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

[lionheart]

Makes G4S look competent, and the UK's continued reliance on G4S reasonable, by comparison.

Contracting out to the private sector: so much more efficient than doing it in-house.

Here are the Russians who marched with Butina.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/meet-the-russians-picked-for-butina-s-trip-to-trump-breakfast

'A Moscow real-estate executive. Two former staffers in Vladimir Putin’s administration. A Siberian mayor with dreams of cloning woolly mammoths.'

Sticky fingers.

grassrootsdempolitics.com/index.php/2018/12/16/staggering-40-million-of-trumps-inaugural-funds-missing/

Just a week left before Trump buggers off to MarLago for a couple of weeks. What will happen with a Govt shutdown, is he going to go for it... Dems aren't caving.

This article explains what's coming up in the next few weeks.
edition.cnn.com/2018/12/17/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-government-shutdown-obamacare/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-12-17T07%3A39%3A01

'Looming over everything is the new reality, fueled by weeks of court filings by special counsel Robert Mueller and other prosecutors, that every corner of Trump's public life is now under investigation: his White House, his campaign, his presidential transition, his inaugural committee, his businesses.'

It's going to be a very interesting time when Dems take the House in January...

Yes, indeedy. For the whole Trump family and associates.

theintercept.com/2018/03/10/ivanka-trump-organization-russia-investigation/

Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump

www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/12/16/mueller-exposes-putins-hold-over-trump/

Blimey.

Russian Effort to Influence 2016 Election Targeted African-Americans

www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html

CBS News @CBSNews
On @FaceTheNation, Stephen Miller says the Trump administration will do whatever is necessary to get the border wall, including a government shutdown in the coming days

twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1074330196365492224

I suggest the dead eyed living dead and the orange turd pick up some bricks and head to the Texas border.

(From yesterday)

Ken Dilanian
‏*@KenDilanianNBC*
If I heard him right, Rudy Giuliani just said on @FoxNews that prosecutors are going through Trump’s business records going back to 1982.

More on the IRA

HOW RUSSIAN TROLLS USED MEME WARFARE TO DIVIDE AMERICA
www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/

I watched Stephen Miller and he was positively frothing at the mouth when talking about 'illegals' and he was bellowing at the interviewer. There's something very wrong with that man.

But I can't listen to what he says anyway, since he has started using spray on hair. He was very very bald and he has now added some furry stuff out of a can to the top of his head.

Boy Blunder, oh yes

medium.com/@gregolear/boy-plunder-the-many-crimes-of-jared-kushner-1a57aaeed856

Wha...? That I did not know.

From that Medium article:

Boy Plunder: The Many Crimes of Jared Kushner
medium.com/@gregolear/boy-plunder-the-many-crimes-of-jared-kushner-1a57aaeed856

Nancy Haberman, the mother of the White House correspondent for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman, did PR for years for Kushner and his family

@Roussette

Yes, I did watch him as well, and he makes my blood boil. I'm pretty sure he's a (fairly) functional psychopath.

But, good point about his baldness. He was a very pronounced bald patch at the back and a positively dark stain on top.
Trump likes his people with hair too, so I imagine Miller is under some pressure to look hairy. The poor thing.

mashable.com/article/stephen-miller-spray-on-hair

That two blokes for $14million story is very Accenture behaviour. They used to be part of Arthur Andersen, but they cheated the parent company so horribly that they were taken to court and forced to change their name.

The spray on fuzz looks even worse in that mashable article! What would possess him to do this? It's obvious he's going to get the piss ripped out of him on twitter, given who he is

This is sounding like good news...
www.politico.com/story/2018/12/17/house-democrats-guns-background-checks-1063231

" A Siberian mayor with dreams of cloning woolly mammoths."

Heck mammoths!

... and all the neighbouring towns investing heavily in tar-pit technology.

Stephen Miller came to work with regular hair today.
twitter.com/katierogers/status/1074673165517893632?s=21

He spent Sunday afternoon turpentining his forehead.
twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1074676254190768128?s=21

And this image was in one of the replies to the tweet.

Yeah.

The only thing about the Accenture story that surprises me is that there is any management, public or private, left in the world that still gives contracts to this shower.

But like I said, G4S. Just why?

WTF w Miller's hair?

Is this kinda real world photoshop, but even less convincing? Oh dear oh dear.

Michael Flynn’s business partner charged with illegally lobbying for Turkey

www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html

This was a deadly move.

www.lawfareblog.com/document-michael-flynn-associates-charged-gulen-extradition-effort

Indeed.