'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

Jennifer Taub Retweeted
Katie Phang
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‼️BREAKING‼️

Acting AG Matthew Whitaker states that the #MuellerInvestigation is close to being completed.

Feb 5 is the day for the State of the Union:

thehill.com/homenews/house/427324-pelosi-invites-trump-for-state-of-the-union-on-feb-5

No longer “Madame”

Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
President Trump has accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's invitation to give the State of the Union next Tuesday, one week after he was initially invited to do so.

Cohen to testify to House Committee behind closed doors:

thehill.com/homenews/house/427335-cohen-to-testify-to-house-intel-behind-closed-doors

Bolton should be more careful how he holds his notepads. This may not occur, but if it does, it’s bad news for Venezuela. (I’ve also read a theory that Russia could be thinking about Venezuelan control in return for Ukraine. Who knows? Stranger things have happened. Like ... Trump in the White House.)

Ned Price @ · 1h
My eagle-eyed colleague spotted on Bolton’s notepad what sure looks like:

“Afghanistan—>welcome the talks.
5,000 troops to Colombia”

Roger Stone’s Greatest Liability
The longtime Trump adviser’s attention-seeking ways made him an easy target for Robert Mueller.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/roger-stone-was-easy-target-robert-mueller/581371/?utm_term=2019-01-26T15%3A11%3A06&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo

And

Roger Stone met with Trump associates hours before raid — and the FBI probably caught it all: CNN’s April Ryan

www.rawstory.com/2019/01/roger-stone-met-with-trump-associates-hours-before-raid-and-the-fbi-probably-caught-it-all-cnns-april-ryan/

And

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Marshall Cohen
@MarshallCohen
NEW TODAY: Mueller still wants testimony from Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller, his attorney tells
@SaraMurray
. What does that mean? Not clear. But Miller has been fighting the subpoena in court for months. Mueller still wants this testimony despite indicting Stone last week.

Re: bolton’s notebook being photographed - in more US/UK parallels, this happened 2 weeks ago

‘No food and no Channel tunnel’: Treasury minister’s document revealed in photograph after Brexit meeting

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-food-channel-tunnel-treasury-cabinet-meeting-theresa-may-mel-stride-a8727481.html

New Randy

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvgfU_g7LI

Fox cares now he’s done it to them.

Julie Banderas @JulieBanderas
By going on Twitter and insulting two of our journalists @realDonaldTrump is putting a target on their backs. In turn his followers will then attack @johnrobertsFox and @GillianHTurner in support on Twitter. Bullying journalists is not Presidential. Period.

Claws That tweet made me laugh out loud.

She truly doesn't see the irony behind that tweet, does she?

Sadly, this is not a parody account. Really.

David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr 10 min

12,000 Illegals Heading Our Way! Flesh Eating Disease Among Them! The Wall and More!

Bolton is not used to attention.

Donald Trump sent a stupid tweet about global warming. Jacob Wohl, noted young right wing lapdog, then sends this:

Jacob Wohl
Jacob Wohl
@onald J. Trump
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Verified account

@realDonaldTrump
Following Following @realDonaldTrump
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In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!

@JacobAWohl Replying to @JacobAWohl
and
@realDonaldTrump
President Trump has reduced temperatures to RECORD LOWS in the Mid West

What did Obama ever do to lower the temperature?

Murky ties to this and that - the definition of swampiness.

qz.com/1535650/trump-insider-got-board-spot-after-us-lifted-sanctions-on-russian-company/

This is very swampy.

It turns out that the biggest donor for M McConnell is none other than the Russian oligarch the GOP has just lifted sanctions on.

medium.com/@TheDemCoalition/mitch-mcconnells-ties-to-russian-oil-money-db56f16a4824

edition.cnn.com/2019/01/28/politics/mueller-investigation-roger-stone-andrew-miller/index.html

Ohhh, that could explain a lot. McConnell may just be thinking of the money. But he might also be worried about too many questions being asked about Russian oligarch friends, and their friends...

Mitch McConnell’s Ties to Russian Oil Money
medium.com/@TheDemCoalition/mitch-mcconnells-ties-to-russian-oil-money-db56f16a4824

The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC run by Sen. McConnell’s former Chief of Staff, received a total of $3,500,000 ($2,500,000 in 2016 and $1,000,000 in 2017) via Access Industries and a subsidiary. Len Blavatnik is a Russian oligarch with US and UK citizenship who owns Access Industries and donated to Sen. McConnell’s 2016 Senate campaign vehicles.
Blavatnik’s Access Industries made many of its billions from Putin’s decisions about its Russian oil partnership. He is also a long-term business partner of Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska at RuSal, in which he is a major investor, as well as Viktor Vekselberg, who is entangled with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen through his U.S. family office Columbus Nova.

That's rather a lot of money.

I heard about this on the World Service this morning:

www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-01-29/us-drops-out-of-top-20-performers-in-global-corruption-index-watchdog-says

and

fortune.com/2019/01/29/us-corruption-transparency-international-2018/

Josh Campbell
@joshscampbell
At today’s Senate threat hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the Russians used social media to interfere in the 2018 US elections and are “continuing to adapt their model.“

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
DNI Dan Coats: "The Kremlin is stepping up its campaign to divide western, political and security institutions ... We expect Russia will continue to wage its information war against democracies and to use social media to attempt to divide our societies."

Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC
One big picture takeaway from this intelligence hearing: There are huge new challenges to the U.S. The president isn't talking about any of them. He's focused on the southern border, which doesn't come up in the threats assessment as a significant security issue.

Ken Dilanian
@KenDilanianNBC
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1h
At threats hearing,
@MartinHeinrich
asked Coats and Wray about
@NBCNews
exclusive reporting that career officials were overruled in seeking to deny Jared Kushner a top secret security clearance. All they can do is present the info, they said. It’s a WH decision.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Richard Blumenthal says there were "questions, serious issues" concerning the truthfulness of testimony from several witnesses who came before the Judiciary Committee and that Don Jr. in particular may have made false statements in his Senate testimony.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/blumenthal-questions-truthfulness-of-trump-jr-s-senate-testimony-1433502787996

A House Democrat Is Probing Whether Steven Mnuchin Had A Conflict Of Interest In The Russian Sanctions Fight
Rep. Jackie Speier is seeking answers about Mnuchin’s reported business dealings with a Ukrainian-born billionaire with ties to Oleg Deripaska.

www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/emmaloop/steven-mnuchin-deripaska-russia-sanctions-jackie-speier

Ellen Nakashima
@nakashimae
DEVELOPING: Senate Judiciary panel postpones AG nominee Bill Barr's confirmation vote amid Democrats' concerns he will limit the Mueller probe.