Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.
The statement, released in response to questions from The New York Times about the meeting, has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller in recent months have questioned numerous White House officials about how the release came together — and about how directly Mr. Trump oversaw the process. Mr. Mueller’s team recently notified Mr. Trump’s lawyers that the Air Force One statement is one of about a dozen subjects that prosecutors want to discuss in a face-to-face interview of Mr. Trump that is still being negotiated.
We all know this story, right?
Claim is made that Russian lawyer has dirt on Hillary, meeting happens in Trump Tower which includes, Junior, Michael Flynn, and Jared Kushner, when meeting is exposed Trump team makes up story that it was about Russian adoptions.
But here's a new wrinkle:
The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.
Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.
Uh oh, not Trump's Girl Friday.
Of course the lawyer for Hicks has already said this is, altogether now, "fake news."
However let's keep in mind that Mr. Carallo will be testifying under oath, will Hope Hicks do the same?
Does anybody else get a kick that this always seems to go back to emails?
The American People and The World are so sick and tired of these nasty lying evil traitors. It is Mueller time...LOCK THEM UP!!! All of them. They must go go go now.
ReplyDeleteI want to see Hope Hicks and Don Jr is prison along with fat-ass Trump hisself. I'd really love to see that dumb cunt Sarah Huckabee in jail too.
ReplyDeleteAs much as the c-word normally males me cringe, it doesn't when used for Sanders--she's absolutely a monster through and through, far worse than Conway, and nothing would ever make Sanders stop defending Trump.
DeleteIf not jail for her (treason and lies) - than the history books aren't going to reflect her well - along w/her dictator leader!
DeleteIs Hope young and dumb enough to lie for Donald?
ReplyDeleteYep! Plus, she's best buds w/Ivanka! A disaster waiting to occur. Plus, she knows nothing about government.
Deletemiss hick is probably lying for mommy and daddy. Friends of the trumpster foundation of laundry facilities.
Delete@10:08 Can you say 'WTF'? Father IS
Delete'managing director of the Glover Park Group. '
"The company's early projects included several high profile advertising campaigns for corporate clients. In January 2002, The Glover Park Group produced a television commercial for Diageo PLC, advertising its Smirnoff VODKA brand while promoting social responsibility and designated driving. Media reports, including from the Wall Street Journal, described it as a "LANDMARK", as this was the first U.S. network television commercial for a distilled beverage in several decades. The following month, the group launched another television advertising campaign, promoting high-definition television. In May 2002, The Glover Park Group produced a national advertisement campaign for tire safety, funded by the settlement of a lawsuit brought against Bridgestone and its subsidiary, Firestone, by all 50 U.S. states. In early 2003, the company opened a New York office, led by Howard Wolfson, who had previously been executive director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Through the early to mid-2000s, The Glover Park Group carried out a range of communication and consultancy work, including promotion of Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 in May 2004, and preparation work for then-Senator Hillary Clinton for her re-election campaign of 2006."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glover_Park_Group
"Hicks is the daughter of Caye Ann (Cavender) Hicks and Paul Burton Hicks III.[7] Her father was Regional CEO, Americas of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and executive vice president of communications for the National Football League from 2010 to 2015, before his current position of managing director of the Glover Park Group. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut."
"Hicks began working for public relations firm Hiltzik Strategies in 2012, after meeting the firm's founder at an NFL Super Bowl event, working for among others its client Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter, on her fashion line, and then on other Trump ventures."
In August 2014 she joined The Trump Organization full-time. Hicks worked for Ivanka Trump inside Trump Tower, helping expand her fashion label (the Ivanka Trump Collection) and modeling for her online store. In October 2014 she began working directly for Donald Trump in The Trump Organization."
In January 2015, Donald Trump earmarked Hicks, who was 26 years old at the time, for the role of press secretary for his potential presidential campaign. Donald Trump summoned her to his office and, as she tells it, "Mr. Trump looked at me and said, 'I'm thinking about running for president, and you're going to be my press secretary.'"
"Politico labelled her the
"Untouchable Hope Hicks," as she was considered one of the few White House officials whose job was safe"
Wow I will say it for 10.08 WTF? The hicks are bricks in the foundation. Goodness very impressive!! untouchable? Trump said she was the best piece of rump that lardoski has ever had. In reality they all smell like shitholes from the swamp today standing next to rumpster.
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/ex-bush-ethics-lawyer-looks-like-devin-nunes-getting-money-russians/
Meanwhile...THIS tOO:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371578-republicans-head-to-west-virginia-to-plot-2018-agenda
Kochlittleheads
When will Mr. Mueller interview the palins, heaths and McCains? under oath?
ReplyDeleteWhy? Palins would have zero input.
DeleteJohn McCain's daughter isn't impressive or that knowledgeable about her Dad's role in government. She'd lie for him in a second if she thought it needed from her loose lips!
More Palin obsessed bs from the Palin obsessed.
Delete2007 old McCain was forced to put baby mama on stage. By who? The McCains looked like they were extorted, bribed, threatened and then he was very thankful to lose. Lets see? Big military contracts, oil exes, hookers and waste galore, The road to nowhere, strange indeed happenings, and riggers. Mueller may enjoy the conversation.
DeleteOT?" “It has now come to our attention that Congressman Nunes deliberately and materially altered the contents of the memo since it was voted on by the House Republicans. This action is not only dangerous, it is illegitimate, and violates House rules. From the start, Congressman Nunes has disgraced the House Intelligence Committee. Since pledging to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, Congressman Nunes has abused his position to launch a highly unethical and dangerous cover-up campaign for the White House.”"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/01/nancy-pelosi-pounces.html
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http://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/01/russia-scandal-takes-down-paul-ryan-as-top-democrats-demand-that-he-stop-the-memo.html
And Corallo has a history of service during other admins and for being there with Ashcroft, who I had issues with, but Ashcroft did see his job as serving the United States of America. Corallo was the State Dept. spokesman at the time when Comey hurried to the hospital to prevent Gonzales and Andy card from trying to force Ashcroft to sign that paper permitting domestic spying. Hope Hicks is a nothing and is just loving being part of the Trump "family," and no way is she going to intentionally turn on sister Ivanka and daddy Trump and lose her status as hanging around with the rich.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/30/16953558/state-of-the-union-trump-north-korea
Delete"He talked about North Korea the way George W. Bush talked about Iraq."
Why the woman is even on the scene of Trump's government is ridiculous - her only connection is Ivanka. What a joke!
DeleteBut, what else is new w/the day-by-day idiocy we are watching?
Oops, I meant Justice Dept spokesperson.
DeleteHeard on either MSNBC or CNN this morning, too, that if the Nunes memo goes out then Wray will issue a point-by-point rebuttal. If Trump wants the biased memo out to try making himself look like a victim, I hope it's the beginning of the end--let so much more come out that the FBI and others know (without divulging things that will hurt the career professionals who do devote themselves to country).
Hello Hope Hickey is the rich.
DeleteI can't see her going to jail for any of them. But she won't have to. I think she might deny, lie, forget, even go to trial and lose, always knowing that Trumpski will pardon her in the end.
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Deletehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card
Just heard Sleeping Pill Trump speak at the GOP retreat. He said the tax bill was passed essentially "unanimously"--what ?!! And his words about community colleges and vocational schools were too much--hilarious--and I recommend that everyone try finding that part of his speech and enjoy the idiocy.
ReplyDeleteMy theory?
DeleteThings get so hot for Trump, in the near future, that he launches a strike on North Korea. Deflects all the heat and it gets shoved under the table.
Just say'n but think about it.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/913240/North-Korea-news-World-War-3-Kim-Jong-Un-Donald-Trump-South-Korea-Winter-Olympics
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" the odds of North Korea launching a preemptive strike on the United States remain vanishingly slim. If North Korea “launched an unprovoked nuclear strike against the United States,” said Kingston Reif, the director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy at the nonpartisan Arms Control Association, “that would be suicide” for them. The very rare exception would be if Pyongyang feared, even with its nuclear weapons, that the United States posed an existential threat. If North Korea believed “a U.S. attack is imminent, either due to accurate intelligence or miscalculation,” it might use nuclear weapons first “out of fear that its forces won’t last long against the combined might” of the United States and South Korea
" “We need only look at the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to America and our allies,” he said in his address last night. But such declarations conflate the threat Pyongyang poses to its own people with the threat it poses to Americans. Trump “makes the fundamental mistake of equating brutal regimes with undeterrable regimes,” tweeted Vipin Narang, a nuclear proliferation expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The two have nothing to do with each other.” While the United States has no good options on North Korea, there are many steps it can take that are smarter, safer, and more beneficial to its interests than military action. These include diplomacy, burden-sharing with China, or even Barack Obama’s studiously inactive “strategic patience” approach."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/is-north-korea-really-a-large-threat-to-americans/551990/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-love-orrin-hatch-said-better-president-lincoln-washington/
Delete"Per Hatch spox, he has said that Trump “can be” the greatest president ever but has never said "is""
Truth Tellers:
Deletehttp://www.pbs.org/video/lawrence-summers-niall-ferguson-and-evan-osnos-dj3o0o/
@Anonymous9:54 AM, thats what i see happening as well. Distract, distract, distract, oh and but Hillary!!
DeleteWhen the US government seizes assets as they did with Russian bank deposits via the sanctions or when assets are confiscated by police....that is called 'asset adoption'. The press and others continue to ignore that issue and implying it was about kids' adoptions that the Trump family was so willing to break laws to discuss.
ReplyDeleteIt is not. In fact, Trump smirked openly when he repeated the 'adoption' excuse during a press statement. Semantics squared.
The first days they were using 'adoption' excuse for Trump Tower meet up, Jeff Sessions issued a federal edict and published the document on .gov about his new policies and protocols about 'asset adoption'. Session's timing issuing that new edict seemed like a retaliation for having been insulted and mocked by Trump and also....letting people know the lies about the Trump Tower meeting were lies inside lies.
Where are you getting this info?
DeleteI seriously doubt the trumps have ever heard of asset adoption, in reality they are con men not business men.
Jeff Sessions needlessly issued his Adoption of Assets guideline - wherein he admits is existing 'longstanding policy' on July 19, 2017...shortly after Trump smirked while saying the meeting was about adoptions...and...after Sessions became Trump's favorite punching bag. A throng of Russians who one and all represented Russian oligarchs think a narcissistic Trump gives a shit about kids in Russia? Trump doesn't give a shit about kids in the US.
Deletehttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-issues-policy-and-guidelines-federal-adoptions-assets-seized-state
ED dysfunction drumpf cannot go a day without lying. He brags about banging his boyfriends wife. He likes the upper edge so he can extort and bribe his way out. He has met his match. And he will lose. The American people will impeach him. done over and out.
ReplyDeleteJeff Sessions issued his asset adoption guidelines on July 19, 2017. Here is the link:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-issues-policy-and-guidelines-federal-adoptions-assets-seized-state
So giddy msnbc mika threw another fit over the wolff book. She did help elect old dotard drump, yep. Wonder what dirt don has on her? Why does she care about haley and the rump bumping in the night? oh that's right,
ReplyDeleteTo get viewers.
DeleteYeah, the moaning show is on the outs. Same old shit different day. I quit watching when they gave don time. Mornin Msnbc needs a overhaul.
DeleteI thought they were having a tiff with Donnie boy. Now they are backing him? What gives?
DeleteHope Hicks Told President That Trump Jr.’s Emails ‘Will Never Get Out’: Report
ReplyDelete“Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said,” the Times reported.
″Mr. Corallo... told colleagues he was alarmed not only by what Ms. Hicks had said — either she was being naive or was suggesting that the emails could be withheld from investigators — but also that she had said it in front of the president without a lawyer on the phone and that the conversation could not be protected by attorney-client privilege.”
A former legal spokesman is expected to say that the White House communications director gave assurances to Trump.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-jr-emails-hope-hicks-robert-mueller_us_5a727da8e4b0bf6e6e2196ae
The bonkers past 24 hours in Nunes memo and Trump-Russia news, explained
ReplyDeleteThe drama surrounding the secret and controversial memo about the FBI has taken yet another turn.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/1/16959624/nunes-memo-schiff-trump-fbi-russia-scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3UqLAtdZ04
ReplyDelete'Hickey Honky Hicks'?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxTCHg0r9uY
'Tina Turner & Ann-Margret - Ann-Margret show - Nutbush City Limits, Honky Tonk Woman, Proud Mary'
'Now that's talent, ladies and gentlemen of today.
Ann-Margret + Tina = LEGENDS!'
You go girl!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/kay-tur-calls-bs-paul-ryan-claiming-memo-protecting-civil-liberties/
Fuck upchuck toddy boy...
Delete"They've called him everything. A liar, a sexist, a racist and they want him censured or impeached, but he is the president. Democrats do have to deal with him."<BECAUSE he Isis.
"CROWLEY: And that is the problem. I don't trust the president's word. He's demonstrated over and over again, he lies just about every day. He says falsehoods all of the time. It is this new thing going on Washington, Washington-speak"
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/chuck-todd-democrats-now-are-just
GOP plotting to read secret memo on House floor without declassifying it to limit FBI rebuttal: report
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/gop-plotting-read-secret-memo-house-floor-without-declassifying-limit-fbi-rebuttal-report/
MAY to September;-o
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/rankled-uk-will-less-likely-share-confidential-info-us-gop-releases-nunes-fbi-memo-report/
Anyone can be made to look decent with tools. hicks and ivanka are no different. Not natural beauties. And Ralph Lauren? well he puts USA Olympic players in china made cardboard rags? Traitors really do suck.
ReplyDeleteGosh, that picture of Donnie and Hope looks kinda intimate.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, it seems that Donnie and Co. fed so much disinformation that there are no truths only lies.
That's an old KGB tactic, no?