LA police department launches investigation into sexual assault charges against Steven Seagal.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a sexual assault investigation against actor Steven Seagal, who in recent weeks has faced several allegations of sexual misconduct including rape, according to multiple reports. 

A spokesperson for the LAPD told CBS News that the incident allegedly occurred in 2005. No other details of the case have been made public. 

Several women, including actresses Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies and Rae Dawn Chong, have recently accused Seagal of sexual harassment. In a November tweet, de Rossi claimed Seagal “unzipped his leather pants” during an audition in the actor’s office. Margulies said Seagal had attempted to sexually harass her in his apartment when she was 23, and Chong accused Seagal of once showing her “his junk” in his hotel room and leaving her multiple “sex messages” on her machine. 

A woman named Regina Simons, who worked as an extra on the 1994 film “On Deadly Ground,” which starred Seagal, told The Wrap this month that the actor raped her at his home.

All in all more than a dozen women have accused Seagal of sexual misconduct.

Now this is important. not so much because Seagal is a Hollywood star (He isn't.), but because of who he is now associated with politically.

In recent years Seagal has become besties with Vladimir Putin (He was even awarded Russian citizenship.) and has gone out of his way to defend him a number of times, including most recently against charges that he interfered in our election:

Seagal defended Russia by responding that “every country is involved in espionage,” and denied that Putin had “anything to do with fixing” the U.S. election – all while pronouncing Putin’s name with a hardcore Russian accent. 

The actor concluded that the belief that Russia interfered with the U.S. election is the result of “astronomical propaganda,” and meant as some sort of “diversion.”

Seagal is also, of course, a Trump supporter, and has been a friend for years.

He has even been photographed hanging out with other Russian agents.

So yes this case will prove very interesting to watch for a number of reasons.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's Democratic challenger is essentially calling him Russian agent.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

California Democratic House hopeful Harley Rouda is taking the accusations of Russia collusion to his potential opponent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), in a new ad that frames the congressman as part of a joint effort with President Trump to side with Russia. 

The new digital spot, shared first with The Hill, criticizes Rohrabacher for his ties to Russia. The New York Times reported last year that the FBI warned Rohrabacher, considered one of the most Russia-friendly lawmakers in Congress, that Russian intelligence had been trying to turn him and had even given him a code name. 

"America, let’s show Trump and Rohrabacher it's time for a leader who represents us, not Russia," the ad's narrator says.

Man I love the hell out of this!

Rohrabacher has been Putin's puppet for years now, and it is high time that he is called out for it publicly. 

Rohrabacher claims that his constituents do not care about his Russian connections, but I think that with enough of these ads that will definitely change.

I also think this might be a winning strategy for a number of Democrats moving forward.

If their opponents do not have direct ties to Russia, then they can be called out for supporting the agenda of the Kremlin's agent in the White House.

The Kremlin thinks so highly of their intelligence source Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that they gave him his own code name.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

For two decades, Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence source worthy of a Kremlin code name. 

The following year, the California Republican became even more valuable, assuming the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee that oversees Russia policy. He sailed to re-election again and again, even as he developed ties to Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. 

Then came President Trump. 

As revelations of Russia’s campaign to influence American politics consume Washington, Mr. Rohrabacher, 70, who had no known role in the Trump election campaign, has come under political and investigative scrutiny. The F.B.I. and the Senate Intelligence Committee are each seeking to interview him about an August meeting with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Rohrabacher said. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is said to be interested in a meeting he had last year with Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s short-lived national security adviser. 

At the same time, fellow Republicans — questioning his judgment and intentions — have moved to curtail his power as chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats. And back home in Southern California, where Democrats and Republicans alike smell blood, the 15-term congressman is facing his toughest re-election contest in decades, with well-funded candidates from both parties lining up to unseat him.

Yeah I have a code name in mind for Congressman "There is no Global Warming it's snowing outside" Rohrabacher.

"Traitor."

Oh wait, is that one already assigned to Donald Trump?

Robert Mueller to question White House Communications Director Hope Hicks about possible lies she told on behalf of her boss, and the investigation now includes a sitting member of Congress.

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

Hope Hicks, who worked for Trump's campaign before becoming White House communications director, will be grilled by Mueller's team as early as next week, a source told Newsweek — and the questions will center on possibly fabricated statements she helped produce about the campaign's contacts with Russian operatives during the 2016 election. 

At issue is a statement provided to the media just days after the election, when Hicks flatly denied any campaign member conducted meetings with Russian representatives. 

"It never happened," she said at the time, even as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was admitting "there were contacts" made with the Trump team. "There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign." 

It is increasingly clear that Hicks's statement is untrue.

I know that Trump demands absolute loyalty from his people but it is hard to imagine that this young woman would be willing to do hard time to protect that orange tinged asshole.

Pretty sure she will spill the beans.

Speaking of spilling the beans, Mueller is now also shifting some of his focus to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. Oooh now we're talking!

Courtesy of the LA Times:  

As part of his investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential campaign, FBI special counsel Robert Mueller is questioning witnesses about a meeting that allegedly took place shortly before the election between Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and former Trump advisor Michael Flynn, NBC is reporting. 

Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) has long advocated for a friendlier relationship between the United States and Russia. His name has tangentially come up in relation to the investigation, but this is the first direct mention that the FBI is looking at a meeting in which Rohrabacher participated.

Rohrabacher's name has been bouncing around since this whole Russia investigation first began, I figured it was only a matter of time before the Mueller team would shift their attention his way.

I actually think there are far more American politicians besides Trump and Rohrabacher that Putin has managed to put under his control, and I am hoping that Mueller will be able to flush a number of them out into the open.

Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher believes the conflicts in Charlottesville were orchestrated by "Hillary and Bernie supporters." Update!

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

The violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month was nothing more than “a total hoax” orchestrated by liberals who supported Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, according to a hard-right Republican representative. 

“It’s all baloney,” Dana Rohrabacher told the San Francisco Chronicle, speaking of the rally where police said a car driven by a white supremacist injured 19 and killed counterprotester Heather Heyer. 

“It was left-wingers who were manipulating them in order to have this confrontation,” Rohrabacher said Thursday, in an effort to “put our president on the spot.”

Yet that’s all bunk according to Rohrabacher, who pinned the events on a former “Hillary and Bernie supporter” who got Civil War re-enactors together to protect the statue of Lee, which would be removed under a proposal before Charlottesville’s City Council. 

“It was a setup for these dumb Civil War re-enactors,” Rohrabacher said of the Charlottesville rally. 

All this, he claims, was a ruse to box in President Donald Trump over the issue of racism in America. On the day of the rally and at a press conference at Trump Tower a couple of days later, the president said blame for the violence fell “on both sides.” His response hurt his approval ratings among Republicans who saw his statements as divisive.

Well SOMEBODY has obviously been getting their news from Info Wars again.

Rohrabacher's major claim to fame is that he is an ardent climate cahnge denier, but clearly his ignorance is not contained to only rejecting science.

He also rejects news coverage, undeniable facts, and apparently ANYTHING which undermines his world view.

Of course the problem is not just with his own stupidity but the fact that he represents a number of equally ignorant people who will continue to make excuses for racists because deep down they agree with them completely.

Though in Rohrabacher's case I am not at all sure it is all that deep down.

Update: I see people referencing the fact that Rohrabacher has been a Russian agent for years, and I would agree with that statement.

And that is further evidenced by his new push to get the White House to pardon Wikileaks.