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

[TheClaws]

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.

Kyle Cheney
‏*@kyledcheney*
INBOX: House Intel Committee will interview Felix SATER in an open hearing next Wednesday at 9:30 am.

My UK friends and ex-colleagues (mostly via FB) are not happy at all with Brexit either. And I still have financial interests in the UK, so I'm hoping for the best outcome possible.

18:00 GMT - Press conference by European Council President Donald Tusk

That's 11AM here (it's currently 8.30). It will be interesting. I kind of look at Brexit as similar to what might happen if California decided to secede from the US. Not that that's going to happen, there's no Constitutional mechanism for a state to secede and in 1869 the SCOTUS ruled that a State cannot secede.

Surprisingly cozie, one of my nicknames is 'Pollyanna' because I'm usually such an optimistic person. Playing the 'Glad Game' is second nature to me. I guess it just goes to show that even the most 'cockeyed optimist' these days can get the stuffing knocked out of them. But it's OK......

Distracted from the disaster that is May's Brexit by this horrifying news:

The New York Times
‏Verified account @nytimes
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Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a bill largely banning abortions once doctors can detect a trace of a fetal heartbeat with an ultrasound, which can come as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy.

www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/abortion-laws-states.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/julian-assange-documents-house-judiciary-probe-1230820

And Stone is 'taking the Fifth'.

David Carroll 🦅
@profcarroll
Another huge Facebook story is dropping today! DC AG filing shows Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica long before first reporting. The cover up is always worse than the crime.

mobile.twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1108779794114768897

DC AG wants email chain unsealed so the public can see what’s redacted in the filing. Facebook knows it’s going to make them look guilty of deception. Remember, Zuckerberg and Sandberg testified under oath that they learned about Cambridge Analytica from The Guardian story.

So either the executives did perjury or their company is catastrophically mismanaged.

And of course most people don’t realize that Cambridge Analytica was illegal per UK law which applied to US citizens in this case. (I proved that.)

And to add to the fucked up shiteness of the moment, the bawbag has decided now is the time for the US to recognise that the Golan Heights are Israel's......

I think I found an answer from the Young Turks to the question I asked a couple of days ago, about whether Donald Trump repaid Deutsche Bank.

You seen Preet Bharara's tweet 🙊

Check out @PreetBharara’s Tweet: twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1108775745613123585?s=09

What does he know?!

Ah, the SixFourThree document trove coming good again.

(I can't even remember why those folks were in a lawsuit with Facebook, but it's certainly put some interesting documents into the legal domain.)

Yes, I saw that tweet. I've just started to read his book ... (trying to find sunlight wherever it can be had).

Why has Mueller asked for an 11day extension to 'deadline'?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/arron-banks-andy-wigmore-brexit-supporters-trump-guests-mar-a-lago

Is that a white power hand signal Arron Banks is making?

Nah, I think it's just his lunch!

If I'm looking at the right photo, that is? Of Banks and Andy Wigmore in what looks like London?

Brexit via the New Yorker.

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/theresa-may-has-poisoned-the-well-of-british-politics

BREAKING: In letter to WH, Rep. Cummings reveals that KUSHNER was routinely using WhatsApp to conduct official business as recently as Dec. 2018. Kushner's lawyer told lawmakers he screenshots messages to preserve them.

Cummings wants details by April 4.

Lowell also told lawmakers, per Cummings, that Ivanka Trump doesn't forward email she receives to her official White House account unless she replies. Cummings says this "would appear to violate the Presidential Records Act."

The lawmakers asked Lowell if Kushner used WhatsApp for classified information. "That's above my pay grade," Lowell replied, per Cummings.
twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1108775626973028352?s=21

www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/elijah-cummings-jared-kushner-encrypted-app-1230978

What is the significance of 4 April?

I think April 4 is just Cummings' own deadline - i.e. reasonable amount of time to respond...?

Trump Day? When did that happen?

Trump Has Now Shifted $1.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business
www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/03/20/trump-has-now-shifted-13m-of-campaign-donor-money-into-his-business/

Ahhh. He has Forbes on him.

When the worst thing the President did was to wear a bike helmet.
According to Hannity.
With soft gay porn Putin photos.

Good times.

Although... (beach photos)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3917954/Barack-Obama-shirtless-Best-of-the-world-leaders.html