But "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal": Trump thread LXXXVIII

[lionheart]

The meeting with Pelosi and Schumer went well...

"After the meeting, Trump reportedly flicked a folder so that papers were strewn around, the official said."

read.bi/2UHkVtt

Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
"i mean, you three guys would take it," Trump said to three Reuters reporters about becoming the chief of staff.

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-staff-exclusive-idUSKBN1OB08G

Caroline Orr
@RVAwonk
Michael Cohen just arrived at court in SDNY for sentencing.

Ref your Chief of Staff tweet... brace yourselves...

www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/12/11/piers-morgan-says-piers-morgan-should-be-trumps-new-chief-staff/?utm_term=.047c8b123bcf

and

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/piers-morgan-donald-trump-chief-of-staff-application_us_5c10e197e4b084b082fe3058

Personally I think it's a brilliant idea. Another clown to join the circus and drown the ship

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford presented Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award to Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar of sexual assault.

"We all have the power to create real change." bit.ly/2ErTUoY twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1072876293404979200/video/1

I'm so glad Dr Ford is continuing to speak out.

I'm not sure the WH is big enough for both their egos, Rousette 🤔

Good to see that about Dr. Ford.

Why not Nigel instead of Piers since he's already under the Trump net?

Piers Morgan???!!!

Start a circus, attract a monkey, no?

At the rate it's going, I wouldn't be surprised if he's offered the job. Or if he accepts it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46489689

'A technology company bidding for a Pentagon contract to store sensitive data has close partnerships with a firm linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, the BBC has learned.'

Although neither Piers nor Nigel are US citizens, although that's not an actual requirement. We've had foreign born cabinet secretaries, but they've all been born abroad to US parents or naturalized US citizens.

Shimon Prokupecz
@ShimonPro
Here we go!!
Cohen:
"Recently the president tweeted a statement calling me weak and it was correct but for a much different reason than he was implying. It was because time and time again i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds"

Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
Michael Cohen has been sentenced to three years (36 months) in prison

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Michael Cohen also hit with forfeiture of $500,000, restitution of $1.4 million and a fine of $50,000, according to Bloomberg.

Neal Katyal
@neal_katyal
Michael Cohen has been sentenced to 3 years prison. Sentence is bad news for Trump. In most jurisdictions,subordinates who carry out felonies at the direction of their boss get lower criminal sentences than the boss. So if camp vio big driver of Cohen sentence, Trump > 3 years...

Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
Lanny Davis, who says he is now an adviser to Cohen after today's sentencing, says on ABC, "Michael Cohen is now released to tell the full truth. After Mr. Mueller makes his findings and issues his report, you will see more of Michael Cohen telling the truth about Donald Trump."

Stephen Colbert has volunteered for WH chief of staff.
His reasoning? He would have the same effect as any other post holder, but he'd have fun.

Kenneth P. Vogel
@kenvogel
SCOOP: While TRUMP was facing mounting pressure from prosecutors,
@RUDYGIULIANI
was in Bahrain on Tues, meeting with the King & other officials in an effort to win a lucrative security consulting contract. He is also pursuing work in Africa & South America

www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/politics/giuliani-consulting-abroad.html

Colbert would be fun.

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
BREAKING:
@SDNYnews
released a press release announcing today that "it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election."

No statement from Khuzami.

Here is the Colbert clip.

I was at an boring important academic event and couldn't risk looking for potentially noisy clips.

"He's like Alexa, he only wakes up when he hears his name" - that Colbert clip cracked me up, thank you, Lweji.

Only the best.

www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/04/pastor-celebrated-orlando-massacre-gets-35-years-child-molestation/

Flip.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-national-enquirer-playboy-hush-money_us_5c1159ace4b00e17a535ada6

Neal Katyal
@neal_katyal
This is quite important. One by one, the career DOJ prosecutors are removing possible Trump defenses. Now it isn’t just Cohen, but also AMI, saying these hush money payments were made to influence the 2016 Presidential election, and knock out the so-called “Edwards defense”