Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, accusing Vice Chair Kris Kobach and the White House of making false statements and saying that he had concluded that the panel had been set up to try to validate the president’s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election.
The materials provide a window into the panel’s operations. In one email, Christy McCormick, a Republican member of the commission, spoke to a staff member about recruiting a career statistician from the Department of Justice to the commission, writing that she was “pretty confident that he is conservative (and Christian, too).”
Donald Trump Jr. emerged from an advance screening of the latest cinematic triumph by pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza burbling with a previously dormant enthusiasm for historical inquiry. “When you have a bunch of kids in dreadlocks running around screaming about ‘fascism’ and all these things,” he explained, “it’s like, wait a second, have you actually taken a history class, do you actually know what these words mean that you’re running around and spewing. And I think they don’t.”
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“You see the Nazi platform in the early 1930s … and you look at it compared to like, the DNC platform of today, you’re saying, man, those things are awfully similar,” said Trump Jr.
Trump tweet wrote:Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!
Trump's insult led Lemon to ask in a tweet Saturday morning: "Who's the real dummy? A man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages?"
Lemon added the hashtag #BeBest, a reference to first lady Melania Trump's initiative to support kindness and respect.
CNN's public relations department made a sly reference to that brouhaha in response to Trump's insult on Saturday morning.
"Sounds like @FLOTUS had the remote last night," @CNNPR wrote. "We hope you both saw the incredible work of @KingJames."
This is apparently what the President of the United States feels the need to share with the world at what should be long past his bedtime? It's a disgrace. It's racist. And it's the product of petty but dangerous hatreds. I repeat this is the PRESIDENT??!?
blehblah wrote:Lastly, from the patriarch of stupid himself, a POTUS pronouncement on the intelligence of two black men, Don Lemon and LeBron James.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018 ... james.htmlTrump tweet wrote:Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!
Aquila89 wrote:
Trump in an address to Congress, March 2017: "The time for trivial fights is behind us".
To the Editor:
Re “New Book From Woodward Will Detail ‘Harrowing Life’ in Trump White House” (Business Day, July 31):
“Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: ‘Fear.’” This quotation of President Trump talking to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in 2016 tells you all you need to know about the man. He defines power as making other people afraid.
This attitude is a sign of cowardice, not power.
William Baker
Stamford, Conn.
Aquila89 wrote:LeBron James was interviewed about the school he founded. Trump of course has made his own supreme contributions to education, such as Trump University, and the time he was “principal for a day” at a public school in an poor area of the Bronx, gave a fake million-dollar bill, then donated $200 dollars in real money and drove away in a limousine. (I wrote about it) back in 2016).
iMURDAu wrote:Melania said in a statement that she would like to visit LeBron's school. Because he's working to do good things. Unlike someone who is working harder at being self centered while tweeting himself into a corner.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to change his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel's investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent.
"Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower," Trump wrote. "This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics — and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!"
That is a far different explanation than Trump gave 13 months ago, when a statement dictated by the president but released under the name of Donald Trump Jr., read: "We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago.
Trump tweeted what?!?
President Trump is a lawyer’s client from hell. He lacks self-control, cannot tell the truth and will not absorb legal advice he doesn’t like. Most clients don’t incriminate themselves in public. Again and again. Trump does, however.
Trump Sr.’s insistence that he did not know about the meeting in advance might, to an outside observer, suggest he knows it would be a problem if he did. But then again, he knew about the meeting after the fact and drafted a false statement, so it’s not as though prior knowledge is essential to the prosecutors’ obstruction case. (In any event, his promise at a campaign event at the time that he’d have a speech on Clinton’s nefarious conduct suggests he certainly knew what the Russians had promised.)
Trump fails to understand that the very meeting he is acknowledging is collusion — or conspiracy, if you will — to break campaign-finance laws. Insisting that it is legal to get dirt from a foreign national is politically and morally offensive (Trump was picked by the Kremlin) and contradicts his claim the Russians didn’t want him to win (another lie in the coverup). He knows they did — they had a meeting to help his campaign.
The political implications of Trump’s latest confession are quite stunning. Will the rest of the GOP go along with the position that it was perfectly fine for Russia to help Trump? That would sure be a change from “No collusion” (to “Collusion, so what?!”). I don’t know how a major political party can maintain the view that hostile powers have carte blanche to influence our elections. Every Republican in elected office or on the ballot should be asked his or her view on the matter.
The notion that collusion with a hostile power is no big deal is so preposterous and unpalatable, you would think Republicans would not dare try to defend Trump on this point. But this crowd? They might just try it.
Cobra-D wrote:If it’s legal than why does he think it matters if he knew about it or not?
Andrew McCarthy wrote:One aspect of this strategy has many legal commentators aghast: the bombastic performance of my old boss, Rudy Giuliani. He has always been brash, but in the role of Trump’s lead lawyer, he no longer seems like the meticulous pro of yesteryear. Thus, he’s been lampooned: a cartoonish figure who can’t keep his story straight. But have you seen the approval polls of the Russia investigation since he took over the president’s defense team? Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is now viewed unfavorably by 45 percent of Americans, according to a recent Washington Post/George Mason University poll. That’s up markedly from 31 percent at the start of the year.
Crimson847 wrote:Cobra-D wrote:If it’s legal than why does he think it matters if he knew about it or not?
Because he's not trying to avoid criminal prosecution at the hands of a court responsive to the law; he's trying to avoid impeachment and possible removal at the hands of a Congress responsive to their base voters. So his audience is not a judge, but the public--specifically his base and the Republican base. As long as he can keep them firmly on his side, he can potentially head off impeachment by giving red-district Democrats in the House cold feet, and can almost certainly avoid removal by the Senate by keeping Republicans loyal to him.
That means his best defense is to drive a wedge between Republican base voters and the Mueller investigation, and thus discredit the latter in the eyes of the former. That's why he hired Giuliani to "sweep the leg" on Mueller, simultaneously trashing what was left of Giuliani's professional reputation and what was left of Mueller's Republican approval.
Mueller’s referral — essentially handing an ongoing case over to another prosecutor to determine whether charges should be brought — came months ago, these people said. One said there has not been significant activity in the matter since.
The referral was first reported by CNN on Tuesday. The Washington Post previously reported that Mueller has been winding down some of the investigations he is overseeing, in part by farming out cases to other federal prosecutors. He had referred part of his investigation of President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to that same office. That inquiry is ongoing.
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