Beware of the Bannon
The January sixth committee members are faced with two questions regarding the tentative appearance of Steve Bannon as a witness. Is he trying to use the committee to save his … Read More
Category: McCabe
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – happy lunar new year with your instant pot and your go bag
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. … Read More
The weirdest Trump scandal: His Russian counter-intelligence investigation was secretly blocked
As Trump’s one term winds to a thankful close, one of the largest scandals remains seemingly forgotten and bizarrely unexplained. There not only has never been a counter-intelligence investigation into … Read More
previewing Trump's Saturday Nuremberg Rally
A loser’s victory rally, what a message. In his Valdosta, Georgia speech on Saturday Trump will essentially repeat his 46 minute Facebook rant from Wednesday with a few local references and additional … Read More
On 1/21/21, Biden should declassify the Russia report's Intel assessment on Trump because Kompromat
Andrew McCabe references a suspicion from the first days of the Mueller investigation that Trump simply needs his comeuppance and a further push into a post-political life. Cuomo: You think there's … Read More
'barricaded' Trump as classic counterintelligence risk: deeply in debt, angry at the U.S. government
Trump sells off his private helicopter after losing the election, so perhaps he’s cash-short, even as he’s running another grift, claiming he’d run again in 2024. However, there’s other shenanigans … Read More
Trump counters Biden speech with nonsense about exploding trees and forest floor sweeping again
The climate arsonist is now in California, on a hastily scheduled addition to his campaign trip and repeated his nonsense from the last time he was there, touting Finland’s approach … Read More
it may be too late to stop election interference
We’re now past the point in 2016 where PBO got derailed by McConnell on election interference from Russia. We can see why Trump has undermined trust in intel agencies We … Read More
cancel culture is like cultural marxism: nonsense, but Trump will sell you their snake oil
Trump’s tweeting more gibberish replete with nonsense and continues to tank the economy built by the previous administration. Ever the opportunist, Trump would have signed off on the recent “Justice and … Read More
Do more Days/Daze of Disinformation remain as RWNJs float a Bloomberg-Clinton ticket
This cannot be the government that America deserves in 2020, but there will be a repeat of 2016 if only because Trumpists lack the intelligence even if they had the … Read More
McCabe Will NOT Be Charged [UPDATE: Vindman Also Won't be Investigated]
WaPo is breaking the news: Justice Dept. won’t charge Andrew McCabe, the former FBI official who authorized the investigation of President Trump The Justice Department will not bring charges against … Read More
like he bankrupted casinos, Trump squandered Obama's stronger economy
Rebranding a Trump economy is more than slapping a new paint job on Air Force One. Trump took a strong economy and weakened it. x It’s “not fashionable in progressive … Read More
DoJ Inspector General report available: Russia Probe justified and not politically motivated
Did we really want a criminal in the WH. The DoJ IG report is available. BREAKING: US Justice Dept. inspector general report on Russia investigation: Overall investigation was justified and … Read More
Boom! if there were an FBI coup d'etat in 2016, we'd surely know it
Ben Wittes of Lawfare outlines some questions in advance of the Monday’s release of the IG report on the Russia investigation. Advance reports indicate exoneration. href=”https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1203307823926595585? (1) It is important to … Read More
Giuliani could be prosecuted under the Logan Act, among other things
The pushback from Trumpists is beginning with much disinformation and noise. The coming weeks will unfortunately be far too interesting because the latest episode with Ukraine is one clearly created … Read More
House transcript: Two Cabinet members were willing to invoke 25th Amendment
Only two? Seriously, if Donald Trump had been an assistant cruller fryer at Dunkin’ Donuts, he’d have long been fired and put under observation by now, but because he’s only president … Read More
Trump Wanted War with Venezuela Because “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
So says Andrew McCabe in his book as told to him by an FBI agent present in a July 2017 intel briefing in the White House. The Vox article that points to … Read More
Daily Beast: Trump 'beyond obsessed' with Andrew McCabe
I don’t know if this qualifies as a scoop or even new information, given that Trump once told former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe to ask his wife what it feels … Read More
The GOP is falling back to the rhetorical “bunker” on Trump's collusion and obstruction of justice.
You know, one snowflake is just a snowflake. Ten snowflakes is a flurry, and one hundred snowflakes is a blizzard. But when it comes to Trump, and his collusion and … Read More
The Real National Emergency: These People are Coup Coup for Cocoa Puffs!
(coup — a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.) After Rachel talked me down a bit…noting that drumpf’s Declaration of Emergency is not only subject to review … Read More
Natasha Bertrand Says Trump Targeting Specifically Experts in Russian Organized Crime.
There’s a good read over at The Atlantic where Natasha Bertrand makes the point that the FBI officials and members of the Mueller investigating team, including Three Sticks himself, that have drawn … Read More
Rachel Maddow: drumpf Not Flogging Critics by Taking Sec. Clearances, He's Hamstringing Witnesses.
Last night our favorite reporter told us the real reason dumbass is stripping officials of the security clearances; doing so denies them access to their files and notes sequestered in … Read More
Weak Tea CBS Evening News Interview with Trump.
Jeff Glor needs to go back to journalism school. Basically, Glor didn’t not follow up on his questions to Trump. Here is the exchange between Mr. Trump and Glor: GLOR: … Read More
What role did Devlin Barrett play in the McCabe affair (holding the media accountable for Trump)?
So I have just seen the early reports on Andrew McCabe’s firing. At first I was angry at McCabe but after hearing the early reporting I think I will hold … Read More
