The damning Mueller Report is out - but Trump thinks he’s exonerated (Trump thread 93)

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... not only that, he’s threatening treason charges on those who investigated him.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3540624-Mueller-time-for-Trump-and-his-friends-will-they-all-meet-in-a-courtyard-surrounded-by-a-big-beautiful-wall-Trump-thread-92

Donald quotes his coffee boy saying Trump didn’t do anything wrong even though he (the coffe boy) got sent to jail for said crimes. Coffee boy must have been paid some $$$.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
“They wanted to know what Trump was up to with the Russians - which of course is nonsense. This whole thing was a complete setup.” George Papadopoulos to @seanhannity

I despair for mankind.

Bafflingly, dangerously stupid people.

I cannot stress how dumb this specific strand of Qanon is. It's like numerology mixed with a paint thinner chugging contest.

To recap, Qanon people deduced from a completely random selection of letters in James Comey's tweet that he wrote "Five Jihads," then found a backronym from five other letters.

They found a Nevada school event with that acronym, then the school cancelled the event due to threats
twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1124394245664706560?s=21

The Blue Marble Jubilee school fundraiser, which became the target of unhinged QAnon speculation that I wrote about, was cancelled last night due to unspecified threats. I hope you guys are proud of yourselves and your "non-violent research."
twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1124377653509681152?s=21

That's desperate NorthWest. The response I saw (from the left--perhaps a Bernie bod?) was berating him for his apparent strike breaking.

edition.cnn.com/2019/05/03/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-stephen-moore-supreme-court/index.html

'Washington (CNN)Seven months after he joined the US Supreme Court, the cloud of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations still hangs over Justice Brett Kavanaugh, recalled in media reports across the political spectrum and unresolved in the US judiciary's own process for handling related ethics claims.

The names of Kavanaugh and Ford were repeatedly invoked in news stories as former Vice President Joe Biden entered the 2020 presidential race last week and began addressing his treatment of Anita Hill in the 1991 Supreme Court hearings for Clarence Thomas -- a point of comparison with the Ford-Kavanaugh face-off in the Senate last fall.
Stephen Moore, President Donald Trump's newly withdrawn nominee to the Federal Reserve, said his media critics were "pulling a Kavanaugh" against him with complaints related to his regard for women.
At the same time, formal ethics grievances filed against Kavanaugh based on his testimony in response to the Ford sexual-assault allegations are moving to a higher level of the judicial misconduct process.'

BREAKING: Chairman Nadler will hold AG Barr in contempt if he doesn’t deliver the unredacted Mueller Report and all underlying evidence within in next 48 hours—by 9am Monday. There is no reason why Congress and the American people shouldn’t see everything. What’s Trump hiding?
twitter.com/funder/status/1124659477196701696?s=21

Opinion piece.

Mike Pompeo: a bully boy calls at No 10.
The visit of the hawkish US secretary of state poses problems for Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/mike-pompeo-bully-boy-calls-at-no-10?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Interesting read. (If somewhat vomit-inducing)

Silent accomplice or quiet plotter: what does Mike Pence really want?
Some say the vice-president, who has harboured White House ambitions since he was 16, is motivated by a desire for power.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/mike-pence-what-does-he-want?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-looking-into-social-media-right-wing-bans/

"Trump and Republican members of Congress have long railed against Silicon Valley for what they claim is a perceived bias at the world’s largest tech firms against conservative viewpoints.

“The wonderful Diamond and Silk have been treated so horribly by Facebook,” the president wrote online, referring to the pro-Trump video-bloggers who have repeatedly claimed that the tech giant is unfairly silencing them.

“They work so hard and what has been done to them is very sad — and we’re looking into,” Trump tweeted of the sisters, whose real names are Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson"

Trump is such a pillock... he's defending that Diamonique and Polyester couple of idiots... unbelievable

The Diamond and Silk duo which claimed that the Southern Fried Chicken stunt was racially insensitive?

Pence is something else. He is trying to avoid Trump's shit-show while all the while fronting his own.

Conservative movement ...

checks-and-balances.org/new-statement-from-checks-and-balances-on-the-mueller-report/

www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/04/24/conservative-big-law-veterans-raise-specter-of-trump-impeachment/?kw=Conservative%20Big%20Law%20Veterans%20Raise%20Specter%20of%20Trump%20Impeachment&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=afternoonupdate&utm_content=20190424&utm_term=nlj&slreturn=20190404112549

Extracts from lionheart's link:

New Statement from Checks and Balances on the Mueller Report
checks-and-balances.org/new-statement-from-checks-and-balances-on-the-mueller-report/

The report further revealed a pattern of behavior that is starkly inconsistent with the President’s constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
[...]
We believe the framers of the Constitution would have viewed the totality of this conduct as evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors. Accordingly, Congress, which carries its own constitutional oversight responsibilities, should conduct further investigation.

One of the signatories is George T. Conway, III.

That's a relationship to boggle the mind.

www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-broke-law-hatch-act-violation-joe-biden-1412883

He also retweeted Lauren Southern, a known white nationalist. Southern is one of the Conservatives who have been banned from Twitter. The particular tweet Trump copied (I won’t) had the white nationalist sign. 👌🏻

Breathtaking idiocy. “He knows I am with him & does not want to break my promise to me.” Is this a novel? Kim does not care about you on a personal level. He just fired heaps of missiles into the ocean and is making his neighbours nervous. Jeez.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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Anything in this very interesting world is possible, but I believe that Kim Jong Un fully realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, & will do nothing to interfere or end it. He also knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!

I guess he will rattle up some elements of his base but not all with this alt-right embrace.

edition.cnn.com/2019/05/04/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-2020-election-impeachment/index.html

'(CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is concerned President Donald Trump will not voluntarily step down unless Democrats win by a "big" enough margin in 2020 that he doesn't contest the results, the New York Times reported Saturday.'

This sort of thing can’t be just bandied around. It isn’t rhetorical. I’m not actually certain people like Charlie Kirk quite understand this isn’t a movie; it’s very real. These are real people he is talking about, and this could turn about on him just as quickly. The comments on this tweets are vile: things like the ultimate sentence for treason is death, not jail.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11
RT if you think it’s time for people to start going to jail for spying on
@realDonaldTrump

Tbh at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the rhetoric turned into something else, especially with Barr at the helm of DoJ.

The “stable genius”

Sharp elbows also required in a crowded field.

Julián Castro qualifies for Democratic debates
www.politico.com/story/2019/05/03/julian-castro-democratic-debate-1301142

In order to qualify for the debates, candidates must meet one of two criteria laid out by the DNC. They must score 1 percent or more in three qualifying polls or cross a 65,000-donor threshold, with at least 200 donors in 20 states.

The first two debates will take place on back-to-back nights in June in Miami and July in Detroit. The debates, however, will be capped at 20 participants, meaning it’s possible that candidates will have to meet both requirements to qualify.

According to an analysis by POLITICO, 16 declared candidates have already qualified for the debates: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Castro, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.

About Trump's tweets:

www.npr.org/2018/04/19/603904858/who-is-the-mystery-man-behind-realdonaldtrump-besides-the-president?t=1557074422737

'Tentative date' of May 15 agreed for Mueller to testify before Congress
Democratic congressman David Cicilline says on Fox News: ‘We hope that the special counsel will appear’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/05/robert-mueller-may-15-tentative-date-testimony-before-congress

Soooo, from AskingQuestionsAllTheTime's npr link, Dan Scavino really is... The Caddy!

www.npr.org/2018/04/19/603904858/who-is-the-mystery-man-behind-realdonaldtrump-besides-the-president?t=1557074422737

( Line of Duty, for any poor deprived souls not watching.)