BREAKING: Mueller Just Subpoenaed the rich asshole 11-17-2017
some rich asshole is being Subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team for documents about Russia. According to a first-hand source, there are now multiple campaign officials that are being court ordered to produce Russia related documents that the Special Counsel’s office has decided the rich asshole and his former and current associates will not turn over voluntarily.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the subpoenas, which have now been confirmed by multiple sources close to the investigation. Although the campaign has reportedly already turned over 20,000 documents, those were not enough to satiate Robert Mueller, who seems to be looking for specific documents that were not turned over alongside the thousands of others. At this point, the sources say, the subpoenas are only for documents, and are not yet compelling testimony of the rich asshole or any other campaign or white house officials.
The Wall Street Journal further reported that, against all odds, the rich asshole campaign was caught by surprise when given the subpoenas, apparently not expecting Mueller to ask for specific documents that they hadn’t voluntarily turned over. the rich asshole and his officials seem to be underestimating the investigative prowess of Mueller, a former FBI director, who seems determined to leave no stone unturned when it comes to finding the truth of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
The news of the brand new subpoenas has dropped as other Russian investigations, outside of Robert Mueller, are also continuing to move along and uncover more information. In fact, it seems that the rich asshole is not alone in trying to keep incriminating documents out of the hands of investigators. The Senate Judiciary Committee, for example, has now explicitly stated that Jared Kushner, who is both the rich asshole’s son-in-law and one of his top advisers, did not turn over all the documents requested of him to their committee.
Ex-CIA chief explains why Putin is easily ‘outsmarting’ an ‘incredibly naive and uninformed’ the rich asshole
the rich asshole's relationship with Moscow has stalked the first year of his presidency, with key former aides under a US investigation for alleged collaboration with the Kremlin. (SPUTNIK/AFP / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV)
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Former Acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin on Friday penned an op-ed for Politico Magazine sharply criticizing some rich asshole’s approach to Vladimir Putin, arguing the Russian president is “outsmarting” the president of the United States.
“When the Art of the Deal meets the KGB, the KGB will always win,” McLaughlin—who served for over 30 years at the Central Intelligence Agency—wrote. The former intelligence official pointed specifically to the rich asshole’s apparent acceptance of Putin’s claim that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 presidential election, an assertion that is disputed by every intelligence agency in the United States. McLaughlin also noted the rich asshole’s dismissal of former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey last week as “political hacks.”
“The president probably really believes what he first said,” McLaughlin reasoned, referring to the rich asshole’s original acceptance of Putin’s claim. “Hard as it is to apply logic to Trumpisms, let’s try. If the intelligence community assessment was produced under the leadership of “political hacks” and if the president means it when he calls the Russia investigation a “hoax” (his most frequent characterization of it), then it’s only logical that he doubts the intelligence assessment and finds Putin’s denial congenial.”
Referencing the evolution of the rich asshole’s response to the deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville, VA in August, McLaughlin predicted, “It’s only a matter of time before he returns to his first instinct—that it’s all a ‘hoax.’”
“The president is either incredibly naive and uninformed or Putin is a remarkably good KGB-trained case officer—or all of this,” McLaughlin wrote. “Dissembling is part of the intelligence art, but practiced nowhere better than in Russian intelligence and foreign policy. Facts, the evidence even of our eyes, do not get in the way.”
McLaughlin also argued the rich asshole “crossed an important line” when he called out Brennan, Clapper and Comey last week.
“Disagreeing with their views on substantive grounds is fair game—anyone working in the intelligence arena is used to vigorous and contentious debate on that basis,” he wrote. “But to my knowledge, no president in the American intelligence community’s 70-year history has ever called its leaders ‘political hacks.’ Playing politics is the ultimate sin in American intelligence…”
The former CIA head warned the rich asshole’s continued refusal to call out Putin for meddling in the election makes it less likely the United Sates will be able to defend itself from future attacks. “So long as the president persists in his current approach to Putin, few will trust him to exercise his vaunted Art of the Deal—which at this point is looking like just a clever book title,” McLaughlin wrote
the rich asshole starts paying his own legal bills on Russia probe: attorneys
President some rich asshole addresses the nation on the South Asia strategy during a press conference at Conmy Hall on Fort Myer, Va., Aug. 21, 2017. (DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)
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President some rich asshole has begun paying his own legal bills related to the Russia investigation and will no longer use political donations to his reelection campaign or the Republican Party to cover the costs, his attorneys confirmed.
the rich asshole defense lawyer John Dowd said that following payments by the Republican National Committee (RNC), the president began paying the bills and now wants to make the party “even.”
The expenses cover the rich asshole’s personal lawyers working on special counsel Robert Mueller investigates possible collusion between the the rich asshole campaign and Russia in last year’s election, and whether the rich asshole may have obstructed justice by firing Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, among other actions.
Moscow has denied meddling in the U.S. election, and the rich asshole has denied any collusion or obstruction.
The RNC did not respond to a request for comment.
The administration is also working with others to establish a fund for current and former staffers, Special White House counsel Ty Cobb said. Dowd said Don McGahn, the White House counsel, and campaign lawyer Ben Ginsberg of Jones Day are working to structure that fund, which would be subject to rules that prohibit staff from receiving gifts or pro bono legal service.
The president is exempt from those rules, Dowd said.
“The geniuses are working on it,” Dowd said. “If it passes muster with the tax lawyers and accountants, then it has to pass muster with the Office of Government Ethics.”
He added, “The president is worried about staffers who have good lawyers and they can’t afford them.”
During former President Bill Clinton’s administration, private funds were raised to cover his own legal expenses related to the Whitewater investigation. Under former President George W. Bush, a legal fund was set up to help former staffer Lewis “Scooter” Libby, only after he had left White House employment.
In August, Reuters first reported that the RNC was paying the rich asshole’s legal bills, which amounted to more than $230,000 that month.
The payments were made to the rich asshole’s outside legal team, which includes Dowd and Jay Sekulow.
Additionally, the rich asshole’s reelection campaign paid more than $300,000 this year in bills to lawyers representing his son some rich asshole Jr., according to public disclosures filed by the campaign. The campaign did not respond to a request for comment whether it will continue to pay for the rich asshole Jr’s legal expenses.
The U.S. Federal Election Commission allows use of private campaign funds to pay legal bills arising from being a candidate or elected official.
While previous presidential campaigns have used these funds to pay for routine legal matters such as ballot access disputes and compliance requirements, the rich asshole was the first U.S. president in the modern campaign finance era to use such funds to cover the costs of responding to a criminal probe, said election law experts.
(Reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by David Gregorio)
the rich asshole Just Got His P*ssy Handed To Him By New Zealand’s Female Prime Minister
some rich asshole bit off a bit more than he could chew when he attempted to shoot some venom at New Zealand’s newly-elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during their first in-person meeting at the East Asia Summit last week.
When the rich asshole told her that her victory had “upset” citizens in her country, she hit back and his oranges testes shriveled up instantly.
“This lady caused a lot of upset in her country,” the rich asshole reportedly told a person standing next to Ardern, promopting her to reply:
“No one marched when I was elected.”
She’s correct. While the rich asshole’s inauguration failed to bring out supporters, marches across the nation in opposition of The rich asshole continued long after his election.
Ardern says the rich asshole “laughed” at her joke, but also “reflected that it could have been taken in a very particular way.”
However the rich asshole took it, he wasn’t able to complete his traditional “power handshake” that has been embarrassing the country since his election. Ardern describes their handshake as “standard,” meaning the rich asshole didn’t try to yank her arm out of its socket as per usual.
What’s that word conservatives like to use and misuse? Oh, yes – the rich asshole just got “cucked.”
the rich asshole's Risky, Unearned Sanctimony About Al Franken
The president’s jab at the Democratic senator for sexual harassment calls attention to his silence about Roy Moore—and his own past behavior.
On Thursday, radio host Leeann Tweeden wrote about two incidents during a 2006 USO tour to Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. In one case, she said Franken—a Saturday Night Live alumnus and comedian who was not yet a senator—forcibly kissed Tweeden against her will during a rehearsal for a skit. And after returning home from the trip, Tweeden received a CD of photos that included Franken either groping or pretending to grope her over a flak jacket as she slept.
The story and photo threaten to end the career of a rising Democratic star, one who had even been mentioned as a potential 2020 presidential candidate. (Immediate reaction has been split: Some Democrats have called for Franken to resign, while many of his Senate colleagues have joined Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in calling for an Ethics Committee investigation.) The president jumped in, offering one of his trademark nicknames:
Over the last eight days, a series of women—first four, then five, then six, and now others—have emerged with stories about Moore. They range from the alarming, about Moore’s apparent habit of dating high-schools girls, to the distressing, like rumors he was banned from the local mall for his pursuit of the girls, to the criminal. One woman says when she was 14, Moore brought her to his house, undressed, and guided her hand to touch his genitals. Another says he offered to give her a ride home, then locked her in his car as he groped her and tried to force her head into his crotch.
Moore has offered fiery and flat denials but has not specifically rebutted most of the allegations. He told Sean Hannity that he didn’t “generally” date teenage girls but didn’t deny he had; his lawyer delivered a rambling press conference about one accuser that didn’t really refute her account at all.
As these stories mount, an increasing number of Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have said they find Moore’s accusers credible and demanded that Moore drop out of the race. The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Republican National Committee have followed suit, and recent polls show Moore falling behind Democrat Doug Jones ahead of the December 12 election.
the rich asshole’s silence on Moore, and his quick reaction on Franken, stand out not just because of his party’s internal divisions over Moore. As Erin Gloria Ryan has written, declaring that all sexual harassment is unacceptable doesn’t preclude differentiating between levels of predation, and the allegations against Moore—involving teenagers, including a 14-year-old—are more serious and numerous than those against Franken. It’s true that Franken, unlike Moore, has acknowledged his inappropriate behavior; however, Franken has also apologized, unlike Moore.
More than Roy Moore, what the rich asshole’s tweets call attention to is his own history. Not only has the rich asshole faced accusations of sexual harassment (on various levels) from at least 16 women, but there is the matter of the infamous Access Hollywood tape from 2005, in which the rich asshole boasted about sexually assaulting women.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything,” the rich asshole said. He added: “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
One might expect that weighing in on the wave of sexual-harassment accusations would hardly help the rich asshole, since it only calls attention to his own misdeeds. The cognitive dissonance of seeing powerful men fall swiftly just months after the rich asshole’s election remains difficult to resolve. The White House’s official position remains that all 16 women who have accused the rich asshole are lying, yet the president is quick to give credence to other men’s accusers. the rich asshole weighed in on Harvey Weinstein last month, saying he was not surprised, although by then the film producer was entirely without defenders.
the rich asshole’s sanctimony on Franken draws what my colleague Adrienne LaFrance has called the “Harvey effect” closer to himself in the political realm. The president seems to be gambling that because his own history of sexual harassment has already been litigated, reopening it will not hurt him politically. The calculation is that he is immune not only to the standard rules of politics but also to the present moment in American culture—or, put another way, when you’re president, they let you do it.
November 17, 2017
Jack Moore
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Donald Trump's pledge to expand U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been realized, bringing the total number of American soldiers in the country to 14,000, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.
Thousands of troops have poured into Afghanistan since Trump’s announcement in August of a broader U.S. role in the country, as opposed to a withdrawal. The increase came at the request of General John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and the leader of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission.
“We've just completed a force flow into Afghanistan,” Joint Staff Director Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told Pentagon reporters, according to Radio Free Europe. “The new number for Afghanistan is now approximately 14,000. Might be a little above that, might be a little below that as we flex according to the mission.”
Nicholson has said that he needs around 16,000 troops in the country, and NATO members are to make up the 2,000 shortfall. NATO, the military alliance that Trump has pledged to support with the caveat that its members contribute more resources, has said that it is “fully committed” to the new strategy.
As well as an expansion of Washington’s troop presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has stepped up its airstrike campaign against radical Islamists aligned with the Taliban and the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).
In September, the military dropped 751 airstrikes in Afghanistan, the highest total for any month in seven years of military action in the country.
It represented a 50 percent increase from August when Trump announced the new strategy. The most bombs dropped during one month prior was 589 in August 2012.
The expansion threatens to continue the U.S. military’s involvement in the Afghan quagmire for years to come, but Kabul has been supportive of the additional troops, saying that the country needs the U.S. to enhance its security.
Following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in September 2001, former President George W. Bush authorized the campaign in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power, and U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government in late 2001.
The ensuing military campaign to beat back the group's insurgency led to the death of some 2,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The Taliban, despite losing several leaders in recent years, is becoming more sophisticated in its attacks.
This year, a new special forces unit known as the "Red Unit" has emerged in the group, conducting attacks on checkpoints manned by Afghan forces. The unit is using U.S.-made weapons and Russian-made night-vision headgear to launch the surprise attacks
Kellyanne Conway says the rich-asshole doesn’t have to comment on Roy Moore because ‘story is 8 days old’
Kellyanne Conway (Photo: Screen capture)
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White House adviser Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News Friday to downplay President some rich asshole’s total silence about Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of molesting them when they were teenagers.
Fox host Sandra Smith asked Conway why the rich asshole bothered to send out a tweet slamming Al Franken for his own sexual harassment scandal while remaining totally silent on Moore, whose alleged offenses are of a far more serious nature than Franken’s.
“We haven’t heard a lot from the president,” Smith pointed out. “He is tweeting on Al Franken, he was asked about Roy Moore yesterday and he didn’t respond.”
“Al Franken was a brand-new news story yesterday, and the president weighs in, as he does, on the news of the day,” she said. “The Roy Moore story is eight days old.”
Conway pointed out that the rich asshole had issued a press release during his trip in Asia in which he said he was disturbed by the allegations against Moore, although he has not said definitively yet whether he still backs Moore’s candidacy.
GOP governors in a panic about damage the rich asshole is doing to their re-election chances
President some rich asshole (AFP / Mandel NGAN)
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Panic is spreading among Republican governors in the U.S. after candidate Ed Gillespie lost his race in Virginia to Democrat Ralph Northam and President some rich asshole’s administration flounders, said Axios.com on Friday.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Gillespie was “an exceptionally good candidate” who should have beat Northam handily, but the president’s toxicity and the groundswell of anti-GOP sentiment among voters have the country’s 26 Republican governors sweating their odds of re-election.
“Nearly 45% of votes cast in the Virginia gubernatorial race were from those who strongly disapprove of the rich asshole and who supported Ralph Northam, according to exit polls,” wrote Axios’ Alexi McCammond.
“Just simply the intensity of the opposition — I think that’s what was reflected in the Virginia vote,” said Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR). “That should be a wake-up call to all of our supporters in the elections next year.”
Democrats are already reconfiguring their national strategy in the wake of Northam’s win, said Democratic Governors of America political director Corey Platt.
The victory by Democratic candidate Phil Murphy in New Jersey’s race for governor was another win that has Democrats emboldened and eagerly planning for the 2018 elections. Outgoing Republican Chris Christie was polling at the lowest job approval ratings ever recorded for a U.S. governor.
REVEALED: Supposed ‘coffee boy’ George Papadopoulos boasted the rich asshole gave him ‘blank check’ for future job
Former the rich asshole campaign adviser George Papadopoulos (image via Twitter).
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George Papadopoulos, the former the rich asshole campaign aide who has admitted he lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials — and who was subsequently dismissed as being a “coffee boy” by the rich asshole allies — once bragged to foreign reporters that the rich asshole had given him a “blank check” to pick his own job within the White House.
Politico reports that Papadopoulos boasted to Greek journalists last year that he was given the power” to choose a senior the rich asshole administration job” and was also “authorized to represent the candidate in overseas meetings with foreign leaders.”
The two Greek reporters who spoke with Politico expressed skepticism that Papadopoulos really had all of the power that he claimed, as the former campaign aide was known to exaggerate his status.
All the same, Papadopoulos’ boasts do undermine the rich asshole administration narrative that he was simply a low-level staffer who had no clout or significance to the larger campaign.
The two reporters also say that Papadopoulos wasn’t shy about using his status as a rich asshole campaign aide to his own benefit when he traveled abroad to Greece.
“He had acquired a new status in Athens,” they reported in the newspaper Kathimerini, while adding that the rich asshole campaign aide had been “bestowed with awards, wined and dined by prominent Athenians and even appointed to the judging committee of a beauty pageant on a Greek island.”
the rich asshole’s penchant for deception is infecting his team: Here are 15 huge lies told by administration officials
David Goldstein
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted with permission from Tribune Content Agency
WASHINGTON — "There are three kinds of lies," Mark Twain once wrote: "lies, damned lies and statistics."
The Trump administration has employed them all.
From the exaggerated estimates of his inaugural crowd to the unraveling of claims that his campaign never dealt with Russia, Donald Trump's presidency has been a mosaic of untruths, half-truths and distortions.
And they are not just his own, which are legion. Many belong to people inside his political orbit. From Cabinet secretaries to White House aides to campaign advisers — even family members — they are all knitted together by the common thread of deception. The fog is so thick inside the Trump White House that it could be cited for violating clean air standards.
Some of the falsehoods are causing headaches for the perpetrators as Justice Department and congressional investigators probe Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump or his team assisted. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for instance, has faced repeated questioning on Capitol Hill about his contacts with Russians, which were more numerous than he first allowed; his latest confrontation with lawmakers came this week. And Trump White House aide Jared Kushner was taken to task by senators on Thursday for repeatedly failing to disclose communications about WikiLeaks, which published hacked emails of Democratic leaders last year, and a "Russian backdoor overture."
The motives behind some of the misrepresentations are petty. Does the fact that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied about his wealth and instead of qualifying as a billionaire, he's merely a millionaire many times over, shake the foundations of democracy?
Not really.
But Sessions' serial evasions about his role in the Russia scandal possibly do.
"Information has been revealed by the inch as they've been caught with email or in other ways" showing they haven't told the full truth, said Stephen Macedo, a professor of politics and director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
"It is very worrisome," he said, adding that he believed the infection of Trumpworld with a virus of deception may date back to the candidate's refusal to make public his tax returns. That "may send a sign that full disclosure is not expected and keeping secrets is what you get can get away with. ... Certainly the example being set at the top doesn't seem favorable."
All governments, as well as lots of politicians, lie or shade the truth for a variety of reasons: sometimes to protect national security; other times to cover up embarrassing mistakes or facts.
President Richard Nixon lied about Watergate, ushering in the era of modern-day political scandals. President Bill Clinton lied about his affair with a White House intern. The George W. Bush administration lied about Iraq having nuclear weapons and ended up triggering a war that dangerously reshaped the political landscape in the Middle East
The president has set the tone. His untruths and misdirections have been prolific: from claiming that millions of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2016 presidential election, to suggesting that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, to "nobody knows" whether Russia meddled in the election.
Perhaps the pervasive deception springs somehow from the tribalism that infects politics now, or the erosion of ethical and moral pillars that have generally supported public debate. People have less faith in institutions, whether they be government, the church, the media — even the National Football League. Voters distrust their leaders more and have come to expect less, and some of those serving in top spots in government come from positions where they could, to some degree, fashion their own reality.
"When you rise to the top, there's often a standard that a lot of what's normal doesn't apply," said Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College and director of its college poll. "They're just so accustomed to getting their own way, to shaping the world that they live in."
Trump has praised his choices to run federal agencies as "the finest group of people ever assembled ... as a Cabinet." Yet several, along with others in his circle, have not told the truth, or at the very least, fudged their accounts so much they should all be wearing chocolate mustaches.
Here's a selection:
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin: He denied under oath that the bank he used to run, OneWest, robo-signed mortgage documents during the Great Recession. It's a predatory lending practice that involves bank employees signing documents en masse without reviewing them. In both written responses to senators considering his nomination to be treasury secretary last January, and in testimony this summer before a House committee, Mnuchin denied the practice occurred.
That was at odds with a deposition from a former OneWest Bank president and a consent order from the federal Office of Thrift Supervision, which found that the bank had, indeed, engaged in "unsafe or unsound practices."
Mnuchin also did not reveal during his confirmation hearing nearly $100 million in assets, as well as his position as director of an investment fund in the Cayman Islands, a known tax haven.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions: First he got himself in trouble during his confirmation hearing last January when Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., asked what Sessions would do if evidence surfaced that members of the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government.
"I'm not aware of any of those activities ... and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it," he replied.
But then it came out he had met with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year: at the Republican convention in July and then again in September. Just last month during questioning at another Senate hearing, Sessions was asked if he believed that Trump campaign surrogates communicated with Russia. He said he didn't, nor was he aware of anyone who did.
But then a low-level campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his efforts to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Papadopoulos attended a campaign meeting in March 2016 with Trump, Sessions and others where the subject came up. After some discussion, according to J.D. Gordon, a Trump campaign national security adviser, Sessions said it was a bad idea and ended the debate.
At his appearance this week before the House Judiciary Committee. Sessions said several times he could not remember certain events, denied that he had lied to Congress and said he now recalled the campaign meeting that Papadopoulos attended after reading news reports.
Campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos: See above.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: He's not really the billionaire he claims to be, according to an investigation by Forbes magazine. Upset that Forbes had planned to remove him from The Forbes 400, its list of the richest Americans, he insisted that he was worth $3.7 billion, but actually it's just a paltry $700 million, the magazine concluded. Ross claimed that he had family trusts valued at more than $2 billion, which he was not required to disclose. His own Commerce Department subsequently issued a statement that the $2 billion "never happened," the magazine said.
Forbes minced no words excoriating Ross: "It seems clear that Ross lied to us, the latest in an apparent sequence of fibs, exaggerations, omissions, fabrications and whoppers that have been going on with Forbes since 2004," said the article, which also said that inflating his wealth probably translated into additional business opportunities for him.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: She denied during her confirmation hearings that she sat on the board of her family's foundation when it made contributions to several conservative groups that opposed LGBT rights. But tax returns for several years show that DeVos was vice president of the foundation's board at the time. Under repeated questioning by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., DeVos said the foundation's years of tax forms were wrong, "a clerical error," she said.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt: He told a Senate hearing that he never used his personal email account to conduct business while he served as Oklahoma's attorney general. But he did, according to records released in a lawsuit in Oklahoma.
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price: The physician and former Georgia congressman said during his confirmation hearing that the discounted cost he paid for a biotech stock was available to every investor. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the price he paid was available to only a select few. Price was forced to resign when his extensive use of private charter air travel became public.
Former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn: The retired Army lieutenant general didn't last long in his post after it was revealed that he lied to Vice President Mike Pence. He told Pence that at a meeting during the transition with the Russian ambassador, he had not discussed economic sanctions against Russia, when he actually had.
Flynn might also have deceived about who paid for his trip to Russia in 2015 during a Defense Department inquiry into the renewal of his security clearance.
White House chief of staff John Kelly: The retired Marine general put out a false tale during the fallout from the dust-up over the president's call to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four soldiers killed in Niger during a terrorist ambush. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., a Johnson family friend was in the car when Trump called Johnson's wife to express his condolences. A dispute arose over the tone of Trump's message, with Wilson criticizing the president. Trump attacked Wilson on Twitter, and at a press briefing, Kelly accused her of being an "empty barrel" who had taken undeserved credit for getting the money for a new FBI field office building in Florida by just calling up then-President Barack Obama. Nope. Wilson wasn't even in Congress in 2009 when the project was funded.
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller: He told multiple untruths last February in several television appearances. He repeated a debunked, but widely popular, Republican claim that voter fraud was rampant, and that large numbers of non-citizens were registered to vote. He also repeated Trump's baseless claim that voters were bused into New Hampshire from Massachusetts to vote in the state's Republican presidential primary last year. But for that, Trump asserted, he would have won the primary.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner: Trump's son-in-law neglected to include significant details on his security clearance form, including his numerous foreign contacts. Among them: his June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who was to provide negative information about his Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. He has also had to amend his financial disclosure form numerous times and has twice been fined for filing ethics reports late.
In addition, on Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a prickly letter to Kushner regarding documents he failed to produce last month, including emails from September 2016 about WikiLeaks, as well as one that refers to a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite." The panel, which learned of the emails from other witnesses who have turned them over, set a deadline of Nov. 27 for Kushner to give them up.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: After the driver of the truck killed several people on a Manhattan bike path, Trump threatened to send him to the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and said the U.S. justice system was "a joke and it's a laughingstock." At a press briefing, Sanders denied that he had said it: "That's not what he said. He said that process has people calling us a joke and calling us a laughingstock."
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway: The onetime pollster famously brought us the phrase "alternative facts" in a "Meet the Press" interview last January during an exchange over the White House's false claims about the size of Trump's inaugural crowd. Host Chuck Todd asked why the White House sent out then-press secretary Sean Spicer to "utter a falsehood? Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day one."
"No it doesn't," Conway replied. "Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What ... you're saying it's a falsehood ... Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that."
"Wait a minute,." Todd said. "Alternative facts? Alternative facts. ... Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer: He repeatedly issued fact-free statements from his perch in the briefing room, such as: Unlike Syrian President Bashar Assad, even Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons. (His Nazi Third Reich murdered millions of Jews and others in gas chambers.) Spicer also doubled down on Trump's claim that his swearing-in "was the most-watched inaugural."
Donald Trump Jr.: The president's eldest son changed his account of a meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 several times. He first said that he never represented the campaign in the meeting; then that he did, but it was about Russian adoption; and then that it was supposed to be about obtaining damaging information about Hillary Clinton, which he said never materialized.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: He had said he didn't know Carter Page, an energy consultant and former Trump policy adviser. But Page recently told the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and its alleged ties to the Trump campaign, that he told Lewandowski that he had traveled to Moscow and talked about the campaign. Questioned about that on Fox News, Lewandowski backtracked and said he knew of Page and his trip.
"My memory has been refreshed," he said.
‘We all know where he wants his hands to go’: CNN panel aghastat the rich asshole attack on Al Franken
Don Lemon panel with Margaret Hoover, Chris Cillizza, Jack Kingston and Maria Cardona (Photo: Screen capture)
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The CNN panel on Don Lemon’s Thursday show was aghast at President some rich asshole’s nerve attacking Sen. Al Franken (R-MN), when the rich asshole admitted to doing the same thing during an “Access Hollywood” interview. Lemon noted that the rich asshole has been silent on accusations that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted minors.
Even Republican Jack Kingston, a frequent the rich asshole apologist, said that the president should be sticking to highlighting the GOP tax bill instead of weighing in on something that is a distraction from his legislative agenda.
“This is the moral leadership we’ve all been begging for,” Republican commentator Margaret Hoover said, after a shocked pause among the panelists.
“When it’s a Democrat he’ll go after them he’s free to talk about it,” Lemon noted. “When it’s a Republican he won’t do it.”
“I think, again, it underscores, first of all the huge hypocrisy coming out of the president but also the huge lack of moral leadership,” Democratic strategist Maria Cardona said. “I mean, this is not a president who should be tweeting about where hands go around attractive women. We all know where he wants his hands to go around attractive women. He told us in the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape. It’s like a complete disconnect for him. But, I also think that he was enabled by his party, by the people who elected him, by the people who knew very well what kind of man this was around women, how he treated women, how he objectified women. And yet, they chose to look the other way.”
She also noted that some of the Republicans on Capitol Hill condemning Moore but refused to do the same for the rich asshole. She wondered if it was about timing and that if the “Access Hollywood” tape was released today if the rich asshole would still be able to be elected given the uprising against sexual harassment and sexual assault.
“There wasn’t this sort of tipping point that we’re seeing now,” Cardona continued. “But that doesn’t make it excusable. So, when is the Republican Party, those who are now so upset about what’s going on with Roy Moore, who are the same ones that looked away to get the rich asshole elected, when is the comeuppance for that? When had are they going to acknowledge that?”
Lemon simply said he would hope a president of the United States would set a higher bar for moral behavior and character.
Watch the full exchange below:
‘You’ve got a fucking nerve’: Internet goes completely insane over the rich asshole’s ‘hypocritical’finger-pointing of Al Franken
some rich asshole during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture via video)
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President some rich asshole went on a Twitterstorm Thursday evening attacking Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) for sexual harassment but still refused to attack Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who is accused of sexual assault of minors.
“The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps?” the rich asshole asked.
The internet quickly noted the hypocrisy given the rich asshole’s own admission on video that he can grab women by their genitals.
“Yeah, that’s her, with the gold,” the rich asshole told Billy Bush on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape. “I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. I just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
Franken was accused Thursday accused of a similar act, kissing a women as part of a skit and forcably putting his tongue in her mouth. He was then photographed groping her.
“Whatever you want,” Bush said to the rich asshole in 2005.
“Grab them by the p*ssy. You can do anything,” the rich asshole said.
The internet simply exploded with comments and accusations.
and notice the difference of being held accountable and his immediate apology versus you and Roy Moore's behavior?#EndTribalism #BelieveTheVictims
What you did to those fourteen women is fourteen times than what Al Franken did. Shut the hell up, you sexual predator asshole.
Pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6? Wtf Trump, you fantasizing there?
You my dear Sir should not even open your mouth or tweet on this. It would be the pot calling the kettle black.
What a disgrace the woman abuser in chief has the nerve to criticize another abuser (Al Frankenstein). How about Roy Moore, hypocrite how about yourself. At least Al was man enough to apologize. Where is your apology?????
It’s says a lot about your character that you pick and choose your moments to stand up to sexual violence.
I don’t know trump but I’m sure we’ll find out. In the meantime, let’s talk about the 16 Women that have accused YOU of sexual abuse and rape. Many Many people want to know more about that. Let’s bring that back to the forefront, Shall We
Trump supporter logic: Clinton, Franken, Weinstein, and Spacey have sexually harassed women, so it should be completely normal for Trump, O'Reilly, Ailes, and Moore to sexually harass women as well!
Pro tip: normal people who aren't sexually attracted to their daughters don't open-mouthed kiss their offspring. pic.twitter.com/HJ5gt0vqVa
Where did you put your hands while back stage at your Teen beauty pageants?
I can't believe you, the Pussygrabber in Chief, wife-raper, dares accuse a man who apologized to the woman--had the apology accepted--and invited an investigation. While you and Moore threaten and pay people off to stay quiet. If @alfranken resigns, SO SHOULD YOU. IMMEDIATELY.
"I moved on her like a bitch..."
Learn how to spell... fuckhead.#TrumpRussia#ItsMuellerTimetwitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
the rich asshole goes after Al Franken: ‘Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4’
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In a Thursday night tweet, President some rich asshole attacked Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) for the photo of him appearing to grope a news host during a USO tour.
“The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps?” the rich asshole asked.
“And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about sexual harassment and respect for women. Lesley Stahl tape?” the rich asshole later tweeted.
The question is a curious one, given the rich asshole was caught on camera saying that he is allowed to grab women by the genitals because he is a celebrity. He’s also been accused by 16 women of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct or sexual assault. the rich asshole has yet to weigh in on Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Barack Obama has a more favorable rating than some rich asshole — in Alabama: Fox News
Former President Barack Obama and President some rich asshole (Composite / Rawstory)
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some rich asshole’s obsession with former President Barack Obama is well-documented. From predicating his campaign on the notion that the 44th president was born in Kenya, to claiming his inauguration drew the largest crowd in history (an record that, in fact, goes to Obama’s 2008 inauguration), to spending his entire administration actively dismantling his predecessor’s legacy, the rich asshole has made his rivalry with the former president very clear.
And, according to a new poll out Thursday, the president has yet another reason to be—as the Rev. Al Sharpton once put it—“insecure” about not measuring up to Obama.
A Fox News poll shows the rich asshole is lagging behind Obama’s “favorable” rating in, of all places, conservative Alabama. Even among registered voters in America’s heartland, the rich asshole is sitting at a 50/47 favorable/unfavorable rating, while his chief rival Obama enjoys a 52/45 favorable/unfavorable.
the rich asshole has repeatedly dismissed polls he doesn’t agree with as “fake news,” so it remains to be seen how he’ll react to his go-to news networks’ latest finding. Still, if these numbers hold true, the rich asshole may want to rethink his one-time claim that Obama is “the worst president maybe in the history of our country.” At least in the interest of “populism.”
Breitbart editor wants Ivanka to keep mum on Roy Moore ‘when there’s so many allegations against President the rich asshole’
Ivanka the rich asshole was made an unpaid adviser to the US President despite having no experience in elected office or public policy (AFP Photo/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
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On Thursday, Breitbart’s top editor said what many have been thinking: that Ivanka the rich asshole’s condemnation of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is ironic given the many allegations against her father.
As Media Matters notes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow expressed dissatisfaction with the president’s daughter/adviser’s statement that “there’s a special place in Hell for people who prey on children,” and that she has “no reason to doubt [Moore’s] victims’ accounts.”
“When Donald was being accused of these things where there was definitely more proof and more opportunity, where was she then?” a caller on Breitbart’s SiriusXM radio show asked. “But now she’s all outraged by Roy Moore. I don’t know why she just doesn’t keep quiet.”
“Right, especially when there’s been so many allegations against President the rich asshole,” Marlow replied. “So why does Ivanka want to continue to pile on?”
Luckily, he appeared to have discovered an explanation.
“I think that she just loves getting her name out there in the headline and they can put more photos up,” he concluded. “So that’s her ammo.”
Thirsty the rich asshole’s Desperate Dash For Water Has Everyone Crying With Laughter
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The president needs a drink. Badly.
President some rich asshole once mocked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for needing a drink of water during a televised speech.
On Wednesday, the tables were turned when the rich asshole himself had an awkward moment involving an ill-timed water break during a televised speech ― and it quickly made waves on social media as well as late-night TV.
Here’s “Late Show” host ― and frequent the rich asshole nemesis ― Stephen Colbert:
TONIGHT: President Trump is back from his overseas trip and is celebrating Thirsty Thursday a little early… #LSSC
“The Daily Show” also had some fun at the president’s expense:
On Twitter, the well of jokes never ran dry:
Trump makes Senator Rubio look like a world champion water drinker compared to his clumsy display. Has the man never opened a bottle of water before? twitter.com/warddpatrick/s…
The best part of Trump’s water sip awkwardness is him holding the bottle with two hands like he’s drinking from a sippy cup.
#inners
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Once again, POTUS shows Rubio how it's done. You need water? You stop your own speech, check your rostrum, complain that there's no water, wait for someone to say the water is outside the rostrum, then take a moment to drink from a bottle that's bigger than a baby Poland Spring.
A scientific investigation into the size of Trump's hands based on this clip of him holding a tiny water bottle bit.ly/2AKAg1x .
And, of course, Rubio also made a splash:
Similar,but needs work on his form.Has to be done in one single motion & eyes should never leave the camera. But not bad for his 1st time twitter.com/warddpatrick/s…
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