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

[lionheart]

doomed?

A WAPO piece.

Re-election

Almost cheerful for them.

Dash. Try 2.

Reelection

fortune.com/2018/12/14/mueller-investigation-cost-tax-cheats/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article

Try 3.

Reelection

Got it.

across he has to carry a list!

Brady Dennis
@brady_dennis
"Zinke’s #2 has so many potential conflicts of interest he has to carry a list of them all."
@eilperin

www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-man-behind-the-curtain-interiors-no-2-helps-drive-trumps-agenda/2018/11/18/6403eb4c-e9ff-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html

Mark Berman
@markberman
This might sound like an exaggeration, but no, he literally has so many potential conflicts from “years as a lobbyist representing many of the very businesses he now regulates” that he “has to carry a small card listing them all,”
@eilperin
reported last month

Spencer Hsu
@hsu_spencer
NEW U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge for permission to move Maria Butina from jail, including potentially to testify before a grand jury, in a sealed filing apparently made public by mistake.

Peter Jukes
@peterjukes
Butina -> NRA -> Cambridge Analytica. Yet another Russian connection for the British data firm. I’m losing count. Let alone the data connections ⁦
@VickerySec
⁩ keeps on discovering.

Collusion? Co-ordination? Joint interest? Cannot be accident

www.yahoo.com/news/nra-used-cambridge-analytica-2016-172322385.html

Scott Stedman
@ScottMStedman
Is this a bad time to remind everyone that
@LindseyGrahamSC
's 2016 campaign manager worked alongside Manafort and Russian intel agent Kilimnik?

On a deal with Oleg Deripaska, nonetheless.

Speculative but interesting thread on who the mysterious grand jury witness might have been

David Carroll 🦅
@profcarroll
My best guess: Rebekah Mercer

mobile.twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1074116131915472898

Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
Missed point about the
@MickMulvaneyOMB
pick:

By installing a Senate confirmed official as CoS (who is not quitting as OMB chief) Trump blunders into being the first POTUS to have a CoS who can be called to testify before Congress.

‘Stop,’ ‘I wasn’t there,’ ‘I don’t know anything about that’: Republicans dodge or dismiss Trump’s legal woes

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/stop-i-wasnt-there-i-dont-know-anything-about-that-republicans-dodge-or-dismiss-trumps-legal-woes/2018/12/14/5c7764c2-ffc0-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html

Mueller continues to be interested in interviewing Trump

edition-m.cnn.com/2018/12/14/politics/mueller-interview-trump-interest/index.html

Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Tried to Use GOP Contacts to Score “Billions” in Africa

Here’s another chapter in the Elliott Broidy saga.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/disgraced-trump-fundraiser-elliott-broidy-tried-to-use-gop-contacts-to-score-billions-in-africa/

Amy Siskind weekly update:

theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/week-109/

Some light relief

'SNL' Imagines World Without President Trump In 'It's A Wonderful Life' Spoof

"It's awful, everything's falling apart," Alec Baldwin's Trump confides to his angel, Clarence.
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c15d772e4b009b8aea7e3f4/amp

How come all these Trump villains (Broidy) are so much like baddies in a ludicrous action movie? The kind that live in villas with armed security and get their just desserts at the end of the movie when they try to make their escape in a private plane ...

Ooh, I'd missed this.

Prof David Carroll, the American who sued Cambridge Analytica for misusing his data, is now saying C Analytica failed to tell the judge of those legal proceedings (and potential liability) when filing for bankruptcy.

There's also an allegation that the liquidators are not actually independent of C Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica's administrators misled judge, High Court told
www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/07/cambridge_analytica_crowe_llp_misled_judge_allegation/

Judge Barnett ordered that a full hearing of the claims will take place in early 2019.
[...]
At today's hearing, Carroll wanted a court order granting him access to legal documents used when CA was put into administration. Judge Barnett ordered the documents to be handed over by CA's administrators in mid-January.

And in other news from the same article:

The ICO is prosecuting CA over its alleged failure to respond in full to Carroll's Subject Access Request. That case will be heard at Westminster Magistrates' Court in early January. A related appeal filed at the First-Tier Tribunal by CA company SCL Elections Ltd against a similar ICO order has been discontinued.

To recap.

rantt.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-trump-russia-collusion/

Thanks, lion. (So much has happened that it's necessary.)

Pain re Zinke's no 2 man, puts a twist on lyrics to the Mikado song "I've Got a Little List"!

Of course I prefer the visual of Mueller humming that song with his own version of the lyrics and its original meaning.

The new Chief of Staff won't actually leave his old job.
Smart cookie.

"White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders added that Mulvaney will not resign as overseer of the federal budget in the Office of Management and Budget,"

read.bi/2BuOTbl

Well............