Devin Nunes claims that Donald Trump never met George Papadopoulos. Uh..really?

NUNES downplays PAPADOPOULOS' role in Trump campaign, claims he shouldn't have been investigated for drunkenly bragging about Russia having dirt on Clinton.

"As far as we can tell, Papadopoulos never even knew who Trump wa-- never even met with the president." pic.twitter.com/NgMdzdXVPM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2018

Courtesy of The Week:

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) appeared on Fox & Friends on Monday to talk about the FBI's investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Specifically, he made some questionable claims downplaying the importance of President Trump's former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopolous, who has proved surprisingly essential to a swirl of controversy in Washington. 

Papadopolous triggered the FBI's probe of the Trump campaign and Russia, thanks to a drunken conversation with an Australian diplomat in which he touted Russia's hacking efforts against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. He has also been indicted for lying to the FBI — but Nunes claimed that none of that really matters, because Papadopolous played such a minor role in the Trump campaign. In fact, "as far as we can tell, Papadopoulos … never even had met with the president," Nunes told host Brian Kilmeade.

That claim is untrue. Papadopoulos not only provoked the FBI probe, but he also edited foreign policy speeches for Trump and arranged meetings on the then-candidate's behalf with foreign leaders.

Oh, and there's also this picture. 

 That is Trump at the head of the table and Papadopoulos to his right, separated by only three people.

It should also be noted that Trump himself tweeted this picture out back in March of 2016.

You know it's kind of like Nunes is trapped in one of those sensory deprivation chambers where he remains completely cut off from reality.

Or else he is just a compulsive liar, like his boss.

Angela Merkel finally got that handshake photo with Trump. Not sure it was worth it.

AWKWARD!

So this is the photo making the rounds from Trump's meeting with Merkel today.

I am not sure why they both appear surprised. (Maybe Trump thought he was grabbing something else.)

You can see in this video that Merkel had to work several moments to get Trump to take her hand.

As it turns out this is a meeting that almost did not happen due to a completely dysfunction White House.

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: 

White House officials apparently waited too long to book accommodations for President Trump, leaving him without a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, as world leaders converge for the G20 summit. 

Organizers announced the scheduled summit in February 2016, which requires 9,000 hotel rooms to accommodate world leaders, their sizable staffs, and security details. 

The Hamburger Abendblatt, a local news outlet, reported that the US government wanted to accommodate Trump in the Four Seasons, but it was already booked. In fact, it turns out that every luxury hotel in Hamburg was reportedly booked by the time the Americans called, leaving Trump, who is associated with an empire of hotel properties, scrambling for a place to stay. 

Several weeks ago there were even rumors Trump might have to sleep in Berlin and have to fly to Hamburg via helicopter.

Apparently Trump will be bunking over at the US Consulate General in Hamburg.

Tomorrow Trump will be kissing Putin's ass, so he needs to be well rested.

Bristol Palin pregnancy photo, because why not?

3 weeks left 💕

A post shared by Bristol Meyer (@bsmp2) on Apr 16, 2017 at 1:05pm PDT

Here you go, I thought you would all enjoy a break from all the talk about Donald Trump and politics.

Happy Easter.

Six year old boy writes to President Obama to ask if his family can adopt the Syrian boy from a photo that went viral.

Courtesy of TPM:

A 6-year-old boy from New York is inspiring a lot happy tears this week after he wrote a heartwarming letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to bring a Syrian boy to his house so that boy could become a part of his family. 

The letter writer, Alex, was referring specifically about Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy whose image went viral last month after he was pulled out from rubble in the city of Aleppo following an air strike.

Here is the boy's letter:

Dear President Obama, 

Remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him to [my home]? Park in the driveway or on the street and we will be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons. We will give him a family and he will be our brother. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar. We can all play together. We can invite him to birthday parties and he will teach us another language. We can teach him English too, just like my friend Aoto from Japan. 

Please tell him that his brother will be Alex who is a very kind boy, just like him. Since he won't bring toys and doesn't have toys Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny. And I will share my bike and I will teach him how to ride it. I will teach him additions and subtractions in math. And he [can] smell Catherine's lip gloss penguin which is green. She doesn't let anyone touch it. 

Thank you very much! I can't wait for you to come! Alex 6 years old

Yeah I am going to have to go remove something from my eye. Damn thing won't stop watering.

Good morning America.

Another day where this country is in the competent hands of this man.

Let us make sure that the next set of hands are just as competent.

Donald Trump meets Little Miss Flint. Update!

I think if Donald Trump were to be elected president that his little girl's response would closely match our own.

Perhaps one of the most awkward pictures I have ever seen.

Update: I wish I had THIS picture when I first wrote this post.

Now THAT pretty much says it all.

Too much Trump in the news. So here is your early morning palate cleanser courtesy of President Obama.

You know if I were still into meditation, this is the image that I would use as my focal point.

So sweet, so comforting, so stress relieving.

Somebody built a wall around Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

You know I am usually opposed to building a Donald Trump wall, but this one seems appropriate.

Sarah Palin responds to Dakota Meyer filing custody papers with the Alaska court. Oh, and Bristol claims to have no idea where Dakota got that incriminating photo of Sailor Grace Palin.

Courtesy of ET: 

Bristol's mother, former vice-presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, spoke to ET exclusively about Meyer's claims. 

"For many months we have been trying to reach out to Dakota Myers [sic] and he has wanted nothing to do with either Bristol's pregnancy or the baby," Palin told ET. 

"Paramount to the entire Palin family is the health and welfare of Sailor Grace," she added, claiming that Meyer is attempting to "save face."

Well he had sex with Bristol "for a good time call" Palin so I think it is a little late to "save face."

However obviously Dakota has no intention of sitting idly by while the Palins subtly hint to the world that he is a deadbeat dad who abandoned his child. 

And how is that Palin cannot get her almost future son-in-law's name right?

Here is my favorite part of the article:

According to Bristol's rep, it's unclear where Meyer received the photo he posted.

You mean this photo?

Really? Well according to Sarah, via Bristol's ghostwritten blog, " The most important people in Bristol’s life were there to witness the miracle of Sailor Grace Palin’s arrival last night." So I would start with one of them.

However I think we all know that Bristol sent that picture, and simply did not realize the controversy that it would inspire.

Okay folks grab your popcorn because it looks like we are all set for yet another "Thrilla in Wasilla."

See? I told you 2016 was going to be a very entertaining year.

Can you say "Awkward?"

Jeb! is such a doofus that his campaign staff really should not let him out in public without somebody to keep an eye on him.

Somewhere Bernie Sanders is having himself such a chuckle.

Speaking of Bernie Sanders apparently he has been racking up celebrity endorsements hand over fist. 

New image released showing one of the zombies from the new AMC series "Fear the Walking Dead" based in California. Kinda looks familiar.

Wait, that's not one of the hideous creatures from that new TV series.

That's the hideous creature who used to live in Wasilla, Alaska.

WTF is she doing in California?

Hang on I found the source:

Cheetah444 8 hours ago Good morning! 

Not sure this was posted here or not, but here is a photo of Sarah in San Diego earlier this week. Never heard of Pearson Sharp, but he's an author and Sarah is holding a copy of his newest book entitled The Sovereign. Sharp also works at One America Network News in San Diego. 

Pearson Sharp ‏@PearsonSharp 20h 

Got to meet @SarahPalinUSA at work! #Oann #theSovereign 

Okay well you have to admit that it was an honest mistake.

Gee could Palin be looking to get a job with this conservative One America News Network?

Could be, after all she certainly doesn't have much of anything else going for her right now.

If she gets the job we can start a pool as to how long she will last THIS time.

My money's on not more than a year tops.

But if you think Palin's planning to go legit, and leave her grifting ways behind, well you my friend do NOT know Sarah Palin.

Here is the twenty two minute long Palin infomercial recently released by SarahPAC :

Did anybody else notice how old most of that footage was?

Here was Wonkette's take on the video.

It looks like Richard Dawkins is trolling religious people again.

You ever wonder if Donald Trump's sons are over privileged douchebags? Wonder no more.

Well that's him, Donald Trump Jr..

Pretty much what you would expect right?

This photo of Jr. was from a 2012 hunting trip to Africa.

There was a lot of controversy after this picture showed up on TMZ, and of course PETA went ballistic.

However the Trump public relations team shifted into high gear to let everybody know that the meat was donated to local villagers and that the Trump sons were actually doing the elephants a favor by hunting them before they over populated the area.

Such humanitarians these Trumps, don'tcha know?

This may be old news to some, but with "The Donald" throwing his hair into the 2016 ring everything old is new again.

It looks like they finally got around to putting John McCain in that glass case to preserve him.

It is really for historic purposes actually.

I mean someday school children will want to know who was responsible for releasing that Wasilla she-demon on the American people.