What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[Don Troooomp]

What isn't said is equally as interesting as what is.

Terms of Service Violation

Key Republicans Give Trump a Path to Fire Sessions After the Election

"After the mid terms" says to me they know it's wrong in every way but they're giving it two years to let the dust settle. It also suggests they're unsure of their ground and electability so they don't want anything to rock the boat in case it tips them over the edge.

Basically, they're sneaky fuckers that know they're covering Trump's arse from his crimes and should be done for obstruction when Trump finally gets what he deserves.

 

[CRI]

Where is this going ? Off the historical map of political precedent anything could happen . Nice to see him out of control though.

Voter suppression IS a worry for November, as there are fewer safeguards against it now than in any time since 1965.

 

[CRI]

David Pecker, American Media Chief, Is Said to Have Immunity in Trump Inquiry

Pecker flips.
More porn star evidence and working out who paid what to whom ... and if it was done to influence the campaign illegally.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Trump's peckers got him into trouble

 

[steveo87]

*anything more.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Trump's peckers got him into trouble

TBF, peckers seem to get a lot of men in trouble.

 

[CRI]

Manafort juror: Juror who voted against convicting on all counts wouldn't explain why

Bought or threatened?

Paula Duncan, one of 12 jurors who sat on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial, said the one juror who stymied a ruling on all 18 counts against Manafort couldn’t explain why.

"I think it was about her right to do that," Duncan said. "In the end it may have been more about her determination" to oppose the other 10 jurors.

Duncan, who described herself as a Trump supporter, said she “wanted Manafort to be innocent, but he wasn’t.” She said in an interview with Fox News the night before that she was convinced Manafort was guilty after seeing four full boxes of evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team.

But she also said she thinks Manafort was just a “pawn” in Mueller’s overall Russia investigation, which she thinks is just a witch hunt out to get Trump and divide the country.

Duncan added that she believes the president is currently “doing a great job.”

 

[CRI]

More on voter suppression . . .

The ADA is being used to disenfranchise minority voters

A majority-black county in rural Georgia announced a plan last week to close seven of its nine polling places ahead of the November election, claiming the polls cannot continue to operate because they are not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The racial implications of the closures have generated significant attention. The county is over 61 percent black, and one of the polling locations that would be shuttered serves a precinct where more than 95 percent of voters are African American. Had the U.S. Supreme Court not gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the closures would most likely have been blocked by the Department of Justice.

But the method the county is using to justify the closures has generated less attention. Advocates say that Republican lawmakers and election administrators in Randolph County are not the first to use the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), intended to protect the nation’s disabled communities, as a pretext to disenfranchise minority voters.

Jim Tucker, an attorney and member of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition, said he learned earlier this year that the Department of Justice’s Disability Rights Section is targeting at least three largely Native American counties, where facilities used as polling locations often lack paved parking lots, designated handicapped parking spots, entrance ramps, wide doorways, and other ADA-required features.

“It’s a diabolical move: citing one civil rights statute (the ADA) as the justification for violating another (the VRA),” Tucker, who previously worked in the DOJ’s Voting Section, told ThinkProgress. “These sorts of closures can effectively disenfranchise entire communities of voters, all under the false guise of purportedly seeking to make polling places accessible for the disabled.”

Young told ThinkProgress it was clear from the community meeting that Malone was reaching for any justification to close polling locations. During his presentation, he displayed photographs of some of the polling places he thinks should be closed. The majority are located in public buildings like fire departments, which should be ADA compliant anyway. If they are not, the county should work on updating the facilities rather than shuttering the polls, she said.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Giuliani: If Trump is impeached Americans will 'revolt' - CNNPolitics

If President Donald Trump were impeached, "the American people would revolt," the President's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with Sky News.

Hard to argue with that - Trump supporters tend to be pretty revolting.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Trump sought his lawyers' advice weeks ago on possibility of...

Trump really is a fucking idiot, a bent one at that.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump asked his lawyers several weeks ago for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort and other aides accused of crimes, his lawyer said Thursday.

The subject of pardoning Manafort came as Trump's former campaign chairman faced multiple charges of bank fraud and tax evasion in an Alexandria criminal case, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in an interview.
Trump's lawyers counseled the president against the idea of pardoning anyone linked to the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, according to Giuliani, saying Trump should at least wait until special counsel Robert Mueller III has concluded his probe. Giuliani said the president agreed and did not push the issue further.

 

[krtek a houby]

Giuliani: If Trump is impeached Americans will 'revolt' - CNNPolitics



Hard to argue with that - Trump supporters tend to be pretty revolting.

He sure places a lot of worth in himself, don't he?

 

[CRI]

This poor lass has buun fucked over big time

 

[Don Troooomp]

He sure places a lot of worth in himself, don't he?

A lot more than I do

Back to fun and the Manhattan DA's office is looking into possible criminal charges against the Trump organisation for falsifying accounts to cover up the Stormy payments.

Manhattan prosecutors reportedly considering criminal charges against Trump Organization

The district attorney's office is considering starting a state investigation to look into how the company accounted for that reimbursement and whether business records were falsified, the report said. Such actions could be charged as a low-level felony or misdemeanor, but would become a felony if it's done to commit or conceal another crime, it added.

and it looks a lot like it was.

 

[Wilf]

Really feels like the walls are closing in on Trump - if you look at it in terms of where would the game be up for a normal president. But this is still going to be all about the political reality and whether the dems can get a majority and/or the republicans think it is no longer in their interest to support him. And when I say he's not a normal president, that's not particularly his bizarre personality or even his rapey self entitlement (he's not unique in that). It's that the scenario and forces that brought him to power still form a defence against the pressures on him. Personally, I think he can stand quite a few more former friends getting immunity deals before it becomes a crisis. Ditto Mueller's final conclusions.

Edit: shorter version, there have been plenty of predictions about trump being gone in x months before. Don't think we're anywhere near that territory yet.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Trump is looking into buying Italian debt after EU support is killed the end of this year. I have yet to get my head around this and dug any deeper but my point instinct is that that is a wrecking tactic

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Trump is looking into buying Italian debt after EU support is killed the end of this year. I have yet to get my head around this and dug any deeper but my point instinct is that that is a wrecking tactic

Political complexion of current Italian govt may have something to do with it also....

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Salvini and Trump have various things in common:
Italian prosecutors head to Rome to question Salvini on migrant standoff

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Personally, I think he can stand quite a few more former friends getting immunity deals before it becomes a crisis.

This one might test your thesis:

 

[a_chap]

Blimey

Sorry, I meant: Blimey

 

[Pickman's model]

Blimey

Sorry, I meant: Blimey

perhaps not so long to go till the successor thread, what barking mad christian nonsense has pence done today.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

perhaps not so long to go till the successor thread, what barking mad christian nonsense has pence done today.

From what I've seen Pence may be complicit as well. Perhaps they'll both go.

If the dems take back the house, they might end up being replaced by the house majority leader (potentially Pelosi) You can bet that all hell would break loose in Trump country at that point. Keep in mind, that I don't think that will happen.

 

[Pickman's model]

From what I've seen Pence may be complicit as well. Perhaps they'll both go.

who's next in line?

e2a: pls don't tell me it's kiefer sutherland

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

who's next in line?

e2a: pls don't tell me it's kiefer sutherland

Speaker of the House. Who that person is, depends on who wins in the next election.

Kiefer Sutherland is at least as qualified as Trump. He's at least played a President on TV. I'm not sure what Donald is going for.

 

[Dogsauce]

It’ll be all over when Melanie is granted immunity. There will be a few more first.

Newspaper editors will be desperate to use the ‘You’re Fired’ headline when we get there, I reckon all of them will have this on the cover.

 

[Don Troooomp]

It’ll be all over when Melanie is granted immunity.

Silly as that sounds, she must be extremely pissed off with Trump and his sexual antics so it might well happen at some point in the future.
Another sex revelation and she's could do a 'woman scorned' job on him in return for immunity, the only thing stopping her being Eric getting hammered.

 

[Don Troooomp]

How did I miss this?

Cohen’s lawyer says he’s completely flipped and will give information of Trump-linked conspiracy with Russia

Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen, said Wednesday that Cohen knew of efforts by Trump to conspire with Russia to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.

Davis had previously teased that Cohen had “knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel,” but he came right out and suggested a smoking gun on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning.

 

[CRI]

Attorney Challenges Whether Iowa Suspect Is in US Illegally

And he worked for "prominent" Iowa Republican.

No surprises here.

How Russian bots used Mollie Tibbetts' death to distract from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort

Almost immediately after a guilty verdict was announced in the trial of Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud charges, there was a flurry of activity among hundreds of pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts believed to be controlled by Russian government influence operations. Those accounts began posting thousands of tweets about Ms Tibbetts, the 20-year-old University of Iowa student who had been missing for nearly five weeks.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

perhaps not so long to go till the successor thread, what barking mad christian nonsense has pence done today.

Can we make Stephen Pound our PM before then so that they can make a united stand against the Eurozone?

 

[Don Troooomp]

Gosh!

Another Trump affair, this time resulting in a kid - How long before Mrs Trump is another ex Mrs Trump and asking for immunity before she talks to the FBI?

Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases 'catch-and-kill' contract about alleged Trump affair - CNNPolitics

(CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.

On Friday, Marc Held -- the attorney for Dino Sajudin, the former doorman -- said his client had been released from his contract with AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, "recently" after back-and-forth discussions with AMI.
CNN has exclusively obtained a copy of the "source agreement" between Sajudin and AMI, which is owned by David Pecker.
The contract appears to have been signed on Nov. 15, 2015, and states that AMI has exclusive rights to Sajudin's story but does not mention the details of the story itself beyond saying, "Source shall provide AMI with information regarding Donald Trump's illegitimate child..."
The contract states that "AMI will not owe Source any compensation if AMI does not publish the Exclusive..." and the top of the agreement shows that Sajudin could receive a sum of $30,000 "payable upon publication as set forth below."

 

[gosub]