Corey Lewandowski, the president’s erstwhile campaign manager, has lawyered up. The Daily Beast has learned that Peter Chavkin, of Mintz Levin, is representing Lewandowski for purposes of the Russia investigations. Lewandowski helmed Trump’s campaign until Paul Manafort took over on May 19, 2016. A month later, the campaign announced that Lewandowski was out. There’s significant animosity between the two men.
Apparently Lewandowsky is testifying today to the House Intelligence Committee.
I have no idea what Lewandowski knows, or doesn't know.JUST IN: Ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to appear before House panel in Russia investigation pic.twitter.com/7AMnJjgB1q— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 17, 2018
But I have faith that once his testimony is released that it will prove quite entertaining.
Is it just me or does anybody else hear the tune "Another One Bites the Dust" every time another former Trump campaign or current White House staffer is identified as a potential witness in these investigations?
Update: It looks like Lewandowski is taking a page from the Steve Bannon playbook.
Schiff: Lewandowski not answering Intell qs from period after he left Trump campaign, including whether he's talked to Trump about his testimony.— Billy House (@HouseInSession) January 17, 2018
I bet he sings like a canary for Mueller as well.Included in the questions Lewandowski would not answer was: "Did you have a conversation with the president of the United States within the last 24 hours where you discussed your testimony?" said Schiff.— Billy House (@HouseInSession) January 17, 2018
I fully expect every last one of them to lie.
ReplyDeleteSigh. I agree
DeleteThey'll lie or say nothing.
DeleteWhich shows how very much they have to hide.
I had a nasty encounter with this prick a couple of years ago, I hope his wife is shopping for a new home after finding out he was fucking Hope Hicks. And has anybody noticed that that ****faced other totally creepy cheating husband that had a random baby on the campaign is back on TV as Trump's mouthpiece?
Conservative family values, yep.
I don't, especially when Mueller interrogates them. They can see it unraveling. These rats are going to jump ship and try to save themselves.
DeleteI would hope it will be much different talking to Mueller than the very friendly republicans in Congress.
DeleteAt least the emergency warning for incoming missle did not go off last night here in MI,with the incoming meteor.
ReplyDeleteI saw the flash and heard the boom,the tv had crawler all night while they figured out what it was,
Somehow we missed that! Would have been exciting.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/watch-huge-meteor-blaze-through-11864602
DeleteLatino lawmakers stunned after John Kelly calls drug cartels ‘very smart and good businessmen’: report
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/latino-lawmakers-stunned-after-john-kelly-calls-drug-cartels-very-smart-and-good-businessmen-report/
"Conduct unbecoming refers to the conduct on the part of a certified professional that is contrary to the public interests, or which harms his/her standing of the profession in the eyes of the public."
Delete“I worked to get the six-month extension of DACA. I ordered THAT. I managed THAT. And everyone has thanked me for THAT,”
he told a group of Democratic lawmakers"
"“Drug cartels will always find a way to get their drugs in so long as there’s demand in the U.S.,” Kelly said. He added that this is to be expected from people who “are very smart and good businessmen.” “I had a lot to do with that,”<RIGHT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/17/kelly-says-some-of-trumps-campaign-pledges-on-immigration-wall-uninformed-meeting-attendees-say/?utm_term=.00b2b45a5736
In some ways, they are. They are modeled after fast food franchises where the CEOs get rich and the lowly rank and file are minimum wage workers with no benefits.
Deletehttps://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/26/joy-villa-corey-lewandowski-sexual-assault-319156
ReplyDelete"Joy Villa, 31, a singer and Trump supporter who is exploring a congressional bid in Florida, says Lewandowski slapped her on the butt hard, twice – even after she voiced an objection." "“The detective I talked to said that sexual harassment is what happens in the workforce,” Villa said in an interview on Tuesday. “The detective told me, ‘what you describe happened to you is sexual assault.’”"
For sure, they are all liars. I'll be glad when they are all caught and there is no coming back from their dark holes.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump Told Porn Star Mistress She Reminded Him Of Ivanka
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/donald-trump-told-porn-star-she-reminded
Seven Things To Think About That Are NOT Trump Comparing Porn Star He Banged To His Daughter Ivanka
https://wonkette.com/628417/seven-things-to-think-about-that-are-not-trump-comparing-porn-star-he-banged-to-his-daughter-ivanka
The Donald Ivanka porn link up is as surprising as Sarah Palin's son is a violent woman and child abuser.
hey Gryph you need an update
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/corey-lewandowski-refuses-to-answer-house-intel-questions-about-the-time-after-he-left-trump-campaign/
I can't wait until they get to Stephen Miller. You know he is just the type to try to save his own ass and throw everyone else under the bus.
ReplyDeleteI hope all this non-cooperation indicates that they fear that every last one of them is fully in Mueller's sights.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be a long year, folks. In 2017 Mueller had the FBI's investigatory work from 2016 to build on, but I think things will slow down now. Just remember to be patient.
And vote!
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ReplyDelete'Unbelievable is her darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. It’s also the story of what it was like for Tur to be there as it happened, inside a no-rules world where reporters were spat on, demeaned, and discredited. Tur was a foreign correspondent who came home to her most foreign story of all. Unbelievable is a must-read for anyone who still wakes up and wonders, Is this real life?'
Corey Lewandowski refuses to answer House intel questions about the time after he left Trump campaign
ReplyDelete...As CNN’s Manu Raju noted, Lewandowski’s refusal to answer the House Intelligence Committee’s questions are in direct contrast to the testimony of Rick Dearborn, the White House’s deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs who also testified before the committee on Wednesday.
http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/corey-lewandowski-refuses-to-answer-house-intel-questions-about-the-time-after-he-left-trump-campaign/
NOTE2/ Meanwhile, the White House managed to illegally stifle a key Congressional witness *without* ever *formally* raising executive privilege.
DeleteThe blame lies squarely on the shoulders of Republicans; Trump is acting in this lawless way because he knows the GOP won't stop him.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/953781690782056449
Bannon's Hill appearance reveals White House effort to restrict testimony
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BREAKING: Trump Ordered Bannon to Falsely Assert Executive Privilege For:
Delete❌All Transition Conversations
❌All White House Conversations Between Trump Officials
❌All Post-Firing Conversations with Trump or Trump Officials
❌Any Future Conversations with Trump or Trump Officials
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/953780093909979136
Hit them HARD, media, who did NOT think that this was going to happen?
DeleteTrump’s approval rating by blacks and whites is sinking
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trumps-approval-rating-by-black-and-whites-is-sinking/
He's lying again.
Trump vows to campaign intensively for Republicans, may avoid primaries
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/17/republicans-government-shutdown-congress-344198
Bad news for GOP: Mueller probe could collide with midterms
Campaign stink bombs loom as judge signals possible September start for Manafort-Gates trial.
...Robert Mueller’s Russia probe isn’t ending any time soon, and that’s bad news for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans already bracing for a possible 2018 Democratic midterm wave.
While many Republicans insist the Trump-Russia saga is overblown, they worry headlines about federal indictments, high profile trials—and a potential blockbuster meeting between Mueller and Trump himself—could obscure their positive message ahead of November elections and threaten their House and Senate majorities.
In an ominous development for Republicans, a federal judge overseeing the upcoming trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates rejected Mueller’s request to begin in May and instead outlined a scheduled start as soon as September or October — peak election season.
“The timing of the Manafort-Gates trial will dictate major coverage going into early voting,” said veteran Republican strategist John Weaver. “And this is without knowing for certain how many more indictments and how much closer this Siberian political cancer gets near the Oval Office.”
...The Russia investigation, Democrats say, is likely going to keep coming up for Republicans, noting a town hall meeting last week in rural western Iowa at which Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley faced critical questions about his panel's probe.
“Every member of Congress is going to have to answer for why they’re trying to sweep this under the rug, whether they were on the relevant committee or not,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist and former spokesman for both House Democratic campaigns and Hillary Clinton’s presidential run in 2016. “They are the ones in control of Congress and they’re the ones in the driver’s seat behind any cover-up.”
Democrats also say the constant news coverage of the Russia probe also can benefit them because it has so consistently triggered angry tweets from a president that can rile up his base but also forces his party off-message.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/17/republicans-mueller-midterms-russia-probe-341592
WTF??? Did we move to North Korea? Dear FUCKING leader????
ReplyDeleteNYT to run letters from Trump supporters in place of op-eds Thursday
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/369458-nyt-to-run-letters-from-trump-supporters-in-place-of-op-eds-thursday
Feeding the narcissistic monster is insane!!! Why are they cowtowing to him? What the HELL?
I did a thread on January 12th saying exactly what Weisberg is saying now, got laughed at in some quarters—whoa, why does this guy link *everything* to Russia?—and now everyone is saying the same thing on TV.
ReplyDeleteSometimes we're too credulous, but sometimes we're too circumspect.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/953748683903897602
The BREAKING NEWS that Trump cheated on Melania with porn star "Stormy Daniels"—then used his lawyer as a "fixer" to pay six-figure hush-money a few weeks before the 2016 election—is relevant to the Russia inquiry.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/951918597076602880.html
.@realDonaldTrump, we humbly submit our best work for the #FakeNewsAwards for your consideration. Fingers crossed you like what you see!
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/953765086253940736
And the winner of the 2018 #FakeNewsAwards is...
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Delete"The partnership of @realDonaldTrump, @seanhannity, and the entire Republican Party/FoxNews!"
DeletegOOd $hiT!
DeleteI believe the republicans will game the system. They know the courts are slow to act and since they control all 3 branches of our government there is no need for them to do the right thing. They will stall, delay, deflect and just drag there feet to 2020. Do not for mget they also have russia on their side too!
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump’s White House is secretly working behind closed doors to limit testimony to congressional committees investigating Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election.
ReplyDeleteAccording to reporting from CNN, the effort by the administration to silence key witnesses became clearer this week when “Steve Bannon appeared before the House Intelligence Committee and infuriated both sides of the aisle by refusing to answer questions about his work during the presidential transition and in the White House.”
More from the report:
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/17/trump-white-house-secretly-working-derail-congressional-investigations-russia.html
Robert Mueller just used Steve Bannon to play Donald Trump for a fool
ReplyDelete...If Bannon was planning all along to spill his guts to Mueller, either to get revenge on Trump or simply to give himself legal cover, then it was crucial that Bannon not spill his guts to the House Intelligence Committee. That committee is run by Trump’s puppet, chairman Devin Nunes. The Bannon hearings were little more than an attempt on the part of Trump and Nunes at finding out what Bannon is planning to tell Mueller, so they can try to get out in front of it.
...It’s still not clear why Bannon went so far as to have his attorney run every question past Trump’s attorney yesterday, in real time, before deciding whether to answer it. Perhaps Bannon pitched this idea to Trump in advance, as his way of tricking Trump into believing that he’s going to remain loyal. But the bottom line is that while Trump was initially hoping that Bannon would spill his guts to the Trump-friendly House Intel Committee, Bannon instead somehow convinced Trump that it was best if Bannon didn’t answer the House Intel questions.
The end result is that Donald Trump still has no idea what Steve Bannon is specifically going to give to Robert Mueller, and thus no ability to strategize against it in advance. Mueller even went so far as to subpoena Bannon for a grand jury ahead of his House Intel appearance, and then leak word of the subpoena during that appearance, to help sell the whole thing. Now Mueller is already ripping up that subpoena, because it was never necessary. Mueller just used Bannon to play Trump for a fool, and now Bannon is about to give Mueller everything, while Trump remains in the dark.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/fool-mueller-bannon-trump/7430/
Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy
ReplyDeleteUS authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election
This gives Robert Mueller a whole new avenue for proving that Russia and the Donald Trump campaign were actively conspiring to rig the election in illegal fashion. All he has to do is look at the financial records of Trump’s most suspicious-acting campaign advisers, particularly just after the election, to see who received a Kremlin payday. Follow the money.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/money-trail-trump-russia/7433/
The Trump administration is in bed with the worst of the worst of corporate America. Trump and his team have shown time and again that they will not hesitate to cover up and hide massive corruption. In this case, it seems the Energy Department is willing to go so far as to threaten a whistleblower who dared to tell the truth about it.
ReplyDeletehttps://shareblue.com/trumps-energy-department-threatens-whistleblower-after-he-exposes-shady-meeting/
"A whistleblower leaked a photograph of a private meeting between Energy Secretary Rick Perry and a coal baron who's also a major Republican donor. Now he's being threatened."
Delete"In one phone call that was recorded, an official at the Energy Department pushed for him to turn over the drive and said, “I would suggest that doing it sooner rather than later would probably be a good thing for you.”
Photos taken by government employees as part of their official duties are in fact in the public domain, and do not belong to any specific agency, the head of the agency, or the president and his administration."
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/01/what-fox-didnt-tell-you-this-coal-ceo-who-broke/200288
What does Mueller's Bannon subpoena say about the investigation?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-does-mueller-s-bannon-subpoena-say-about-the-investigation-1138556483535
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/red-flags-seen-in-trump-real-estate-deals-1137725507731
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/red-flags-seen-in-trump-real-estate-deals-1137725507731
HOUSE SPENDING BILL CHANGES LAW TO LET TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SECRETLY SHIFT INTELLIGENCE MONEY
ReplyDeletehttps://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/section-504-house-spending-bill-changes-law-to-let-trump-administration-secretly-shift-intelligence-money/
Don't waste your time with these sleazy crooks and liars. They only understand one language.
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