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Bad news. Hillary still lost the election and Trump just nominated 10 more judges.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wants to open a congressional investigation of President Donald Trump’s business dealings.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee was intrigued by James Clapper’s refusal to answer a question about the president’s business dealings with Russia, which the former director of national intelligence suggested could jeopardize an ongoing investigation, reported CNN.
Graham asked Clapper if he had any concerns about Trump’s business ties with Russia when the intelligence committee put together an assessment, and the former official said he had not at that time.
But Clapper declined to comment, citing a possible investigation, when Graham broadened the time frame in a follow-up question.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice revealed Tuesday on “The View” that she “felt bad” for President Donald Trump when he admitted the job of president was more difficult than he anticipated.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered how someone could force a president to “heed a warning,” talking about retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Rice refused to discuss it saying she doesn’t know what people said or didn’t say to Trump about Flynn.
“We have a different kind of president, alright? Let’s — he’s different,” Rice told the women. “He had never been in government before. And when you haven’t been in government before it looks kind of easy in there, until you get in there. When he said, you know, ‘This job is a lot harder than I thought,’ I actually kind of felt bad for him. It is a really hard job. It’s a lonely job. And you want people around you that you trust.”

Bad news. Hillary still lost the election and Trump just nominated 10 more judges.
If we really want to Make America Great Again, impeach President Donald Trump. That’s the take from some online Wednesday after he fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Comey’s firing is the latest in a series of firings of people who were investigating Trump, his campaign or his allies.
Just 110 days into Trump’s presidency, Americans are concerned that the leader was compromised either by Russia or by his own mental instability and paranoia. Others are questioning why Republicans are so resistant to act in opposition to Trump. One person even wondered if Comey’s firing was done to distract from the disaster surrounding the Trumpcare legislation.
One day after firing the man overseeing the FBI investigation into his presidential campaign’s ties to the Russian government, President Donald Trump spent Wednesday morning meeting with Russian government officials in the Oval Office.
However, no American media outlets were allowed to cover the event — and only photographers from Russia’s state-run media were allowed to snap photos, such as the one posted by the Russian embassy’s official Twitter account.
"We should maybe have an impeachment clock," Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said on Wednesday. "And if we did, I think yesterday moved us about an hour closer to having that need."
Pocan said he had thought Democrats in the House of Representatives needed to use the threat of impeachment as a "tool" to make the administration follow the law.
"I would argue this has got to still be on the table as an option, especially if, indeed, there was obstruction of justice by the firing of the FBI director," said Pocan, first vice chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
His colleague, Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said Democrats would call for impeachment "when there is no longer any other recourse."
"When you follow the facts to where the facts lead you, I think it's going to be clear that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to affect the results of this election," Perez said. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why Comey got fired."
Asked whether he was declining to support impeachment, Perez demurred.
"I'd like to know what the facts are," he said. "And the best way to know the facts is to have an independent investigation."

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) grilled the CIA director and director of national intelligence over President Donald Trump’s possible business and campaign ties to Russia.
The Oregon Democrat asked CIA director Mike Pompeo during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing why the president had not immediately fired national security adviser Mike Flynn after the White House counsel was notified that he was vulnerable to blackmail.
Pompeo declined to comment, and Wyden asked if he was aware of those concerns by then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates — which the senator said presented a global threat.
“We hear stories about Deutsche Bank, Bank of Cyprus, shell companies, Moldova, the British Virgin Islands,” Wyden said, offering a glimpse at possible targets of the Senate committee’s investigation. “I’d like to get your sense, because I am over my time, Director McCabe, what should we be most concerned about with respect to illicit Russian money and its potential to be laundered on its way to the United States?”
McCabe told the senator he couldn’t speak about the investigation in a public setting, but he agreed those issues also concerned FBI investigators.



“There’s one camp that says there’s nothing to this, which I think is garbage,” James Henry, a lawyer-turned-journalist who writes for DC Report. “There’s another camp that Trump was a mole, is a puppet, it’s all about collusion with respect to last year’s election. And I say the jury is out on that.”
Henry said he would need more information about the FBI investigation and details from FISA warrants to see what was happening — but he has already been exploring Trump’s ties to organized crime.
“There’s a third camp, which is stuff I have been working on, is the organized crime,” Henry said. “This guy’s a mobster. He has all these dodgy business partners. He knew or should have known that they were involved in organized crime, money-laundering, racketeering. That’s pretty hard to deny. We see the people he’s been in business with. We see the deals over and over again. It’s in plain sight. That’s the theory I’ve been working on.”
“You could make a case on good old-fashioned criminal law — if you had a prosecutor,” he added.

So do the Obamas. The three of them would make a pretty good team.(edited)
Maybe an independent Prosecutor? HRC has a law degree and I'm sure she's under employed.![]()
The Quinnipiac University survey found that just 36 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing, while 58 percent disapprove. That's a "near-record" negative rating and a drop from last month, the poll noted. In its April 19 poll, Quinnipiac University found Trump's approval rating stood at 40 percent with 56 percent disapproving.
Perhaps even more troubling for the president: The folks who made up his base in November's election appear to be growing weary. White voters are fleeing.
Forty-seven percent of white voters with no college degree approved of Trump's job performance, while 46 percent disapproved, the survey found. That's a steep drop in support from last month, when 57 percent approved of Trump, and compare that to exit polls in November that found 67 percent of non-college-educated whites voted for Trump, the highest such figure for any candidate since 1980.
A CNN panel on Friday debated why President Donald Trump has behaved so impulsively over the past week when it comes to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Their conclusion? The president is simply out of control — and there’s no hope of reeling him in.
Real Clear Politics editor A.B. Stoddard told the panel that she was stunned at how badly Trump had botched the Comey firing, and said that it demonstrates that there’s no one in the White House capable of getting Trump to check his impulses.
Stoddard reiterated that all of the supposedly calming influences in the White House — from Vice President Mike Pence to son-in-law Jared Kushner to even First Daughter Ivanka Trump — seem powerless in the wake of the latest chaos.
“No one can talk sense into him,” she said. “Not Vice President Pence. Not Reince Priebus. Not Steve Bannon. Not the kids. Nobody.”
‘No one can talk sense into him’: CNN guest says even Ivanka seems to have lost control of President Trump
It seems they have lost control of their puppet!![]()
“It’s complete bananas,” one FBI source told The Daily Beast. “Management in counterintelligence are insanely concerned, worried about the overreaching obstruction and political influence from the White House.”
Trump blurted out in an interview Thursday that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation, which he dismissed as “a made-up story” to excuse Hillary Clinton’s election loss.
The bureau’s interim director, Andrew McCabe, told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that the investigation would continue — but there are a lot of ways the White House could hobble the investigation.
“Based simply on what is known so far, this scandal looks worse than Watergate,” Fallows wrote. “Worse for and about the president. Worse for the overall national interest. Worse in what it suggests about the American democratic system’s ability to defend itself.”
But what concerns Fallows the most is that today’s Republicans have shown no sign they’re willing to stand up against their party’s president.
“On the merits, this era’s Republican president has done far more to justify investigation than Richard Nixon did,” Fallows wrote. “Yet this era’s Republican senators and congressmen have, cravenly, done far less. A few have grumbled about ‘concerns’ and so on, but they have stuck with Trump where it counts, in votes, and since Comey’s firing they have been stunning in their silence.”
Veteran journalist who covered Watergate says Trump’s Russia scandal is even worse — here’s why
Oh now it's Congress' fault our President is a traitorist dickhead?
Where are all the Trumpsters nowadays now that EVERYTHING we predicted about Trump is coming true?
Are the coal jobs back yet?
I keep reading the excuse, "Trump is no ordinary President" to provide context to his actions and statements.
Congress has never used the authority the 25th Amendment gave it to create a permanent body for determining presidential fitness to execute the responsibilities of the office.
Freshman Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) had been in congress less than 100 days when he introduced legislation to remedy this with the Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act. Since he introduced H.R. 1987, it has garnered twenty cosponsors from fourteen states.
Such deference to a new member on such a weighty issue is rare, but Congressman Raskin is highly respected in this field. Before joining Congress, Raskin spent decades teaching constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He also rose to Senate Majority Whip during his three terms in the Maryland State Senate.
“The 25th Amendment was adopted 50 years ago, but Congress has never set up the body it calls for to determine presidential fitness in the event of physical or psychological incapacity,” Raskin said. “Now is the time to do it.”

