The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.
The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities.
Keep in mind that this is a subpoena, not a request, for these documents.
That means that Mueller is not giving the Trump Organization any wiggle room.
This of course is REALLY going to piss Trump off, and that might mean that he would pull the trigger on a plan reported by Vanity Fair to replace Jeff Sessions with somebody who could rein Mueller in a little:
Perhaps most consequential for Robert Mueller’s investigation, sources said Trump has discussed a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to two Republicans in regular contact with the White House, there have been talks that Trump could replace Sessions with E.P.A. Administrator Scott Pruitt, who would not be recused from overseeing the Russia probe. Also, as an agency head and former state attorney general, Pruitt would presumably have a good shot at passing a Senate confirmation hearing.
If Trump were going to make a move to get rid of Mueller, I would think that this would be the thing that would push him to do it.
And remember there is virtually NOBODY in the White House anymore to talk him down.
Republicans fear they botched Russia report rollout
ReplyDeleteGOP lawmakers are on the defensive after challenging the intelligence community’s findings on election meddling.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/974435675566198789
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/house-intelligence-republicans-russia-probe-465805
Trump was, per Aras and Emin Agalarov, in a "letter-of-intent" status with the Agalarovs' building company from November 2013 through February 2017—that is, the entirety of the time that Trump was planning a run, the entirety of the run itself, and the entirety of the transition.
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Notably absent from Russia #sanctions list today: Aras Agalarov, the oligarch who hosted @realDonaldTrump at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.
https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin/status/974313872365670400
Trump Organization 'negotiated with sanctioned Russian bank in 2016'
ReplyDeleteClaim is contained in memo by Democratic lawmakers investigating possible collusion between Trump campaign and Kremlin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/trump-organization-negotiated-with-sanctioned-russian-bank-in-2016
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-sanctions/russia-to-expand-black-list-of-americans-in-response-to-sanctions-ria-idUSKCN1GS0IY?il=0
Delete"“From the very beginning, we use the principle of parity on the number of people included in sanction lists. So we will expand our ‘black list’ with another group of Americans,” Ryabkov was cited as saying."
More evidence for Mueller.
ReplyDeleteThe simple fact is that Donald Trump will keep committing crimes—Obstruction, Witness Tampering, and (in both past and the near future) Perjury—until someone finally holds him accountable. The GOP has stood aside and let this serial lawbreaker go wild.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/974046983877951489
It's astonishing! I'm hanging on to something I heard about, the wheels of justice are slow.
DeleteFox News panelist admits the network has a pipeline to get people directly into the White House
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Trump has made clear he wants Sessions to fire McCabe before McCabe retires so his pension will be jeopardized. The problem here: Trump is risking criminal charges by discussing this witness against him in public—and Sessions is supposed to be recused from deciding McCabe's fate.
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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace reported that Trump is blowing up over the subpoena of the Trump Organization because he is worried that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is about to bust his kids Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric for financial crimes involving Russia.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/15/trump-is-terrified-that-robert-mueller-is-about-to-bust-his-kids.html
HOW SCARED SHOULD TRUMP BE OF MUELLER? ASK JOHN GOTTI OR SAMMY “THE BULL”
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Trump Is Terrified That Robert Mueller Is About To Bust His Kids via @politicususa
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#MuellerTime
I wonder when our Alaska senators will grow a pair and start asking some questions.Yeah right, what am I thinking? Maybe Joe Miller would save us from having to lick the constitution off trumps bootheel.
ReplyDeleteEye-opening, indeed. via @actdottv How trolls operate.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/973272011089895424
HR McMaster is gone.
Welcome to DICKtatorship.
DeleteLiz Cheney tweet "Gina Haspel has spent her career defending the American people and homeland. @RandPaul is defending and sympathizing with terrorists."
Delete'Somehow, you're still not the worst Cheney'
Fuckudick
Liz Cheney moved to a state where she knew she’d be elected after the first try. Same for Mitt Romney Part Deux.
DeleteOld liz is defending her daddy, DICK chaney as he gave orders to gina haspel to waterboard and get the info. Daddys name will come up in the hearings again.
DeleteHow do we know he's gone?
DeleteBecause the WHITE HOUSE DENIES IT.
Isn't that what they always do before someone is fired?
When Trump says he has every confidence in you, time to pack your bags.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/hr-mcmaster-trump-has-decided-to-remove-national-security-advisor-report.html
"White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Twitter that the president has a "good working relationship" with his national security advisor, and "there are no changes" at the National Security Council."
Doesn't she say something like this before every firing when it leaks early?
It might buy McMaster a few days but he'll be out, probably on Monday. Or on Friday in the news dump.
"The idea that her father's war profits...
Deletepay for cosmetic surgery...
to make her look more telegenic...
so she can promote and defend the murder of innocents and the torture of any...
in order to "keep me safe"?
Liz Cheney, and the networks who give her a stage, make Jesus himself vomit."
"My father doesn’t need torture explained to him."
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/03/maybe-liz-cheney-should-zip-it-about
Perfect timing, Mueller! Can we consider this a checkmate?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-national-security-adviser-hr-mcmaster-amid-rumors-tensions-president/
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"rump had hoped to ensure that the three-star Army general was not publicly humiliated the way Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was. He also hoped to line up a successor prior to shoving McMaster out.
McMaster has been one of few to disagree with Trump on major issues. He is also still on active duty, so he would have to continue on somewhere in the military.
Reports revealed that Trump has felt emboldened over the last few weeks about his decisions around tariffs and his decision to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As a result he’s decided to make staff changes and install his own loyalists."
'The story is Developing…'
White House staffers have a "Dead Pool" betting on who will be ousted next. I wonder who had money on McMasters?
Deletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-betting-pool_us_5aa9d7f8e4b0004c040717ee
"While many Americans were filling out brackets with their March Madness picks, officials in the White House of President Donald Trump were placing a different kind of bet.
They’ve reportedly placed odds on who will be the next one out the door. "
https://twitter.com/SDawg_Alum73/status/974070806555873281/photo/1
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Trump national security adviser HR McMaster out amid rumors of tensions with president
ReplyDeleteNational security adviser H.R. McMaster has been ousted from his position amid rumors that President Donald Trump has been unhappy with his performance.
The Washington Post reported Thursday evening that Trump had decided to remove McMaster and that others might follow.
According to five sources familiar with the developing story, Trump had hoped to ensure that the three-star Army general was not publicly humiliated the way Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was. He also hoped to line up a successor prior to shoving McMaster out.
McMaster has been one of few to disagree with Trump on major issues. He is also still on active duty, so he would have to continue on somewhere in the military.
Reports revealed that Trump has felt emboldened over the last few weeks about his decisions around tariffs and his decision to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As a result he’s decided to make staff changes and install his own loyalists.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-national-security-adviser-hr-mcmaster-amid-rumors-tensions-president/
Gee. Is he up to a 50% turnover rate yet?
DeleteArkansas student describes being hit on the thighs as punishment for participating in national walkout day
ReplyDelete...“I believe that corporal punishment has no place in schools, even if it wasn’t painful to me,” the teen wrote. “The idea that violence should be used against someone who was protesting violence as a means to discipline them is appalling.”
“I hope that this is changed,” they continued, “in Greenbrier, and across the country.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/arkansas-student-describes-hit-thighs-punishment-participating-national-walkout-day/
Builder of Miami’s collapsed bridge has a strange connection to Paul Manafort
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Trump is the greatest builder, he will fix it.
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ReplyDeleteTrump is firing all of his "best people."
...“I’m really at a point where we’re getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want,” an unleashed Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
According to the Post, Trump is considering several potential replacements for McMaster, including John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Keith Kellogg, the chief of staff of the National Security Council.
Based on the report, it appears that being qualified is not a prerequisite for the job — but being “fun” and “good on television” are.
“Kellogg travels with Trump on many domestic trips, in part because the president likes his company and thinks he is fun,” the Post reported.
“Bolton has met with Trump several times and often agrees with the president’s instincts,” according to Post. “Trump also thinks Bolton, who regularly praises the president on Fox News Channel, is good on television.”
https://shareblue.com/trump-fires-h-r-mcmaster-national-security-adviser/
And he just hired a TV analyst with no formal economics education to be his economic advisor, replacing Gary Cohn.
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Emails reveal Trump team plot to purge civil servant over her heritage
ReplyDeleteSecret emails showed the Trump administration exchanging information from extremist websites as part of a campaign to purge a loyal civil servant, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, because of her Iranian heritage.
The Trump administration plotted the removal of a career civil servant with expertise on Iranian nuclear issues, newly uncovered emails now reveal.
Following the lead of smear artists at conservative propaganda sites, the Trump administration tried to oust Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, an expert working at the State Department on Iranian issues. She also may have been targeted for this harassment due to her ethnicity, which would violate federal anti-discrimination laws.
https://shareblue.com/trump-administration-secret-emails-civil-servant-sahar-nowrouzzadeh/
Hope she sues their asses off.
ReplyDeleteIs it a coincidence that Mueller subpoenas the Trump organization and the Trump administration suddenly moves on sanctions for Russia?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mueller-subpoena-trump-organization_us_5aaab9e3e4b04221740d4a0a
"Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump Organization as part of his investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the development.
Some of the documents are related to Russia, the sources said.
The subpoena is the first known instance of Mueller ordering the production of documents directly from President Donald Trump’s business during his nearly yearlong investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. "
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-states-shift-russia-sanctions_us_5aab2a29e4b0337adf8286c8
"By imposing new sanctions on Russia and condemning a suspected Russian chemical attack in Britain, Washington has hinted at a tougher stance toward Moscow despite President Donald Trump’s stated desire for better ties.
In the most significant steps the United States has taken against Russia since Trump took office amid U.S. intelligence agency allegations that Moscow tried to help him win the 2016 election, the U.S. Treasury slapped sanctions on 19 Russian citizens and five entities for election meddling and cyber attacks.
While the Treasury put off targeting oligarchs and officials close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, it said further sanctions were coming and for the first time blamed Moscow for cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, including nuclear facilities."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-impose-sanctions-13-russians-indicted-mueller-143437112--politics.html
"Pushing back harder on Russia, the Trump administration accused Moscow on Thursday of a concerted hacking operation targeting the U.S. energy grid, aviation systems and other infrastructure, and also imposed sanctions on Russians for alleged interference in the 2016 election.
It was the strongest action to date against Russia by the administration, which has long been accused of being too soft on the Kremlin, and the first punishments for election meddling since President Donald Trump took office. The sanctions list included the 13 Russians indicted last month by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose Russia investigation the president has repeatedly sought to discredit."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/russia-vows-respond-britain-spy-attack-minute/
Delete– ‘Fate of a traitor’ – “any minute” !! WW111?
Its about time that the trumps face reality tv. The evidence is clear. Trump colluded, committed treason, was conspiring and part of espionage against America and the American people. Besides all that, money laundering, tax evasion, human trafficking, rape, sex crimes, assault and rigging the usa presidential election. Gee? that should be enough to wipe that ass off the planet along with his enablers.
ReplyDeleteWow. Jeff Flake goes there.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-flake-republicans-lead_us_5aab28aae4b0c33361af33a6
"Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took aim at his own party over its unwavering support of President Donald Trump.
“Never has a party abandoned and fled its principles and deeply held beliefs so quickly as my party did in the face of the nativist juggernaut,” Flake said on Thursday in a speech to the National Press Club, according to the Arizona Republic. “We have become strangers to ourselves.”
Flake, who is not seeking re-election, said:
“If we are going to cloister ourselves in the alternative truth of an erratic leader, if we are going to refuse to live in the world that everyone else lives in and reckon with the daily reality that they face, including the very real anxiety that they feel, then my party might not deserve to lead.”
He called on the Republican Party to act now to “mitigate and repair the damage” caused by Trump.
“As we are discovering and as we will discover for years to come, there is no damage like the damage a president can do,” he said. "
2020 VI$ION!?
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The last ditch effort and brightest star will save trump on Friday at his marslardo dump site. Even bridges collapsing under manfarts will not keep cadet bone spur and his ace of spades from attending the brilliant affair and meeting of the minds from shithole country.
ReplyDeleteHow long before Trump deliberately tries to start a war in order to distract the public from the investigation? Remember, he says he likes conflict and finds it fun to watch. There’s really no reason NOT to start a war using Trump logic.
ReplyDeleteHe also asked why we have nukes if we don't use them.
DeleteThree times.
"This moment should be the beginning of the end for his campaign. Just like all the other moments should have been."
Deletehttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trumps-terrifying-nuke-answer-at-the-debate-should-end-his-campaign-but-it-wont-20151216
'A nuclear triad refers to the nuclear weapons delivery of a strategic nuclear arsenal which consists of three components: land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs),
strategic bombers, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).'
"British intelligence now believes the daughter of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal unwittingly brought the lethal nerve agent to the U.K. in her suitcase, which was used in his attempted murder. The Telegraph, citing senior British intelligence sources, reported a new theory that the novichok nerve agent was planted in Yulia Skripal’s suitcase before she left Moscow for London, making it much more difficult for the U.K. to trace who was specifically responsible for the attack. Both Yulia and Sergei Skripal remain in critical condition at a hospital following the attempted murders that took place nearly two weeks ago and sparked a furious diplomatic war between Russia and the West. The new theory proposes that an item in Yulia Skripal’s luggage—such as some clothing, cosmetics, or a gift intended for her father—was contaminated with the nerve agent with the intention that it would be opened in Sergei Skripal’s home in Salisbury, England. According to British police, Yulia Skripal flew to London from Russia on March 3." TDB
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