Trump's lie to James Comey about not spending the night in Moscow after the 2013 Miss Universe pageant has been officially blown to shit.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast: 

In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion of an intelligence dossier claiming Trump hired Russian prostitutes to urinate on a Moscow hotel-room bed in 2013, while he was in town for the Miss Universe pageant. 

According to Comey’s memos about that conversation, Trump claimed it was impossible for him to have done any such thing, because “he had spoken to people who had been on... the trip with him and they had reminded him that he didn’t stay over night in Russia for that.” 

All available evidence proves otherwise—from flight records obtained by Politico to social media posts from the time to testimony from Trump’s own bodyguard. And now there’s more proof. 

Thomas Roberts, host of that year’s Miss Universe pageant, confirmed to The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Trump was in Moscow for one full night and at least part of another. 

“The first time I met Donald Trump it was in Moscow on November 8th, 2013,” the former NBC anchor said. “I taped a sit-down interview with Trump the next day on November 9th. That was also the date for the Miss Universe broadcast.” 

Roberts continued: “During the after-party for the Miss Universe event, Mr. Trump offered to fly me and my husband back to New York. He said he would be leaving directly from the party. We were unable to accept the invitation. That was the early morning hours of November 10th.”

I actually resisted reporting on this earlier because the only account we have that Trump said this is from Comey, who the Trump folks will simply discount as a liar.

However now that so much information has come out that Trump DID lie to the former director of the FBI, and now that so many news outlets have reported it, I think it is important to note here on IM as well.

You know, just to keep a record of the number of lies that Trump has told since announcing his intention to make a run at the White House.

Which I think is well into the hundreds by now. 

Besides, from what we have seen Comey took meticulous notes to back up his version of events, and has not been shown to be wrong yet. 

Habitual liars like Donald Trump will quite literally lie about ANYTHING, even if they know they will be caught, and even if it really does not serve them to do so.

Simply put, they cannot help it.

MSNBC cancels Ronan Farrow show. Well its' about damn time!

Courtesy of The Wrap:  

MSNBC’s daytime changes continued Thursday with the cancellation of “Ronan Farrow Daily,” an MSNBC spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap. 

Farrow’s program was mired with poor ratings since its premiere one year ago. His show’s axing comes on the same day the program which follows him—”The Reid Report” hosted by Joy Reid—was also canceled.

Okay well I feel badly for Reid who I thought did a reasonable job, but I am ecstatic that Farrow is off the air.

Full disclosure even though MSNBC is my go to news source most of the time, there are a few hosts that I can only take in small portions.

One is Joe Scarborough who I rarely see because his show is over by 5 AM Alaska time. So I only see a portion of his show if something particularly newsworthy happened.

Which is rare these days.

I also can only handle Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton in small doses.

Matthews because he is an arrogant windbag, that seems sometimes to be leaning a little to Libertarian for my tastes, and Sharpton because he has a god awful time reading from the teleprompter, and it drives me nuts.

But only Farrow will force me to change the channel to literally anything else.

That has sometimes included changing the channel to Fox News, so you KNOW he must really bother me.

I cannot even put my finger on what it is exactly. But something about him repels me in a way that few television talking heads ever have.

Hell I would rather sit through Sean Hannity talking shit about the President, then watch Ronan Farrow report on how Obamacare is improving health care in this country.

I am also pleased with who will replace Farrow and Reid: 

The network will move “Way Too Early” host Thomas Roberts to the 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. timeslot, where he’ll host a news show. 

Now see I really like Roberts and thought his talents were wasted as part of the Morning Joe fraternity.

The guy is smart, quick witted, and always very professional.

So I look forward to the debut of his new show.

The article goes on to say that Farrow will host a series of interview specials, but I can assure you I will not watch one of them. Not one.

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts tees off on disingenuous Republican lawmaker: "Do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?"

Courtesy of the YouTube page: 

"Let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?" 

As expected, that set off Blackburn: "I've got to tell you something. I think that comments like that, that you are making, are just incredibly inappropriate." 

Roberts volleyed back with a fiery response: 

"You don't think it's incredibly inappropriate to shut down our government and take all the hostages of Americans that you've taken? No, it's not inappropriate because you took the government hostage through the shutdown and all the American people, you're now walking them to a cliff, the economy, and you're going to push them over one by one based on the fact that you don't like the ACA. That's all it is. You don't like the Affordable Care Act." 

"Listen to yourself!" Blackburn replied. "Just listen to the way you're sounding. My goodness! We didn't want a government shutdown. We don't want a government default." 

Roberts read off a recent quote from Blackburn praising Sen. Ted Cruz for his efforts in defunding Obamacare, because accusing: "So you have been planning a shutdown since August." 

"Not at all," Blackburn shot back. "What you are doing is so inappropriate. We didn't want a shutdown. What we want to do is solve problems."

No they could care less about solving problems, ALL they want to do is destroy the President's signature piece of legislation and are willing to shut down the governemtn and bankrupt the country to do it, and we have seen reams of evidence to support those conclusions. 

You know I gotta tell you that Thomas Roberts guy is rapidly becoming one of my new favorites on MSNBC. He will soon join the ranks of Alex Wagner, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O'Donnell as my one of my "must watch" MSNBC hosts.

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts delivers the smackdown to RNC Chairman Reince Prebus.

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I really like Thomas Roberts.

I like that he always seems so cool and prepared during his interviews.

For the most part he is also very fair and respectful of his guests. But Prebus was being SUCH a douchebag that I don't think he deserved ANY respect from Roberts.

The video is a little hard to understand at times because Prebus constantly talks over Roberts and tries to bully him into submission.

In the end all Prebus accomplishes is making sure that the viewers know for a fact that the leadership of the GOP is just as immature and unqualified as the Teabaggers that are now running the show.

By the way listen to the end for a great final rejoinder from Roberts.