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

[lionheart]

And none of these people were actually voted in.
When will come the fall? Where are the right thinking GOPs are there any?

Look at all the stuff he has to do ...

www.palmerreport.com/analysis/signing-blank-paper-trump/14870/

www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-trump-isn%E2%80%99t-playing-five-dimensional-chess/ar-BBReOnA?ocid=st

He was signing secret bills, so blank paper to prevent journalists from reading them.

Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom

Olga Lautman
@olgaNYC1211
Trump is under investigation in all his dealings, past and present.
Why did it take Trump to become Pres for this to happen? Trump NY was virtually a Kremlin mob satellite for almost 4 decades and its infuriating that no one looked into it. Trump should have never seen the WH

None of this is new and was all out there including all Trumps dealings, partners, bribes, etc. I started looking into Trump 3 yrs and was shocked by the amount of corruption and illegal dealings he was involved in. Why was this ignored? The same goes for everyone surrounding him

This includes Manafort, Stone, and everyone surrounding Trump. At one point Trump has 3 Kremlin mob linked operations running out of his home. Why did no one stop him and his family?

And why did no one see Trump’s coordination w Russia while they were attacking us in real time. It started in 2015

Trump took a KGB sponsored trip to Moscow organized by senior Soviet officials in 1987 and came back attacking US. Why did this not raise red flags?

Trump and his criminal associates wouldn’t be able to pass a background check to work anywhere yet Trump became Pres with access to everything. It’s really frightening

Well, quite. I remember us discussing many of these criminal activities, which he's being charged for now, well before the election. But somehow the Democrats seem to have been stuck defending Hillary's emails and accusing him of bragging of pussy grabbing.
He was being sued for his con university at the time, even.

Scary. The timeline showing how the orange buffoon decided to pull US troops out of Syria.

apnews.com/ec2ed217357048ff998225a31534df12

Busy, busy, busy.

Trump Discusses Firing Fed's Powell After Latest Rate Hike, Sources Say
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-22/trump-said-to-discuss-firing-fed-s-powell-after-latest-rate-hike

Oh Dear.

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly,” report says.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166

Who'd have thunk.

Pussy Riot couple is denied asylum in Sweden, faces deportation to Russia

"This is a signal to all political activists in Russia that no one will defend them if something happens," one of the punk-rock protesters said.

www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pussy-riot-couple-denied-asylum-sweden-face-deportation-russia-n950726

Olga Lautman
@olgaNYC1211
Why is the West allowing Putin to continue winning? Why would Sweden send 2
@pussyrrriot
members back to Russia to be jailed?
The West was always supposed to protect Democracy and activists who exposed corrupt regimes. Not anymore

seems really not very festive to think we will have yet another bloody Orange Idiot thread before the big day hits us...

.....the big day......??

New York Daily News. It's all a bit sh*t isn't it?

Christmas cozie - although maybe there will be a bigger day before that? one can always hope...

www.lawfareblog.com/document-justice-department-letter-congress-whitaker-recusal

'We need wall.'

secondnexus.com/news/nielsen-tells-congress-need-wall/?utm_content=inf_677_1164_1&utm_souce=twitter&utm_campaign=GTAK&tse_id=INF_1588a2b0060511e9b433ab68d22425b2

We also need new thread.

JUST IN: Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell says “we’ve pushed the pause button” and will not hold any votes until Trump, Senate Democrats reach deal to fund government
twitter.com/cnbcnow/status/1076524945537204225?s=21

Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republicans who control the Senate are now raising the white flag and basically exiting the #TrumpShutdown negotiations because they don't want to get burned, again, by @realDonaldTrump.
twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1076528644435181568?s=21

Wow. Just wow.

Well, at least Yertle the Turtle McConnell didn't choose the Nuclear Option. BUT, this would give him an opening to do so if Scrotus & the Dems can't reach an agreement.

This is waaaayyyy fucked up! I feel for my erstwhile comrades in arms who are now working without pay or sitting home wondering how they're going to meet expenses.

Will they literally have no money coming in?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/mattis-proved-you-cant-serve-both-trump-and-america/578902/

Mattis went more quietly than I thought he would.

BREAKING: The company owned by a foreign country that is challenging a grand jury subpoena in federal court in DC, and lost its challenge at the DC Circuit, has asked the US Supreme Court to step in. The case is under seal, so we have no additional information at this time.

It is an application for a stay, so likely an effort to stay the lower courts’ refusal to quash the subpoena and halt the continuing fines on the company for not complying (similar to what was sought in the DC Circuit).

Thread continues:
twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1076594355497062405?s=21

So the company’s motion clearly was for a rehearing en banc. Having lost that, they want SCOTUS to take up what I understand would be its first ever sealed oral arguments.
twitter.com/bradmossesq/status/1076596186784641024?s=21