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[StoneColdMikey]

If that ain't the smoking gun. I don't know what is. After that I hope the process to remove him from office is quicker now because what his son did literally was treason and of course papa trump fucking knew

 

[mc317]

Lordy

 

[(Nope)]

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/885080584304947200

Where is that lame that came through cherry-picking data from NASA reports that suggested man-made climate change, to refute climate change?

@"High Revolutionary"

That's you right?

Regal us with your scientific mind!

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

If that ain't the smoking gun. I don't know what is. After that I hope the process to remove him from office is quicker now because what his son did literally was treason and of course papa trump fucking knew

Not to mention on the same day, shortly after that meeting, that's when 45 began his Hilary e-mail tirade. The stupid muthafucka TIMESTAMPED his collusion :joy:

 

[2stepz_ahead]

just got an email that the consulate in Geneva will b closed until further notice...

wonder whats up

 

[marc123]

just got an email that the consulate in Geneva will b closed until further notice...

wonder whats up

Jared prolly mentioned consulate in Geneva in some random convo trump over heard. and trump prolly was like "Geneva?! WTF is a Geneva? i dont even know where Geneva is. Close that bitch down!!" smh. eh, so said. so done.

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...-investigating-trump-jr-emails-meeting-russia

CNN: Mueller Didn’t Know About Trump Jr. Emails But Will Now Look Into Them

Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer is officially part of the special counsel investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN reported Tuesday.

Three U.S. officials familiar with the investigation told the network that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team only recently learned about the meeting, which Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, divulged on his recently amended application for a security clearance.

A separate U.S. official briefed on the matter told CNN that federal investigators will look into the sit-down that the President’s son agreed to have with an individual described by an acquaintance in an email as “a Russian government attorney” who had “high level and sensitive information” that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton.

“I love it,” Trump Jr. replied in one of a series of bombshell of emails detailing the lead-up to that meeting, which he published in full on Twitter on Tuesday to the shock of the political world.

Both the emails and the meeting are now part of Mueller’s investigation, a source told CNN.

Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort confirmed their attendance at the Trump Tower sit-down to The New York Times, but did not answer additional questions about it.

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-wont-say-kushner-has-security-clearance

White House Won’t Say Whether Kushner Still Has Security Clearance

Following news that Donald Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort took a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer knowing it would be part of the Russian government’s efforts to support President Donald Trump’s campaign, the White House won’t say whether the President’s son-in-law still has security clearance.

When asked about Kushner’s clearance at an off-camera White House press briefing Tuesday, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly dodged questions about the meeting and said the White House has “never discussed the security clearance” of a staff member.

The meeting between Kushner, Trump Jr., Manafort and the Russian lawyer came to light after Kushner filed a revised version of a form required for his security clearance, which followed previous reports that the President’s son-in-law failed to disclose his contacts with foreign officials, like with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-stands-by-claim-nobody-in-trump-campaign-colluded

White House Won’t Say Whether Kushner Still Has Security Clearance

Following news that Donald Trump Jr., White House adviser Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort took a meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer knowing it would be part of the Russian government’s efforts to support President Donald Trump’s campaign, the White House won’t say whether the President’s son-in-law still has security clearance.

When asked about Kushner’s clearance at an off-camera White House press briefing Tuesday, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly dodged questions about the meeting and said the White House has “never discussed the security clearance” of a staff member.

The meeting between Kushner, Trump Jr., Manafort and the Russian lawyer came to light after Kushner filed a revised version of a form required for his security clearance, which followed previous reports that the President’s son-in-law failed to disclose his contacts with foreign officials, like with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

 

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-c...yst-you-just-compared-me-to-a-nazi-apologist/

Tucker Carlson Gets Into It With Fox News Analyst: ‘You Just Compared Me To a Nazi Apologist!’

Things got really heated during tonight’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight between host Tucker Carlson and Fox News analyst Ralph Peters when Peters likened Carlson to a Nazi apologist in the 1930s over his stance towards Russian President Vladimir Putin.

With Carlson making the case that Americans should be more supportive of working with Putin and Russia in terms of fighting ISIS, especially in Syria, Peters pushed back and gave the Fox News host a number of reasons why the US should be wary.

“He is malevolent and he is as close to pure evil as I can find,” Peters exclaimed. “He’s also brilliant. I don’t understand what any American would want an alliance with Russia. We should be strengthening our alliance with democracies instead of trashing NATO — we should be building it up much more strongly.”

Carlson asked Peters why we couldn’t accept “that people who are bad people have similar interests” as us, leading Peters to make a pretty explosive observation.

“You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 saying ‘Hitler hasn’t attacked us,'” Peters said, referencing Lindbergh’s apologetic stance towards Nazi Germany.

“I beg your pardon,” Carlson interrupted. “You cannot compare me to someone who made apologies for Hitler. And I don’t think Putin is comparable to Hitler.”

Carlson then called the comparison “insane” before confronting Peters about what he had just said.

“You just compared me to a Nazi apologist because I asked the question,” he angrily said. Slow down! Slow down! Which is, why not contravene American interest with a group trying to kill ISIS?”

Peters shot back, saying Putin was as bad as Hitler, pointing out that he had invaded his neighbors and killed women and children on purpose in Syria. While saying he would take back the Lindbergh comparison, he reiterated that Carlson sounded like an apologist from 1938.

The two would go back and forth for a few more minutes with Carlson bringing up Peters support for the Iraq War and telling him that calling him an apologist is a “conversation stopper.”

Earlier this week, Peters had lit into President Donald Trump over his meeting with Putin, calling the whole thing a “huge propaganda” victory for the Russian leader.

https://twitter.com/IceManNYR/status/884933032016216065

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-operatives-dig-up-dirt-journalists

Report: ‘Republican Operatives’ Close To WH Digging Up Dirt On Journalists

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Republican operatives close to the White House have begun extensively researching journalists covering Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, aiming to amplify perceived bias and past mistakes.

Through an intermediary, that lawyer, according to emails published by Trump Jr. before a New York Times exposé on the same correspondence, promised the younger Trump dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to aid Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

In April, Politico cited several unnamed reporters, in addition to a conservative activist who claimed to have spoken to a White House communications staffer, who said unnamed White House sources frequently told reporters untruths.

From the Post’s report Wednesday:

A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter.

Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters’ previous work, in some cases going back years, and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. They intend to demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News.

Smh...

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/state-department-spent-15000-trump-tower-vancouver

WaPo: State Department Spent $15,000 At Trump Tower Vancouver In February

The State Department spent more than $15,000 at Trump International Hotel & Tower in Vancouver in February when the hotel staged a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by members of the Trump family, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The Post obtained the payment information via a Freedom of Information Act request, and reported that it was the first evidence of State Department payments to a Trump-branded property during the current administration. The Trump Organization does not own the hotel, but rather has a management and licensing deal with its owner.

In a financial disclosure released in June, Trump said he received “over $5,000,000” (pp. 30) in royalties from the project.

The Post noted that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who are running the President’s real estate business while President Trump is in office, attended the hotel’s ribbon-cutting on Feb. 28, as did Tiffany Trump.

The Post noted that the elder Trump brothers have traveled the globe in their roles leading the Trump Organization, flanked constantly Secret Service protection. The agency has spent tens of thousands of dollars on accommodations, the paper reported.

 

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/whit...accurate-math-spells-inaccurate-inaccurately/

White House Accuses CBO of Inaccurate Math, Spells Inaccurately Inaccurately

This one’s a beaut.

The White House, on Wednesday, put out a 45 second video slideshow on Twitter in which they accused the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) of fuzzy math. But they, wisely, did not comment on the CBO’s spelling.

That’s because, at the 11 second mark of the clip, the word inaccurate is spelled…well…inaccurately.

Here, have a look:

The error comes just days after the most recent White House gaffe, in which an official statement innacurately (sorry, we couldn’t resist) identified China’s President, Xi Jinping, as President of the “Republic of China,” which is actually the formal name for Taiwan.

This mistake, of course, figures to have fewer potential diplomatic ramifications than that one. But it comes at a key time for the White House as they try to drum up support for the Senate’s health care plan. A revised version of the bill is slated to be released Thursday, with a floor debate possible sometime next week.

 

[fortyacres]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/885212261794676736

 

[fortyacres]

i really hate Ted Cruz.

 

[VIBE]

https://twitter.com/kellierowe/status/885241711793905668

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...r-meeting-isnt-shy-about-support-of-president

Publicist At Center Of Trump Jr. Meeting Isn’t Shy About Support Of President

 

[Shizlansky]

I don't know much about here if she is a coon or not but them white boys was instantly scared of her when she said who she was for that illegal stop.

We need more blacks in higher places.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

so u can just amend disclosure forms later lol wtf?

 

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https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/885237798038642688
https://twitter.com/williamcson/status/885245954751856640