“As a former FBI counterintelligence agent, I’d start with Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian émigré and naturalized U.S. citizen of over ten years, who may offer the lowest-hanging fruit in the next phase of the investigation.”
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Is America About To Lose Its Free Press?
“Maybe, they think, efforts to ‘open up our libel laws,’ dismissals of the lamestream media as ‘fake news’ and even threats of violence against journalists could do the country some good.”
Wall Street Journal Calls Trump Jr. A ‘Dunce’ In Scathing Op-Ed
“They have created the appearance of a conspiracy that on the evidence Don Jr. lacks the wit to concoct. And they handed their opponents another of the swords that by now could arm a Roman legion.”
Dollar Dives As Republican Health Care Bill Collapses
Well, it looks like the healthcare bill is dead after two more Republican Senators said
Letters To The LA Times: ‘Mary’ Asks Republicans – ‘Have You No Sense Of Decency?’
“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?â€
‘Game Of Chicken’: Why Do Markets Think They’re So Damn ‘Impervious’?
“If the market is underpricing the uncertainty with respect to the outlook of US monetary policy, we are even more concerned that it seems totally impervious to the risk of two potentially disruptive, if not dangerous, Games of Chicken likely to unfold in the summer and the beginning of the fall.”
 Joe Scarborough: Trump Is Killing The Republican Party
“I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses.”
Video: Fox News Host Shepard Smith Goes Rogue, Blasts Trump For ‘Mind-Boggling Lies’
“Why is it lie after lie after lie?”
Donald Trump The Great Uniter?
“He merely strolled to the lectern, called everybody else a loser, and plowed his way to the presidency on a whim and the most golden of promises — to make America great again.”
Hypocrisy, Exoneration, And An ‘Unnamed’ Source With My Same Name
If “hypocrisy” works to exonerate people when they’ve done something wrong, then there are a whole lot of small-time drug dealers in jail across this country who would like to understand how it is that a justice system that’s ostensibly concerned with activities that ruin people’s lives somehow managed to collectively avoid putting the entire C-suite at every major bank in prison for a thousand years after the financial crisis.Â
Comey Or Trump: Who Does America Believe? Survey Says…
“Who do you believe is telling the truth about the interactions between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey?”
Asha Rangappa Presents: ‘Trump Jr. And The Curious Case Of The Multiplying Russians’
“There are three rules: (1) no bright light, (2) don’t get him wet, and (3) never feed him after midnight, no matter how much he begs. Bright light hurts him, and sunlight can kill him.”
A Truly ‘Sordid Episode’: Trump And ‘Outrage Overload’
“No. It. Isn’t.”
Paul Krugman On The GOP: ‘What Happened To These People?!’
“After all the flag-waving, all the attacks on Democrats’ patriotism, essentially the whole GOP turns out to be OK with the moral equivalent of treason if it benefits their side in domestic politics. Which raises the question: what happened to these people?”
Caught Red-Handed? That’s Ok, Mr. Trump. Just Blame Hillary. #SAD
“So pathetic. Attacking the DNC and Hillary Clinton is the Trump administration’s go-to, tired, weak maneuver. It cannot hide the mountain of revelations that is threatening to crumble on top of them at any moment. #SAD!”
Russian Lawyer Brought ‘FBI-Spotting’ Soviet Spy To Meeting With Trump Jr.
“… a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence.”
Trump: We Need See-Through Border Wall So ‘Cray’ Mexicans Don’t Hit Agents With ’60-Pound Sacks Of Drugs’
“As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over. As cray as that sounds”…
‘That’s When You Hang Up And Call The FBI’: Asha Rangappa On Trump Jr.
“The deeper question is whether members of Trump’s administration can uphold the trust that has been placed in them as stewards of the government they have been chosen to lead.”
A ‘High Quality’ Interview With Donald Trump Jr. Courtesy Of The New Yorker
What about @realdonaldtrump?
Again, no. That is my dad’s online persona, which is a more attentive father than his real-life persona.
Are You ‘Willfully Blind?’ Get Off The Trump Train Before It Crashes
“It is obvious to all except the willfully blind that we now have a president who observes none of the norms, rules or expectations of his office and will pressure anyone at any time if doing so serves his personal interests.”
‘Red Handed’: Trump Jr. Makes The Cover Of TIME
A real TIME cover…
‘What’s Going On?’ US Intelligence Overheard Russians Discussing Trump Associates, WSJ Says
“U.S. intelligence agencies starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed associates of Donald Trump, several months before he declared his candidacy for president.”
At Long Last, The Smoking Gun – Just No Bullet (Yet)
“The unraveling mystery of whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia just produced a smoking gun: those emails from Donald Trump Jr. welcoming an offer from Moscow to supply dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
Are We Now Ok With Encouraging Foreign Dictators To Hack Domestic Opponent’s Emails?
“The problem with dwelling too much on the covert forms of collaboration, which we have come to call “collusion,†is that doing so risks letting Trump at least a little bit off the hook for what is not meaningfully disputed: that the president publicly, knowingly, and repeatedly (if only tacitly) collaborated with a foreign power’s intelligence effort to interfere in the presidential election of the country he now leads.”
Mr. Trump, Your Son Is ‘Collusioney’ As Hell
“Smoking guns don’t need to be nearly this hot to capture Washington’s attention”…
It’s No Longer Possible That This Is A ‘Nothingburger’
“What we can say now is that this is one of the three most damaging presidential scandals of the modern era.”
‘The Risk Of Impeachment Is Now Higher’: One Bank Weighs In On Trump Jr. E-Mails
“Do these most recent developments, which suggest that key Trump advisers, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer (who had previously lobbied in Washington against the 2012 Magnitsky sanctions act), change the potential for impeachment?”
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