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Yup. Just heard the story on NPR.

 

HURRRRRR lookit the liberal heads explode!

 

Has Trump ever tweeted about the Russians booting the embassy personnel out of the country?

 

Some of his resistance vids are decent. This one is fucking godawful.

 

Had your laugh for the day yet?

Lewandowski: Priebus 'ultimately responsible' for White House leaks

Ex-Cruz aide: Now Bannon is establishment voice in Trump White House

 

Link?

 

Hope this isn't a d_b:

 

Prior to Kushner's talk, Katie Patru, the deputy staff director for Member Services, Outreach & Communications, told the assembled interns, "To record today’s session would be such a breach of trust, from my opinion. This town is full of leakers and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them. In this business your reputation is everything, I’ve been on the hill for 15 years. I’ve sat in countless meetings with members of congress where important decisions were being made. During all those years in all those meetings, I never once leaked to a reporter. …. If someone in your office has asked you to break our protocol and give you a recording so they can leak it, as a manager, that bothers me at my core."

WIRED has obtained a recording of Kushner's talk, which lasted for just under an hour in total.

Kushner On Middle East Peace: "What Do We Offer That's Unique? I Don't Know."

 

Remember that weird thing last week where a resolution to investigate Trump's Russian links got hijacked to go after Loretta Lynch with a list of wild charges that sounded like they were sourced from r/The_Donald? That's because they were sourced from r/The_Donald.

Gaetz staffer used Reddit forum promoting conspiracy theories to draft legislation

 

I've been in the Trump Hotel in D.C., it is an impressive building.

 

Analysis | Timeline: Donald Trump Jr.’s contradictory statements about the Russia meeting

 

Opinion | President Trump is now directly implicated in trying to cover up the Russia scandal

"This latest story is clearly one of the most significant developments in this scandal to date, for two reasons. First, it describes an organized effort to mislead the public — not to spin, or minimize the story, or distract from it, or throw out wild accusations about someone else, but to intentionally fool everyone into believing something false. Second, it implicates the president himself. Indeed, the most extraordinary part of the picture this story paints is that while other people involved were recommending some measure of transparency on the assumption that the truth would come out eventually, they were overruled by the president, who personally dictated the misleading statement.

And it gets worse. Once the story broke, Trump’s own lawyer went to the media and denied that the president was involved in the drafting of the misleading statement. In two televised interviews, Jay Sekulow said “the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement,” “The president didn’t sign off on anything,” and “The president wasn’t involved in that.” While it’s theoretically possible that Sekulow would make emphatic statements of fact like those about what his client did or didn’t do without actually asking Trump, that seems almost impossible to believe. Sekulow is a prominent attorney who knows exactly what kind of trouble that could bring, both to himself and his client. So the only reasonable conclusion is that he was repeating what Trump told him.

So, to put this together: The president of the United States personally wrote a statement about this meeting with the Russians, a statement that everyone involved knew to be false. Going further, he then either lied to his own lawyer about his involvement so that the lawyer would repeat that lie publicly (highly likely) or was candid with his lawyer and persuaded him to lie to the media on his behalf (much less likely)."