Julia Davis is an expert on Russian disinformation techniques and Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Council’s Disinformation Portal. In one of her regular columns for The Daily Beast, published yesterday, she highlights the gleeful responses of Russians to drumpf’s backstabbing of the Syrian Kurds. “President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his…
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Greg Sargent: W.H. Considering Setting Up Fund To Solicit $ to Trump Org. For G-7.
Anyone who believes this crap will in any way defray even one dollar of taxpayer expense is an idiot. x A reminder: House Democrats can and should make Trump's spectacularly corrupt G-7/Doral decision part of the impeachment inquiry and possibly part of an article of impeachment. Here's @RepRaskin laying out a process to us by…
Turkey’s Former Ambassador to the U.S., Namik Tan, Openly Mocks Our Idiot *resident.
Proving yet again how much disdain the rest of the world has for the Oval Office occupant, former Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Namik Tan tweeted this a few hours ago… x Donald Trump's “perfect” letter to Santa. Via @NewYorker pic.twitter.com/GBmGgAnqIs— Ambassador Namik Tan (@NamikTan) October 18, 2019 One would expect Turkey’s President Erdogan, on the…
LOL. Kevin McCarthy and Trump Don’t Know Why Pelosi Laughed at Trump’s Letter to Erdogan.
Second LOL diary of the evening. I can’t help that the LOLs just keep on coming… Confirmed: Kevin McCarthy confirms that Nancy Pelosi owned the president 😂 pic.twitter.com/SwsB2RM02K — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 17, 2019 Are they really that stupid or just counting on their audience to be? drumpf’s “serious item”… I staged a dramatic…
LOL. Speaker Pelosi Pinned the Photo of Her Dressing Down Trump to Her Twitter Page.
For some damned unhinged reason the dotard thought he’d own the speaker by twitting out the above photo of her berating him… Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown! pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2019 Bwa haha pic.twitter.com/VwSI4V73G0 — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 16, 2019 What a Moran.
Erdogan Will Not Meet with The Vice-Colluder, only The Colluder-in-Chief Himself.
In another move to slam dunk on the dotard and disrespect the U.S., Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he will not meet with V.P. Pence, whether or not Mother is with him, but will hold out for a visit from The Big Colluduna himself. Haaretz.com “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State…
Are Trump and Barr Extorting Facebook?
Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippmann have a piece up on Politico that suggests that drumpf may be using the Justice Department and the threat of breaking up Facebook to pressure Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg into allowing his campaign to publish bold face lies on the platform. Of course this would be highly illegal, and so right in step…
Sondland to Testify Trump Told Him to Text ‘No Quid Pro Quo.”
Gordon Sondland, the mercurial hotelier turned EU Ambassador who first stated he would not testify in the impeachment inquiry, then changed course to say he would, will testify this week that drumpf told him to text acting Ukrainian Ambassador William B. Taylor that there was no quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukrainian President…
AP: Former Ukraine Ambassador Fired for Insisting Giuliani Work Through Official Channels U/D
We have long suspected that Former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was dismissed for interfering with drumpf and Rudy’s illegal effort to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden to boost drumpf’s 2020 campaign. The AP has found one source willing to confirm that we were right. Associated Press “WASHINGTON (AP) — The former U.S. ambassador to…
Deutsche Bank Seems to Have Misplaced drumpf's Tax Returns. Right.
How convenient. Washington Post “President Trump’s biggest lender has told an appeals court it does not have in its possession Trump’s personal tax returns, according to a ruling released Thursday in a legal battle between Congress and the president. The disclosure came in an order from the New York-based appeals court, which is considering whether…
As Our Kurdish Allies Die, Tone Deaf FLOTUS Announces New W.H. Tennis Pavilion.
I’ve got no problem with the White House getting a new tennis pavilion… …to replace the public park w.c. set up they have now: With any luck, probably long after I’m planted, we’ll have a first family young enough to have kids to make good use of it. But J.C. On a pogo stick, you’d think…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Doesn’t Have Time “to be tweeting garbage out.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey just wants drumpf To pay in advance, as any sane person would. So drumpf sent him a nasty tweet — entirely predictable. Hizzoner had this to say about that: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey fired back at President Trump for his Twitter insults, suggesting the president has too much time on his…
Rachel Maddow Points Out That Trump Is Trying to Render the Term “Corruption” Meaningless.
To us drumpf portraying himself as a champion of any fight against corruption is, of course, absurd on it’s face. But then so is much of what he does. drumpf has reasons of his own for dragging us through the muck of Ukrainian domestic politics, where state prosecutors often function in the way that he…
Lindsey Graham Back to Shilling for Trump…That Didn’t Take Long.
For a hot minute it looked almost like Lindsey had retrieved his dignity from Trump’s watch pocket. We should have known better. Six hours ago: x Couldn't agree more! https://t.co/SnRiOdDZV6— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 7, 2019 Two hours ago: x To House Democrats: Everyone in America — including President @realDonaldTrump — has the right to…
Autocrats Stick Together. Trump Throws Our Syrian Kurd Allies Under Erdogan’s Bus.
The wheels on the bus go round and round… x Trump released big statement late Sunday on US allowing Turkey into the safe zone in northeast Syria. Turkey wants to go in to attack the Kurds there, who are close partners with the US military & are critical in fighting ISIS. US mil & senior…
Rick Perry was in Ukraine Trying to do A Little Gas ‘Bidness’ and Trump’s Trying to Flip The Script.
As some of you might have read, it was reported overnight that the dotard, on a private call to Republican Congress critters, asserted that the perfectly illegal phone conversation that he had with Ukrainian President Zelensky was actually made at the behest of his energy Secretary Rick Perry… about a Ukrainian liquefied natural gas plant. We all…
Russian Embassy in London Saying Trump’s Exonerated them of Skripal Poisoning.
You probably have heard that it has been revealed that Donald Chump called Prime Minister Theresa May in the summer of last year to toe Putin’s line and dispute British Intelligence’s estimate that Russia was behind the poisoning of a Russian emigre and his daughter earlier in that year. The Guardian wrote about it… “Donald Trump…
Wow. drumpf Blaming “Perfect Call” on Rick Perry.
I thought it was perfect? Rick Perry’s about to learn the hard way: Everything Trump touches dies: .Axios “President Trump told House Republicans that he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the urging of Energy Secretary Rick Perry — a call Trump claimed he didn’t even want to make….
In Wake of Whistle Blower(s) Fiasco Trump and Mulvaney are Purging the NSC.
Q. What is an aspiring autocrat to do when concerned patriots from the nation’s premier intelligence and security forum, The National Security Council, informs Congress of his attempts to extort an ally into contributing to his next campaign to the detriment of the security of that country, ourselves and our NATO allies? A. Send his most loyal…
Trump Lied To GOP Sad Sack Senator Ron Johnson About Ukraine…but He's Fine With it.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R) of Wisconsin, has Ukraine as a part of his portfolio of the Foreign Relations committee. When he mentioned to Trump that he’d heard about his shenanigans in that country, Don Cornholeone lied to his stupid face. But Ron’s O.K. with that, in fact he’s still shilling for the Diapered Don: Wall…
Facebook Has Changed Its Rules to Allow Trump to Outright Lie in 2020.
x 2. The new ad policy “prohibits ads that include claims debunked by third-party fact checkers” So you would think that would prohibit political ads that are debunked Nope. Facebook tells me POLITICIANS ARE EXEMPT FROM FACT CHECKING https://t.co/4aTevXJIwr— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 3, 2019 x 3. This came up when I noticed that Trump…
Hillary Tweets Epic Shade onto Giuliani and Trump and Their Ukraine Inanity with Just Six Words.
After months and even years of Trump and his minions trying to create an alternative fact fun-world in which Ukraine conspired with the Clinton Campaign in 2016 to counter the unfortunately reality that Russia succeed in their efforts to install their puppet Trump to the presidency, Rudy “Noun, Verb and 9-11” Giuliani, on Twitter, finally…
WaPo: Giuliani consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer.
Well, this is perfect. Washington Post “In his quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, President Trump’s personal attorney has turned to an unusual source of information: Trump’s imprisoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Rudolph W. Giuliani in recent months has consulted several times with Manafort through the federal prisoner’s lawyer in pursuit of…
This is What He Tweets This Evening? Talk About Nuts.
pic.twitter.com/DJLYoma7KB — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019 Omg, this is just demented. — Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 1, 2019 What in the wild world of fuck is this dumb shit? — Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) October 1, 2019 pic.twitter.com/hzAuPG31j1 — Moscow Mitch (@Thorspaintrain) October 1, 2019 Apparently, White House staff has given up on…
LOL. The Whistle Blower Has a New Nickname – “Orange Crush.”
The IC whistle blower is driving drumpf to hysterics, his twitter feed is blowing up with batshit crazy even more than usual. Attributed to various users, Twitter has given that mask (for Now) man or woman a new Moniker… #OrangeCrush… x Perfect moniker. Spread the word, our day's Deep Throat shall henceforth be known as…
All Hail the Mighty Connecticut Post! First Newspaper to Call For Drumpf’s Resignation!
x All hail the mighty Connecticut Post! Somebody finally had to go first https://t.co/9zm93HtALs — Will Bunch 🆘 (@Will_Bunch) September 28, 2019 “Even given the incredibly fast pace of news in the Trump era, the speed with which the Ukraine scandal has moved from vague complaint to impeachable offense has been stunning. Though we’re still…
drumpf, In the Middle of the Night, 'Discribing' How “Low Ratings CNN” Says He Can't Spell.
Even Jonathan Swift, on his best day, couldn’t make this sh** up, a *Resident of the United States, in the wee hours of the AM, fuming that a news outlet accuses him of misspelling while simultaneously misspelling a rather easily spelled word and misidentifying basic punctuation marks. x To show you how dishonest the LameStream…
LOL. V.F. Reports Paul Ryan Urging Lachlan Murdoch to Ditch drumpf, Now That He Has “Power”.
According to Vanity Fair Fox News HQ is more like the center ring of a WWE triple bout, with earnest Shep Smith facing off against “Hungry Man prepster” Tucker Carlson and “Sloppy Joe” diGenova attempting to knock out Judge Andrew Napolitano with his patented sleeper hold… while frantic network execs strive diligently to referee the…
The Truth About Those NY Times “Swing Voters” Who Don't Favor Trump Impeachment.
Matt McDermott is a democrat friendly pollster and director of Whitman Insight Strategies. x No, the New York Times did not talk to six “swing voters†about impeachment. The article quotes a handful of devout GOP voters who the NYT has repeatedly interviewed multiple times. A thread…. https://t.co/QYKCWB9V5I — Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) September 26, 2019…
OMG. Look At Zelensky’s Face When drumpf Says He Hopes He and Putin can “solve your problem.”
The Orangutangal Orifice is in rare form today, telling the Ukrainian President he hopes that he and his good buddy Pootie “can get together and solve your problem.” OMG — get a load of the look on Zelensky's face as Trump tells him, "I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and…
Center for American Progress Tweets drumpf and Barr Redacted Half of Talk for Not-a-Transcript.
x It looks like Trump’s team left out more than HALF of the conversation from their “transcript.†#TrumpImpeachment https://t.co/VhKczhoYpt — CAP Action (@CAPAction) September 25, 2019 x Of course they did — lulu (@lod59) September 25, 2019 x Just the good parts… — durrati 🆘 (@durrati) September 25, 2019
WaPo: Mulvaney Withheld Funds to Ukraine W/O Knowledge of NSC, Pentagon or State.
Fascinating article now up at The Washington Post outlining Rudy’s machinations in Ukraine, the ouster of the U.S. Ambassador there at his recommendation, consternation and anger at the growing clusterfuck from John Bolton and other senior officials, great stuff, but, for my money, here is the beef: “The perception of a parallel, hidden agenda intensified in the…
NY Times Publisher Says drumpf Would Not Get His Reporter Out of Egypt so He Turned to Ireland
NY Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger wrote a piece in his own newspaper yesterday stating the government of drumpf’s favorite dictator, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, was about to arrest one of his reporters, Declan Walsh, in 2017, and that he received a clandestine call from an anonymous someone in the administration warning him of the arrest…
The Kyiv Post: “Get Lost Giuliani.”
Last month the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s oldest English Language newspaper, made use of an old American colloquialism when it told Hizdizzhoner Rudy Giuliani in no uncertain terms to Get Lost! “On Aug. 21, The New York Times reported that Giuliani had met with Andriy Yermak, a key aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky, and urged him to…
Pelosi Aide Tells John Harwood Ukraine Won't Alter Impeachment Stance Unless She Gets Repub. Votes
Push Democrats all you want, it won’t make any difference. x is whistleblower/Ukraine situation changing Pelosi’s view on potential Trump impeachment? adviser tells me: “no. see any GOP votes for it?†— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 21, 2019 x I don’t give a shit anymore about what the GOP votes for or against. I’m not…
Idiot Discloses Sensitive Tech Deployed at Border, Asks General to Discuss. General Demurs.
So, this happened yesterday: x President Trump says new border wall has ‘wired’ technology. “Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing that.” pic.twitter.com/dw3H3d3Znk — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 19, 2019 Politico “President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed off a swath of his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, boasting about its impenetrability for the cameras…
Trump Literally Laughing at Us, Stonewalling BECAUSE Pelosi Reluctant to Impeach.
Washington Post “Trump and White House officials, meanwhile, are reveling in Democrats’ difficulties. In fact, the president — who watched Lewandowski’s testimony from Air Force One on Tuesday — was laughing and joking about the hearing, arguing that Democrats have no idea what they’re doing and that no one cared about the Mueller report anymore,…
Kellyanne Says that Per “the Constitution of the Democratic Party” Dems Have No Right to Impeach.
Thing are getting even loopier way out there in alternative fact land and the Faux News bubble, if that is possible, as spokesflak Kellyanne Conway went on FOX News Sunday yesterday to explain that a careful reading of The Constitution of the Democratic Party leads her to conclude that Democrats have no right “to embarrass…