No one will ever accuse Donald J. Trump of skimping on top-notch legal representation!
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No one will ever accuse Donald J. Trump of skimping on top-notch legal representation!
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Trump’s very big, beautiful military parade, scheduled for this November, has been cancelled, with the hope of holding it next year.
Yesterday, it was reported that the cost estimate for the parade had skyrocketed to $92 million — about $80 million over the original estimated budget.
The question everyone is asking is not whether the parade will somehow be cheaper next year but if Trump will still be president in 2019.
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Omarosa picked up so much from her mentor she is now beating him at his own game.
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On July 8, 2017, former FBI Director, James Comey, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, saying Donald Trump asked him to go lightly on former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn.
At a private meeting at the White House, Comey told the senators that Trump praised Flynn as a “good guy.” Comey, testifying under oath, said Trump repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. According to Comey, Trump then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Of course, if Trump asked Comey to quash the ongoing investigation into Flynn, that would most likely constitute obstruction of justice.
In an interview on CNN this Sunday, Trump’s mouthpiece, Rudy Giuliani, said, “There was no conversation about Michael Flynn.”
It appears Giuliani has gone full Trump.
Giuliani told ABC News on July 8 about the Trump-Comey conversation, saying, “What he said was, ‘Can you, can you give him a break?’” On July 30, Giuliani was even more explicit about that version of events during an interview with Fox News, saying, “He didn’t tell him, ‘Don’t investigate him, don’t prosecute him.’ He asked him to exercise his prosecutorial discretion because he was a good man with a great war record.”
If you thought Donald Trump was the only one who could change his own narrative in the face of video evidence to the contrary, you’d be wrong.
It’s safe to say Giuliani’s main objective as Trump’s TV attorney is to obfuscate and confuse … to muddy the waters, if you will.
Gene Robinson of the Washington Post has written, “There is madness in Rudolph W. Giuliani’s incoherence on behalf of President Trump, but there is also method. He’s following the Trump playbook: Confuse, distract, provoke and flood the zone with factoids and truthiness until nobody can be sure what’s real and what’s not.”
While the Giuliani strategy seems to be working, especially with Trump supporters, it will have no impact on Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation.
But Trump and Giuliani are betting they can sway public opinion enough to get 45 off the hook.
Giuliani gave the game away when he told CNN on May 27, “To a large extent…what we’re doing here, it is the public opinion, because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach.”
It is obvious Giuliani doesn’t care about his reputation or looking like a legal hack. As it stands, the former federal prosecutor has turned out to be one of the few effective Trump picks.
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This year’s “Unite The Right” rally in D.C was a bust.
As reported in the Washington Post, “White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.”
“Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of last year’s violent and deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville,” wrote the Post, “wanted to hold an anniversary demonstration there, but the city wouldn’t let him. So he brought his show to Washington, where he hoped 400 supporters would join him for a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Fewer than 40 turned out.”
In an exclusive interview with MM, Kessler blamed the piddling attendance on Donald Trump.
“Would it have hurt Trump to put out a tweet or two promoting our event?” asked Kessler. “The man tweets about everything, why not about our great rally?”
After last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville, Donald Trump gave aid and comfort to the white nationalists by saying “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence, equating the actions of white nationalist groups and those protesting them.
It was suggested to Kessler that maybe hate has lost its appeal, its panache. The peddler of animus was having none of it. “Hate is as American as apple pie. It will never go out of style. No, I blame this all on Trump.”
Donald Trump has yet to chime in on this year’s flop of a hate rally.
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Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States, was a strong believer in a democracy’s need for a free press.
Here are some quotes, from famguardian.org, attributed to Jefferson regarding the Fourth Estate:
“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.”
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”
“Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”
“I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.”
“The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.”
It seems as if what Jefferson feared most has come to pass with the elevation of a self-serving, arrogant, incompetent, egotistical, narcissistic, pathological liar to the White House … paired with a compliant Congress.
As has been said, “The press is only an enemy to those who fear the truth.”
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It’s hard to believe, but Donald Trump has been in office for a relatively short time. To be exact, as of this writing, he has occupied the White House for 1 year, 201 days, one hour and 28 minutes.
Just as during the presidential campaign, it’s been Donald Trump 24/7. All that anyone seems to talk about, whether it be common folk or the media, is the man with the orange tan.
And why not? It’s been one scandal, one controversy, after another. If it’s not the Mueller investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, it’s one horrendous policy decision after another. If it’s not the sex scandal de-jour, it’s the buffoonery and sheer incompetence exhibited on the world stage. If it’s not an outrageous tweet, it’s another cabinet member resigning or being forced out.
We have been on sensory overload! Our brains simply can’t process all this Trump stuff coming at us so fast.
It’s easy to forget we had an articulate, competent and compassionate president less than two years ago; that we were blessed with an intelligent, well-respected man who brought honor, not shame, to the presidency.
While it is only natural to get down as we wade through the latest embarrassing moment of his presidency, just remember Trump’s reign of incompetence will one day end. It may be through impeachment, resignation or end of term, but the “end time” to our collective nightmare will surely come.
A very wise man, my former father-in-law, had a saying that got him through some tough times in his life… “This too shall pass.”
His was a variation of Frank Costanza’s “serenity now.”
With any luck, a Democrat will soon occupy the Oval Office and clean up the mess created by another Republican. This seems to be a pattern, don’t you think?
A great start to righting our ship of state is for a Blue Wave to sweep through the coming mid-term elections. If not the Senate, Democrats must flip the House so that a brake came be put on the Trump/Republican agenda.
Cheer up, folks. We will survive this. “Serenity now … serenity now!”
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While finding time in his hectic schedule to dunk in the face of basketball great, LeBron James, founder of a top-notch public high school for low-income kids, Donald Trump gets ready to celebrate the 15threunion of Trump University’s first graduating class.
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In an effort to distance himself from the infamous Trump Tower meeting attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and a group of Russian operatives, Donald Trump claims he hardly knows his son.
“The last time I had a serious conversation with Junior was many, many years ago, believe me. It could have been his wedding,” said the President. “As I’ve said many times, I knew nothing about the meeting, before or after. We just don’t talk about things.”
Though Trump’s claim sounds preposterous on its face, a recent Quinnipiac poll found that 87% of Trump supporters believe he doesn’t know his own son.
“Just because they have the same name doesn’t mean they are close,” said Melvin Scruggs, president of Alabama’s Talladega County Republican Committee. “I mean the kid was just doing his own thing, you know, freelancing.”
“If the president was really close to Junior he would have brought him into the White House like Ivanka and Jared,” added Scruggs. “Trying to claim Junior doesn’t do anything without his father’s permission is just more fake news.”
Trump’s latest attempt to downplay his personal relationship with his son follows the same pattern he used to minimize his close association to indicted or convicted former campaign members, namely: Paul Manafort, campaign manager, George Papadopoulos, policy advisor, Rick Gates, campaign aide and Michael Flynn, campaign advisor and former National Security Advisor.
While Trump’s attempted disassociation from his own son is selling well in Trumpland, one very important member of the FBI’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia isn’t buying the story … Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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Got to hand it to Trump, he engages in obstruction of justice in plain sight!
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