Would the justices be willing to call the president's declaration a lie? |
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Would The Supreme Court Declare Trump A Liar If He Declares An Emergency To Get Pet Wall?
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Donald J. Trump: Former Reality TV Star And Professional Wrestling Promoter
Trump's Presidency Builds On The Reality TV Shtick He Launched With Professional Wrestling
"Trump's Blinding Blizzard Of Bullshit": A Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
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Ex-Trumpista Ann Coulter Lambastes Trump's "Joke Presidency Scam" - "No Legacy Whatsoever"
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"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
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While Trump Addressed Nation On Prime Time, A Yuge Story Broke About Collusion With Russia
While Trump's prime time television address droned on about urgent need for a border wall, the more consequential story coming out of Tuesday was the result of a flub by Paul Manafort’s defense team. It accidentally revealed, because of botched redactions, that the former Trump campaign chairman allegedly shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence. Manafort’s attorneys were responding to allegations by special counsel Bob Mueller that the former Trump campaign chairman lied repeatedly to prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate.
The filing indicates “a pathway by which the Russians could have had access to Trump campaign data,” Rachel Weiner, Spencer Hsu and Rosalind Helderman report. “The Russian citizen, who began working for Manafort’s consulting firm starting in 2005, has been charged with helping his former boss to obstruct Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference into the 2016 election. He is believed to be in Moscow…
“According to the filing, Mueller also accused Manafort of lying about discussing a Ukrainian peace plan with Kilimnik during the 2016 campaign. ‘Manafort ‘conceded’ that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion,’ his attorneys quote the special counsel as saying, and ‘‘acknowledged’ that he and Mr. Kilimnik met while they were both in Madrid,’ without giving a date. Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, said the Madrid meeting took place in January or February 2017, after the presidential campaign was completed. He declined to comment on other pieces of the filing.”
-- “A person knowledgeable about the situation” tells the Times that both Manafort and Rick Gates, the deputy campaign manager, transferred the data to Kilimnik in the spring of 2016 as Trump clinched the Republican nomination: “Most of the data was public, but some of it was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign, according to the person. Mr. Manafort asked Mr. Gates to tell Mr. Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is close to the Kremlin and who has claimed that Mr. Manafort owed him money from a failed business venture, the person said,” per Sharon LaFraniere, Ken Vogel and Maggie Haberman.
“Big story. New info,” said former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, a central figure in the Watergate scandal. “It’s called COLLUSION!”
Pulitzer Prize Winning Investigative Reporter, Trump Biographer And Syracuse University Law Professor David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
“If proven, then call it by whatever c word that you want -- collusion, cooperation, conspiracy -- but this is serious,” said former U.S. ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul, a professor at Stanford University.
“This is potentially very significant evidence of collusion,” said Post columnist Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who advised the John McCain and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns on foreign policy but has emerged as a Trump critic. “Why would Manafort share polling data with the Russians unless it was to help them target their pro-Trump social media campaign?”
Atlantic writer David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, posed another question: “Did the flow of data to the Russians from the Trump campaign halt when Manafort was fired August 19, 2016? Or not?”
-- “Internal polling data is precious. It reveals your strengths—and your weaknesses,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). “Why share such valuable information with a foreign adversary—unless that adversary was really a friend?”
-- “It also bears asking, yet again, why someone like Manafort felt the need to allegedly lie about this stuff — especially at the expense of his cooperation agreement and further legal jeopardy he was well familiar with,” writes Aaron Blake.
-- Philip Bump argues that the revelation Manafort allegedly passed along polling is “more evocative than definitive”: “Perhaps there was a conduit for collusion that went from Trump to Manafort to Kilimnik to Russian intelligence. Or perhaps Manafort, ever the hustler, was working a hustle.”
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Relationship Between Trump And PutinCompendium Of Pax Posts About Russian Electoral Manipulation
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On Trump, Putin And Russian Meddling
In Rural America Vladimir Putin Is Decidedly More Popular Than ANY Democrat
Trump Will Go Full-Throttle Fascist Following The First Major Terror Attack.
Putin Knows This. (He Also Knows How To Hack The United States.)
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The Borowitz Report: "Putin Starting To Wonder If His Puppets Are Smart Enough To Pull This Off"
Trump’s Russian Laundromat
Trump's Impedance Of FBI Investigation Of Russia's Electoral Manipulation.
Villainy Or Treason?
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Cartoon: The Evolution Of Trump's Wall Rhetoric
"Trump Declares Completion Of Wall"
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Beto O'Rourke: The US-Mexico Border Is "One Of The Safest Places In The United States"
Beto O'Rourke: The US-Mexico Border Is "One Of The Safest Places In The United States"
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Two New Yorker Articles About Trump's Border Wall Speech Focusing His Hatred And Mendacity
Searching for a Substantive Response to Trump’s Hateful Speech
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/searching-for-a-substantive-response-to-trumps-hateful-speech
The Corrupting Falsehoods of Trump’s Oval Office Speech
The Corrupting Falsehoods of Trump’s Oval Office Speech
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Fox News' Shep Smith Delivers Immediate Fact-Check Of Trump's Border Wall Lie-A-Thon
Fox News' Shep Smith Comes Through With Immediate Fact-Check Of Trump's Border Wall Lie-A-Thon
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-border-speech-fox-news_us_5c356ed3e4b0dbd06601649c
Trump Declares Completion Of The Wall
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Two New Yorker Articles About Trump's Border Wall Speech Focusing His Hatred And Mendacity
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/01/two-new-yorker-articles-about-trumps.htmlTrump Declares Completion Of The Wall
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Fact Check: "Trump’s Desperate, Nonsensical Claim That Mexico Is Paying For The Wall"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/01/president-trumps-desperate-nonsensical.html
"Trump's Blinding Blizzard Of Bullshit": A Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
http://paxonbothhouses.Ex-Trumpista Ann Coulter Lambastes Trump's "Joke Presidency Scam" - "No Legacy Whatsoever"
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Duh...
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Roger Ebert's "The Best Damned Film List Of Them All"
Roger Ebert's "The Best Damned Film List Of Them All"
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More Bilge From The Meister
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Jimmy Kimmel's Hilarious Intro To Trump's Oval Office Border Wall Address
Late Night Comics Have Field Day With Trump's Oval Office Border Wall Address
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Borowitz Report: Surprise Offer From Brett Kavanaugh To Pay For Wall By Recycling His Empties
Surprise Offer From Brett Kavanaugh To Pay For Wall By Recycling His Empties
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a bid to end the government shutdown, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said on Thursday that he would recycle his empties to pay for a wall with Mexico.
Speaking to reporters from his office at the Court, Kavanaugh said that the inspiration came to him while he was building a beer-can pyramid in his basement rec room on Wednesday night.
“I was in my man cave, building this rad beer pyramid, and I was, like, I bet if I recycled all the beer cans down here plus the ones out in the garage, I’d have enough to pay for that freaking wall,” the Supreme Court Justice said.
He added that he started calling a number of his friends from Georgetown Prep to see if they would contribute their empties to the effort, and found that they were “totally stoked” about the idea.
“P.J., Tobin, and Squee are all in,” he said. “This wall is gonna freaking rule.”
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YouTube: Tex-Mex Border Official Shows Trump Tunnels Under The Existing Wall
YouTube: Tex-Mex Border Official Shows Trump Tunnels Under The Existing Wall
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"Trump Has Conjured A Crisis Out Of Thin Air," Fareed Zakaria
 Trump has conjured a crisis out of thin air. That should worry us all. |
| Congress should limit the powers of the president before it’s too late. |
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Trump Lays Wreath On Memorial Day
"Trump's Blinding Blizzard Of Bullshit": A Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
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Ex-Trumpista Ann Coulter Lambastes Trump's "Joke Presidency Scam" - "No Legacy Whatsoever"
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Ex-Trumpista Ann Coulter Lambastes Trump's "Joke Presidency Scam" - "No Legacy Whatsoever"
https://paxonbothhouses.
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Trump: "La Historia Tiende A Repetirse"
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CNN Hosts Ridicule Trump For Unearthed 2004 Speech Saying Walls Can't Stop Anything Or Anyone
CNN Hosts Ridicule Trump For Unearthed 2004 Speech Saying Walls Can't Stop Anything Or Anyone
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Prototype For Trump's Steel "Barrier" Easily Cut During Testing Along Border
Prototype For Trump's Steel "Barrier" Easily Cut During Testing Along Border
(All 8 Wall Prototypes Were Breached In Government-Conducted Testing.)
(All 8 Wall Prototypes Were Breached In Government-Conducted Testing.)
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More People Watched Dems' Rebuttal To Trump's Oval Office Wall Speech Than Speech Itself
More People Watched The Democrats' Rebuttal To Trump's Oval Office Wall Speech Than Watched Trump
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Guess Who Moonlights As Bozo The Clown
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With Customary Insight John Oliver Takes A 20 Minute Look At Trump's Border Wall
With Customary Insight, John Oliver Probes Trump's Border Wall
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