December 15th, 2017 - December 17th, 2017. 396-398 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 328-330 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.

Mueller team defends obtaining the rich asshole transition emails

BY BRANDON CARTER - 12/17/17 10:27 AM EST

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Sunday defended its work after a lawyer for President the rich asshole’s transition team accused investigators of improperly obtaining thousands of emails from transition officials.

“When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, said in a statement to The Hill.

Axios reported Saturday that Mueller’s team is now in possession of tens of thousands of emails from the the rich asshole transition team, including messages from the rich asshole’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, as well as other members of the transition’s political leadership and foreign policy team.

Mueller's prosecutors reportedly used the emails to question witnesses, and are also looking to the messages to confirm information and follow new leads.

Axios reported that the special counsel obtained the emails from the General Services Administration, which managed the transition team's email accounts.

But in a letter to several members of Congress, a lawyer for the rich asshole’s transition team, the rich asshole for America (TFA), said that Mueller obtained the emails illegally.

Kory Langhofer accuses the GSA of “unlawfully produc[ing] TFA's private materials, including privileged communications, to the Special Counsel’s Office,” according to Reuters.

Langhofer's letter, which was sent to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, calls on the committees "to protect future presidential transitions from having their private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives.”

Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has heated up in recent weeks after the rich asshole's former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The investigation has also seen the rich asshole’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, indicted on multiple charges.

Mueller Spokesman Just Fucked Up some rich asshole’s Christmas

By Conover Kennard on December 17, 2017 9:54 am ·

the rich asshole supporters and the so-called president’s favorite network are lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI. The White House is in panic-mode after Mueller obtained tens of thousands of transition team emails as part of the Russian probe. Ironically, it will quite possibly be emails that brings the rich asshole down.

A lawyer for the the rich asshole transition team is claiming that the emails had been illegally turned over by the General Services Administration because the account owners never received notification of the request and he’s claiming that they were “privileged communications.”

In a letter, the rich asshole’s attorney requested that Congress “act immediately to protect future presidential transitions from having their private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives.”

Mueller spokesman Peter Carr defended the special counsel’s work in a statement issued just past midnight on Sunday, several hours after claims of ” unlawful conduct” by the rich asshole’s attorney were made, according to Politico.

“When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process,” he said.

The words that pop out in the statement are “criminal investigation,” the “account owner’s consent” and “criminal process.”

While on the campaign trail, some rich asshole asked Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. After the election, the rich asshole’s team is claiming that Mueller obtained the transition teams’ emails illegally, even though that’s not the truth. We see a pattern here.

Team the rich asshole thought Mueller was on a fishing expedition. Turns out, he was actually reeling in the fish. The White House was not aware at the time that he had the emails. Mueller got them through GSA so that team the rich asshole could not selectively leave any out if they were requested.

Merry Christmas, some rich asshole.

‘Nonsense on its face’: Conservative gets shut down hard for saying attacks on Mueller have merit

DAVID FERGUSON
17 DEC 2017 AT 17:31 ET

Dana Milbanks and Sarah Westwood on MSNBC (Screen capture)

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A writer for the conservative Washington Times got shut down by The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank on MSNBC Saturday after she said that there is “an element of truth” to the right-wing attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and his objectivity.

The Examiner‘s Sarah Westwood cleaved to the right-wing canard that because an investigator hired by Mueller’s investigation once sent a text message critical of President some rich asshole, then the investigation must be tainted.

“This could be a meaningless revelation, but because there’s an element of truth behind this line of attack, it is an effective one and Republicans are seizing on it,” Westwood said.

“I don’t even think there’s an element of truth here,” said Milbank, pointing at the James Comey, Bob Mueller and Rod Rosenstein are all Republicans. “So let’s keep that in perspective.”

He pointed out that Comey “came out a week before the election and said he was re-opening the email investigation. It is very hard to argue that had he not done that the election would have turned out the way it did because it was by such a close margin, so that’s sort of nonsense on its face.”

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Republican Senator Gets Dragged For Going After Robert Mueller

By Conover Kennard on December 16, 2017 7:10 pm ·

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) thought it would be a good idea to attack Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the Russia probe. As Mueller’s noose tightens, Republicans are losing their sh-t and attacking Mueller and the FBI in order to protect probably the most corrupt ‘president’ ever.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted on Friday, “Speaking on behalf of the vast majority of the American people, Republicans in Congress be forewarned: any attempt to remove Bob Mueller will not be tolerated.”

Cornyn retweeted Holder to say, “You don’t.”

Bloomberg’s Steven Dennis tweeted on Saturday that “[Cornyn]’s beef is with Holder, not Mueller,” but Cornyn responded to say, “But Mueller needs to clean house of partisans.”

The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent asked Cornyn, “Will you accept the findings of the Mueller probe as legitimate, @JohnCornyn?”

“Makes sense to me to wait to see what they are first,” Cornyn responded.

Republicans are trying to discredit Mueller and Twitter users took notice.

Good try, John. History will not be kind to you.

CONGRESS INTEL MEMBER EXPECT PRESIDENT THE RICH ASSHOLE TO FIRE SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Rich | December 16, 2017

A California congresswoman is saying publicly what members of both parties on Capitol Hill have been telling each other secretly for days. On Friday, Rep. Jackie Speier told reporters at PBS’s local northern California affiliate that lawmakers in Washington expect President the rich asshole to fire special counsel Robert Mueller before Christmas.

“The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week. And on Dec. 22, when we are out of D.C., he was going to fire Robert Mueller,” Speier said on KQED News.

“We can read between the lines I think,” she continued. “I believe this president wants all of this shut down. He wants to shut down these investigations, and he wants to fire special counsel Mueller.”

Other lawmakers are concerned as well, though none have gone as far as Rep. Speier in their revelations. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, on which Speier also sits, has been making the rounds in the media in recent days expressing his concern that Republicans leading the committee are maneuvering to end their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election soon after the new year.

Rep. Schiff outlined his concern in a tweet late Friday, writing, “Republicans have scheduled no witnesses after next Friday and none in 2018. We have dozens of outstanding witnesses on key aspects of our investigation that they refuse to contact and many document requests they continue to sit on.”

Pressed on Friday about the whispers on Capitol Hill, White House Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said only that, “There is no intention or plan to make any changes in regards to the special counsel.”

President the rich asshole and his allies in the right wing media have been locked in a desperate public defense against two potentially impeachable offenses that Mueller appears to be investigating.

First is the charge that he and members of his campaign colluded with Russian intelligence to steal the 2016 presidential election. The second is that, since becoming president, he and his associates have been engaged in a cover-up to block, stall, and otherwise influence the multiple investigations into their culpability during the campaign, with his unceremonious termination of FBI Director Jim Comey as Exhibit A. Another term for this obstruction of justice.

To the first point, Team the rich asshole insists that the entire “the rich asshole-Russia” narrative is a “hoax” and a “ruse” in the president’s own words, invented by Democrats bitter about Hillary Clinton’s defeat, and hyped by a mainstream media that’s out to destroy the rich asshole.

To the obstruction of justice charge, their defense is more nuanced. The President has explicit statutory authority to fire any FBI director he chooses, they maintain, regardless of who he was investigating. He, therefore, cannot be charged with obstructing justice for simply exercising his explicit presidential authority, they insist.

Not content with playing defense, the president, his cabal of conspirators in congress, and his minions at FOX News have also gone on offense in recent weeks. They’ve pounced on reports that FBI agents participating in the investigation were fired by Mueller exchanged text messages critical of the rich asshole during the campaign. They’ve used this to call for the investigations to be shut down and Mueller fired. FOX host Jaeanine Pirro even called for Mueller and his investigators to be arrested.

When Robert Mueller was first appointed special counsel, Republicans rejoiced. Longtime the rich asshole supporter Newt Gingrich tweeted soon after, “Robert Mueller is a superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down.”

But now that he’s secured two indictments and two further guilty pleas, and his investigation is now focusing on the rich asshole’s inner circle, including his son, Don, Jr., suddenly Mueller must go.

This begs the question: Why fire the one man who can exonerate President the rich asshole from both accusations? If he neither obstructed justice nor colluded with Russia, and there’s no “there” there as the right wing media has maintained from the beginning of this entire enterprise, then wouldn’t it be better for the rich asshole and his minions in the Trumoposphere if they just stayed quiet and let Robert Mueller and his investigators do their job thoroughly and without obstacles, thereby making his ultimate vindication more credible?

If, that is, they really believe he did nothing wrong. Clearly, they must.

the rich asshole transition accuses Mueller of improperly obtaining emails

By Evan Perez and Kevin Bohn, CNN

Updated 11:40 PM ET, Sat December 16, 2017

Washington (CNN)Lawyers representing the rich asshole presidential transition wrote to members of Congress accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of obtaining unauthorized access to tens of thousands of transition emails, including what they claim to be documents protected by attorney-client privilege.

The transition maintains the documents were its property and should not have been handed over without its approval.

The emails in question involve 13 transition officials, including four senior ones, according to the letter.

The lawyer, Kory Langhofer, wrote to leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and House Oversight and Government Reform committees because he said the General Services Administration, which supports presidential transitions, "unlawfully produced" private materials of the transition although the GSA "did not own or control the records in question."

Langhofer wrote in the letter the Special Counsel's Office "was actively using those materials without any notice" to transition officials.close dialog

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The letter states there were two other occasions where the Special Counsel's Office did not notify transition officials that their records had been requested or received.

A spokesman for the Special Counsel's Office declined to comment.

GSA Deputy Counsel Lenny Loewentritt disputed a claim by Langhofer that the GSA's general counsel had agreed in June that any requests for transition records would go to the rich asshole campaign, BuzzFeed News reported Saturday night.

Loewentritt said transition officials were told that "in using our devices," materials "would not be held back in any law enforcement" requests. He added there was a series of agreements between the transition and GSA for using its goods and therefore there was no expectation of privacy.

Langhofer's letter also states that Special Counsel's Office had obtained transition laptops, cell phones and at least one iPad after the FBI requested them of career GSA staff without a subpoena.

White House special counsel: No plans to fire Mueller

The letter also says a representative of the Special Counsel's Office told transition officials it did not recover any documents from that hardware, but failed "to disclose the critical fact that ... the Special Counsel's office had simultaneously received from the GSA tens of thousands of emails."

"The materials produced by the GSA to the Special Counsel's Office therefore included materials protected by the attorney-client privilege, the deliberative process privilege, and the presidential communications privilege," the letter maintains.

Axios first reported the existence of the emails, and Fox News first reported the transition lawyer's letter.

The transition lawyer is asking the members of Congress to act to protect future presidential transitions from having "private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives." Specifically, the lawyer is asking if future transitions receive request or demand for documents it must provide notice to transition officials and an opportunity to respond.

How Fox News and President the rich asshole create an anti-Mueller 'feedback loop'

by Brian Stelter @brianstelter December 16, 2017: 8:11 PM ET

An anti-Robert Mueller, anti-FBI fervor is intensifying among the rich asshole supporters -- partly thanks to a campaign by Fox News and other conservative media sources.

The right-wing commentary and President the rich asshole's criticism of the FBI are part of a vicious circle. The TV hosts encourage the rich asshole, then the rich asshole supplies sound bites for their shows, and then the hosts are even more emboldened.

With Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election reaching closer to the rich asshole's inner circle, Fox hosts like Sean Hannity continue to demand Mueller's firing. Every night, Hannity tells millions of viewers that Mueller's probe is a corrupt plot to take down the rich asshole and reverse the outcome of the election. the rich asshole is a big fan of Hannity's show, and the two men speak on a regular basis.

"The anti-Mueller rhetoric in conservative media right now is part of a feedback loop," Nicole Hemmer, the author of a book about conservative media, "Messengers of the Right," told CNNMoney.

"Conservative media personalities know the rich asshole hates the investigation and wants it shut down," she said in an email. "They bash the investigation and Mueller, and when the rich asshole sees that happening (say, on 'Fox & Friends') it reinforces his belief that the investigation is illegitimate and that he should do something to end it. The likely consequence is that this increases the odds of the rich asshole attempting to fire Mueller."

Hemmer added: "We'll have to wait and see whether internal restraints within the White House — lawyers and advisers — are enough to stop him from doing that."

At this point, a loyal viewer of the pro-the rich asshole talk shows on Fox might be frustrated with the rich asshole — frustrated that Mueller hasn't been axed yet.

For more on this story, watch "Reliable Sources" Sunday at 11 a.m. ET on CNN.

For several months, news sources favored by conservatives have been heavily covering every perceived conflict of interest involving the special counsel and every alleged scandal involving the leadership of the FBI.

Many of the storylines revolve around the rich asshole opponents like Hillary Clinton. But some members of the rich asshole's own administration, like Attorney General Jeff Sessions, also come in for scathing criticism. That's why this was a notable comment by Sessions on Friday: "Things that might appear to be bad in the press have more innocent explanations," he told reporters.

He should tell that to TV and radio commentators like Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, all of whom have devoted hours of airtime to anti-Clinton, anti-Mueller and anti-FBI conversations.

That's partly how Peter Strzok became a household name this month. Strzok, an FBI official, helped lead both the Clinton email server investigation and the beginning of the Russian meddling probe. Mueller removed him from the probe when an internal investigation found that Strzok expressed harshly critical opinions of the rich asshole in text messages before Election Day.

Strzok is now cited by conservative commentators as a prime example of widespread anti-the rich asshole bias within the special counsel's office, even though he was reassigned.

Some Republican lawmakers have also spoken out forcefully against the FBI. When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was questioned on Capitol Hill earlier this week, Hannity played highlights and said, "You've heard it here first. We've been doing this now for months."

That's true. Media Matters for America, a liberal media monitoring group that has urged an ad boycott of Hannity's show, recently estimated that "Hannity and his guests have questioned Mueller's legitimacy or called for Mueller to remove himself or be fired 79 times since the special counsel was appointed."

Hannity sometimes uses propagandistic terms like "head of the snake" and "cesspool" to demean Mueller.

He portrays himself as an investigator out to get the truth about an anti-the rich asshole plot. On Wednesday night's show, he said, "By the time we untangle this massive web of corruption, it will be worse than Watergate. It will be Watergate on human growth hormones and steroids, combined, at massive levels."

Other Fox talk show hosts sing a similar tune. On Thursday night, Laura Ingraham said a "web of Clinton and Obama loyalists" have "burrowed into Mueller's office."

Fox's on-screen banners, social media feeds and web site repeat these messages every day.

One recent segment on Tucker Carlson's show had a banner that asked if Mueller's probe was tainted, while the graphic behind Carlson answered the question: "TAINTED PROBE," it said in bold letters.

On Saturday morning, a banner on "Fox & Friends" asked, "TIME TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS?"

At the same time, the main headline on FoxNews.com asked: "ANTI-RICH ASSHOLE AGENDA?" The subheadline said "Did the FBI and DOJ plot to clear the way for Clinton and stop the rich asshole?"

Many of the network's guests amplify this conspiratorial point of view. "I think the FBI's been compromised," Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Ingraham on Thursday. "Forget about shutting down Mr. Mueller. Do we need to shut down the FBI because it was turned into a KGB-type operation by the Obama administration?"

KGB comparisons have been made on Hannity's show, too. There's been talk about "banana republics" and "third world countries." Jeanine Pirro, the rich asshole ally who has a weekend show on Fox, has even urged arrests of FBI officials.

"There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and Department of Justice," Pirro said last weekend. "It needs to be cleansed of individuals who should not just be fired, but who need to be taken out in handcuffs."

It's the kind of rhetoric that the rich asshole hears on a regular basis. He claims that Fox News is the only major network news source that's not "fake."

Analysts say he sometimes parrots what he hears on Fox. "It's a shame what happened with the FBI," the rich asshole told reporters on Friday. "It is very sad when you look at those documents," he said, an apparent reference to the text messages.

"You have a lot of angry people that are seeing it. It's a very sad thing to watch," the rich asshole added.

CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted this way: "You know who 'a lot of people' are? 'A lot of people' are the people who watch Fox News. Other than that, a lot of people are actually not upset about this investigation. That's shown over and over again in the polls."

But for Hannity, the rich asshole's "angry people" remark reinforced what he's been saying for months. So he played the video clip on Friday night's show.

Elsewhere on TV, Democratic lawmakers have been raising alarms about what they see as an assault against the rule of law.

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Congressman Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, on Friday, "Do you think these attacks on the FBI, on Robert Mueller, on the Justice Department, are coordinated between the White House and, let's say, some on Fox News and others in the right wing media?"

"Look, no question" there's coordination, Himes said. "Whether there is a hotline between the Oval Office and Fox News -- I doubt that's true. But when the president is talking about the investigation and makes it very clear he wants them over and uses the words 'do something,' you know, people who will sell their souls, who will trade their integrity... will do precisely that."

He called out Hannity, Pirro and "some of my colleagues" on Capitol Hill, meaning the GOP lawmakers who are casting doubt on Mueller's integrity.

In one media universe, Mueller is a man tasked to find out all the facts about Russia's attack on the election. He's a Republican trying to make sure the Republican president didn't break any laws.

But in another media universe, one epitomized by Hannity, Mueller is a "disgrace" who's overseeing a team of "the rich asshole hating, Hillary loving partisan hacks" on a mission to destroy the president.

That's the divide. Pro-the rich asshole media sources are exacerbating the divide every day.

And some observers are hoping against hope that cooler heads will prevail.

Preet Bharara, one of the U.S. attorneys who was fired by the rich asshole earlier this year, tweeted on Friday, "Robert Mueller's attackers are virtually all political operatives and ideologues. They have always been the swamp; he has always been the oasis."

But," he added, "I would caution liberal ideologues also -- he is not your savior; he's just a lawman. Respect his findings, whatever they are."

the rich asshole To Fire Mueller As Early As Next Week, Congresswoman Reveals

· by

Lance Perriman

· Dec 16, 2017

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) revealed on Friday that President the rich asshole could fire special counsel Robert Mueller as early as next week, after Congress leaves Washington for the winter recess.

Speier, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the rich asshole was trying to shut down the committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, pointing to the lack of interviews scheduled for the new year.

The New York Times reported Friday that the committee is scheduling its final witnesses of the year to testify in New York, despite important votes coming up in Washington, D.C., and confirmed no additional witnesses are scheduled yet in 2018.

“We can read between the lines I think,” Speier said. “I believe this president wants all of this shut down. He wants to shut down these investigations, and he wants to fire special counsel Mueller.”

The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), also said Friday that he is worried that Republicans leading the committee are seeking to shut down the committee’s investigation by the end of the year.

“Republicans have scheduled no witnesses after next Friday and none in 2017 [sic]. We have dozens of outstanding witnesses on key aspects of our investigation that they refuse to contact and many document requests they continue to sit on,” he tweeted Friday.

Firing Mueller would be a Christmas gift for the rich asshole and his allies.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Watch Speier’s interview in the video below:

the rich asshole touts release of final GOP tax plan: A ‘great Christmas gift’ for middle class

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 12/16/17 01:21 PM EST

President the rich asshole on Saturday touted the release of Republicans' final tax bill, saying that it will be "one of the great Christmas gifts" for the middle class.

"It's going to be one of the great Christmas gifts to middle-income people," the rich asshole told reporters outside the White House before departing for Camp David for the weekend.

"The Democrats have their sound bite, the standard sound bite before they even know what the bill is all about. They talk about 'for the wealthy,' " he continued.

"But this is going to be one of the greatest gifts for the middle-income people of this country that they've ever gotten for Christmas."

Congressional Republicans unveiled the final version of their sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax code on Friday. GOP lawmakers are hoping to pass the legislation in the coming week and send it to the rich asshole's desk to be signed into law before Christmas.

The bill offers a series of sweeping tax cuts for individuals and businesses, while doing away with or limiting certain tax breaks.

The measure differs in some ways from the bills passed in the House and Senate in recent weeks. For example, final legislation lowers the top individual tax bracket from 39.6 percent to 37 percent. It also sets the corporate tax rate at 21 percent, as opposed to the 20 percent laid out in the original bills.

the rich asshole and congressional Republicans have touted the tax overhaul as a boon to the middle class. Opponents of the measure, however, say that it amounts to a massive windfall to corporations and the wealthiest Americans.

If Republicans in the House and Senate are able to pass the legislation and the rich asshole signs it into law — as he is expected to do — it would mark the president's first major legislative victory of his tenure in the White House.

Dem lawmaker warns: the rich asshole may fire Robert Mueller as soon as Congress leaves town next week

NEWSWEEK
16 DEC 2017 AT 17:05 ET

December 16, 2017

Greg Price

Posted with permission from Newsweek

Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Spier said Friday the “rumor on the Hill” is that President Donald Trump intends to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller next week when Congress is gone for the holidays.

Should Trump go through with the unconfirmed rumor, Spier said an “effort” for impeachment would follow.
Spier added Republicans are aiming to shut down the House Intelligence Committee’s own Trump-Russia investigation and likened Trump’s possible firing of the special counsel to that of former President Richard Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Her comments reflected those of the House committee’s ranking Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, also of California, who stated Friday he was worried about the committee’s status and that of Mueller.
“The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week,” Spier told KQED. “And on Dec. 22nd, when we are out of D.C., he was going to fire Robert Mueller.”
With Republicans maintaining majorities in both chambers of Congress, impeachment remains a long shot given its inherent political nature. But a dismissal of Mueller, whose probe Trump has previously called a “witch hunt,” could be too much for the GOP to ignore.
“That is Saturday massacre 2.0,” she said. “Without a doubt there would be an impeachment effort.”
The aforementioned “massacre” took place on October 20, 1973, when then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus each resigned after Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox was investigating the Watergate break-in that led to Nixon’s resignation in August 1974.
In Trump’s case, he would have to ask Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any Trump-Russia investigation in March.
Sessions decision reportedly enraged Trump and led to significant tension between the two men ever since.
The Republican Trump and other members of his party have repeatedly and increasingly railed against the scope and amount of time Mueller has spent investigating potential collusion with Russia in order to win last year’s election. Trump has denied any collusion and claimed Democrats drummed up the scandal as an excuse for Hillary Clinton’s loss.
However, bipartisan legislation in Congress have aimed to curtail a potential firing of Mueller. Such a move has been labeled as politically radioactive for Trump and could only deepen the allegations around his former campaign and young administration.
The measures would allow for Mueller, a former FBI director, to ask for a judicial review of his possible dismissal.

the rich asshole least popular first-year president ever: poll

NEWSWEEK
16 DEC 2017 AT 13:42 ET

Poll: the rich asshole Least Popular First-Year President Ever

December 16, 2017

Greg Price

Posted with permission from Newsweek

According to President Donald Trump, his administration has been one of the most successful in American history. But the public strongly disagrees.
The Republican Trump is now the least popular first-year president in the country’s history and a vast majority believes he has failed to keep the promises that won him the White House, according to two new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polls.

The results showed a poor approval rating for Trump. The president received a 32 percent rating, marking Trump as the least-popular commander-in-chief since approval ratings were recorded. Conversely, Trump received a 67 percent disapproval rating.
Those figures also included a “quarter” of Republicans disapproving of Trump’s first year in office, perhaps suggesting the billionaire’s hold on his base is slipping.
Trump’s approval rating has largely stayed in the 30s for months now. Both Monmouth University and the Reuters/Ipsos’ latest polls show a 33 percent approval rating and only two other major polls have notched the rating above 40 percent. RealClearPolitics’s current average sits at 37.2 percent approving compared to 58 percent disapproving.
In contrast, President Barack Obama began his first year in office with a 57.2 approval rating and began his second year at 46.7 percent, according to Gallup.
Trump has routinely boasted that he’s kept campaign promises, but the AP-NORC polls indicate Americans have a far different opinion. Only 23 percent of those polled stated Trump had kept his campaign promises, while 45 percent believe he’s failed to do so and 30 percent think Trump has tried and “failed.”
The president’s numbers were much stronger when it came to the economy. Forty percent approved of Trump’s work on that front, and he’s routinely boasted on Twitter about the ever-surging U.S. stock market and the nation’s four percent unemployment rate.
The promises included the “repeal-and-replace” effort of Obamacare - his predecessor’s landmark legislation - though it died in Congress despite Republicans owning majorities in both chambers.
Overhauling the tax code and reducing taxes, however, could become a promise Trump keeps. Media reports indicate Republicans are readying for a vote on their new tax bill next week, despite polls showing Americans are largely against a measure criticized for reducing taxes on the wealthy instead of the middle and lower classes.
Last week, Trump, too, kept a promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to the holy city. However, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said moving the embassy may not occur to 2020 at the earliest.
The two polls were conducted between Nov. 30 and December 4 and December 7 to 11, drawing results from 1,444 and 1,020 adults with margins of error of 3.7 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively.

the rich asshole’s ambassadors are turning into uncontrollable tweeters like the president

BOB BRIGHAM
16 DEC 2017 AT 14:38 ET

Ambassador Scott Brown, Ambassador Nikki Haley and Ambassador-Designate Callista Gingrich.

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President some rich asshole’s defining Twitter feed has captured the attention of the world, but a new report from BuzzFeed News suggests many of his highest profile appointees are also pushing the boundaries of the acceptable on the social networking platform.

Top diplomats in Rex Tillerson’s State Department have been flouting rules in the department’s Foreign Affairs Manual and the Office of Government Ethics’ Standards of Conduct.

BuzzFeed explains that the Foreign Affairs Manual rules “are designed to prevent political appointees from exploiting public office by using their official title to build a massive social media presence and then taking their account with them when they re-enter the private sector or retire.”

Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, is using tax-payer funded staff to support her private Twitter account, @nikkihaley, which was started back when the former South Carolina governor was a state legislator.

Ambassador to New Zealand, Scott Brown, is using his official State Department account to link to his private Twitter feed, @SenScottBrown, which was started back when the former Massachusetts senator was a state legislator.

Ambassador-Designate to the Holy See, Callista Gingrich has also continued to use her personal Twitter account, which was first started in 2009.

“Senior officials and other employees whose positions make it appropriate for them to engage in official communications on behalf of the Department over social media … must not use personal social media accounts to do so,” according the Foreign Affairs Manual. “They must use official social media accounts, created and owned by the Department.”

The State Department declined to defend Haley, Brown or Gingrich.

“We are always working to ensure that the use of social media accounts is consistent with the guidance in the FAM,” a spokesman claimed. “As questions arise, we look into them on a case by case basis.”

The White House has said that some rich asshole’s tweets on his personal account are official statements.

“The President is the President of the United States, so they’re considered official statements by the President of the United States,” Sean Spicer claimed in June

the rich asshole-allied lawyer accuses Mueller of obtaining transition emails illegally

REUTERS
16 DEC 2017 AT 18:23 ET

the rich asshole for America attorney Kory Langhofer (Screen capture)

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An organization established for U.S. President some rich asshole’s transition to the White House a year ago said on Saturday that the special counsel investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election had obtained tens of thousands of emails unlawfully.

Kory Langhofer, counsel to the transition team known as the rich asshole for America, Inc., wrote a letter to congressional committees to say Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team had improperly received the emails from the General Services Administration, a government agency.

Career staff members at the agency “unlawfully produced TFA’s private materials, including privileged communications, to the Special Counsel’s Office,” according to the letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters. It said the materials included “tens of thousands of emails.”

the rich asshole’s transition team used facilities of the GSA, which helps manage the U.S. government bureaucracy, in the period between the Republican’s November presidential election victory and his inauguration in January.

The rich asshole team’s accusation adds to the growing friction between the president’s supporters and Mueller’s office as it investigates whether Russia interfered in the election and if the rich asshole or anyone on his team colluded with Moscow.

Asked for comment, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said: “We continue to cooperate fully with the special counsel and expect this process to wrap up soon.”

The GSA and officials at the special counsel’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Democrats say there is a wide-ranging effort by the president’s allies on Capitol Hill and in some media outlets to discredit Mueller’s investigation.

the rich asshole himself has loudly declared Mueller’s effort a waste of time. “There is absolutely no collusion. That has been proven,” the rich asshole told reporters on Friday. Russia denies interfering in the election.

On Friday, Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said he fears the committee’s Republican majority intends to close its investigation of the topic prematurely. Some Republicans have argued that Mueller is biased against the rich asshole and should be fired.

The letter was sent to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

It asked for Congress to act immediately “to protect future presidential transitions from having their private records misappropriated by government agencies, particularly in the context of sensitive investigations intersecting with political motives.”

The letter said Mueller’s office obtained the emails despite the fact that it was aware the GSA did not own or control the records. It said the special counsel’s office has “extensively used the materials in question, including portions that are susceptible to claims of privilege” without notifying the rich asshole for America team.

On the transition team were a number of aides who were later caught up in Mueller’s investigation, such as former national security adviser Michael Flynn who pleaded guilty this month to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

Langhofer, the rich asshole transition team lawyer, wrote in his letter that the GSA’s transfer of materials was discovered on Dec. 12 and 13.

The FBI had requested the materials from GSA staff last Aug. 23, asking for copies of the emails, laptops, cell phones and other materials associated with nine members of the rich asshole transition team response for national security and policy matters, the letter said.

On Aug. 30, the FBI requested the materials of four additional senior members of the rich asshole transition team, it said.

Langhofer argued that while such transition teams are involved in executive functions, they are considered private, nonprofit organizations whose records are private and not subject to presidential records laws.

By Steve Holland

(Reporting By Steve Holland and John Walcott; Editing by Alistair Bell)

Defiant the rich asshole plans to stump for 2018 GOP candidates — in spite of terrible poll numbers and Alabama debacle

TOM BOGGIONI
16 DEC 2017 AT 16:17 ET

some rich asshole speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

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According to a report in the Washington Post, President some rich asshole plans to hit the 2018 campaign trail hard for GOP candidates despite the fact that the last few candidates he has endorsed failed at the polls after he gave them the nod.

Coming hot on the heels of the phenomenal collapse of accused sexual assaulter Roy Moore for a Senate seat representing Alabama, the rich asshole is reportedly looking forward to hitting the campaign trail in support of Republicans candidates across the country — and that has some GOP consultants nervous.

“For the president, this isn’t about adulation and cheering crowds,” claimed White House political director Bill Stepien. “This is about electing and re-electing Republicans.”

But after the failure of Moore in Alabama and the gut-wrenching loss by Republican Ed Gillespie for the governorship of Virginia, after both being endorsed by the rich asshole, Republicans are worried and Democrats are gleeful.

“He absolutely is turbocharging the opposition. My guess is most of the people running for office in 2018 are not going to want to cleave too closely to him,” explained former president Barack Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod. “He torques up both sides, but he torques up the opposition more. He is the greatest organizing tool that Democrats could have.”

According to Jared Leopold of the Democratic Governors’ Association: “We look forward to everything that comes out of the president’s iPhone.”

Among the worries of GOP consultants is the rich asshole’s habit of going off-script and his volatility, with the Post noting, “The president frequently wanders off topic at rallies and often prefers to talk about himself, sometimes generating new controversies and making the candidate a sideshow at best.”

Stepien defended the value of a presidential appearance saying, “To say the president has shaky political standing, I’d say the pollsters, the experts, the pundits have never figured out how to poll this guy. Look at public polling — we have our own numbers that I trust because the experts don’t know how to poll him. They never have.”

A pollster who worked for Obama agreed that the rich asshole can increase turn-out — but not just among conservatives.

“They are mixing a very risky cocktail, where they are alienating suburban voters at the same time that they are motivating progressives and people of color,” said Joel Benenson, reflecting on the recent election in Virginia and Alabama where Trumpism didn’t save the day for GOP candidates.

Here are 7 times the rich asshole professed his undying admiration for Vladimir Putin

JEFFERSON MORLEY, ALTERNET
16 DEC 2017 AT 11:00 ET

some rich asshole and Vladimir Putin (MSNBC)

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After a year in office, President the rich asshole’s man-crush on Vladimir Putin is an unrequited love affair, long on lies, legal charges and unfulfilled promises. While unstinting in his admiration for the Russian president, the rich asshole is ineffectual in delivering the policy results desired by his Moscow penpal.

As the advice columnists say, “Can this relationship be saved?”

The rich asshole-Putin bromance is no casual fling. A cascade of news reports has documented previously undisclosed contacts between the rich asshole campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 election. Last month, the Washington Post cataloged dozens of them. On election day, a rich asshole spokesperson denied any meetings with Russians.

The indictments of the rich asshole’s national security adviser, his campaign manager and deputy, and the staffer who facilitated a meeting with Russian officials provide further evidence of illegal activities by his entourage. the rich asshole responded by calling the Russia investigation “fake news.”

Now the Post has documented how the rich asshole consistently rejects what U.S. national security agencies are telling him about Russia’s capabilities and intentions to manipulate the U.S. electoral process.

It is, as the Post points out, a situation without precedent in American history—a president who refuses to “accept what even many in his administration regard as objective reality” about the actions of a foreign adversary.

“Rather than search for ways to deter Kremlin attacks or safeguard U.S. elections, the rich asshole has waged his own campaign to discredit the case that Russia poses any threat and he has resisted or attempted to roll back efforts to hold Moscow to account,” reporters Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker write.

At the same time, the president has failed to lift sanctions imposed by President Obama and approved of the closing of Russian diplomatic facilities, including its San Francisco consulate, reportedly a locus of Moscow’s U.S. spying operations.

Protecting Vlad

According to the Post, President the rich asshole has:

1. Never convened a meeting of his national security advisers about the question of Russian interference.

Told in early January 2017 that members of his incoming Cabinet had already publicly backed the intelligence report on Russian election meddling, President-elect the rich asshole shot back, “So what?” Admitting that the Kremlin had hacked Democratic Party emails, he said, was a “trap.”

2. Rebuked U.S. intelligence officials who provide information on Russia that conflicts with his views.

Russia-related intelligence that might draw the rich asshole’s ire is in some cases not raised verbally, a former senior intelligence official told the Post. In other cases, the rich asshole’s main briefer—a veteran CIA analyst—“adjusts the order of his presentation and text, aiming to soften the impact.”

3. Held a private, unscheduled meeting with Putin, without an adviser or U.S. interpreter present, which is unprecedented.

4. Agreed with Putin about the outlines of a cooperative cybersecurity plan, which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) described as “pretty close” to “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.”

5. Reiterated America’s commitment to the defense of NATO allies in Europe only after National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster pushed him to do so.

6. Offered to return two Russian diplomatic compounds seized by the Obama administration on Moscow’s terms and only relented when Congress intervened.

7. Spurned Pentagon proposals to provide lethal weaponry to the Ukraine government, which is fighting Russian-backed separatists. While no doubt a favor to Putin, rejecting military aid to Ukraine is also a defensible U.S. policy.

Overall, U.S. officials told the Post that the Kremlin believes it got a huge return on its investment in an operation that by some estimates cost less than $500,000 to execute and was organized around two main objectives: destabilizing U.S. democracy and preventing Hillary Clinton, whom Putin despises, from reaching the White House.

“Putin has to believe this was the most successful intelligence operation in the history of Russian or Soviet intelligence,” said Andrew Weiss, a former adviser on Russia in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It has driven the American political system into a crisis that will last years.”

Alienation of Affection

At the same time, the rich asshole’s failure to lift sanctions has alienated Moscow’s affection.

When the rich asshole reluctantly signed a new set of sanctions overwhelmingly approved by Congress in July, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev posted on Facebook that the president had shown “complete impotence, in the most humiliating manner, transferring executive power to Congress.”

In early September, Putin mocked the idea he had a special relationship with the U.S. president with a gendered poke at the rich asshole’s masculinity. the rich asshole “is not my bride,” Putin said, “and I am not his groom.”

Coming from a black athlete or a female senator, such a biting remark would no doubt provoke a presidential tweetstorm. Coming from his Slavic man-crush, crickets

Omarosa became worthless to the rich asshole after she launched F-bomb tirade at black lawmakers: report

BOB BRIGHAM
16 DEC 2017 AT 09:35 ET

some rich asshole and Omarosa Manigault-Newman

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Former Apprentice contestant and White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman failed in her outreach to the African American community, according to a new report by ABC News.

Manigault Newman had served as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison. As the most senior African American staffer in the White House, her liaison role was created as a vehicle for building a positive working relationship with the black community.

Multiple sources told ABC News that Manigault Newman cursed and scolded six members of the Congressional Black Caucus following a high-profile meeting with President some rich asshole.

Following the meeting, the Black Caucus members asked for the room to discuss what to tell the press on their way out. Although it was a standard request, Manigault Newman was offended.

“You don’t get to come into our house and demand to have f*cking privacy,” Manigault Newman allegedly said.

Finally, another White House staffer convinced Manigault Newman to walk away.

“She had pointlessly alienated them after what was a really positive meeting,” a White House official told ABC News. “She didn’t serve her boss well in that situation.”

The Black Caucus declined a follow-up meeting with the administration.

“It definitely didn’t go over well,” said a former senior Congressional Black Caucus official.

Manigault Newman left the White House on Tuesday, though will remain technically employed by taxpayers through January 20th.

President the rich asshole was unaware of her departure until he saw it on TV the next morning.

Some White House staffers are worried Manigault Newman will seek revenge in the press against her former White House rivals

the rich asshole plugs book claiming he downs a dozen Diet Cokes a day and suffers ‘wild mood swings’ as ‘real knowledge’

BOB BRIGHAM
16 DEC 2017 AT 10:17 ET

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President some rich asshole hyped a book full of embarrassing revelations about himself in a Saturday morning tweet.

“Congratulations to two great and hardworking guys, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, on the success of their just out book, ‘Let the rich asshole Be the rich asshole.’Finally people with real knowledge are writing about our wonderful and exciting campaign!” the rich asshole posted.

The book explains how the rich asshole drinks up to a dozen Diet Cokes a day, loves to eat fast food from McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken and has wild mood swings.

“Watching cable, [the rich asshole] shares thoughts with anyone in the room, even the household staff he summons via a button for lunch or one of the dozen Diet Cokes he consumes each day,” the book explained.

The poor diet may exacerbate the rich asshole’s mood swings.

“Several advisers said the president may curse them for a minor transgression…then make amiable small talk with the same person minutes later,” the book noted.

The presidential product plug did not reveal whether the rich asshole had read the book. One of the revelations contained within is how little the commander in chief reads.

Learn more about the revelations in the book the rich asshole is now hyping.

Two federal agencies besides CDC received orders to ban use of words like ‘transgender’ and ‘fetus’: report

DAVID FERGUSON
16 DEC 2017 AT 22:22 ET

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was not the only agency to receive a list of terms not to include in its official documents and documents related to the 2019 budget.

A Saturday night update to a report from The Washington Post said that unnamed personnel from two other federal agencies confirmed that their organizations received a list like the one received by CDC analysts this week. On the list are an array of terms like “transgender,” “fetus,” “vulnerable,” “science-based” and “diversity.”

Like the CDC, the two additional agencies both fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services. The sources asked that the Post not reveal their identities or the agencies they work for, but confirmed the last of words and reported that the guidelines ordered them to only refer to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as “ObamaCare” and to replace the term “marketplace” with “healthcare exchanges.”

Federal officials blasted the restrictions as “stupid and Orwellian,” even as an HHS spokesperson said that the guidelines are being completely misinterpreted.

“The assertion that HHS has ‘banned words’ is a complete mischaracterization of discussions regarding the budget formulation process,” said spokesman Matt Lloyd. “HHS will continue to use the best scientific evidence available to improve the health of all Americans. HHS also strongly encourages the use of outcome and evidence data in program evaluations and budget decisions.”

However, Lloyd declined to name any specific way in which the Post report was inaccurate.

Similar guidelines on word use have reportedly been issued at the State Department.

‘Good luck with that’: Colbert ridicules the rich asshole aides’ plan to turn the rich asshole into a ‘standard president’

TOM BOGGIONI
16 DEC 2017 AT 07:55 ET

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On his Friday night Late Show, host Stephen Colbert ridiculed a Washington Postreport stating that White House aides are attempting to turn President some rich asshole intro a “standard president,” warning them “good luck with that.”

The late show host began by stating, “some rich asshole continues to deny any Russian interference in the 2016 election,” before turning to the wishful thinking of his advisors.

“Good luck. If you can get him to accept that Russia hacked the election, see if you can get him to accept who won the Civil War,” he quipped.

“Now, after the rich asshole was told his own cabinet members had already backed the intelligence report, the rich asshole shot back, ‘So what?’ Admitting that the Kremlin had hacked Democratic Party emails, he said, was a ‘trap,’” said Colbert who then referenced the famous quote from Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar exclaiming “It’s a trap!”

Turning serious, Colbert added, “And, nearly a year into his presidency, the rich asshole has never convened a Cabinet-level meeting on Russian interference, or what to do about it,” as he shook his head.

You can watch the video below via CBS:

Charles Blow: Omarosa’s a back-stabbing ‘Machiavellian genius’ who exposed definitively that ‘the rich asshole has a race problem’

SARAH K. BURRIS
15 DEC 2017 AT 22:20 ET

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Progressive commentator and New York Times columnist Charles Blow launched into former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman, who has gone on a tour of interviews since being fired earlier this week.

Blow said that the media blitz seems like the “wrath of Omarosa.”

Describing the former reality television star, Blow said that she has a “Machiavellian genius that allows her to smile in your face and stab you in the back.”

In an interview with ABC News Friday, Omarosa described President some rich asshole’s problem with people of color, saying he is “racial, not racist.”

“I will acknowledge many of the exchanges, particularly in the last six months, have been racially charged,” she said. “Do we then just stop and label him as a racist? No.”

Blow called the interview probably one of the most devastating to come out of a former member of the rich asshole’s inner circle.

“She’s essentially confessing that he has a race problem,” he continued. “The semantic kind of intellectual line that he is ‘racial’ rather than ‘racist’ is very thin. You might want to frame it as an argument about intent and malice. It’s kind of like murder versus manslaughter. You could make a real argument whether or not the person was acting with intent and malice, but the other person is still dead. So, the effect is the same.”

Blow explained that she was confessing “a real feature of the man.” This comes after Blow said she defended the rich asshole while on a panel asking the moderators, “What do you want me to do? Walk away?” Blow said it’s exactly what she’s doing now.

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Republicans unveil final version of tax bill

BY NAOMI JAGODA - 12/15/17 05:36 PM EST

Republicans late Friday afternoon unveiled the final text of their bill to rewrite the tax code, which they are racing to send to President the rich asshole’s desk before Christmas.

Like the bills that came before it, the legislation produced by the House-Senate conference committee would result in massive changes to the tax system, cutting rates for many individuals and businesses while placing new limitations on tax breaks. (Read the bill here.)

"I'm very excited about this moment. It's been 31 years in the making and took a lot of hard work by a lot of people to make this day happen. I'm proud of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

The measure appears on track for passage next week, after getting a jolt of momentum Friday from Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who both announced their support.

The House will vote on the bill first, on Tuesday, and then the Senate will vote.

Under the final bill, the top individual rate would be lowered from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, which is lower than the top rate in the original bills passed by the House and Senate. The corporate tax rate would be cut from 35 percent to 21 percent, up from 20 percent in the original bills.

The measure has seven individual tax brackets, and like both the House and Senate bills, substantially increases the standard deduction.

It also increases the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000, as the Senate bill did, and increases the maximum amount that is refundable to $1,400, up from $1,100 in the original Senate measure. The latter change was made to secure Rubio’s vote.

The legislation preserves the deductions for mortgage interest and charitable giving, though it lowers the cap on the mortgage deduction from $1 million to $750,000.

Seeking to win over House Republicans from high-tax states, the conference committee legislation caps the state and local tax deduction at $10,000, with filers allowed to deduct property taxes and state and local income and sales taxes.

Several popular tax preferences that were eliminated in the House bill are preserved. They include the deduction for medical expenses, the deduction for student-loan interest, the exclusion for graduate students’ tuition waivers and the ability to issue tax-exempt private-activity bonds.

The bill does not repeal the estate tax or the alternative minimum tax for individuals, both long-time goals for Republicans, but it does increase the exemption amounts. The corporate alternative minimum tax, which was retained in the Senate bill, is eliminated, a change that is certain to please the business community.

The final bill provides tax relief to pass-through businesses — entities such as small businesses whose income is taxed through the individual code — through a 20-percent deduction.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a member of the conference committee, said the structure of the final bill hews closer to the Senate's version because of the pass-through provisions. The Senate’s policies were “viewed as simpler,” Portman said.

The measure also moves the U.S. to a territorial tax system that generally does not subject American companies’ foreign earnings to U.S. taxes. Companies’ current offshore earnings would be taxed at rates of 15.5 percent for liquid assets and 8 percent for illiquid assets, which are higher rates than in both the House and Senate bills.

Like the Senate bill, the legislation repeals ObamaCare’s individual insurance mandate starting in 2018 and allows for drilling in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Republicans are advancing the measure through a process called reconciliation that prevents a filibuster from Democrats in the Senate. Under reconciliation, bills can’t add to the deficit after 10 years, so the bill’s tax cuts for individuals expire after eight years. The corporate tax changes and individual mandate repeal are permanent.

The House and the Senate are expected to approve the bill next week and send it to the rich asshole, delivering him his first major legislative victory.

Republicans have long wanted to rewrite the tax code, arguing that doing so would boost economic growth and lead to more job creation.

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the bill will lower federal revenue by $1.456 trillion over 10 years — a key finding, as the bill cannot add more than $1.5 trillion in debt and qualify for special Senate rules.

Most analysts doubt that the economic growth from the bill will offset the revenue losses, but GOP lawmakers and the White House disagree. They say the changes to the tax code will unleash business investment.

Corker, who voted against the original Senate bill because of deficit concerns, said in a statement Friday that he will vote for the final package because he thinks the bill accompanied with other policies “could have significant positive impact on the well-being of Americans and help drive additional foreign direct investment in Tennessee.”

While Rubio's and Corker’s support boosts the odds for passage, several GOP senators have not yet announced how they will vote, including Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.).

Republicans expect Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) to return to the Senate to vote for the tax bill. Both missed votes this week because of health issues.

Democrats are expected to remain united in opposition against the bill. They say the measure provides most of its benefits to wealthy individuals and corporations and would end up raising taxes on some middle-class families.

- Scott Wong contributed. This story was updated at 6:32 p.m.

Remember this big FUCK YOU to the American people.

Final GOP tax bill repeals ObamaCare mandate

BY PETER SULLIVAN - 12/15/17 05:47 PM EST

The final Republican tax-reform bill unveiled Friday repeals ObamaCare’s individual insurance mandate, leaving the GOP poised to blow a significant hole in the health-care law next week.

The change, which takes effect in 2019, removes one of the least popular parts of ObamaCare, but one that many experts warn is necessary to make the law function smoothly.

Without a mandate, there is less incentive for healthy people to enroll and balance out the costs of the sick. That is expected to lead to premium increases and could lead insurers to drop out of markets, potentially leaving some areas of the country with no coverage options.

Republicans say repeal of the mandate is a form of tax relief, because it lifts a penalty on people who decide not to buy coverage.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the mandate will increase premiums by 10 percent and cause 13 million more people to be uninsured over a decade, but that markets would remain stable in “almost all” areas of the country.

Some experts say the impact of repealing the mandate has been overestimated, since it was never very effective to begin with, though repealing it would still have some effect.

Repeal of the mandate was already included in the Senate-passed version of the bill, and its inclusion in the final draft was expected.

The bill appears on track to pass both chambers next week.

Unlike broader efforts at ObamaCare repeal earlier this year, the repeal of the mandate has been largely free of controversy among congressional Republicans.

The main exception has been Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has pushed for passing two bipartisan ObamaCare bills before the end of the year in an effort to make up for the effects of mandate repeal.

It is unclear whether those bills can pass, given opposition among conservative House Republicans, who oppose the idea of making key payments to insurers known as cost sharing reductions.

Some experts also warn that the bills might not be enough to make up for mandate repeal. One of the bills, providing funding to bring down premiums known as reinsurance, could help make up for the premium rise from repealing the mandate, but some experts say more funding is needed.

In addition, there is the question of coverage loss and insurers leaving markets that the funding would not address as fully.

The Fraying of the rich asshole Brand

Experts say President the rich asshole is damaging his party and its candidates' election prospects.

By Susan Milligan, Senior Writer | Dec. 15, 2017, at 6:00 a.m.

Ronald Reagan offered a sunny vision for the nation, with a "Morning in America" message that built a GOP brand of optimism and fiscal conservatism. Bill Clinton's "Third Way" helped modernize the Democratic Party brand, casting the party as one that balanced government obligations to needy people with personal responsibility. George H. W. Bush talked about a "kinder, gentler nation," softening any hard edges around the GOP image. And Barack Obama's "Hope and Change" slogan energized young voters wanting something new out of an old political party.

some rich asshole, meanwhile, has been the Republican Party's New Coke, branding experts say. And as with the failed effort to expand the cola's market share, the president is damaging the GOP brand not only to his own political detriment, but to the fortunes of other Republicans nervously eyeing their 2018 re-election campaigns.

the rich asshole is regarded as a master brander in the commercial arena, building real estate and entertainment businesses heavily attached to his name. More like a Martha Stewart than, say, a Kraft Foods, the rich asshole personifies the product he is selling. And when the rich asshole – now suffering from historically low approval ratings in the low-to-mid 30s – struggles, so does the GOP brand he effectively took over when he became the party's presidential nominee and then commander-in-chief, political and branding specialists say.

"When you've got a brand that is tied to a personality, it can be incredibly strong and incredibly vulnerable. It is tied to a human being, and that human being's actions and people's feelings about it, as opposed to the performance of a standardized product or service," says Jason Karpf, a marketing and public relations consultant based in Minnesota. What the rich asshole is attempting now, Karpf says, is what I known in the marketing world as a "brand extension," this one, into the political world. But the effort has been sloppy at best and offensive at worst, experts say, threatening to do serious damage to the GOP brand as a whole.

Recent special and off-year elections are already showing signs of a toxicity that is less Republican-rooted than the rich asshole-specific, according to pollsters and political analysts.

In Virginia, for example, half of voters in Nov. 7's gubernatorial and state legislative elections said the rich asshole was a reason for their vote, and twice as many (34 percent) told exit pollsters they were casting votes to oppose the rich asshole as to support him. Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor's race by nine points, and Democrats made huge gains in the House of Delegates, with recounts set to determine whether the chamber will flip from GOP to Democratic control.

In New Jersey, where the rich asshole has an approval rating of 31 percent, just 11 percent of voters in the state's gubernatorial and local elections said they were voting to show support for the rich asshole. Meanwhile, 29 percent said they were voting to send an anti-the rich asshole message – and Gov.-elect Phil Murphy, a Democrat, won 96 percent of those voters.

Even in deep red Alabama, the rich asshole's tainted brand appeared to have an impact on a special election that led to the upset win of Democrat Doug Jones to replace now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the U.S. Senate. the rich asshole initially endorsed interim Sen. Luther Strange, the Republican lost the primary to Roy Moore. And while Moore was surely tainted in his own accord, being accused of preying on teenage girls when he was in his 30s, but the rich asshole's endorsement and robocall of support did not put Moore over the top, even in the heavily Republican state.

[In state legislative races, Democrats have flipped 33 contested seats since the rich asshole's inauguration, while the GOP has turned just a single contested seat from blue to red, notes Jessica Post of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Many of those candidates were inspired by an anti-the rich asshole sentiment.

the rich asshole won the Heart of Dixie with 62 percent of the vote last year, but his approval-disapproval rating in Alabama now is tied at 48 percent apiece. And despite Alabama's reliably red political character, just 42 percent of voters in this week's election said they have a favorable view of the GOP, compared to 52 percent who have an unfavorable view.

And perhaps most troubling for the GOP, there have been ominous signs that suburban voters are moving away from the rich asshole's party. Democrats made big gains in the Nov. 7 county and local elections in the Philadelphia suburbs, especially Delaware County. In Westchester County, New York, north of New York City, Democrat George Latimer, running with an anti-the rich asshole message, unseated two-term GOP county executive Rob Astorino despite being outspent 3:1. Suburban voters helped Democrats pick up seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, including its first two Latinas, both from suburban Prince William County.

Even in Alabama, the surburban shift was felt. In Shelby County, home of the Birmingham suburbs, Moore dropped 7 percentage points from his last statewide election in 2012, going from 63 percent of the vote to 56 percent. While he still won the county, the drop was a significant contributor to his 1.5-point statewide loss.

Those are ominous signs for Republicans, whose party is being branded by an outsider president who prefers provocative remarks about sexual harassment complainants, protesting NFL players and white supremacist demonstrators to the blue-chip GOP agenda of smaller government and lower taxes.

"It shows that a wave is in the works, and if everything continues on this road unabated, you're talking tsunami," says Lee Miringoff, director of the nonpartisan Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, NY. "If I was a Republican congressman in a suburban district outside a major metro area, I would distance myself" from the rich asshole, Miringoff says. Not only would a presidential visit and endorsement not be helpful, "it actually could be lethal," he adds.

the rich asshole's own brand could endure, says branding expert Debbie Millman, who teaches at New York City's School of Visual Arts and hosts the podcast "Design Matters." the rich asshole typically blames others when he loses, she notes (the rich asshole, after Moore's loss, said he was right to back Strange first, despite the fact that he also endorsed Moore). "He's able to deflect really well," Millman says. "What is happening, I think, is that people who voted for him were hoping that his brand would reflect on them, and they would get the benefit of his brand, and they are not."

As for the rich asshole's falling poll numbers, Millman says, his hardcore supporters aren't worried or even convinced. "The people that voted for him don't believe or care about those percentages," she says. "Those are people who were being told before the election that the rich asshole had no chance of winning – and he won."

But meanwhile, Republicans lower down the ticket and in party recruitment are scrambling to separate the man heading the party from the ideals of the GOP itself. Republicans have traditionally been committed to getting government out of people's lives, reducing regulation and limiting taxes and spending, notes Emmanuel Wilder, a North Carolina party official active in the Young Republicans National Federation. But the party's brand is being crafted by a man who equated Nazi sympathizers with counter-protesters, he laments, frustrating the GOP's ability to expand its rank and file – let alone elect more Republicans to office.

"It does hurt" party outreach, Wilder says. "I'm an African-American who, when Charlottesville was all happening, thinking, how do I talk about my [conservative] beliefs? How do I talk to my colleagues who are African-American and Asian – how do I have a conversation with them about the comments he's made?

"At the end of the day, there are no good Nazis," Wilder adds, referring to the Charlottesville protesters the rich asshole tacitly defended. "It takes us a step back, and it makes it harder for us to really do the outreach efforts."

For Republicans hoping to keep their jobs next year, the rich asshole brand may be impossible to avoid, says Fergus Cullen, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party. "The wave elections of 1994, 2006 and 2010 suggest there is no port in a storm, no way to localize or separate one candidate from a party when voters are out to send a message," Cullen says. And the message may be that the electorate wants a new product.

Nicolle Wallace piles on Fox News’ and Sean Hannity’s FBI hysteria: ‘Crazier than my dog after her stroke’

ELIZABETH PREZA
15 DEC 2017 AT 18:11 ET

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MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Friday was unimpressed with Fox News’ and Sean Hannity’s hysterical reaction to reports that an FBI agent who was assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation expressed anti-the rich asshole opinions via text.

Hannity and his guests on Thursday all agreed with the president’s assessment that the FBI is “in tatters,” arguing the non-scandal is “bigger” and “more pervasive” than Watergate.

Wallace played a clip of Hannity sounding the alarm on Mueller’s investigation and his fellow panelists agreeing that Peter Strzok, a single FBI agent, expressing a political opinion means the entire organization is on the verge of collapse.

“Crazier than my dog after her stroke?” Wallace asked.

“I was talking about the notion of useful idiots,” journalist John Heilemann. “Just watch that piece of tape again and think useless idiots. Worse than useless. Worse than useless.”

“I totally disagree with you because Sean Hannity, you know, like in the Tour de France, the bikers in the front and the guys behind them ride in their wind or whatever that’s called? … Whatever that is. I can’t even ride a bike. I don’t know why I said that. Hannity is the tip of the sphere in this smear campaign against the institutions,” Wallace replied.

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Creator of ‘Pepe the frog’ meme wins another copyright battle — and the alt-right comes completely unglued

NOOR AL-SIBAI
15 DEC 2017 AT 17:56 ET

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After Matt Furie’s “Pepe the frog” character was co-opted and turned into a meme by some rich asshole supporters, the illustrator decided to fight back. His most recent move to get Pepe’s image taken off of a popular gaming app acts is his most recent prelude in his war against the alt-right.

As Kotaku reports, Pepe icons and images began disappearing on Steam yesterday. Soon after, “Pepe images that players could earn by playing games like Fergus The Fly and, tellingly, Make America Great Again: The rich asshole Presidency have been replaced with a simple message: ‘Emoticon art currently unavailable due to DMCA takedown notice submitted on behalf of Matt Furie.'”

Furie initially created the frog character in a 2005 comic titled “Boys Club,” but around 2008, it began making the rounds on 4chan, ultimately becoming an alt-right meme and mascot. White nationalist Richard Spencer, Kotaku notes, was attempting to explain his Pepe pin when a masked protester decked him the day of the rich asshole’s inauguration, thus creating the “punch a Nazi” meme.

The move marks another win for Furie, who in August announced that he’d taken successful legal action against the creator of an alt-right children’s book featuring his character. The book, titled The Adventures of Pepe and Pede, followed the alt-right’s stolen mascot as he “sets out to make his farm ‘great again,’ and battles a bearded alligator villain called Alkah, regarded as a reference to Allah, the Muslim name for God,” Newsweek wrote in late August.

Furie’s lawyers settled with Pepe and Pede author Eric Hauser to cease sales of the book. They also compelled him “to donate all profits from the title to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group for American Muslims,” Motherboard reported.

More recently, Furie sent a cease-and-desist to the creator of a Pepe-themed hot sauce, who denied that Pepe’s creator has any rights over the frog because he hasn’t copyrighted it. Nevertheless, the alt-right would-be salsa salesman said he lost about $4,000 since Furie sent the letter.

Furie’s legal team has had some success thus far in barring people from using the frog’s image for profit, though his lawyer, August Louis Tompros, said the Steam takedown resulted from a tip-off about it being used in association with hate speech.

“A Steam user let us know that there were Pepe images being sold on the site, and that they were being used on that site by people in connection with hateful speech,” Tompros told Kotaku. “We asked Steam to take those down, and it appears that it has done that.”

The report notes that the creators of the Make America Great Again game are upset by the takedown.

“Matt Furie, the owner of Pepe the Frog (a poorly drawn cartoon frog that was hijacked and popularized many years ago by the internet, then came to public prominence during the rich asshole election) had a lawyer file Copyright claim against all Pepe the Frog uses on Steam,” they wrote in a post on Steam’s forums. “Apparently, even though our Rare Deplorable commando frog and Donald Toad emoticon (CLEARLY a toad and not a frog!) are our own original art & characters, just filing the claim means Valve must take them down.”

“I guess Ol’ Matty boy thinks he owns all cartoon frogs now or something,” the post continued. “Oddly enough his ‘Pepe’ looks a whoooole [sic] lot like Kermit the Frog to me.”

Mueller set to confront White House lawyers in pivotal meeting ‘as soon as next week’

SARAH K. BURRIS
15 DEC 2017 AT 17:12 ET

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to meet with President some rich asshole’s lawyers next week as the probe into possible Russian collusion continues.

According to CNN, sources think that the meeting is more significant than past meetings “because it comes after the completion of interviews of White House personnel requested by the special counsel and after all requested documents have been turned over.”

There is still more information that Mueller’s investigators could request from the rich asshole and Vice President Mike Pence. Thus far, CNN reported, Mueller has not requested to interview either of the men.

Sources told CNN that the rich asshole’s attorneys hope that this meeting means Mueller’s investigation is nearing the end, or, at the very least, they’re ready to say that they’re finished focusing on the rich asshole or Pence.

CNN reporter Evan Perez said that the meeting will happen as soon as next week.

Top Dem warns Republicans may have already ended House Russia probe — and will go after Mueller next

TRAVIS GETTYS
15 DEC 2017 AT 14:20 ET

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The House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat fears his Republican colleagues are planning to wrap up the rich asshole-Russia probe after Christmas — and prevent special counsel Robert Mueller from finishing his investigation.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has accused the panel’s GOP leadership of dragging their feet, refusing to issue subpoenas and trying to discredit the investigation of Russian campaign interference.

“I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation at the end of the month,” Schiff tweeted Friday afternoon.

The California Democrat said lawmakers have made important progress since March toward understanding and exposing Russian election meddling.

“Yet, Republicans have scheduled no witnesses after next Friday and none in 2017,” Schiff said. “We have dozens of outstanding witnesses on key aspects of our investigation that they refuse to contact and many document requests they continue to sit on.”

He blasted Republican colleagues for allowing some rich asshole Jr. to claim “nonexistent” attorney-client privileges to shield conversations with his father, and for refusing to enforce or issue subpoenas for critical information.

“It appears Republicans want to conduct just enough interviews to give the impression of a serious investigation,” he added.

He said GOP lawmakers had scheduled out-of-state interviews of critical witnesses next week, when Congress will vote on the tax bill — but no representatives will be able to attend those sessions.

Schiff said that didn’t make sense, because all the witnesses were willing to come to Washington, D.C., for their interviews — and he called on House Speaker Paul Ryan to ensure the investigation continues.

“The responsibility to conduct a thorough investigation, or to prevent one, ultimately falls on @SpeakerRyan,” Schiff tweeted. “I’m concerned he’s heeding the calls of (Steve) Bannon and @POTUS to ‘DO SOMETHING’ by closing down the Russia investigation & opening up another investigation of Hilary Clinton.”

The panel’s ranking Democrat is even more concerned by other recent developments.

“Beyond our investigation, here’s what has me really concerned: The attacks on Mueller, DOJ and FBI this week make it clear they plan to go after Mueller’s investigation — aggressively and soon,” Schiff said.

“By shutting down the congressional investigations when they continue to discover new and important evidence, the White House can exert tremendous pressure to end or curtail Mueller’s investigation or cast doubt on it,” he added. “We cannot let that happen.”

House Intel dem: If the rich asshole pardons Flynn it ‘will be the beginning of the unraveling of his presidency’

ELIZABETH PREZA
15 DEC 2017 AT 12:36 ET

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House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Dennis Heck (D-WA) on Friday warned some rich asshole against considering a pardon for his onetime national security adviser Michael Flynn, telling CNN’s Kate Bolduan that doing so “will be the beginning of the unraveling of his presidency.”

the rich asshole kept the door opened for pardoning Flynn, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the FBI about the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador. “I don’t want to talk about pardons with Mike Flynn yet,” the rich asshole told reporters when asked if he’s considered exonerating he longtime political ally.

“If President the rich asshole pardons Mike Flynn or any of the other people involved in this, I confidently predict it will be the beginning of the unraveling of his presidency,” Heck said, comparing such a move with Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”

Heck also pointed out that special counsel Robert Mueller included a binding agreement in his plea deal with Flynn requiring the retired general to comply with state and local authorities.

“The president can pardon these people for violations of federal crimes, but cannot pardon them for violations of state crimes,” Heck explained.

“So, if he thinks he’s going to give them a ‘get out of jail free’ card, he’s flat wrong,” he added. “Once again, this president—who seems frankly, on so many occasions not to embrace the basic and fundamental American precept of the rule of law—he just doesn’t get it.”

Heck also criticized he Republican counterparts in the House Intelligence Committee, arguing they’re “trying to get to the end of the investigation at a rate or at a velocity which is completely out of sync with what is necessary to do this job.”

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Black Twitter destroys Omarosa Manigault for insisting ‘the rich asshole is racial, not racist’

ERIC W. DOLAN
15 DEC 2017 AT 12:47 ET

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Former senior the rich asshole aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is facing a backlash after describing the president as “racial.”

During an interview with ABC News, she defended the rich asshole by insisting that he was “racial, not racist.”

“I will acknowledge many of the exchanges, particularly in the last six months, have been racially charged,” she said. “Do we then just stop and label him as a racist? No.”

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Manigault Newman, a former star of the rich asshole’s TV show “The Apprentice,” served as director of communications for the White House’s Office of Public Liaison prior to her resignation this week.

But many black Twitter users were not pleased with her attempted defense of the rich asshole. Read some of their reactions below:

‘Wow’: Stephanie Ruhle panel shell-shocked by the rich asshole’s ‘non-fact based’ White House lawn rant

TOM BOGGIONI
15 DEC 2017 AT 10:53 ET

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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle interrupted her panel discussion this morning to carry President some rich asshole’s impromptu press conference on the White House lawn — where he attacked the FBI — only to cut back to the host simply stating: “Wow.”

During the off-the-cuff encounter with the press, the rich asshole asserted, “You have a lot of angry people. It’s a very sad thing to watch, I will tell you that. I am going today on behalf of the FBI, their new building, and when everybody — not me, everybody, the level of anger, and what they have been witnessing with respect to the FBI, it’s certainly very sad.”

the rich asshole additionally stated that “I don’t want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet. We will see what happens,” leading the MSNBC host to exclaim, “That’s a wow.”

“Alright, ladies and gentlemen,” Ruhle asked her panel. “Let’s start with the president’s first answer and he was saying the FBI, I want to say, is in shambles or it’s a disaster and we’re going to rebuild it, in case our audience didn’t hear that.” In total, my big takeaway is yet again he praises Vladimir Putin and and himself.”

“It is simply bizarre, his attitude towards Vladimir Putin remains one of the greatest mysteries, if not the greatest mystery, of this presidency,” remarked MSNBC contributor Elise Jordan. “That is why he goes out of his way to discredit the FBI, to discredit Bob Mueller.”

“He’s the nation’s chief law enforcement official who’s supposed to treat these institutions with respect,” the rich asshole biographer Tim O’Brien added. “And he’s standing up there and he’s smearing the reputation of hard-working civil servants who pursue their jobs in a nonpartisan way following the rule of law and you have the nation’s chief law enforcement official throwing that all to the wind for his own needs

Ruhle suggested, “He’s also spewing non-fact-based content. To say we’re going to make the FBI bigger and better. With what money?” she asked before criticizing the GOP ‘s tax bill.

Asked for comment on the rich asshole’s attack on the FBI, former FBI agent Clint Watts said the rich asshole just made their jobs harder.

“He’s going to the FBI Academy to give this speech,” Watts reminded the panel. “Will he actually bash the FBI to state and law enforcement officers again in his speech at the FBI Academy?”

“This is tearing down U.S. institutions,” he continued. “The effect is way beyond just this investigation. Imagine now you’re an FBI agent going out into a very the rich asshole-supporting part of the United States and you want to do an investigation and now you’re meeting resistance? You can’t get support from the community. You can’t run down your investigations. You won’t get cooperation. This has a detrimental impact on justice because people will think the FBI is biased when, in fact, there’s no case to be made for it. If anything, the FBI is a conservative bastion — politically they’re more conservative than liberal.”

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White House: FBI has ‘extreme bias’ against the rich asshole

BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 12/15/17 09:14 AM EST

White House spokesman J. Hogan Gidley ripped the FBI in an interview with Fox News on Friday, saying the bureau has an "extreme bias" against President the rich asshole in the wake of the release of anti-the rich asshole text messages between two FBI officials.

"It is troubling, deeply troubling, that the revelations have now come to light that there is extreme bias against this president with high-up members of the team there at the FBI who were investigating Hillary Clinton at the time," Gidley said on "Fox & Friends."

"We're a little concerned at what we're seeing here. Obviously, those text messages give us quite a bit of pause and should be eye-opening at an agency that should be, quite frankly unbiased," he added.

Gidley's comments come after more than 300 text messages between senior FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok — who was assigned to the bureau's investigation into Clinton's private email server she used as secretary of State — and in-house attorney Lisa Page were provided to Congress, after they were provided to the press.

Fox News first reported on the text messages on Dec. 6, saying more than 10,000 texts between Page and Strzok had been found and were under review.

Strzok had been assigned to the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, though he has since been pulled from that duty.

The Department of Justice said on Thursday that it did not authorize the release of the text messages, which show Strzok and Page openly criticizing the rich asshole and other lawmakers during the election and supporting Clinton.

Strzok called Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) "an idiot like the rich asshole," and Page called the rich asshole "a loathsome human."

"God, Hillary should win 100,000,000 - 0," Strzok said in one message to Page.

Strzok was removed from his assignment after special counsel Robert Mueller learned of the texts, but the rich asshole has ramped up his criticism of the FBI this month, saying on Twitter that "its reputation is in tatters."

the rich asshole is scheduled to visit the FBI National Academy on Friday to participate in its graduation ceremony, and Gidley said on Fox that “the president is absolutely supportive of and has full faith and confidence in the rank-and-file members of the DOJ and also the FBI.”

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the rich asshole rips the FBI before speech at its training academy

BY JORDAN FABIAN - 12/15/17 10:39 AM EST

President the rich asshole on Friday tore into the FBI just hours before speaking at the agency’s training academy.

“It’s a shame what happened to the FBI. But we’re going to rebuild the FBI; it’ll be bigger and better than ever,” the rich asshole told reporters.

The president doubled down on his criticism of the nation’s top law enforcement agency before leaving the White House for the FBI’s campus in Quantico, Va., where he will speak to law enforcement leaders graduating from a training program.

the rich asshole said revelations about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and text messages from a top agent that were critical of him were “really, really disgraceful.”

“You have a lot of very angry people who are seeing it,” the president said.

The president has long been suspicious of the FBI and intelligence agencies, but the timing of his criticism was remarkable.

Roughly an hour after the rich asshole spoke at the White House, he appeared on stage at the academy with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the graduation ceremony.

During the speech, the president cast himself as a defender of law enforcement and lauded the bravery of police officers and FBI agents.

“These are great, great people. These are really heroes for all of us,” he said.

“The president of the United States has your back 100 percent,” the rich asshole added. “I will fight for you and I will never, ever let you down. Ever."

the rich asshole’s comments come as special counsel Robert Mueller is working through his investigation into Russia’s election interference and whether the rich asshole campaign had any ties to it.

The president repeated his insistence his campaign staff had nothing to do with Russia’s election-related activities.

“Let’s put it this way: there is absolutely no collusion. That’s been proven,” the rich asshole said.

"I didn't make a phone call to Russia," he added. "Even Democrats admit there was no collusion."

the rich asshole did speak about his Thursday phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the rich asshole said he tried to persuade Putin to do more to counter North Korea.

the rich asshole thanked Putin for praising the performance of the U.S. economy this year.

The president and his allies are increasingly questioning the FBI’s integrity as they attack the Russia probe.

Republicans on Capitol Hill have slammed former FBI Director James Comey for revising a draft document detailing the agency’s findings in the Clinton email probe in a way that appeared to lessen its severity.

They have also zeroed in on text messages sent by top FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was a senior official on the Clinton probe and the Russia investigation. He was reassigned from Mueller’s investigation after private texts were discovered of him criticizing the rich asshole.

“The level of anger at what they've been witnessing with respect to the FBI is certainly very sad,” the rich asshole said.

Strzok also sent text messages criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former attorney general Eric Holder and Chelsea Clinton, among others.

Earlier Friday, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News that “the president is absolutely supportive of and has full faith and confidence in the rank-and-file members of the DOJ and also the FBI" but is upset with its some of its leaders.

the rich asshole is speaking to state and local law enforcement officials graduating from a program that is designed to improve standards and cooperation with federal authorities.

the rich asshole won't rule out Flynn pardon

BY JORDAN FABIAN - 12/15/17 10:01 AM EST

President the rich asshole on Friday refused to rule out a pardon for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in the special counsel probe into Russia’s election interference.

"I don’t want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet,” the rich asshole told reporters at the White House. "We'll see what happens. Let's see."

the rich asshole also refused to say when he learned that his former national security adviser lied to the FBI, the crime for which he pleaded guilty.

"You know the answer," the rich asshole said. "How many times has that question been asked?"

Early this month, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the rich asshole campaign cooperated with Russia's election-meddling effort in 2016. His guilty plea is a troubling sign for the rich asshole and the White House as the investigation continues.

The retired Army general, who was a member of the rich asshole's inner circle during the campaign, has said he is cooperating with Mueller's team.

He could reveal damaging information about the president, including details about whether the rich asshole tried to obstruct justice in the FBI's Russia investigation.

the rich asshole may have been trying to signal to Flynn it's possible he could receive a legal reprieve if he protects him and his family.

the rich asshole spoke before departing for Quantico, Va., where he is set to speak at the FBI's national academy.

"I can say this, when you look at what’s going on with the FBI and with the Justice Department, people are very, very angry," he said.

Exclusive: Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two the rich asshole accusers

BY JOHN SOLOMON AND ALISON SPANN - 12/15/17 11:00 AM EST

A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against some rich asshole during the final months of the 2016 election, according to documents and interviews.

California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one the rich asshole accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.

The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.

Bloom, who has assisted dozens of women in prominent harassment cases and also defended film executive Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, represented four women considering making accusations against the rich asshole last year. Two went public, and two declined.

In a statement to The Hill, Bloom acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against the rich asshole before last year’s election.

“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” said Bloom, whose clients have also included accusers of Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly.

Bloom said her goal in securing money was not to pressure the women to come forward, but rather to help them relocate or arrange security if they felt unsafe during the waning days of a vitriolic election. She declined to identify any of the donors.

And while she noted she represented sexual harassment victims for free or at reduced rates, she also acknowledged a standard part of her contracts required women to pay her commissions as high as 33 percent if she sold their stories to media outlets.

“Our standard pro bono agreement for legal services provides that if a media entity offers to compensate a client for sharing his or her story we receive a percentage of those fees. This rarely happens. But, on occasion, a case generates media interest and sometimes (not always) a client may receive an appearance fee,” she said.

“As a private law firm we have significant payroll, rent, taxes, insurance and other expenses every week, so an arrangement where we might receive some compensation to defray our costs seems reasonable to us and is agreed to by our clients,” Bloom added.

Bloom told The Hill she had no contact with Clinton or her campaign, but declined to address any contacts with Super PACs that supported the Democratic nominee.

Josh Schwerin, the communications director for the largest pro-Clinton Super PAC called Priorities USA Action, told The Hill that the group had no relationship with Bloom and had no discussions with her about supporting the rich asshole accusers.

One Bloom client who received financial help from Bloom was New York City makeup artist Jill Harth.

The former beauty contestant manager filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the rich asshole in 1997 and then withdrew it under pressure. The news media discovered the litigation during the election and Harth’s name became public in the summer of 2016. She asked Bloom to represent her in the fall after hearing the rich asshole describe her allegations against him as false, and became a vocal critic of the rich asshole.

“I consider myself lucky to have had Lisa Bloom by my side after my old lawsuit resurfaced. She advised me with great competence and compassion,” Harth told The Hill.

Harth said she did not originally ask Bloom for money, even though her cosmetics business suffered from the notoriety of the campaign stories about her.

But later, Bloom arranged a small payment from the licensing of some photos to the news media, and then set up a GoFundMe.com account to raise money for Harth in October 2016. “Jill put herself out there, facing off with some rich asshole. Let’s show her some love,” the online fund-raising appeal set up by Bloom’s husband declared.

The effort raised a little over $2,300.

Bloom then arranged for a donor to make a larger contribution to help Harth pay off the mortgage on her Queens apartment in New York City. The amount was under $30,000, according to a source directly familiar with Harth’s situation. Public records show

Harth’s mortgage was recorded as extinguished on Dec. 19, 2016, public records show.

Harth said the payments did not affect the merits of her allegations. She alleges that during a January 1993 meeting at the rich asshole’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the future president pushed her up against a wall and groped her, trying to get his hands up her dress.

“Nothing that you’ve said to me about my mortgage or the Go Fund Me that was created to help me out financially affects the facts or the veracity of my 1997 federal complaint against some rich asshole for sexual harassment and assault,” she told The Hill.

“Having to retell my experiences of some rich asshole's harassment is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.”

the rich asshole has steadfastly denied assaulting or harassing women, even after a videotape surfaced in September 2016 in which he boasted famous men like him could grab women by the genitalia without consequence. the rich asshole has dismissed the tape as locker room talk among guys.

Harth is currently writing a memoir about her whole experience, but without Bloom’s help.

Bloom acknowledged arranging financial help for Harth, who she said had lost income because of the publicity surrounding her allegations.

“She endured a tidal wave of hate for it. It was very painful for her. And as a New York City makeup artist, Jill lost jobs after she came out publicly against some rich asshole. I believed that people wanted to donate to help her, so we set up the GoFundMe account,” she told The Hill.

The Hill does not identify the names of victims of sexual assault or harassment unless they go public on their own, like Harth.

But one woman who did not go public with allegations agreed to share her documents and talk to The Hill about her interactions with Bloom if The Hill honored its commitment to maintain her anonymity.

Both that woman and Harth, who were friends, stressed that Bloom never asked them to make any statements or allegations except what they believed to be true.

Their texts and emails indicate Bloom held a strong dislike of the rich asshole though. Bloom is the daughter of Gloria Allred, another prominent attorney who is representing a number of women who have made accusations of sexual misconduct against the rich asshole.

In an email to the unnamed woman, Bloom said that her story was “further evidence of what a sick predator this man is,” referring to the rich asshole.

Documents also show Bloom’s efforts to get alleged victims of sexual assault or harassment to come out against the rich asshole intensified as Election Day 2016 approached.

When Harth, for instance, informed Bloom she had just made a Facebook post urging other women to come forward about the rich asshole in October 2016, the lawyer texted back:

“Wow Jill that would be amazing. 27 days until the election.”

And when a potential client abruptly backed out of a pre-election news conference where she was supposed to allege she was sexually assaulted at age 13, Bloom turned her attention to another woman.

That woman, Harth’s friend, went back and forth for weeks with Bloom in 2016 about going public with an allegation of an unsolicited advance by the rich asshole on the 1990s beauty contest circuit.

“Give us a clear sense of what you need and we will see if it we can get it,” Bloom texted the woman a week before Election Day.

“I’m scared Lisa. I can’t relocate. I don’t like taking other people’s money,” the woman wrote to Bloom.

“Ok let’s not do this then,” Bloom responded. “We are just about out of time anyway.”

The woman then texted back demanding to know why there was a deadline. “What does time have to do with this? Time to bury the rich asshole??? You want my story to bury trump [sic] for what? Personal gain? See that ‘s why I have trust issues!!”

The woman told The Hill in an interview that Bloom initially approached her in early October through Harth. She said she considered coming forward with her account of an unsolicited advance by the rich asshole solely to support her friend Harth, and not because she had any consternation with the rich asshole, who ended the advance when she asked him to stop, she said.

The woman said Bloom initially offered a $10,000 donation to the woman’s favorite church, an account backed up by text messages the two exchanged.

“Please keep the donation offer confidential except to your pastor,” Bloom wrote the woman on Oct. 14, 2016.

When Bloom found out the woman was still a supporter of the rich asshole and associated with lawyers, friends and associates of the future president, she texted a request that jarred the woman.

“When you have a chance I suggest you delete the August 2015 Facebook post about supporting the rich asshole,” Bloom texted. “Otherwise the reporter will ask you how you could support him after what he did to you. Your call but it will make your life easier.”

The woman declined. “I hate to say it, but i [sic] still rather have trump [sic] in office than hillary [sic],” the woman texted back. Bloom answered, “Ok I respect that. Then don’t change anything.”

Eventually the two decided the woman’s continued support of the rich asshole was a benefit to her narrative if she went public with her accusations, the messages show. “I love your point about being a the rich asshole supporter too,” Bloom texted on Oct. 14, 2016.

The text messages show the woman made escalating requests for more money.

By early November, the woman said, Bloom’s offers of money from donors had grown to $50,000 to be paid personally to her, and then even higher.

“Another donor has reached out to me offering relocation/security for any woman coming forward. I’m trying to reach him,” Bloom texted the woman on Nov. 3, 2016. Later she added, “Call me I have good news.”

The woman responded that she wasn’t impressed with the new offer of $100,000 given that she had a young daughter. “Hey after thinking about all this, I need more than $100,000.00. College money would be nice” for her daughter. “Plus relocation fees, as we discussed.”

The figured jumped to $200,000 in a series of phone calls with Bloom that week, according to the woman. The support was promised to be tax-free and also included changing her identity and relocating, according to documents and interviews.

Bloom told The Hill that the woman asked for money as high as $2 million in the conversations, an amount that was a nonstarter, but the lawyer confirmed she tried to arrange donations to the woman in the low six figures.

“She asked to be compensated, citing concerns for her safety and security and over time, increased her request for financial compensation to $2 million, which we told her was a non-starter,” Bloom told The Hill. “We did relay her security concerns to donors, but none were willing to offer more than a number in the low six figures, which they felt was more appropriate to address her security and relocation expenses.”

The woman said that when she initially talked to Bloom she simply wanted to support her friend Harth and had no interest in being portrayed as an accuser or receiving money. But when Bloom’s mention of potential compensation became more frequent, the woman said she tried to draw out the lawyer to see how high the offer might reach and who might be behind the money.

Just a few days before the election, the woman indicated she was ready to go public with her story, then landed in the hospital and fell out of contact with Bloom.

The lawyer repeatedly texted one of the woman’s friends on Nov. 4, 2016, but the friend declined to put the woman on the phone, instead sending a picture of the client in a hospital bed.

Bloom persisted, writing in a series of texts to the friend that she needed to talk to her hospitalized client because it could have “a significant impact on her life” and a “big impact on her daughter” if she did not proceed with her public statement as she had planned.

“She is in no condition for visitors,” the friend texted Bloom back.

“If you care about her you need to leave her be until she is feeling better,” the friend added in another text.

Bloom hopped on a plane from California to come see the woman on the East Coast, according to the text messages and interviews.

The next day, the woman finally re-connected with Bloom and informed her she would not move forward with making her allegations public. Bloom reacted in a string of text messages after getting the news.

“I am confused because you sent me so many nice texts Wednesday night after my other client wasted so much of my time and canceled the press conference,” Bloom texted on Nov. 5, 2016. “That meant a lot to me. Thursday you said you wanted to do this if you could be protected/relocated. I begged you not to jerk me around after what I had just gone through.”

A little later, she added another text. “You have treated me very poorly. I have treated you with great respect as much as humanly possible. I have not made a dime off your case and I have devoted a great deal of time. It doesn’t matter. I could have done so much for you. But you can’t stick to your word even when you swear you will.”

After the woman was released from the hospital, she agreed to meet Bloom at a hotel on Nov. 6, just two days before the rich asshole unexpectedly defeated Clinton in a dizzying election.

The woman told The Hill in an interview that at the hotel encounter, Bloom increased the offer of donations to $750,000 but still she declined to take the money.

The woman texted Bloom that day saying she didn’t mean to let her lawyer down.

“You didn’t let me down,” Bloom texted back. “You came and spoke to me and made the decision that’s right for you. That’s all I wanted.”

Bloom confirmed to The Hill that she flew to Virginia to met with the woman after she had changed her mind several times about whether to go public with her accusations against the rich asshole.

“We invited her to meet with us at the hotel restaurant and she accepted. Ultimately, after another heartfelt discussion, she decided that she did not want to come forward, and we respected her decision,” Bloom told The Hill.

Bloom said the donor money was never intended “to entice women to come forward against their will.”

“Nothing can be further from the truth. Some clients asked for small photo licensing fees while others wanted more to protect their security,” she said.

Bloom declined to identify the name of any donors who would have provided money for women making accusations against the rich asshole.

Harth and the woman who decided not to go public said they never were given any names of donors.

But Bloom told the woman who declined to come forward that she had reached out to political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“It’s my understanding that there is some Clinton Super Pack [sic] that could help out if we did move forward,” the woman wrote Bloom on Oct. 11, 2016, using the wrong acronym for PAC or Political Action Committee. “If we help the Clinton campaign they in turn could help or compensate us?”

Bloom wrote back, “Let’s please do a call. I have already reached out to Clinton Super PACs and they are not paying. I can get you paid for some interviews however.”

The woman who ultimately declined to come forward with Bloom told The Hill that she stayed silent for an entire year afterwards because she did not want to call attention to her family.

She said she supported the rich asshole in 2016, and that she held no resentment about the early 1990s advance because the rich asshole stopped it as soon as she asked him.

She said she remains friends with many people associated with the president to this day, including one of his best personal friends as well as a lawyer who works for one of the firms representing the rich asshole.

The woman said, however, no one associated with the rich asshole White House or the president forced her to come forward or made any offers to induce her to talk to The Hill. She said she agreed to do so only after she became disgusted to learn this past October that Bloom had agreed to work in defense of Weinstein.

“I couldn’t understand how she could say she was for people like me and then represent someone like him. And then all the money stuff I knew about. I just became frustrated,” she said.

Bloom dropped her representation of Weinstein as the accusations piled up against him, telling Buzzfeed that it had been a “colossal mistake.”

Nearly from the beginning, Bloom made clear to the woman she would have to pay her law firm a commission on any fees the attorney arranged from media outlets willing to pay for the woman’s story, according to a copy of a contract as well as a text message sent to the woman.

“Outlets with which I have good relationships that may pay for your first on camera interview, revealing your name and face: Inside Edition, Dr. Phil, LawNewz.com,” Bloom texted the woman just weeks before Election Day. “My best estimate of what I could get for you would be $10-15,000 (less our 1/3 attorney fee).

“If you are interested I would recommend Inside Edition or Dr. Phil as they are much bigger. Dr. Phil is doing a show on the rich asshole accusers next Tuesday in LA and would fly you here and put you up in a nice hotel, and pay for your meals as well, with your daughter if you like,” Bloom’s text added. “Media moves very quickly so you need to decide and then once confirmed, you need to stick to it.”

Representatives of Inside Edition and Dr. Phil said they did not pay any the rich asshole accusers for appearances last year.

Bloom’s firm sent the woman a “media-related services” contract to represent her for “speaking out against some rich asshole” that laid out business terms for selling a story in the most direct terms.

“You will compensate the Firm thirty-three percent (33%) of the total fee that you collect, whether the media deal or licensing fees is for print, Internet, radio, television, film or any other medium,” Bloom’s proposed contract dated Oct. 10, 2016 read. The woman said she signed the contract.

When Bloom found out in early November that the woman and the friend had discussions with CBS News about doing an interview on their own, the lawyer texted back: “CBS does not pay for stories.”

A little later Bloom sent another text suggesting the arrangements she was making could be impacted by the unauthorized media contacts. “You and your friends should not be shopping the story it will come back to bite you,” Bloom texted. “And this whole thing we have worked so hard to make happen will go away.”

the rich asshole hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre

By Eric Boehlert |DECEMBER 15, 2017

the rich asshole thumbs his nose at the victims of the Connecticut school killing spree and enjoys quiet time at the White House with NRA gun boss.

President some rich asshole shakes hands with National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Not only did some rich asshole not tweet out messages of condolences for families who lost loved ones five years ago on Thursday at the Sand Hook gun massacre in Connecticut, and not only did White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on that day insist there’s simply nothing that can be done to battle American epidemic of gun violence, but the rich asshole himself managed to insult the Sandy Hook families in another appalling way.

In a craven display of collective indifference, the rich asshole hosted Wayne LaPierre, the controversial head of the NRA, at the White House on Thursday night, as families and friends of the elementary school gun massacre were remembering the victims of the horrific killing spree.

The shooting rampage claimed 26 lives, including 20 young children. In the wake of the attack, LaPierre’s NRA spread lies about the emergency response to the attack, lashed out at critics, and urged that every school in America have armed guards in order to fend off possible gunmen wielding AK-47s.

And soon after that, LaPierre led the fight to obstruct President Barack Obama’s bipartisan effort to pass a wildly popular background check bill.

LaPierre represents everything that’s wrong and immoral with radical, far-right voices of the gun-obsessed GOP culture. And that’s who the rich asshole invited to the White House on the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Gun safety advocate Shannon Watts, who founded the group Moms Demand Action, noted on Twitter the contrast between how the rich asshole and Obama deal with families of Sandy Hook, as well as the memories of the slain:

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Shannon Watts

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Yesterday was the 5 year mark of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook School, which went unacknowledged by the President. On the same day, he hosted a White House Christmas party to which he invited @NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. Here he is at the party with @DanPatrick. pic.twitter.com/mUbKCIWGxB

Shannon Watts

✔@shannonrwatts

In each of the past 4 years, President Obama invited gun violence prevention activists, gun violence survivors (including the Sandy Hook families) and supportive lawmakers to his Christmas party. Zero gun lobbyists were in attendance. pic.twitter.com/QePW9FtbSh

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the rich asshole’s do-nothing strategy regarding gun violence was on display on Thursday at the White House, when Sanders was asked by a reporter at the daily briefing to explain “what President the rich asshole has done to try to protect the American people against a similar type” of Sandy Hook massacre. Sanders at first started touting the rich asshole’s tighter border security measures.

After she was reminded that the Sandy Hook shooter didn’t enter the U.S. from another country, nor did the shooters who killed nearly 100 people during the massacres in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, Texas, this year, Sanders conceded that the White House hasn’t done a thing to try to stop the bloodshed, because the White House, echoing NRA spin, doesn’t think there is anything to be done to stop the bloodshed.

The White House now views gun massacres the same way it views the weather: It’s out of their hands. And it views the Sandy Hook victims as inconvenient reminders of the past.

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