Sam Clovis, co-chairman of President Donald Trump’s election campaign, has reportedly been questioned over whether Trump and his top aides’ knew the extent of his campaign team’s contacts with Russia during last year’s election. One source cited by Reuters has described Clovis as “another domino” to fall after former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts late last month. Investigators are now trying to piece together how far up the chain of command such Russia contacts went, according to the report. “The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-elect Trump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them,” one source was cited as saying. “The investigators now know what Papadopoulos was doing on the Russian front, which he initially tried to conceal, and who he told that to,” the other source said. “Now [they] want to know whether Clovis and others reported these activities and others related to Russia, and if so, to whom.”
Despite Trump's desperate assertions that he is not personally under investigation, I think everybody realizes that these investigations are going to focus on him eventually.
And when they do, and Trump is compelled to testify, that is essentially game, set, and match.
Here is a link to the original article at Reuters .
Mueller always seems to keep things very close to his chest - as to his investigations. How do we know these statements are true - that he is now investigating Trump?
ReplyDeleteHow large is his Mueller's staff? Are folks from within leaking to the media? I would think Mueller would have been on top of that immediately when it started occurring. (the leaks)
Or, are people that are being questioned the ones that are leaking? Guess it could be just about anyone the more I think about it. Feel for Mr. Mueller and trying to do what is right and beneficial to our country.
Trump knows he is finished,and is now in a bind-Cannot stop this,and once it is over he is in trouble
DeleteI can't be the only one who thinks that the juvenile meltdowns he has are due to the fact they're coming for him and he knows it. Malignant narcissism.
ReplyDeleteEgocentric psychopath.
DeleteWaiting for footage of his cannibal days to emerge.
Long ago. Far away.
Isn't that right Donny?
And 9/11 pt2 and war with North Korea soon too come.
ReplyDeleteBingo.
DeleteHere is how Trump is laying the groundwork to fire Mueller if things get too hot for him
ReplyDeleteWhile President Trump cavorts in Asia, his legal problems at home continue to mount. The indictment of three aides, his record-low poll numbers and a wave of Republican defeats in state and local elections compound the threat to his aides, his family and himself by limiting his options. When he returns November 18, he will find himself more vulnerable than ever.
Is Trump trapped? Let’s just say the president’s defenses have a way of backfiring.
Last May, Trump fired FBI director James Comey in an effort to get rid of “this Russia thing.” The result was the appointment of special prosecutor Robert Mueller who indicted former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his aide Rick Gates. According to NBC News, Mueller has also amassed enough evidence to charge Michael Flynn, Trump’s short-lived national security adviser.
Trump claimed allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia were “fake news.” Then came the indictment of George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy aide who says he spoke to a Russian about getting “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
Trump, who has boasted having “one of the greatest memories of all time,” said he couldn’t “recall much” about a 2016 meeting in which he appeared in a photograph with Papadopoulos.
Now Trump has a new defense, offered by surrogates in Congress and Fox News.
‘Risk of a Coup’
“We are at risk of a coup d’état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly elected president of the United States,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said in a Capitol Hill speech Wednesday, according to The Hill. “That is precisely what is happening right now with the indisputable conflicts of interest that are present with Mr. Mueller and others at the Department of Justice.”
Along with Congressmen Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Andy Biggs (R-Arizona), Gaetz co-sponsored a resolution last week that questions Mueller’s neutrality. Capitol Hill Republicans claim the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation is compromised because Mueller was the head of the FBI when the Obama administration approved the sale of the Uranium One mining firm to the Russian atomic energy agency.
The Uranium One story, it must be said, has replaced “Benghazi” as the conservative conspiracy theory du jour for a good reason: The Uranium One story does have the whiff of Clintonian corruption.
People associated with Uranium One donated an astonishing $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, mostly before and during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential run, according to the Washington Post. In addition, Bill Clinton received $500,000 from a Russian bank to give a speech at a conference in Moscow in 2011.
What the Uranium One story doesn’t have is any evidence of wrongdoing or bias or conflict of interest by Robert Mueller. The Treasury Department was the lead agency that headed the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which approved the investment, according to CNN.
There is no evidence that the Uranium One sale violated any laws or harmed the United States.
more...
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/here-is-how-trump-is-laying-the-groundwork-to-fire-mueller-if-things-get-too-hot-for-him/
If Congress tries to do something stupid, unconstitutional or just plain evil, you can always bet that Louie Gohmert's name will be attached.
DeleteThe coup has already happened. Russia and 7 Mountains cretins. Don't y'all get it?
Delete333 fine and dandy fantasy.
DeleteQuestion: what happens when "you know who" walks into ICC? So much for 7 mountains!
Humanity might get set free!
Now that is a Hella Gift hu?
‘They’d rather keep a child molester in the Capitol’: Conservative Jen Rubin blisters GOP’s thirst for power
ReplyDelete...“That’s the mentality of things that are going on,” an animated Rubin began. “You have a Republican Party that’s devolved into tribalism. Whatever they have to do: lie, cover up, violate their own oaths because the tribe is everything. That majority is more important than keeping a child molester out of the Capitol.”
“The second thing that’s going on is Bannon is trying to remake the party in his image,” she continued. “He wants them all to be as crazy as he is. This is an ego trip for him, this is an ego trip for the president — punish their allies.”
“What would they do with a majority? They can’t legislate,” she snapped.
Watch the video below via MSNBC:
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/theyd-rather-keep-a-child-molester-in-the-capitol-conservative-jen-rubin-blisters-gops-thirst-for-power/
“What would they do with a majority? They can’t legislate,” she snapped.
DeleteGold.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/devastating-supercut-shows-trumps-own-appointees-contradicting-his-russian-meddling-denials/
ReplyDeleteTrump will claim he has bone spurs and can attend the hearings... anything to get him out of this...cornered animal now.
ReplyDeletecan should be can't -- sorry.
DeleteBo its really his iq.
DeleteTrump doesn't appear to have the pushback from his constituents regarding his non involvement with Russia.
ReplyDeleteI hope that is a positive sign that the swamp is seeing the writing in swamp house.
Trump/pence/ryan have to go!Mueller may be our only hope? Short of a civil war.
Spineless Trump signals to Putin he won’t enforce America’s sanctions on Russia
ReplyDelete...A day after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Donald Trump told reporters that he doesn’t want to enforce sanctions on Russia because he would rather deal with the Kremlin as a friend.
The sanctions package, which passed through Congress with approval from an overwhelming bipartisan majority, was a direct response to Russia’s unprecedented interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as their human rights violations and military aggression in Ukraine.
Trump begrudgingly signed the sanctions into law on Aug. 2 and had until Oct. 1 to start implementing them. After blowing past that deadline with no explanation, a new deadline of January 2017 was set to implement the sanctions targeting Russia’s defense, intelligence, and energy sectors.
But on Sunday, Trump said Russia has already been “very, very heavily sanctioned” and suggested that we should try to make friends with the country that is actively trying to undermine our nation’s democratic process.
Being on better terms with Russia, Trump said, would be “an asset to the world.”
He went on to parrot more Kremlin-approved talking points, insisting that we can only fight terrorism and solve other global issues if we let Russia do whatever they want, without consequences.
https://shareblue.com/spineless-trump-signals-to-putin-he-wont-enforce-americas-sanctions-on-russia/
January 2018.
DeleteSoon Trump will need a Costco sized jar of Vasaline.
ReplyDeleteENOUGH. ENOUGH with the (here implied) sexual violence!
DeleteYeah, Trumps a bad guy. No one deserves what you wrote.
Sociopath Sarah does! Since she has carnal knowledge of a man doing that to children!
DeleteHu Sarah. Guilty much bitch?
what are you talking about?
DeleteSarah doesn't know any pedos personally? If you're talking about S Palin.
Eyeroll. Really 2:58? Haha.
DeleteShake of head. Then YOU don't know Sarah. Raised eyebrows.
Therell be no rubbers for Dump in the grey bar. Trump being such a germophobe makes it even better. DO UNTO THOU,AS YOUVE DONE TO OTHERS. Revenge for the innocents. Revenge is a soup best served up cold. A little late,but just as satisfying.
DeleteYeah. Todd supplied prostitutes and the brother supplied MTF weed. Sarah was happy. His little bro was Sarah's puppet. Oh chit. A prostitute died. Blame stupid kid. Wrong place wrong time. Whew. Back to poisoning...
DeleteOh chit. Weed dealer raped babies. Hang em high. Where is Danny at Sarah? Word is you gave a pass to the child rapist. After ya hung his Weed dealing, Ho killing, child raping brother? Hmm.
Did ya do a double in Omak?
Sarah has a history of this!
As if the bitch is innocent.
@6:59PM THE BE$T! in Alaska!
DeleteMatanuska Thunder Fuck
And Trump is going to lie and lie and lie and it will all be recorded and witnessed.
ReplyDeleteAt long last, the fun part...
“It’s very clear that the Russians interfered in the election, and it’s still puzzling as to why Mr. Trump does not acknowledge that and embrace it, and also push back hard against Mr. Putin,” Brennan said, adding that the Moscow’s threat against American democracy was real.
ReplyDeletehttps://lawnewz.com/high-profile/brennan-says-its-puzzling-why-trump-keeps-downplaying-russia-interference/
In states, legislators face flood of harassment allegations
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/359867-in-states-legislators-face-flood-of-harassment-allegations
wow.
AMERICA STOP THIS SHIT
ReplyDeleteWashington Post:
He has never tried a case, but Trump wants to make him judge for life
Brett Talley, a 36-year-old lawyer whom President Trump nominated for a lifetime federal judgeship, has practiced law for only three years and has yet to try a case.
Talley is the latest federal judicial nominee to draw scrutiny for what some say is his limited experience in practicing law and the level of partisanship he had shown on social media, on his political blog and on several opinion pieces he had written for CNN. He has also received a “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, which vets federal judicial nominees....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/12/he-has-never-tried-a-case-but-trump-wants-to-make-him-judge-for-life/?
“Your overall qualifications and preparation for becoming a lifetime-appointed federal judge are a concern to me,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said, according to her written questions to Talley.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/12/he-has-never-tried-a-case-but-trump-wants-to-make-him-judge-for-life/?
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) did not mince words, asking questions like:
ReplyDelete“How can you claim to be qualified for a lifetime appointment to supervise federal trials on a daily basis when you have never yourself tried a single case?” and
“Do you think it is advisable to put people with literally no trial experience on the federal district court bench?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/12/he-has-never-tried-a-case-but-trump-wants-to-make-him-judge-for-life/?
“Brett Talley is entirely unqualified for a federal judgeship because he lacks the breadth and depth of experience necessary for the job, and he has demonstrated ideologically extreme views that call into question his temperament and judgment,” Vanita Gupta, president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/12/he-has-never-tried-a-case-but-trump-wants-to-make-him-judge-for-life/?
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/trump-judicial-nominee-busted-after-failing-to-disclose-marriage-to-white-house-lawyer-and-mueller-witness/
DeleteThe bar association gave a “not qualified” rating to four Trump judicial picks. Two, Talley and Leonard Steven Grasz, an Omaha lawyer nominated to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, were unanimously deemed to be unqualified. Two others, Charles Goodwin and Holly Teeter, nominees for federal district judgeship in Oklahoma and Kansas, respectively, were rated as “not qualified” in a split decision.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/12/he-has-never-tried-a-case-but-trump-wants-to-make-him-judge-for-life/?
Trump is living in the past. When Comey told him he was not under investigation that may have been true AT THE TIME. But Trump has embraced that as he isn't and never will be under investigation. He's living in fantasyland, just as he has been most of his life. Reality can't touch him. And when it tries, it's fake news and he tries to control it, bend it or break it until it conforms to the reality he wants.
ReplyDeleteSociopath.
Malignant Narcissist.
What a field day the psychiatric profession would have if they truly had a chance to properly study him. Bet he'd break records for the human with the most psychological defects in history.
Tick, tock, DJT.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/ana-navarro-trump-can-smear-intel-officers-as-political-hacks-but-he-cant-run-from-bob-mueller/
"Trump can make as much “background noise” as he wants, she said, “It doesn’t matter because Bob Mueller doesn’t care. He will continue investigating and we will get closure.” Ana Navarro
This train is not stopping until after it's mowed all these traitors down.
GeorgiaPeach
Bring his ass down!!
ReplyDeleteIt all comes down to whether Trump was in collusion,or was he just too stupid and incompetent to know what was going on with his own team.
ReplyDeleteGet that motherfucker traitor
ReplyDeleteAyup. But how long before it's too late? I think we're already hip deep in Russia and the damage from Stupid, maybe too deep to recover.
Delete$wamp Quicksand!
DeleteWe kinda sorta need to forget about Moore. This is a shiny object. As someone commented upthread, the next 9/11 is being planned to deal our fate.
ReplyDeleteStay vigilant.
TRUMP HAD TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND HE DID NOT MENTION IT! SNEAKY BASTARD
ReplyDeleteIMPEACH DOTARD
New York Times
Trump Judicial Pick Did Not Disclose He Is Married to a White House Lawyer
WASHINGTON — One of President Trump’s most controversial judicial nominees did not disclose on publicly available congressional documents that he is married to a senior lawyer in the White House Counsel’s Office.
The nominee, Brett J. Talley, is awaiting a Senate confirmation vote that could come as early as Monday to become a federal district judge in Alabama. He is married to Ann Donaldson, the chief of staff to the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II.
Mr. Talley was asked on his publicly released Senate questionnaire to identify family members and others who are “likely to present potential conflicts of interest.” He did not mention his wife