'Everybody has a heart. Except some people,' Trump thread 90.

[lionheart]

From Bette Davis, who was too canny to name names.

Here is the old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3458456-Shutdowns-military-pullouts-and-resignations-it-s-Christmas-and-Trump-thread-89?watched=1&msgid=84240445#84240445

rogue, ffs, not rouge

www.vox.com/2019/1/27/18198729/women-tape-truck-smuggling-trafficking-border

Ho Hum!

Theresa May has shown lots of autocratic tendencies! She’s not as “stand at a podium and say the quiet part out loud” about it but she’s still displayed a willingness to ignore proper procedures to get what she wants.

mobile.twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1083290033082249217

I’ll stop derailing the trump thread though

I don't think that's a derail, Pain. Helps us keep an eye on the bigger picture.

The lost art of compromise. A Beast piece.

Nancy and Chuck

I agree Perking. It also helps those of us here to feel we aren't so alone, that other countries also have their troubles with wrong-headed voters and authoritarian leaders.

It's all worryingly interlinked, what with Bannon whizzing around (on whose behalf?) dripping poison into ears left, right and centre - well, not so much left or centre, more right, further right and Alt Right.

And Murdoch, Farage, Gorka and a few others operating a Transatlantic swamp.

Loathe to read this book so I will rely on snippets like this.

www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/us/politics/chris-christie-book-trump.html

Sneaky.

www.newsweek.com/trump-shutdown-wall-winning-democrats-mulvaney-1306838

'Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney claimed President Donald Trump decided to go back on his previous pledge not to reopen the government without funding for his border wall because Democrats said he was "winning the battle."

During a segment on Fox News Sunday, fill-in host John Roberts began his interview with Mulvaney by asking him whether Trump “caved” to Democrats when he ended the shutdown earlier this week.'

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/27/howard-schultz-trumps-best-chance-julian-castro

He'll realise that. The No 2 spot is critical.

Ah yes, those global anti-globalists...

Presser just started.

We have the heavy mob in... John Bolton and Mnuchin

Bolton won't enjoy being put on the spot - if he is.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-illegal-immigration-experts-concern-drugs-crime-us-border-wall-mexico-a8750721.html

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Acting A.G. Matthew Whitaker says the Mueller probe almost done:

"The [Mueller] investigation is, I think, close to being completed and I hope that we can get the report from Director Mueller as soon as possible.

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Caroline Orr
@RVAwonk
#BREAKING: A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would require special counsel Robert Mueller's final report on the Russia investigation to be turned over to Congress — a step closer to the transparency we need.

Scott Stedman
@ScottMStedman
It's official. The Trump admin just lifted sanctions on Oleg Deripaska: (link: www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20190127.aspx )

US files charges against China's Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47036515

Among the charges are accusations of bank and wire fraud, obstruction of justice and theft of technology from US company T Mobile.
[...]
The indictment alleges Huawei misled the US and a global bank about its relationship with subsidiaries to conduct business with Iran.
A second case alleges the company stole technology from T Mobile used to test smart phone durability.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Russian intel created a false trail linking murdered double agent Sergei Skripal to Christopher Steele before the Salisbury attack, the Telegraph reports. The plot to kill Skripal may have included an attempt to sow doubt on the dossier's veracity.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/20/kremlin-accused-laying-false-trail-linking-sergei-skripal-ex/

Josh Lederman
@JoshNBCNews
Schiff announces that Michael Cohen has agreed to testify before closed Intelligence committee hearing on Feb 8

Carrie Johnson
@johnson_carrie
Just in: Judge in Virginia CANCELS Feb. 8th sentencing for Paul Manafort. "Bc it appears that resolution of the current dispute in defendant's prosecution in DC may have some effect on the sentencing decision in this case, it is prudent and appropriate to delay sentencing."
Manafort was convicted by a Virginia jury of multiple counts of subscribing to
false tax returns. failing to file reports of foreign bank accounts and bank fraud. Now, his punishment will be delayed until the dispute in the D.C. case is resolved.

I believe Mueller is done when Mueller says he is done.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/what-the-roger-stone-indictment-left-out-how-he-helped-russia-attack-the-2016-election/