The 112th Weak of Lumpy Dumpling's Failure

[JackLuis]

Was Russia lending money to Trump through Deutsche Bank?

A CNN panel Tuesday discussed the fraud that was alleged in Micahel Cohen’s Congressional testimony weeks ago. Award-winning reporter and researcher David Cay Johnston walked through some of the things he has discovered about President Donald Trump’s finances over the years.

The New York attorney general announced this week that her office will launch an investigation into possible bank fraud from Trump and Deutsche Bank.

Trumpski and Fraud?

“But if this leads to other documents coming from Deutsche Bank that show he actually got loans on other occasions where he misstated his finances, then he’s facing potential bank fraud, wire fraud charges,” Johnston continued. “And one of the things we also learn from this is, was it really Deutsche Bank loaning him money over the years, or was Deutsche Bank acting on behalf of VTB, the Russian spy bank or some other Russian entity, and the risk was on those people or did they somehow privately guarantee it? There could be a lot there. Maybe there’s nothing here. We don’t know yet. “

Maybe Jim Acosta will ask Il Douchy about this at his next press conference?

 

[JackLuis]

‘My new hero’: MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch calls Pelosi’s new impeachment strategy ‘brilliant’

During a Tuesday MSNBC panel discussion, Donny Deutsch called Pelosi’s strategy “brilliant” and proclaimed she’s his “new hero.”

Former assistant U.S. Attorney Mimi Rocah explained that making a case that a president should be impeached based on obstruction is a tough battle, even if it’s clear Trump attempted to obstruct justice.

“Pelosi seems to have made the calculation that right now, it’s not,” Rocah said. “But I think it’s very different for us to hypothetically talk about obstruction, even if we think we know all of the facts.”

When it comes to the Southern District of New York, however, it’s clear that there are crimes that can garner convictions. Deutsche thinks that Pelosi is waiting for it.

Pelosi “knows what’s coming there,” Deutsch explained. “And [she] does not want to make it seem we’re going to get Trump any way we can. We’re going to get him on very clear, black-and-white criminal nonpolitical terms. So, if for some reason there is more there with Mueller, she’s opening up the door to go, if she’s not, she’s really free to run unabashed interference when the criminal indictments come from New York. So for her, it’s a brilliant, brilliant move.”

Host Nicolle Wallace noted that someone told her today that it seems like Pelosi is the one who’s actually running the country at this point.

I hope Trumpski reads the last part. Aha ha ha ha!

 

[jomar]

Here’s how Trump could be prosecuted just like mobster Al Capone

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“The big one is the tax evasion,” he said. “If $420,000 was treated as a business expense and reduced the amount of taxable income to Donald Trump, that would be tax evasion. That’s a five-year count.”

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Well five years would be a Life Sentence for Lumpy.

They’d have to really connect the dots since paying a 1099 contractor is a legitimate business expense that reduces taxable income.

 

[JackLuis]

Senate rebukes Trump on Saudi Arabia, backs war powers resolution

The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution seeking to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s policy toward the kingdom.

The vote was 54-46 in the Senate, more than the 51 needed to pass in the 100-member Senate. The war powers resolution seeks to end any U.S. military involvement in the conflict, including providing targeting support for Saudi air strikes, without authorization from Congress.

The resolution must still be approved by the House of Representatives to be sent to the White House, which said earlier on Wednesday that Trump plans a veto. It would be the first of his two-year-long presidency.

Oh my!

 

[JackLuis]

Jared Kushner directed smear campaign against army vet who refused to serve in Trump White House: book

According to an excerpt of a book called “Kushner, Inc.” published by ABC News, the campaign against Corallo began after he rejected Kushner’s pleas to work as the White House Communications Director.

“Don’t you want to serve your country?” Kushner asked him at the time.

“Young man, my three years at the butt end of an M16 checked that box,” Corallo replied, according to author Vicky Ward.

Shortly afterward, Corallo received a call from a reporter who told him that one of Kushner’s minions had been dispatched to trash Corallo’s reputation.

Kushner has minions? I'll bet they aren't the cute little guys in goggles.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump baffles reporters by boasting his ‘incredible’ policies ‘hurt a lot of people’

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a baffling and incoherent response when asked by a reporter whether he believed that his policy of separating immigrant parents from their children when they seek to enter the United States amounted to cruelty.

He give a "Trumpifcation", thusly:

“No, I don’t think they’re cruel, I think they’re the opposite of cruel,” he said. “They become cruel because they’re so ridiculous and it hurts people. It actually does the reverse of what they’re supposed to be doing. But no, they’re actually meant to be the opposite. And they’re hurting people, they’re really hurting people. A lot of people.”

The reporter tried to get a second question in, but Trump cut him off.

“I think we’re doing an incredible job,” he said. “We’re apprehending record numbers of people. But if we had border security and we had the wall, if we had a proper wall, which we’re building now as we speak, and we’re getting a lot more funding for it, as you know, with what we’re talking about with the vote today, whether it’s positive or not, I’m vetoing it, unless I don’t have to veto, I think that’s unlikely, I’ll do a veto, it’s not going to be overturned. But we have done a great job at the border through apprehension.”

WTF????


‘This is fascism’: Concern grows over Trump’s threat he has ‘support of police, military, Bikers for Trump’

resident Donald Trump delivered a thinly-veiled threat in an interview this week with the far right wing website Breitbart.

“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad,” Trump told Breitbart

 

[phrodeau]

What a stable genius he is.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump must face a defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos: appeals court rules

In 2017, the president called Zervos and other women accusing him of sexual harassment or sexual assault “liars.” It prompted Zervos to then file the suit.

Trump’s lawyers have said that because he is the president he’s immune from any prosecution, but the court didn’t agree.

Ironically, they cited the Supreme Court’s ruling of Clinton vs. Jones, which decided the president could be sued in office relating to unofficial acts that have nothing to do with his role as president.

“Contrary to defendant’s contention, Clinton v Jones did not suggest that its reasoning would not apply to state court actions. It merely identified a potential constitutional concern. Notwithstanding that concern, this Court should not be deterred from holding that a state court can exercise jurisdiction over the President as a defendant in a civil lawsuit,” the decision read.

 

[JackLuis]

Lindsey Graham blocks Senate from voting on resolution demanding Mueller report be made public

Ms Lindsey is looking for headlines!

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) intends to block a resolution passed in the House of Representatives demanding that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian collusion be made public — unless the Justice Department appoints a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails.

In a series of tweets announcing his decision, Graham said that it’s “past time for someone to look at the other side of the political coin.”

Trumpski's coin has two tails, both grabbed!

 

[YDB95]

I was just coming to post #ButHerEmails...should've known someone would say it in earnest.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Asinine’: Scientists use Pi Day to protest Trump and the GOP’s anti-science agenda

“It’s discouraging to see that facts have kind of taken a backseat to political rhetoric,” Rep. Cunningham told Salon. “Unfortunately we’re seeing people argue about what science is and what facts are. And to me, that whole narrative is asinine. To argue over science! Imagine us doing that with any other subject like history and people are arguing, ‘Oh, I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in history.’ Imagine how ridiculous that would sound. But right now we’re living in a day and age where folks are arguing whether or not the climate is changing, whether or not sea level is changing or the temperatures of our oceans are changing. And we have empirical data to back that up. So it’s discouraging because it, like I said, it doesn’t, it if we can all agree on a baseline and the foundation then it makes us building up to solve these problems that much more of a challenge.”

“I think that there is a bias in the Republican Party that is frankly for things like defense and against things like science,” Houlahan concluded.

This isn’t to say that there is no hope for scientific knowledge.

Happy Pi Day!

 

[JackLuis]

They ‘humiliated the president!’ Bannon rages after Senate rejects Trump’s national emergency

“You have to comprehend what happened in Washington today,” Bannon said. “Twelve Republicans humiliated the President of the United States on the core issue that brought people out in these states to support him.”

Oh noes! Lumpy humiliated? How SAD!

 

[KeithD]

They did everything they could to save him from himself. But saving Trump from himself is a hopeless cause.

 

[JackLuis]

Will we see the Mueller report? Actually, there are two — and Bill Barr can’t hide the second one

Recall that some time back we learned that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether the president of the United States was a Russian agent — knowingly or otherwise — and that that investigation was then folded into Mueller’s mandate. As I noted at the time, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe made quite a point of that during his book tour, even describing how he briefed the Gang of Eight congressional leaders about that decision. If you wondered why McCabe thought that was so important, this may be the reason: Counterintelligence investigations must be reported directly to Congress.

Deep State revenge!

 

[JackLuis]

Lindsey Graham demands DOJ turn over documents about internal ‘coup’ against Trump

For months, rumors have circulated that top intelligence officials brought up the 25th Amendment as a possible means to remove President Trump from office, citing his lack of psychological fitness for duty.

Now, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is demanding an investigation, the Washington Post reports.

Graham pledged to investigate “what amounts to a coup” by intelligence officials.

Trumpski's annoying attack dog, Ms Lindsey is all aflutter that someone discussed Trump Dumping!

 

[JackLuis]

Veto! Trumpski tweeted.


Pelosi announces vote to override Trump’s veto

“The House and the Senate resoundingly rejected the President’s lawless power grab, yet the President has chosen to continue to defy the Constitution, the Congress and the will of the American people,” Pelosi said in a statement announcing the override.

Let's see how many Senate Rethug's will vote to override.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump Channels the Manifesto

Really quite remarkable. We’ve now seen the first portion of the President’s comments. He gave a generic condemnation of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand and then proceeded to give a meandering speech about foreign “invasion”, i.e., immigrants “rushing our border”, calling them “murderers and killers”. In other words, moments after denouncing the massacre he went on with a lie-laden screed much of which was indistinguishable from the attacker’s manifesto.

Genius! or Doddering Dumbshit?

 

[JackLuis]

New Zealand’s prime minister asked Trump to do this one thing after the mosque attack — but he completely failed

In recounting her conversation with Trump, she said: “He very much wished for his condolences to be passed on to New Zealand.”

She continued: “He asked what support the U.S. could provide. My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” When asked what his response was, she said, “He acknowledged that and agreed.”

But despite agreeing to the request on the phone, Trump didn’t follow through. When Trump held a public event on Friday in the Oval Office and addressed the devastating attack, he was seemingly unable to share the “love” and “sympathy” for all Muslim communities that Ardern had requested.

In his statement about the attack, he expressed sorrow for New Zealand without mentioning Muslims directly at all:

What does one expect from Bigot in Chief?