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[Rich Rane]

This guy Sam Nunberg is a buffoon. So many goons in that camp.

Erin Burnett on live TV flat out asked him if he had been drinking since she smelled alcohol in his breath.

[MrDollarBills]

Nunberg's interview with Erin Burnett was lit:

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^^this man is unwell, unhinged, and absolutely scared. He's also delusional thinking that he will not end up in prison over this. Just by doing what he did this afternoon and a few minutes ago he could possibly get hit with obstruction of justice charges it's like everyone in Trump's orbit is either a moron, a harcore criminal, morally bankrupt, or legit crazy.

If you have nothing to hide, you should be more than cooperative. From what I gathered, he was trying to protect Roger Stone. Which is really stupid, because Stone is going down for computer crimes and possibly conspiracy to defraud the United States by his activity with Julian Assange/Wikileaks

But the main thing I took away is that, based on what he was asked by the feds, they have something really bad on Trump. He also threw several people under the bus.

I also like the fact that he said that Sarah Sanders needs to shut her fat mouth

he's also right about Trump's FOX News sycophants. they are going to look really bad when the truth comes pouring out. I also question why FOX news always pumps out disinformation similar to the Russian Times network.

[Roy Tarpley]

This guy just decided to comply with the subpoena after a lawyer on a TV segment with him advised him that it was a good idea. Complete buffoon.

[Rich Rane]

So a pornstar is suing the President.

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[Rich Rane]

And now I know Trump's porn name is David Dennison.
http://documents.latimes.com/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-complaint/

[MrDollarBills]

wow. can you imagine what these "conservatives" would be saying if Barack Obama was apart of ANY of these scandals?
yet...white privilege is a myth?

[MrDollarBills]

This guy just decided to comply with the subpoena after a lawyer on a TV segment with him advised him that it was a good idea. Complete buffoon.

i mean he kept asking if he was really going to get locked up over this


this gives me insight into why some people in Trump's orbit operate like they won't end up dying in jail. they are all disconnected to reality.

[shakendfries]

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This administration is a more accurate representation of the degradation of society than anything else happening on today. The greed and lack of any semblance of moral fabric reveals itself every day.

45’s rally cry was about draining the swamp, and has lied about damn near everything he said he would accomplish & would be different under his watch. It’s actually pretty pathetic


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[Rich Rane]

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This administration is a more accurate representation of the degradation of society than anything else happening on today. The greed and lack of any semblance of moral fabric reveals itself every day.

45’s rally cry was about draining the swamp, and has lied about damn near everything he said he would accomplish & would be different under his watch. It’s actually pretty pathetic


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Who did she win the job over? I'd be pissed either way if it was qualified candidates or they didn't consider anyone actually qualified at all.

[TheBrooklynKidd]

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This administration is a more accurate representation of the degradation of society than anything else happening on today. The greed and lack of any semblance of moral fabric reveals itself every day.

45’s rally cry was about draining the swamp, and has lied about damn near everything he said he would accomplish & would be different under his watch. It’s actually pretty pathetic


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Who did she win the job over? I'd be pissed either way if it was qualified candidates or they didn't consider anyone actually qualified at all.

Not a single person Trump picked for his cabinets is qualified. Even Jeff Sessions isn’t qualified because of his disgusting racist past and delusions. No matter who he picked it wouldn’t have mattered. At the end of the day one person can only do so much, even if they’re in the highest position available.

Anything that Trump and his ignoramuses do will be overturned by the people once we take power again.

[MrDollarBills]

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This administration is a more accurate representation of the degradation of society than anything else happening on today. The greed and lack of any semblance of moral fabric reveals itself every day.

45’s rally cry was about draining the swamp, and has lied about damn near everything he said he would accomplish & would be different under his watch. It’s actually pretty pathetic


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Who did she win the job over? I'd be pissed either way if it was qualified candidates or they didn't consider anyone actually qualified at all.

She got the job because she's the sister of Erik Prince (of blackwater fame), a traitor and someone who Mueller has in his cross hairs.

[MrDollarBills]

Sec. of State Rex Tillerson was fired this morning by The Orange Dumpster fire. Mueller needs to haul Rex's ass into his offices immediately for questioning and ask why Trump refuses to implement the sanctions that congress authorized. Tillerson's firing comes less than a day after Tillerson openly blamed the Russians for the poisoning attack that happened in England a few days ago that has sickened numerous people. Coincidence? sure.

Papadopoulos says that Trump personally encouraged him to arrange meeting with Putin, new book reports

https://www.yahoo.com/news/papadopoulos-says-trump-personally-encouraged-arrange-meeting-putin-new-book-reports-010056370.html

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign and potentially a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, told federal investigators that before the election, Donald Trump personally encouraged him to pursue a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new book being published Tuesday.

Papadopoulos’s account to Mueller — as reported in “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” by Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones’ David Corn — contradicts the public accounts of what took place at a critical meeting of Trump’s foreign policy team on March 31, 2016. It was at that meeting that Papadopoulos first informed Trump and the then candidate’s other foreign policy advisers that he had contacts in Britain who could arrange a summit between the GOP candidate and Putin.

The book chronicles the efforts of Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s central bank and a close Putin ally, and his assistant, Maria Butina, to curry favor with the Trump campaign — including their own attempt to set up a Trump-Putin meeting in Moscow.

Those efforts began as early as July 2015, when Butina showed up at FreedomFest, a conservative gathering, in Las Vegas, where Trump was speaking. During a Q&A session, Trump called on Butina, who asked him about his stance on Russia and the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on the country — eliciting the first response from the new GOP candidate on an issue that was a top priority of Putin’s government.

“I know Putin,” Trump replied during the course of a five-minute answer. “I believe I would get along very nicely with Putin, OK? I don’t think you’d need the sanctions.”

In the spring of 2016, Torshin and Butina — who had close ties to the National Rifle Association — made a direct play to gain influence with the Trump campaign, floating their own proposal for a Trump-Putin summit during an international conference in Moscow on the plight of persecuted Christians, organized by Franklin Graham.

In an email to Trump campaign officials, Rick Clay, a conservative activist, described Torshin as a “very close friend of President Putin” and encouraged the Trump team to strongly consider the offer.

^^watch this space. The NRA and GOP's impending doom will all lead back to people funneling Russian money into Republican coffers via donations from the NRA. There's a reason why GOPers are hell bent on obstructing any investigations into this, but its too late.

The U.S. government had a secret source inside the Kremlin who warned as early as 2014 that Russia was mounting an ambitious campaign of cyberattacks and information warfare against Western European democracies and the United States. The reports from the source were “startling” because they spelled out the “magnitude” of the Kremlin’s “intention to do us harm,” according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The secret Kremlin source also provided stark insights into the contempt that Putin and his senior officials had for President Barack Obama and his administration — often expressed in racist terms. In Putin’s presence, Obama would be called a “monkey,” and it was not uncommon for the American president to be referred to by the N-word, the book reports.

I'm still at a loss as to how Obama let things get so far gone by 2016. they should have exposed Trump well before he even got to the general elections. And no surprises that Putin is a racist scumbag on top of being a murderer.

President Obama was incredulous when he was first briefed in early January 2017 about the contents of a dossier, prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele, alleging that the Kremlin had a videotape of Trump engaging in sordid sexual behavior with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. “Why am I hearing this?” he asked his national security adviser, Susan Rice. “Why is this happening?” Rice explained that the intelligence community had no idea if the claim was true but that Obama needed to be aware that the allegation was circulating. A few days later, when Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about intelligence reports on contacts between various players in the Trump orbit and the Kremlin, he had a visceral reaction. “If this is true, it’s treason,” Biden exclaimed.

This is complete madness. When it's all said and done I hope we see these people getting hit with espionage and or treason charges, and even the death penalty handed out to whoever deserves it. You've got a legitimate asset of Russian intelligence/mafia in the oval office tearing the country's institutions apart by the seams and across the pond Russia is using chemical weapons of mass destruction against people on British soil. NATO needs to invoke Article 5 but we all know Trump will hinder American involvement. Putin needs the nails put to him ASAP.

[TheBrooklynKidd]

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There are many horrible things that Trump will be remembered for, but his cruelty towards the most vulnerable in their time of need will stand out in the history books. Who cares about what he says about blacks, Muslims, etc. those are just words. It’s the way that he played with peoples lives (and p**sies) that is truly appalling.

For a long time after Trump is dead and done trolling the world, the rest of us will be working to repent for his sins.

[MrDollarBills]

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There are many horrible things that Trump will be remembered for, but his cruelty towards the most vulnerable in their time of need will stand out in the history books. Who cares about what he says about blacks, Muslims, etc. those are just words. It’s the way that he played with peoples lives (and p**sies) that is truly appalling.

For a long time after Trump is dead and done trolling the world, the rest of us will be working to repent for his sins.

I agree, the cruelty and using ICE as his own personal ethnic cleansing squad is his most heinous act, but lets not downplay the impact that his words and open racism have done. He has emboldened far right extremism with his words and actions (removing white nationalist groups from terror watch lists, for example)...and by his own admission he is waging a "culture war" in a multicultural country that he's supposed to be the leader of. His words are just as dangerous as his actions. Then there is this:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/us/texas-austin-blasts/index.html

Three package bombs that exploded in Austin, Texas, over 10 days -- killing a teenager and a 39-year-old man and critically injuring an elderly woman -- appear to be connected, police said Monday.

Here's what we know so far:
• Two of the explosions happened within hours of each other Monday, sending police scrambling from one crime scene to the next. The first blast happened March 2.
• The bombs killed a 39-year-old African-American man on March 2, killed a 17-year-old African-American male early Monday morning, and severely injured a 75-year-old Hispanic woman midday Monday. A woman hurt in the Monday morning explosion had non-life threatening injuries, police said.
• The residents found the packages outside their houses, but none was delivered by the Postal Service or delivery services like UPS or FedEx, police said.
• Police also have not decided if these are hate crimes, but said that's a possibility because of the victims' races.
• "The evidence makes us believe these incidents are related," Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said.

This is frightening, especially if this really is the work of white nationalist terrorists.

He has emboldened the worst of American society. This is all on him. I hope that his ending days on this earth are full of pain and suffering.

[TheBrooklynKidd]

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There are many horrible things that Trump will be remembered for, but his cruelty towards the most vulnerable in their time of need will stand out in the history books. Who cares about what he says about blacks, Muslims, etc. those are just words. It’s the way that he played with peoples lives (and p**sies) that is truly appalling.

For a long time after Trump is dead and done trolling the world, the rest of us will be working to repent for his sins.

I agree, the cruelty and using ICE as his own personal ethnic cleansing squad is his most heinous act, but lets not downplay the impact that his words and open racism have done. He has emboldened far right extremism with his words and actions (removing white nationalist groups from terror watch lists, for example)...and by his own admission he is waging a "culture war" in a multicultural country that he's supposed to be the leader of. His words are just as dangerous as his actions. Then there is this:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/us/texas-austin-blasts/index.html

Three package bombs that exploded in Austin, Texas, over 10 days -- killing a teenager and a 39-year-old man and critically injuring an elderly woman -- appear to be connected, police said Monday.

Here's what we know so far:
• Two of the explosions happened within hours of each other Monday, sending police scrambling from one crime scene to the next. The first blast happened March 2.
• The bombs killed a 39-year-old African-American man on March 2, killed a 17-year-old African-American male early Monday morning, and severely injured a 75-year-old Hispanic woman midday Monday. A woman hurt in the Monday morning explosion had non-life threatening injuries, police said.
• The residents found the packages outside their houses, but none was delivered by the Postal Service or delivery services like UPS or FedEx, police said.
• Police also have not decided if these are hate crimes, but said that's a possibility because of the victims' races.
• "The evidence makes us believe these incidents are related," Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said.

This is frightening, especially if this really is the work of white nationalist terrorists.

He has emboldened the worst of American society. This is all on him. I hope that his ending days on this earth are full of pain and suffering.

Very, very true. He has emboldened those people but he hasn’t created them. They’ve been around since the beginning of this country and won’t go away any time soon without government action.

Personally I think we need to adopt the practices in many European countries where they have the equivalent of the 1st amendment but it does not allow the spread of hate or participation in historically racist and genocidal groups. There is no place for white supremacy, the Nazi party, the KKK etc. in a modern society. Eliminating these groups from this country (and the world) is a matter of public health and safety.

It’s an extreme solution but we need extreme solutions during this extreme time.

[vincecarter4pres]

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Appropriate.

[shakendfries]

‘I think sports and politics should be separate’

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[MrDollarBills]

NFL owners are complete scum.

[TheBrooklynKidd]

NFL owners are complete scum.

Modern day slave masters. The treat their players like ranchers treat cattle... I take that back, I dont want to insult any of the ethical ranchers out there.

Interesting enough, a friend of mine was talking about an idea that if the top 20 players in the NBA left to form their own league then the whole NBA would collapse. However, the NBA actually treats their players with respect. What we need is an alternative to the NFL formed by all black and brown athletes and their allies. Show these owners who really has the power. Im sure that they could find many wealthy minority individuals willing to support it and probably a bunch of white ones as well.

[13th Man]

Wow, big surprise here, what a waste of time, resources and money. Didn't CNN try to push this narrative for an entire year?



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/house-intelligence-trump-russia.html

Despite Mueller’s Push, House Republicans Declare No Evidence of Collusion

WASHINGTON — Even as the special counsel expands his inquiry and pursues criminal charges against at least four Trump associates, House Intelligence Committee Republicans said on Monday that their investigation had found no evidence of collusion between Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 election.

Representative K. Michael Conaway, the Texas Republican who is leading the investigation, said committee Republicans agreed with the conclusions of American intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered with the election, but they broke with the agencies on one crucial point: that the Russians had favored Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

“The bottom line: The Russians did commit active measures against our election in ’16, and we think they will do that in the future,” Mr. Conaway said. But, he added, “We disagree with the narrative that they were trying to help Trump.”
The announcement brought an abrupt end to one of two remaining investigations into the topic on Capitol Hill and quickly provoked sharp objections from committee Democrats, who have warned Republicans not to close the matter before the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is done with his work.

In a statement on Monday evening, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the committee, lamented the decision, saying that the committee had put partisan politics over fulsome fact-finding and had failed to serve American voters at a key moment in history.