Just incredible hearing @JoeLockhart describe the differences between Robert Mueller, who has run the most tight-lipped operation in recent memory, and Ken Starr, who used to address the media from the end of his driveway.
As Lockhart spoke, Starr sat right across from him… pic.twitter.com/BpwuLfMLmR
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) March 8, 2019
Tag: Trump
More Religion, Less Science
One of Trump’s tasks is to distract the public from the GOP’s more silent steps in transforming the USA into a more GOP compatible nation. In order to do that, sciences (especially natural sciences) have to be weakened and christianism has to be strengthened.
.@JeffreyToobin on how the Supreme Court is transforming the place of religion in American life: https://t.co/l7RdWV7ILR pic.twitter.com/r0xvLWeXIQ
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 7, 2019
Bone Saws & Bail Outs: A Timeline
Let's quickly review the Jared Kushner graft timeline, lest we forget about the perils of #BoyPlunder: pic.twitter.com/yLmTqAVFCs
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
1/ April 2017
Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, asks Qatar for a loan to bail out the troubled property at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The Qataris turn him down.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
2/ June 2017
Saudi Arabia organizes a blockade of Qatar, a country where the US has a major military base. Kushner leads the extreme minority view in the West Wing to support the blockade. To the consternation of the State Department, Donald Trump praises the move.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
3/ June 2017
After his criticism of Donald Trump gets him banned from Saudi media, Jamal Khashoggi leaves the Kingdom for the Beltway.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
4/ September 2017
Khashoggi begins writing for the Washington Post.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
5/ October 2017
Jared Kushner pays unannounced visit to Riyadh, where he stays up until the wee hours talking “strategy” with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), his new BFF. He ("allegedly") gives MbS an “enemies list” culled from the classified President Daily Brief.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
6/ October 2017
Upon his return, Kushner’s company receives a $57 million loan from a subsidiary of SoftFund, the Saudi investment concern, to bail out its troubled property at One Journal Square in Jersey City. (666 Fifth isn't the only underwater Kushner asset).
[h/t @dcpoll]
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
7/ November 2017
MbS orchestrates a purge of the disloyal, imprisoning members of the royal family & seizing their considerable assets. The most prominent is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the 45th richest man in the world and a Trump foil.
Did Kush's gifted PDB intel help?
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
8/ August 2018
A Qatari-funded investment company grants the bailout loan to the Kushners…the big one, for 666 Fifth Avenue.
This does not mean the Kushners don't still owe massive coin on these properties. It just buys them a little time.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
PS
Larger piece here:https://t.co/esexibB2Ni— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019
From comments:
Words from a JSOC interrogator on the premeditated assassination of #Khashoggi #JusticeForJamal https://t.co/Idajjlm1Vz
— The Red-eyed Jedi (@Red_eyedjedi) March 5, 2019
Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.html:
[…] From October 2014 to July 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the Health and Human Services Department that cares for so-called unaccompanied minors, received a total of 4,556 allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment, 1,303 of which were referred to the Justice Department. Of those 1,303 cases deemed the most serious, 178 were accusations that adult staff members had sexually assaulted immigrant children, while the rest were allegations of minors assaulting other minors, the report said. […]
More than 4.000 immigrant children said they were sexually abused in detention centers.
Where is the outrage? https://t.co/OclkfURU0A
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 4, 2019
“Brexit Is Such an Affront Because It Is a Battle in a Culture War as Surely and Pointlessly as Trump’s Wall”
Should be read and taken seriously by anyone who wants Britain to be a halfway decent society. America's culture wars have gone a long way to making their society miserable and unlivable. They will do the same to Britain.https://t.co/cgRAbBhipi
— Prince-Bishop Militantly Aardvark #FBPE #RESIST (@MilitantlyA) March 4, 2019
Trump on Brexit (verbatim):
Both sides are very very you know, they're cemented in. It’s a tough situation, it’s a shame. Frankly it’s a shame, there was no reason for that to happen, they could’ve had the vote & it should’ve gone smoothly but it didn’t. Very complicated issue. pic.twitter.com/qgaDsdbQOG— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) March 14, 2019
John Bolton: “My Opinion Doesn’t Matter.”
Question: "Do you take Kim Jong Un at his word?"
John Bolton: "The president takes him at his word."
Question: "I know he does, what about you?"
Bolton: "My opinion doesn't matter." https://t.co/QqwHFjxg9k pic.twitter.com/0xqxsop9Q1
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2019
Trump Will Not Go Quietly If He Is Beaten in 2020
It's important that we are ready for this, because it's likely. https://t.co/c2GrQFCUFB
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 3, 2019
Judiciary Chair: Trump Obstructed Justice
Judiciary chair: "It’s very clear the president obstructed justice" https://t.co/15qYeybGDd pic.twitter.com/hBQtKNHjH2
— The Hill (@thehill) March 3, 2019
Anger Direction and White Identity Expression
Donald Trump isn’t FOR anything. He’s a means of anger direction and white identity expression. There’s literally nothing he does to make life better for anyone besides the ultra-rich and those profiting financially and politically off racial-scapegoating.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 3, 2019
Yes, the trend ignited locally with the Tea Party movement, who were against everything and for nothing, offering vague platitudes about being on "the taxpayers' side." It got them elected but even years later they still offer zero substance. Ugh.
— Orange Owl (@orangeowl18) March 3, 2019
I had a conversation last night with counsel of a Fortune 500 company who said that business partners in China told him explicitly that they would not collaborate until Trump was removed from office.
— Dr. Derp (@DizzelW) March 3, 2019
Flag Hugging
We need a President that makes love to the Constitution, not the flag.
— Nick Carlson (@Nick_C_C) March 3, 2019