Nobel-hungry Trump, when enticing the Taliban to Camp David, knew they were getting Russian cash

Remember that inviting the Taliban to Camp David in September 2019 was designed to draw attention from the looming problem of the Ukraine aid shake-down that led to impeachment. It was … Read More

#KremlinAnnex protest Week 88 goes Online!

The protest goes online in the interest of social distance. I will post updates as they occur, probably once week because we still persist in pursuing the final goal. Heck … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 87 protest Tuesday

#BlueNoMatterWho is about defeating GuapoTrumpBlanco aka IMPOTUS* x The #KremlinAnnex protest is ON at 7:30 pm tonight! See you soon, #resisters! ✌️ pic.twitter.com/dZc6IzHKqK — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) March 10, 2020 x … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 86 Saturday marks Six Hundred Days since protest began

#BlueNoMatterWho is about defeating GuapoTrumpHaus(Blanco) aka IMPOTUS* x Fiona Hill says Vladimir Putin has U.S. “exactly where he wants us” https://t.co/S4P4NCDVfa — Tom Maertens (@tom_maertens) March 7, 2020 x #KremlinAnnex … Read More

#KremlinAnnex Thursday Week 86 protest

x This Saturday will mark *600* days of ongoing @KremlinAnnex protests outside the White House. I’ve committed to adding 200 grassroots contributions to support the protestors in March. Please retweet … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 86 protest Tuesday – Super Vivor!

x 593 days since we started protesting outside the White House. Please retweet and spread the word: we are still going strong. pic.twitter.com/hS6nv8rVlL — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 29, 2020 … Read More

#KremlinAnnex Week 85 protest Thursday

x Have you read about our team yet? ✌️🇺🇸 Kremlin Annex: Five women have been protesting outside the White House for over a year – The Washington Post https://t.co/NhHHZV420V — … Read More

#KremlinAnnex Week 85 protest Tuesday #DowJones down 2000 points in two days

x #KremlinAnnex 358, we are kicking off 85 of protesting at the #KremlinAnnex! https://t.co/lC6k5J42ko — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 26, 2020 x We have set a goal of adding 200 … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 84 protest Saturday

x At DOJ this evening. Not giving up. Not sitting home. @hr_indivisible @LiteraryMouse pic.twitter.com/ssvOoKfnvv — Aimee Daigle (@daigle_aimee) February 21, 2020 x While he’s in Congress, Attorney General Barr should … Read More

#KremlinAnnex week 84 Thursday protest

x Subpoena! #КremlinAnnex #week 84! pic.twitter.com/asOL1QrLen — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 19, 2020 x https://t.co/6vXnG1A1QN — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) February 19, 2020 x Have you read about our team yet? … Read More

Trump Regime Eviscerates Democracy: commuting sentences and pardons for the white-collared

Excellent article in The Atlantic on the current regime. Collars of color go to jail as “Americans aren't practicing democracy anymore” The underlying principle here, from Stone to Iran-Contra, is authoritarian but … Read More

Worrying about Bill Barr as Roy Cohn is more important than Trump's badger questions

It’s shark-jumping time in the White House. Remember that even the revenge-tour could be misdirection for other malign activity. Just to recap: 2/5: Trump is "acquitted" 2/6: Trump uses National … Read More

mercenary John Bolton now invites decline in book sales and demonstrations at every appearance

Expect Bolton to get called before House committees, despite the possibility that he would give some kind of press interview before the release of the book. It has been 30 … Read More

will some rich Trumpist “catch-and-kill” the John Bolton tell-all memoir

Ultimately, conservatism is about mercenary money, so at some point, delays in the perishable publication of the Bolton memoir could be no different than the “catch and kill” of any … Read More

Hung Senate Jury and Senate Mistrial: “at least we could agree that we had a fair trial”

Trial without witnesses is no trial at all. The impeachment as indictment can never be withdrawn. The constant attempts to reduce the impeachment to a civil, rather than a criminal … Read More

The Arms for Dirt scandal: Good faith in the Senate falls from the Cusp of the Cover-Up

Even as Susan Collins and perhaps Lisa Murkowski votes for witnesses, there will be an eventual vote against conviction and then the cover-up begins. x “It's not a real trial … Read More

Lamar Alexander agrees that the House proved its case, but thinks Senate needs no witnesses

Super Bowl calendars seem to rule the US Senate, much like bad faith. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney seem to be ready to ask for witnesses, but at this writing … Read More

No Witnesses, No Peace: America Approaches Autocracy in the Arms for Dirt scandal

Nixonian reasons return, amplified by an argument massaged by Alan Dershowitz to legitimate efforts like the Watergate break-in. x “They compounded the dangerous argument they made that no quid pro … Read More

Trump “…impeach me fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate” because Super Bowl exoneration

Trump communicated to the House — “If you are going to impeach me, impeach me fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate,” with the goal of … Read More

Having your cake in time for World War Six

Every GOP senator is getting a delivery and demonstrations are scheduled. But will Lev Parnas and his ankle monitor get past the security checkpoint at the Capitol. Trump was tweeting at … Read More

Trump blames Bolton for “World War Six” as Trump's job approval reaches a RCP high of 45.3%

Doesn’t everyone in Trump-land know that John Bolton is an agent of the Deep State (sic), ready to bring on the Sixth International (sic). We just never see him at the membership meetings (or … Read More

“Heads on Pikes”, Occam's Axe of Insanity, and Kardashian/Cardassian Justice

Darn those actions in furtherance of crimes, Trump still needs his Roy Cohns, as debate roils on whether to call witnesses. The GOP wants justice by the time the Super … Read More

could 53 members of the cover-up cabal be soon on a fence or a cliff … #BoltonMustTestify

The opening of the Senate trial at 1 pm ET will be more interesting if only because the WH defense team will try their hardest to avoid any mention of … Read More

“Everyone was in the loop” … Did Trump order the Soleimani assassination to silence Bolton

Nov 20, 2019 'Everyone Was in the Loop' Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that President Trump ordered a pressure campaign on Ukraine and that senior-most administration officials knew about it. “It … Read More

Like a mustache cup, Bolton's story cannot stop his testimony in the Senate trial

Boom! Trump paying the price for his iniquity, malevolence, and base ineptitude. Congressional Democrats called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial following … Read More

There may be Senate trial witnesses due to some GOP senators possibly voting in favor

There may be witnesses in the Senate trial of the impeached POTUS* due to the possibility of four GOP senators who may vote in favor. Remember that it's about testimony … Read More

seven months of imminence

We now know the time range possible for imminent threats in Iran. Dog wagged, as the four US embassies claimed by Trump that were targeted have yet to be identified. … Read More

Pelosi needs to inform Moscow Mitch that Articles will arrive “imminently” and wait 310 days

Since the concept of imminent has become stretched, so should that compliance, if only to make Moscow Mitch sweat, since it appears that he’ll do whatever he pleases. “Imminent” means … Read More

They can reveal how they tracked Soleimani but can't tell us which four imminent targets existed

Darn that Trump, he lied again. So much imminence, so little evidence for a targeted air strike that was meant to distract from an impeachment trial. President Trump said on Friday … Read More

Trump's last hurrah could be revealed in the SOTU

E. Howard Hunt’s storytelling could return as one can imagine Trump's last State of the Union speech (SOTU) as unhinged, the second SOTU in history to be delivered by an impeached … Read More

Trump's press flak proves again that he's an idiot: Hogan “Hero” Gidley

As Trump now claims there were four rather than one embassy under imminent attack, the Trump press disinformation operation continues. Hogan Gidley was perhaps bored with telling the press when … Read More

Impeachment Deux: Pelosi should hold the Articles because the “Merrick Garland rule” was fair?

​Could there be a second impeachment: Impeachment2 The interlocked role of trials, evidence, and witnesses seems pretty clear, and no amount of GOP illogical reasoning can finesse it.  Since the M.O. of the GOP … Read More

War Powers vote on Thursday – Trump's 'Maximum Pressure' yields minimal, yet dangerous results

Trump’s attempt to rationalize the use of the 2002 AUMF to kill Qasem Soleimani has now failed and Congress is now ready to vote on War Powers resolution(s) and AUMF revisions … Read More

Trump's Deutsche Bank loans may have been underwritten by “Putin's piggy-bank”

The financial data continues to close in on IMPOTUS as a whistleblower with knowledge of the underwriting has informed the FBI about the Russian VTB bank’s support of Deutsche Bank loans. … Read More

Is John Bolton's testimony a GOP False Flag operation to provide cover for vulnerable Senators

OK, it’s not Kabuki as much as it is Shadow Puppetry. What makes anyone think Trump won’t run to court to get an injunction against Bolton, claiming executive privilege and … Read More

Trump threatens war while at the golf course

Over sixty hours of golf over the past two weeks. His ‘head’ is worth less than his federal golf expenses, but enough to buy a lottery ticket for everyone in Iran … Read More

Trump cannot assassinate his way into a trial dismissal

Trump was unhinged in his tweeting on 29 December, and was ready for something to divert public attention, as the Arms for Dirt evidence continued to close in him in … Read More

Trump's at the golf course again, as larger Iran crisis looms

The killing of Qasem Suliemani has as much to do with escalating events in Iraq as it does with new revelations about Trump’s role in directing the withholding of Congressional … Read More

Yes, Donald, you have committed the 'crime of the century'

Just before leaving for the golf course this morning, Trump reminded us of his concern for law enforcement hygiene. Darn those dirty (filthy) cops. Darn that psychological projection. New unredacted … Read More

Neal Katyal: the impeachment trial could take longer perhaps because Trump fears the truth

We’re all appreciating the history of the moment, even as we are appalled that Trump continues to evade an accounting of the truth of the Arms for Dirt Scandal. Neal … Read More

Nancy Pelosi still lives rent-free in Trump's noggin as he just keeps on lying

More reports of Trump’s continuing barrage of disinformation and outright lies to bring in the New Year. So it appears that @SpeakerPelosi is throwing a New Year’s Eve party inside … Read More

GOP senators know Trump is guilty after new revelations about what he knew and did to Ukraine

Trump did hold the aid to ensure a personal benefit including the ordering of various agencies and staff to rationalize the hold in order to force a Ukraine investigation announcement. … Read More

How Rudy helped impeach Trump in the 84 days of Arms for Dirt

A new article provides a narrative that while explaining the story of the Arms for Dirt scandal, that there’s a timeline for several parallel activities. It also shows that there … Read More

Already impeached, IMPOTUS seems to reject a full, fair Senate trial with actual witnesses

Senators McConnell & Graham conspired with the defendant to rig his Senate trial by refusing to comply with due process. Trump insisted on cross-examination of witnesses. Trump also has ordered … Read More

Trump: “As far as the cyber, …we should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we're not.”

The collusion of IMPOTUS and Russia continues while he waits for his trial. One area that will see greater problems as cybersecurity experts leave the federal government because of Trump, … Read More

Is Lisa Murkowski disturbed enough (about #MoscowMitch) to make a difference in the Trump trial

Like the Kavanaugh hearings, we now see what counts as independent thinking on the GOP side. Unlike the Kavanaugh stunt show we know more about how Susan Collins tends in … Read More

On the day of the perfect call Trump thought it was all coming together

Even though the funds were being held at least a week before, on the day of the perfect call, Trump knew he had to shake down Zerensky with a specific solicitation … Read More

a fair trial, if you can ensure it – “a republic, if you can keep it.”

For the habitual liar who whines weekly of the unfairness of the truth confronting his follies. fairness should be what Trump wants from his “rigged” Senate trial. Reading Lawrence Tribe’s … Read More

Pelosi sends IMPOTUS invitation for State of the Union, making SOTU a ratings bonanza for whining

What an opportunity for Trump to declare a dictatorship during his impeachment trial in the Senate. OTOH it’s another thing for Trump to worry about before Xmas. x JUST IN: … Read More

Russian support for Rudy's “investigations” in Ukraine also included disinformation

A new Washington Post article describes the mechanics of disinformation underlying portions of the smear campaign to which Rudy Giuliani claimed credit as a private citizen working for Trump. Colludy or … Read More