Trump:

"I have nothing to do with #Russia. Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.”


https://twitter.com/i/status/1075212618476990465

I'M going to bed. And as I lie down I know 6 FBI agents involved are fired or retired or missing. I know Hillary got a lawyer in her interview and softball and all her witnesses got immunity. I know she got away with server and pay to play Secretary of State and Foundation. I know Obama/Clinton politicized the Fbi-Judiciary and every beuqacratic institution he could. I know the FAKE NEWS is simply an arm of the Democrat party bent on destroying capitalism and the REPUBLIC.

Let's see what Pelosi has. Let's see what the Democrats do. They now control spending and the economy.

Let's see what they do with it.

Now we're on the offensive.

Posted by The Taint on 12/18/2018 10:09:00 PM (view original):
Trump:

"I have nothing to do with #Russia. Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.”


https://twitter.com/i/status/1075212618476990465

FAKE NEWS

A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite his attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming on Sunday the document was never signed.

CNN's Chris Cuomo obtained a copy of the signed letter of intent that set the stage for negotiations for Trump condominiums, a hotel and commercial property in the heart of Moscow. The letter is dated October 28, 2015, and bears the President's signature.
When asked on Sunday about the letter, Giuliani incorrectly told CNN's Dana Bash that it had not been signed.
"It was a real estate project. There was a letter of intent to go forward, but no one signed it," Giuliani told Bash.

The non-binding document is also signed by Andrey Rozov, owner of I.C. Expert Investment Co., the Russian firm that would have been responsible for developing the property.
READ: How Trump Tower fits into Russian interference
Trump did not tell the public during the 2016 presidential campaign that his company explored the business deal with Russia and instead repeatedly claimed he had "nothing to do with Russia." But the project, which was ultimately scrapped, would've given Trump's company a $4 million upfront fee, no upfront costs, a percentage of the sales and control over marketing and design. The deal also included an opportunity to name the hotel spa after Trump's daughter Ivanka.
The special counsel's team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential electionalleges the deal could have been lucrative for the Trump Organization.
While the potential Trump Tower Moscow deal was on the table, then-candidate Trump was speaking positively about working with Russian President Vladimir Putin and minimizing Russia's aggressive military moves around the world.
Giuliani suggested on Sunday that Trump had spoken with Michael Cohen, Trump's corporate attorney at the time, later than January 2016 about the proposed Moscow project, and said in an interview with ABC that the conversations may have gone as far as toward the end of the general election period.
"According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to November of -- covered all the way up to November 2016," Giuliani said, seemingly referencing Trump's written responses to special counsel Robert Mueller.
On Tuesday, Giuliani told CNN that the question to Trump from Mueller was more generally asking if Trump talked to Cohen about the project. The question was not about specific dates or conversations, Giuliani said.

CNN previously obtained a draft of the letter that Trump eventually signed. In 2017, Cohen told congressional committees investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election that Trump had signed the letter. Donald Trump Jr. also testified to Congress that his father signed the letter of intent.
Last week, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes that included arranging payments during the 2016 presidential election to silence women who claimed affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.

Posted by DougOut on 12/18/2018 10:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 12/18/2018 9:18:00 PM (view original):
Defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump and critic of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation, has argued that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn should be given leniency in his sentencing because “lying to the FBI is not a crime.” According to the attorney’s claims, “Flynn did not commit a crime by lying because the lie has to be material to the investigation.”

Does the lie have to be material to the investigation?

OR can the FBI convict EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN ON PERJURY?

A PROCESS CRIME. 1776 IS DEAD. NOW WE WILL PICK AND CHOOSE WHO GOES TO PRISON.

CIVIL LIBERTY just got flushed down the toilet. WELCOME TO THE TRANSITIONAL BANANA REPUBLIC!

NEXT STOP: FASCISM - COMMUNISM - ANYTHING BUT A FREE REPUBLIC - AMERICA IS DEFEATED FROM WITHIN

Jesus.

A secret court case apparently about a grand jury subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation gained a little more clarity Tuesday night after a court ruling revealed the subpoena challenger is an unnamed company owned by a foreign country.

The Justice Department had asked the company to turn over "information" about its commercial activity in a criminal investigation and a federal appeals court is forcing the unnamed company to comply with the subpoena.
The ruling came four days after lawyers argued in secret for more than an hour before a panel of three appellate judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The lawyers involved were never seen going into or out of that hearing on Friday, because the court security locked down an entire floor of the federal courthouse in DC for it.
But CNN had spotted attorneys from Mueller's team returning to their office shortly after the hearing ended, and previous CNN reporting on court activity found that Mueller's team had fought with an unknown opponent in September and October over the grand jury matter, which led to the appeal. Politico also previously reported that it had learned the sealed grand jury case had a filing in it from Mueller's team.

The judgment from the appeals court on Tuesday carries possible fines for each day the company doesn't comply with the subpoena.
The appeals court offered few clues in its judgment about the company and its country of origin, or what Mueller's team sought.
In one short passage in the three-page decision, the judges describe how they had learned confidentially from prosecutors that they had "reasonable probability" the records requested involved actions that took place outside of the US but directly affected the US. Even the company was not informed of what prosecutors had on this, because revealing it to the company would have violated the secrecy of the grand jury investigation, the judges said.
The company had tried to argue to the US panel of judges that its country's laws prohibited it from turning over the information. But the judges said that wasn't true.
"We are unconvinced that Country A's law truly prohibits the Corporation from complying with the subpoena," the judges wrote.
The company was not immune from the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the judges said.
The range of possibilities is vast. The company could be anything from a sovereign-owned bank to a state-backed technology or information company. Those types of corporate entities have been frequent recipients of requests for information in Mueller's investigation.

And though Mueller's work focused on the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, prosecutors have said and CNN has reported that the Mueller team looked at actions related to Turkish, Ukrainian and other foreign government interests.
Mueller previously indicted three Russian companies and 25 Russians for their alleged contributions to a social media propaganda scheme meant to influence American voters and to the hack of the Democratic Party. The special counsel and other Justice Department units continue to pursue several investigations related to Mueller's core mission.

Posted by contrarian23 on 12/18/2018 6:53:00 PM (view original):
We are watching the most corrupt, unethical, un-American administration in US history come apart at the seams. Which is saying something given the precedents set by Nixon and Reagan. It’s simultaneously sad and beautiful.

But not as sad as the handful of ideology-bound Americans who are blind to his immorality and are willing to go down with the ship. If there ever were a border wall, the first people shipped out should be Trump supporters.

that is a pretty un-American thing to say. One of the best freedoms in this country is the freedom to vote for whoever you see fit. And anyone here will tell you I am not a Trump supporter.

Posted by wylie715 on 12/18/2018 11:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 12/18/2018 6:53:00 PM (view original):
We are watching the most corrupt, unethical, un-American administration in US history come apart at the seams. Which is saying something given the precedents set by Nixon and Reagan. It’s simultaneously sad and beautiful.

But not as sad as the handful of ideology-bound Americans who are blind to his immorality and are willing to go down with the ship. If there ever were a border wall, the first people shipped out should be Trump supporters.

that is a pretty un-American thing to say. One of the best freedoms in this country is the freedom to vote for whoever you see fit. And anyone here will tell you I am not a Trump supporter.

Eh....You're misreading what he's saying.

Can someone pass this along to dummy...

Since he’s blocked me like a ***** cat...

Seems even his beloved FOX NEWS is falling apart from the inside now...

dummy.

Fox News Analyst Quits, Calling Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’

A longtime analyst for Fox News is leaving the network, saying that he could not “in good conscience” remain with an organization that, he argued, “is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.”

In a searing farewell note sent to colleagues on Tuesday, Ralph Peters, a Fox News strategic analyst and a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, castigated the network for its coverage of President Trump and the rhetoric of its prime-time hosts.

“In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration,” Colonel Peters wrote in his message, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.

“Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” he added. “Now I am ashamed.”

Without citing them by name, Colonel Peters, 65, wrote that Fox News’s prime-time anchors “dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the F.B.I., the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller.”

“I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove,” he wrote.

Fox News responded on Tuesday by saying it was “extremely proud of our top-rated prime-time hosts and all of our opinion programming.”

“Ralph Peters is entitled to his opinion despite the fact that he’s choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention,” the network said in a statement.

Colonel Peters, who appeared regularly on Fox News and the Fox Business Network — including as recently as Monday morning — spent more than two decades in the Army, eventually specializing in Russian intelligence. He began appearing as a television commentator in the late 1990s, and signed an exclusive contract with Fox in 2008.

Typically hawkish in his views, Colonel Peters supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was a strong proponent of confronting President Vladimir Putin of Russia. He was a fervent critic of former President Barack Obama, deriding his foreign policy as weak, and was briefly suspended by the network in 2015 after using a vulgarity to describe Mr. Obama during an appearance on Fox Business.

In an email interview on Tuesday, Colonel Peters wrote that his letter had been “intended for internal consumption,” adding: “I am not trying to grandstand. Fox was good to me for many years.”

He said he informed Fox News on March 1 that he did not plan to renew his contract, which expires toward the end of this month.

“As a retired military officer,” he said, “I simply could not continue with Fox in good conscience.”

Fox News’s commentary shows, like “Hannity” and “Fox & Friends,” have become stalwart defenders of Mr. Trump and his administration, often criticizing Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, and law enforcement agencies that have been investigating possible ties between the president’s associates and Russian interference into the 2016 election.

Since 2017, the conservative pundits Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have replaced Megyn Kelly, who left for NBC News, and Bill O’Reilly, who was fired after a harassment scandal.

Colonel Peters’s message to his colleagues, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News, included the caveat that not every Fox News host is “a propaganda mouthpiece — some have shown courage.” Colonel Peters also described his respect for colleagues at the Fox Business Network and reporters at Fox News, whom he called “talented professionals in a poisoned environment.”

Worst December for the stock market since 1931.


Whatever Trump touches turns to ****.

The Trump administration is lifting sanctions on three companies controlled by a Russian oligarch with links to Vladimir Putin.

Following an aggressive lobbying campaign, led by a British lord who chairs one of the firms, the Treasury Department announced it would end sanctions against aluminium producer Rusal, its parent En+, and JSC EuroSibEnergo.

In return their owner, Oleg Deripaska, agreed to reduce his stakes in them to less than 50 per cent, the treasury said. The billionaire businessman, who has been accused of links to organised crime, will remain on the sanctions list.

Mr Deripaska, his companies, and a number of other figures with close ties to the Kremlin were hit by the sanctions in April in retaliation for alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

That interference also saw the Treasury Department on Wednesday impose fresh sanctions on several Russian intelligence operatives.

The department said in a statement it was placing sanctions on individuals and entities involved in US election meddling, the hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency and other "malign activities”.

The actions, which include sanctioning 15 members of Russia's military intelligence agency, were taken "in response to Russia's continued disregard for international norms", the statement added.

The decision to lift sanctions on Mr Deripaska’s companies, however, attracted criticism from some quarters that it would send the wrong signal to Moscow over its conduct abroad.

Trump Tweet for everything Dept.---------

Guess who said this

“A shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. He can’t even control his party and get people together in a room. A shutdown means the President is weak."

Answer: Donald J. Trump. 9/30/13 on Fox.

Posted by Uofa2 on 12/18/2018 11:17:00 PM (view original):

Posted by wylie715 on 12/18/2018 11:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by contrarian23 on 12/18/2018 6:53:00 PM (view original):
We are watching the most corrupt, unethical, un-American administration in US history come apart at the seams. Which is saying something given the precedents set by Nixon and Reagan. It’s simultaneously sad and beautiful.

But not as sad as the handful of ideology-bound Americans who are blind to his immorality and are willing to go down with the ship. If there ever were a border wall, the first people shipped out should be Trump supporters.

that is a pretty un-American thing to say. One of the best freedoms in this country is the freedom to vote for whoever you see fit. And anyone here will tell you I am not a Trump supporter.

Eh....You're misreading what he's saying.

No, he didn't miss what he was saying at all. Wylie is correct.

After Trump shuts down the government tonight, whose job will it be to change his diapers?

Diapers? He just ***** the bed non-stop. Diapers don't work for him.