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It’s a National Non-Emergency: Trump thread 91

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TheClaws · 17/02/2019 23:44

Here we are in February 2019 - Trump has declared a National Emergency to funnel the funds for his border wall, he’s just come off a ridiculous SOTU that contained more lies than not, and he’s just tweeted this:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
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“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh

But here’s a reminder he’s not one of the sharpest tools in the box.

It’s a National Non-Emergency: Trump thread 91
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cozietoesie · 05/03/2019 20:48

The mouth.

'Fat Jerry'

cozietoesie · 05/03/2019 20:51

For those who don't recall, Jerry Nadler - who used to weigh in at over 320 - came in for a 'Trump Treatment.'

PerkingFaintly · 05/03/2019 21:03

From cricketballs's link:

@CarolLeonnig
This has all the makings of Constitutional Showdown, Episode 1.
White House refuses to turn over Jared Kushner clearance documents @rachaelbade

cozietoesie · 05/03/2019 21:08

It's not backed by subpoena - I think.

lionheart · 05/03/2019 21:40

Jim Sciutto
‏Verified account

'New (and predictable): Federal budget deficit ballooned in first four months of 2019, up 77% from a year ago as tax revenue plummeted and government spending went up. Treasury Dept figures show deficit hitting $310 billion, up from $176 billion.'

lionheart · 05/03/2019 22:26

New @QuinnipiacPoll: 64% say Trump committed crimes before becoming president and 45% say Trump committed crimes while president.

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TheClaws · 05/03/2019 23:57

Quelle surprise.

Reuters Top News
@Reuters
South Korea sees signs North Korea restoring part of launch site it promised to dismantle (link: reut.rs/2Tk4TIQ) reut.rs/2Tk4TIQ

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TheClaws · 06/03/2019 00:30

Not gonna cooperate, ‘cos it isn’t fair and it’s a YUGE, unprecedented WITCHHUNT, the biggest in POLITICAL HISTORY. (Even though it isn’t fair, he does like setting records.)

thehill.com/homenews/administration/432695-trump-signals-white-house-wont-comply-with-democratic-probes

thehill.com/policy/national-security/432701-cummings-blasts-white-house-for-failing-to-comply-with-security

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TheClaws · 06/03/2019 00:35

Deflection from this pair, too. Donald Jr. even brings up Hillary! Laura drags in Jim Jordan!

Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle

Tune in tonight for blockbuster analysis of the Dems’ colossally stupid decision to overreach with overbroad subpoenas...my sit-down with
@Jim_Jordan
too.
@FoxNews
#IngrahamAngle
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Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr

Jim Jordan: No evidence of Trump colluding with Russia, but 'all kinds' showing Clinton campaign did (link: www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jordan-no-evidence-of-trump-colluding-with-russia-but-all-kinds-showing-clinton-campaign-did) washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jorda

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Lweji · 06/03/2019 00:38

Will they, won't they?

The Orange one won't be happy.

4 GOP Senators declare they'll vote to reject national emergency.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/05/senate-to-reject-trump-national-emergency-declaration

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TheClaws · 06/03/2019 03:04

I’m sure you already guessed this one - Trump pulled rank for a security clearance for Ivanka too.

Walter Shaub @waltshaub
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1h
Because compromising national security for one nepotistic hire wasn’t enough?

t.co/kj6nNkMaoa

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 06/03/2019 08:16

‘Grab that record’: How Trump’s high school transcript was hidden
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grab-that-record-how-trumps-high-school-transcript-was-hidden/2019/03/05/8815b7b8-3c61-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html?utm_term=.0c7b5d7a72b3

In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump’s academic records and help bury them.
The superintendent of the private school “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends” and who wanted to keep his records secret, recalled Evan Jones, the headmaster at the time. “He said, ‘You need to go grab that record and deliver it to me because I need to deliver it to them.’ ”
The superintendent, Jeffrey Coverdale, confirmed Monday that members of the school’s board of trustees initially wanted him to hand over President Trump’s records to them, but Coverdale said he refused.
“I was given directives, part of which I could follow but part of which I could not, and that was handing them over to the trustees,” he said. “I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released. It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records.”

Minimammoth · 06/03/2019 08:57

Not posted in awhile. I can’t believe he is still in post. Are we building up for a big climax? Is Mueller’s report out yet?

EweSurname · 06/03/2019 12:06

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
It's not over. Reminder: Michael Cohen will testify in another closed session today before the House Intelligence Committee.

lionheart · 06/03/2019 13:11

Not yet Minimammoth.

All kinds of movement and motions and ongoing, increasingly desperate attempts by the Trumpies to evade consequences.

AcrossthePond55 · 06/03/2019 15:12

lion has it, mini.

Lots going on, but still no 'smoking gun'. But TBH, I don't expect that we'll really know much until the Mueller Report comes out. If it's made public that is. I think that if any investigation turned up something really, really incriminating the investigators will take it to Mueller first to see if he wants to 'fold it in' to his investigation or if release of said intel would jeopardize it. And if Mueller tells them to keep quiet or sit on the info, they'll do it.

607 days until Election Day. 686 days until Inauguration Day. 774 since Scrotus took office. We can do this.

lionheart · 06/03/2019 15:50

Yes.

And not just Mueller but the SDNY and Nadler and co .... as well as numerous legal challenges to policy and procedures across the states. Plus, the pushback against gerrymandering and voter suppression and Russian bots ...

lionheart · 06/03/2019 15:54

Just seen the video of Cohen arriving for his next session and his entourage is wheeling in suitcases of stuff ... I guess they've been rooting through the storage unit again.

lionheart · 06/03/2019 16:24

Woah.

nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/report-kushner-had-flynn-contact-russia-during-transition.html?gtm=top&gtm=bottom

'In December 2016, Jared Kushner allegedly instructed Michael Flynn to sabotage American foreign policy in order to help a foreign regime violate international law with impunity. (That regime was, of course, Bibi Netanyahu’s.)

More specifically: The president’s son-in-law told Flynn to call members of the U.N. national security council, and encourage them to block a resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank, in defiance of the Obama administration’s wishes.'

TheNorthWestPawsage · 06/03/2019 18:02

More excellent reporting by WaPo on the unauthorized immigrants employed by the Trumps, in this case a man who was in direct communication with Eric. Still don't think the president has been asked about this in any interview, gaggle or presNEW: The president’s sons entrusted their private hunting retreat to a caretaker. He was working in the country illegally, via @partlowj @NickMiroff @Fahrentholds conference.
twitter.com/ddale8/status/1103354289425186817?s=21

Juan Quintero, living in the U.S. illegally, personally texted with Eric Trump about his work at the Trump sons' hunting lodge. When he couldn't produce a social security number to get an ATM card, he was given an ATM card to use in someone else's name.
twitter.com/postroz/status/1103352068734177280?s=21

cozietoesie · 06/03/2019 19:24

Is that legal?