Showing posts with label Trump: Obstruction of Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump: Obstruction of Justice. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2019
'You Don't Have To Complete The Crime Of Obstruction To Be Culpable Of It' | Deadline | MSNBC
Former U.S. attorney Chuck Rosenberg, WAPO’s Philip Rucker and Aaron Blake, Associated Press’ Jonathan Lemire, and MoveOn’s Karine Jean-Pierre on the president being locked in a back-and-forth with his former lawyer Don McGahn over McGahn’s extensive cooperation with the special counsel
Monday, December 4, 2017
Dan Rather | Steady
03 December 17 PM
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Dan Rather | Steady
Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page
Rather writes: "For those who know me well, this word 'steady' has been a mantra by which I have tried to live my life. And as the events of the last few days have unfolded, I find myself repeating "steady", in my mind, and to all who will listen."
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Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page
Rather writes: "For those who know me well, this word 'steady' has been a mantra by which I have tried to live my life. And as the events of the last few days have unfolded, I find myself repeating "steady", in my mind, and to all who will listen."
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Trump Faults FBI, Denies He Called for End of Flynn Investigation
John Wagner, The Washington Post
Wagner writes: "President Trump issued a fresh denial Sunday that he asked then-FBI Director James B. Comey to halt an investigation into the conduct of his dismissed national security adviser Michael Flynn."
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John Wagner, The Washington Post
Wagner writes: "President Trump issued a fresh denial Sunday that he asked then-FBI Director James B. Comey to halt an investigation into the conduct of his dismissed national security adviser Michael Flynn."
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List of Democrats Who Voted Against Sanders' Tax Amendment and Why
Stephanie Dube Dwilson, Heavy
Dwilson writes: "His amendment was voted down, including by three Democrats who voted against it. Shortly after this, 39 Democrats voted against a Republican-sponsored amendment that would increase the child tax credit for low-income families."
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Stephanie Dube Dwilson, Heavy
Dwilson writes: "His amendment was voted down, including by three Democrats who voted against it. Shortly after this, 39 Democrats voted against a Republican-sponsored amendment that would increase the child tax credit for low-income families."
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Feinstein: Senate Judiciary Committee Looking Into Obstruction of Justice
Andrew Desiderio, The Daily Beast
Desiderio writes: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said on Sunday that the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into Russia's election meddling includes a mounting case of obstruction of justice on the part of President Donald Trump."
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Andrew Desiderio, The Daily Beast
Desiderio writes: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said on Sunday that the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into Russia's election meddling includes a mounting case of obstruction of justice on the part of President Donald Trump."
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Living in Cars, Working for Amazon: Meet America's New Nomads
Jessica Bruder, Guardian UK
Bruder writes: "In the widening gap between credits and debits hangs a question: which bits of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living?"
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Jessica Bruder, Guardian UK
Bruder writes: "In the widening gap between credits and debits hangs a question: which bits of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living?"
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Rohingya Women Sold as Sex Slaves in Bangladesh
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Rohingya girls and women in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar are being sold as sex slaves, according to a victim and aid agencies."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Rohingya girls and women in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar are being sold as sex slaves, according to a victim and aid agencies."
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Senate Tax Bill Could Be 'Devastating' to Wind and Solar Power
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "The BEAT provisions 'undermine our capacity to use renewable energy tax credits, which have value only if they can be monetized,' a letter, signed by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the American Council on Renewable Energy, American Wind Energy Association and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, warned."
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Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "The BEAT provisions 'undermine our capacity to use renewable energy tax credits, which have value only if they can be monetized,' a letter, signed by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the American Council on Renewable Energy, American Wind Energy Association and Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, warned."
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
This & that.....
GOD sends Hurricanes to Morons who have failed to address CLIMATE CHANGE!
SHE's mighty angry with these Charlatans!
Stupidity
Posted by a friend and copied and pasted herewith:
"The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled, closing at 21,414.
General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $8o billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.
While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.
Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans.
He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.
Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.
He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.
His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.
He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.
For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.
Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.
All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.
While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.
He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting groundbreaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.
Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.
Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.
Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”
Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns.
He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.
He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies.
Tell me about how we "suffered" under President Obama, how he "stole" your rights, "shredded the Consitution" ... or better yet, give just ONE EXAMPLE of anything "crooked" he did as President.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/jr-testimony-trump-obstruction/4786/
Friday, June 23, 2017
RSN: Intelligence Chiefs Tell Investigators Trump Suggested They Refute Collusion With Russians
What is Drumpf hiding?
23 June 17 AM
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Intelligence Chiefs Tell Investigators Trump Suggested They Refute Collusion With Russians
Dana Bash, Evan Perez and Manu Raju, CNN
Excerpt: "Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team and Senate investigators, in separate meetings last week, that President Donald Trump suggested they say publicly there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians, according to multiple sources."
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Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers testified at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 7. (photo: Kevin Lamaque/Reuters)
wo of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team and Senate investigators, in separate meetings last week, that President Donald Trump suggested they say publicly there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians, according to multiple sources.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers described their interactions with the President about the Russia investigation as odd and uncomfortable, but said they did not believe the President gave them orders to interfere, according to multiple sources familiar with their accounts.
Sources say both men went further than they did in June 7 public hearings, when they provided little detail about the interactions.
The sources gave CNN the first glimpse of what the intelligence chiefs said to Mueller's investigators when they did separate interviews last week. Both men told Mueller's team they were surprised the President would suggest that they publicly declare he was not involved in collusion, sources said. Mueller's team, which is in the early stages of its investigation, will ultimately decide whether the interactions are relevant to the inquiry.
Coats and Rogers also met individually last week with the Senate intelligence committee in two closed briefings that were described to CNN by Democratic and Republican congressional sources. One source said that Trump wanted them to say publicly what then-FBI Director James Comey had told the President privately: that he was not under investigation for collusion. However, sources said that neither Coats nor Rogers raised concerns that Trump was pushing them to do something they did not want to do. They did not act on the President's alleged suggestion.
Trump has said repeatedly that no collusion occurred. "After 7 months of investigations & committee hearings about my 'collusion with the Russians,' nobody has been able to show any proof. Sad!" he tweeted June 16. The White House did not comment for this story. The DNI, NSA and Mueller's office also did not comment.
Because the meetings were classified, sources shared limited details. But they said the two intelligence leaders recounted conversations that appeared to show the President's deep frustration that the Russia allegations have continued to cloud his administration. The question of what the President said to Coats and Rogers has been hanging over the administration since The Washington Post reported the interactions in late May.
CNN has confirmed the March interactions between the intelligence chiefs and the President in which he made the requests. These came a few days after Comey publicly confirmed for the first time the existence of the federal investigation of potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In a public Senate intelligence hearing earlier this month in which both men testified, senators in both parties grew frustrated and angry after neither would agree to clear up exactly what the President said to them. Rogers and Coats said they did not feel pressured to do anything but would not describe any details of their conversations with Trump.
"In the three-plus years that I have been the director of the National Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate, and to the best of my recollection during that same period of service I do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so," Rogers said during the public hearing.
Coats offered a similar response. "In my time of service, which is interacting with the President of the United States or anybody in his administration, I have never been pressured — I have never felt pressured — to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relation to an ongoing investigation," he said.
The reason for their public reticence, one congressional source told CNN, is that Coats and Rogers had asked the White House for guidance on whether their conversations with the President were protected by executive privilege, which meant they would not be allowed to discuss it. They did not get an answer from the White House before testifying and did not know how to answer the committee. The result was an awkward and contentious public hearing.
In classified follow-up meetings with the Senate intelligence committee, they were more forthcoming, according to sources familiar with the closed-door session. One congressional source expressed frustration that Coats and Rogers didn't answer the questions in public, especially since what they ended up expressing in private was that they did not feel that the President pressured either of them to do anything improper. Rogers' interaction with the President is also documented in a memo written by his deputy at the NSA, Richard Ledgett.
One congressional source who has seen the memo tells CNN that it is one page and, unlike memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, does not have many details of the conversation. Instead, it simply documents that the interaction occurred -- and makes clear that Rogers thought it was out of the ordinary. Coats did not document his conversations with the President about the issue, the source said.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/44284-intelligence-chiefs-tell-investigators-trump-suggested-they-refute-collusion-with-russians
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Friday, June 16, 2017
The Monster, Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
http://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-the-loneliness-of-donald-trump/
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/04/04/the-monster-isnt-beneath-the-bed/
Hypocrite, thy name is Republican.
Republicans: you are covered in Dolt 45's stench. Will you have to personally fall face-first in the shit before you repudiate Dolt 45? Literally?
Jim Wright
Newt Gingrich right now speaking at the Washington DC Press Club
He shrugged off accusations of obstruction on the part of the Trump Administration with:
"The ...
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