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He’s negotiating with terrorists and loves 9/11 Bank rollers. He’s the perfect Republican. It’s all about money.

 

Rick Wilson: Trump Depends on ‘Scam’ to Protect Secrets About His ‘Roving Penis, Shady-Ass Business Practices’

 

"In every twist and turn of the Russia investigation, Trump and his associates have been found to have lied — to Congress, to the FBI, and to the public. Somehow this pattern of behavior has not registered on the right as suspicious in any way. It is just a disconnected sequence of events, the same thing that keeps happening for no apparent reason."

The Peculiar Logic of the Trump-Russia Scandal Deniers

 

If I was storming the us border, I would drive an aerostar, but those illegals love them some dodge.

 

From today's WaPo 202:

"House Democrats raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest in Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s decision to lift sanctions on the businesses of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The New York Times’s Kenneth P. Vogel reports: “In a letter to Mr. Mnuchin, two senior Democratic lawmakers said the Treasury secretary’s connection to an entertainment business owned in part by [a billionaire Republican] donor, Len Blavatnik, a major investor in Mr. Deripaska’s giant aluminum company, Rusal, was a potential conflict of interest. … Tony Sayegh, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said that Mr. Mnuchin had ‘no business relationship’ with Mr. Blavatnik and that any implication of a conflict of interest or ethical problem was ‘absurd.’”

"The Justice Department's inspector general wants to investigate Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta’s role in securing a cushy plea deal for alleged serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while Acosta was serving as a federal prosecutor in Florida. But he's currently barred from doing so. Bloomberg Law’s Chris Opfer and Jaclyn Diaz report: “‘Your letter raises important questions about the resolution of this case by department attorneys,’ DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a Jan. 29 letter to lawmakers. ‘However, the OIG does not currently have jurisdiction over matters involving allegations of misconduct relating to DOJ attorneys’ handling of litigation or legal decisions.’ … Horowitz called on the Senate to take up a bill (H.R. 202) recently passed by the House. He said that legislation would give him the authority to investigate alleged prosecutorial misconduct.”

"The first meeting of the new House Oversight Committee, which will oversee investigations of the Trump administration, featured fireworks between Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Bloomberg News’s Billy House reports: “Meadows and other Republicans were telling Chairman Elijah Cummings of Maryland that members should get more than three days’ notice to attend questioning of witnesses by Democratic staff lawyers. Meadows said five days was better, particularly for lawmakers who live far from Washington. Ocasio-Cortez wasted no time in offering her first remarks on the committee. ‘I don’t believe we need five days’ if lawmakers are doing their jobs, she responded. Meadows wasn’t going to let that go. Formally directing his remarks to Cummings, he responded: ‘Mr. Chairman, I can tell you on all of this at this particular point, we’re all wanting to cooperate.’ But he said, ‘Sometimes our schedules, you know, we’re not just sitting around eating bonbons, waiting for the call of anybody.’ Ocasio-Cortez then asked Cummings whether Republicans gave members ample notice for such matters during the last congressional session, when they ran the committee. ‘No,’ said Cummings, of Maryland. ‘OK, thank you,’ said Ocasio-Cortez.”

 

You might want to add this to the things that makle you go "Hmmm." I wonder if all of it was going to Moscow to split with Putin in exchange for a safe spot in exile come the day.

Venezuela Maduro: $1.2B gold withdrawal blocked by Bank of England - report - CNN

 

Wind chills of -60 in the mid-west. I don't even want to think about my power going out when it was that cold.

 

I'm sure at some point all this stuff will rise to the level of "meddling in another nation's politics" that we've been wailing about for almost three years now.

So now that we've decided it's perfectly acceptable . . .

 

As long as the meddling is done by parties whose interests coincide with our interests. At some point the admisnistration might want to consider the interests ofAmerica in its foreign dealings. Germany is a more reliable and lucarative trade partner thanRussia. In fact the EU and Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, Canada andMExico represent our most reliable and lucartive economic allies. It’s such a shame that the administration takes an adversarial position with those parties who are in our best interests and colllborate with Russian, North Korea, the Taliban and Saudi Arabia who represent the antithesis of our national goals.

As far as Venezuela, Bolton is letting the Russians steal everything so trump can send in an invasion force to rescue some US Students and diplomats like Reagan did with Grenada.

We shouldn’t meddle in other countries where it does us no good. Is there a reason we should care about sub-Saharan Africa? Maybe there are some strategic raw materials like silicon we need. But for a few thousand guns and and Big Macs Imsure the preseidnet can work out a deal.

 

Trump digs coal.

 

I hate when reporters write in a way they would never speak, as in "planes and trucks guzzling gas."

 

You know how quickly "those people" breed.