Senate intelligence committee has requested documents on Trump from Treasury’s money laundering unit, NBC News confirms
â Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 10, 2017
Celebrity throne room …. Comey got fired because he was closing in on Trump and because indictments are on their way with paperwork completed before he got that strange letter from POTUS45* attempting to codify Trump’s innocence.
Termination letters often have either a generic excuse or in Trump’s case some rationalization which is what Rosenstein and Sessions spent time concocting last week.
The urgency to fire Comey came from an upcoming open session with the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as Trump’s meltdown following the Sally Yates session in from the Senate espionage subcommittee. And then there’s today’s visit by the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, the person who ordered the hacking. And Kissinger showed up today, coincidence? That Trump Nobel Peace Prize can’t be far behind, but will Trump donate that chump change to charity, as he usually claims?
And most importantly there are now three grand juries ready to bring indictments.
Now, the person who orchestrated the Russian hacking is coming to the WH today …whereupon he will make some vague statement saying he doesn’t know anything and POTUS45* will claim that has some probative value.
The FBI is conducting a counter-intelligence operation, so even with the AG compromised to the point of recusal, that division will do their constitutional duty. The Sessions comment that there’s no need for a Special Prosecutor is as flimsy as the reasons for firing Comey as “being unfair to HRC”.
FBI Director learned of firing from TV monitors while addressing staff in CA. Apprentice contestants were dispatched with more class.
Instead of sending you down to the street to take a cab, I am firing you over cable TV and 3,000 miles away so you can get paparazzi helicopters to chase you to the airport. SAD! … Because reality -TV humiliation!
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The Scooter Flynn meme will get a workout because… #TrumpRussia, as Sally Yates finally makes her Congressional testimony on Monday.
Will Mike Flynn go to the gray-bar hotel because he was willing to take one for Team Mar-a-Dacha.
Remember that Yates was “fired” because of her refusal to enforce an unconstitutional Muslim Ban.
We might yet see some of the specifics already disclosed in closed sessions about how the cover-up has implicated both the WH Counsel and VP Pence as well as perhaps Giant Taco Bowl himself.
Per @axios, WH plans to smear Sally Yates tomorrow as a “Democratic operative.”
She was a nonpolitical, career DOJ attorney for two decades pic.twitter.com/5FEUL9PXte
According to the Associated Press, Yates will say that she told the White House counsel’s office that she believed Flynn’s misleading statements on his contact with Kislyak would leave him compromised, CNN reports. (Flynn was removed from his post in February over questions about his contact with Kislyak.)
The White House, however, has said Yates merely gave them a “heads-up” about Flynn’s Russia contacts. Yates’ testimony will be her first public account of that conversation with the White House.
Because you voted for Trump and regret it doesn’t mean you should disavow politics in the future and there may be hope for some transformational movement and/or candidates.
Assuming you believe in an emancipatory left, you’ve stuck it out because regrouping can take place as the Democratic party tries to recuperate and resist.
Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, does fit a philosophic model which insists that making things worse might eventually make things better. And even if that makes us rationalize a fervent commitment to specific candidates rather than concepts, voting for Ur-fascism should seem anathema.
Then again, some people really did vote for Trump, even if it was against their interests. More importantly that new way should revive a Democratic party whose emancipatory optimism predates the Centrist Turn following the Vietnam War. But the 2016 result, however disappointing, signifies that we on the left need to find a new way past Clinton and Sanders to win 2018 and 2020.
…the Left alternative … should be a project of new and different international agreements — agreements that would establish control of the banks, agreements about ecological standards, about workers’ rights, healthcare, protection of sexual and ethnic minorities, etc.
The reality is that the Trump regime is a kleptocratic gang and could insert a new group of rump capitalists at the Federal Reserve in 2018 as Agent Orange continues to destroy the American experiment.
Abrogating environmental agreements will continue to serve profit by deregulating and redistributing national wealth (Looting the Treasury) to the ruling classes.
Similarly the inability to get to single-payer might doom any possibility of universal healthcare. Trump simply wants more profits regardless of who dies.
We already know the unrestrained sexism and racism of Lord Dampnut and his cronies, since Žižek thinks of populism as having some core democratic values which tend to disappear in the US context, Trump being a Lester Maddox with more money.
The next elections should be between Trump and Sanders.
One assumes that Žižek would like a return to Sanders the ideological platform, rather than Bernie the personality, because 2020 means something more suited to correct and transcend the Trumpian catastrophe. 2020 must not be Trump v. Sanders, and as much as we hope for it to be different, new candidates and a new Democratic party must be created.
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he wasn’t under investigation because everyone around him in #TrumpRussia was under investigation
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