an atmosphere of hostility toward the DPRK, making reckless remarks that the UN and the UN Human Rights Council have repeatedly suggested the human rights issue in north Korea, but the latter denied it as well as other international obligation. And it urged the north Korean leadership to make a responsible probe into the human rights abuses.

U.S. Congress, conservative media and experts cry out for ceaselessly putting up the sanctions and pressure and “human rights issue” as a policy toward the DPRK.

Worse more, the U.S. and its vassal forces recently fabricated again the “resolution on human rights in north Korea” at the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

This is, indeed, the height of shameless and coward acts.

The “human rights issue in north Korea” much touted by the U.S. is unrealistic and groundless sophism.

All of them are based on the rubbish of the human scum who ran away after committing unpardonable crimes before the country and people and turning their back upon their parents and children.

It is abnormal to make the “testimony” cooked up by the human scum who do everything for a petty amount of money sound plausible.

The U.S. groundless farce is aimed to tarnish the image of the DPRK, justify its sanctions and pressure upon the DPRK, secure concessions from it at the DPRK-U.S. negotiations and furthermore, realize the sinister scheme to bring down the DPRK’s social system.

The U.S. should properly understand the strategic position of the DPRK and face up to the changed trend of the times and behave with decorum, not to take issue with others for no reason.

This is the way out to escape gloomy future.

Those countries and forces kowtowing to the U.S. would be well advised to live in their senses, not joining the anachronistic farce against the DPRK committed under the signboard of “human rights protection” if they have a shred of conscience or cool-headedness for justice.

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lionheart · 28/11/2018 00:07

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-proud-boys-are-imploding_us_5bfc16dde4b0eb6d9311e26d

'The Proud Boys Are Imploding
The extremist gang's leader is trying to bail, its members are in jail, and the FBI is on its tail.'

AcrossthePond55 · 28/11/2018 02:10

Today was the runoff for the last remaining undecided Senate seat.

MISSISSIPPI
U.S. Senate - General Election Runoff
9.4 % Precincts Reporting 21:02 ET
PARTY NAME VOTES VOTE %
GOP Hyde-Smith, Cindy 41,907 53.40 %
Dem Espy, Mike 36,577 46.60 %

She's expected to win, after all it is Mississippi. But my fingers are still crossed.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 28/11/2018 03:13

Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller

www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/us/politics/manafort-lawyer-trump-cooperation.html

Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
The question is, why would there be communication between a flipped criminal defendant who is now working for the government & a target of the ongoing investigation? There is no legitimate reason.

lionheart · 28/11/2018 08:00

Hyde-Smith is awful and therefore the ideal Trump pick.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-donors-gave-large-sums-to-conservative-nonprofit-that-funded-pro-trump-allies/2018/11/27/07667840-f266-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?utm_term=.e20aeb8f89c8

'Four unidentified donors gave nearly $17 million last year to a conservative nonprofit group that distributed funds to organizations that backed President Trump’s inaugural committee and his Supreme Court nominees Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, according to tax documents.

Wellspring Committee, a politically active organization that funds conservative causes and groups, received $16.7 million in 2017 from four unnamed donors who gave between $250,000 and $8.9 million each, according to the group’s 2017 tax return, obtained by the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington.

During the same period of time, the Northern Virginia-based group gave $14.8 million to another politically active nonprofit organization: the conservative Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), which spent millions of dollars backing the nominations of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.'

lionheart · 28/11/2018 08:02

www.politicususa.com/2018/11/27/msnbc-refuses-to-air-sarah-sanders-press-briefing.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

'MSNBC Refuses To Air Sarah Sanders Press Briefing.'

lionheart · 28/11/2018 08:23

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oil-iraq-war-prime-minister-haider-al-abadi-hr-mcmaster-a8654251.html

Trump 'asked Iraqi prime minister for oil as repayment for Iraq War'.

'It was a look down and reach for your coffee moment,' White House official says

Gumpendorf · 28/11/2018 09:08

Iraqi oil is a continuing theme of his. He mentioned it at the CIA just after the inauguration. I thought then it was a scary indicator of his foreign policy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cia-iraq-oiluss_5883ccf5e4b096b4a23243b2

In unprepared remarks introducing his pick to lead the intelligence agency, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), Trump told CIA officials that when the United States went into Iraq, we should have “kept the oil.”
Now I said it for economic reasons,” Trump said. “But if you think about it, Mike, if we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil. But, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance.”

Gumpendorf · 28/11/2018 09:11

It’s about time one of the Fox News mouth pieces became so rattled that they broke the narrative on air. Never would have guessed it would be Geraldo. twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1067193821786767365/video/1

twitter.com/TheTimJennings/status/1067308358347059200

AcrossthePond55 · 28/11/2018 13:25

Never would have guessed it would be Geraldo.

Actually doesn't surprise me. Geraldo was quite liberal at one time and I've often wondered how much of his conservatism is based on making money as opposed to true belief. His own family experienced racism and now he's faced with what's happening at the border due to that same racism. Hopefully, it's hitting him hard.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 28/11/2018 14:14

Trump's retweeted this

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 28/11/2018 14:50
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