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

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TheClaws · 22/04/2019 04:35

... 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

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TheClaws · 07/05/2019 08:11

It’s a mind game. Really, it’s the othe way around, but they don’t want us to think this. They also don’t understand communism, socialism, and all the shades of -ism in between, but are happy to throw the terms around to scare people. The US is headed towards a autocratic fascist regime, egged on by these supporters - but I’m not sure it’s fully dawned in them yet.

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec
Comminist Party Directive, 1943:

“When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable buildups, as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of antifascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them."

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lionheart · 07/05/2019 09:05
Smile

Mueller tech

Hearhere · 07/05/2019 12:34

Go Letitia James
you can be nemesis!

PerkingFaintly · 07/05/2019 12:53

Treasury denies 'unprecedented' request for Trump's tax returns
Analysts viewed the flat denial as a direct challenge to Congress’ power to oversee the other two branches of government
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/treasury-denies-unprecedented-request-for-trumps-tax-returns

“In reliance on the advice of the Department of Justice, I have determined that the committee’s request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose,” Mnuchin writes, “and ... the department is therefore not authorized to disclose the requested returns and return information.”
[...]
Analysts rejected Mnuchin’s assertion that Congress did not have a “legitimate legislative purpose” for requesting Trump’s taxes.
[...]
Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent on the Yale faculty, added some historical background.

“The legislative purpose of the law under which the Ways & Means Committee is requesting Trump’s tax returns was passed in the wake of the Teapot Dome scandal,” Rangappa tweeted.

“The entire purpose of the law is to have oversight over potential financial conflicts of public officials.”

cozietoesie · 07/05/2019 18:12

Wall st isn't happy.

lionheart · 07/05/2019 18:39

Woah.

Craig Caplan (CSPAN)
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@CraigCaplan
1h1 hour ago

'Warren from Senate floor since 11:40am has been reading aloud portions of unredacted Mueller report and the letter by former federal prosecutors that Donald Trump would have been indicted if he were not President.'

TheNorthWestPawsage · 07/05/2019 19:12

On and on it goes.

The White House Is Planning a Backdoor Travel Ban on Trump’s “S—thole Countries”
slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-africa-travel-ban-immigration-shithole-countries-remark.html

TheNorthWestPawsage · 07/05/2019 19:15

Early days.

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump by 5 points in Arizona, according to a poll released early Tuesday.

The OH Predictive Insights poll found 49 percent support for Biden, who formally entered the race for the White House last month, compared to 44 percent for Trump. Seven percent are undecided.

A similar poll conducted in February showed Biden and Trump tied at 46 points.

Trump, who beat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Arizona by 3.5 points in 2016, could be the first Republican to lose the state since Bob Dole lost to Bill Clinton in 1996.
thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442422-biden-tops-trump-by-5-points-in-arizona-poll

TheNorthWestPawsage · 07/05/2019 19:22
Angry

Mike Pompeo: Melting sea ice presents 'new opportunities for trade'

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday praised the Arctic region and its rapidly shrinking levels of sea ice for its economic opportunities, despite continued warnings about the catastrophic effects of climate change.

"The Arctic is at the forefront of opportunity and abundance," Pompeo said in remarks in Rovaniemi, Finland. "It houses 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil, 30 percent of its undiscovered gas, an abundance of uranium, rare earth minerals, gold, diamonds, and millions of square miles of untapped resources, fisheries galore."

"Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade," he continued. "This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days."

"Arctic sea lanes could become the 21st century Suez and Panama Canals," Pompeo remarked.
www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/politics/pompeo-sea-ice-arctic-council/index.html

cozietoesie · 07/05/2019 20:14

What a bozo!

TheNorthWestPawsage · 07/05/2019 21:39

That’s a bit more polite than the word I was thinking of cozie

Hearhere · 07/05/2019 21:48

So on the one hand they believe that climate change is a hoax
but on the other hand climate-change provides opportunities?

Lweji · 07/05/2019 21:54

Their main point of contention is whether it's human driven or not, isn't it?

IIRC, ExxonMobil had been planning for it for decades.

Meanwhile...
Trump administration wants to allow debt collectors to call 7 times a week and text, email as much as they want
www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/07/trump-administration-wants-allow-debt-collectors-call-times-week-text-email-much-they-want/
You can imagine the FB comments. Grin

Roussette · 08/05/2019 08:26

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC
Following Following @AOC

Wouldn’t you think someone who personally lost over a BILLION dollars (“more than nearly any other taxpayer in America”) be vulnerable to shady activity to get out of that hole?

If they became the most powerful public servant in America, wouldn’t you want to see their taxes?

cozietoesie · 08/05/2019 13:16

I'd want to know how he got it in the first place? Grin

Roussette · 08/05/2019 14:13

He's already tweeting about it and hates being called a loser, (whilst admitting tax fraud almost)

Just to add fuel to his fire...

www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/donald-trump-one-of-the-biggest-losers-in-america-tax-returns

The 1985-1994 returns “show that in fact Donald Trump is not the modern Midas who turns everything to gold. He is the Wizard, and Toto in the form of the New York Times has pulled back the curtain and revealed the con man,”