December 9th, 2017 - December 11th, 2017. 390-392 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 322-324 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
‘Serial misconduct and perversion’: the rich asshole accusers describe incidents ‘a thousand times worse than what Franken has done’
Rachel Crooks, Samantha Holvey and Jessica Leeds with documentarian Robert Greenwald (Photo: Screen capture)
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A total of 16 women joined together Monday to address their stories of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the hands of President some rich asshole.
While many of these women came forward during the 2016 election, the rich asshole campaign attacked them, their lives and many right-wing activists invented information designed to discredit them.
The three women that spoke earlier to Megyn Kelly sat at a table with documentarian Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films. He commended the reporters who have investigated the many accounts across all industries about sexual harassment.
“There was one man that wasn’t being held accountable — who’s not being called out,” Greenwald said. That’s why he decided to create the documentary with the women.
“It really had an impact on your heart, your soul, your emotions,” Greenwald said. He noted that so many women came forward to warn Americans, but “attention was not paid.”
Today, Greenwald said “we know better. We know a lot better,” when it comes to predators. He demanded those in politics to act against anyone of either party not to give anyone “a pass.”
Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks each introduced themselves, telling story after story of their horrifying encounters with the rich asshole.
“I have a new dream now that this man will be held accountable for his actions and that future women will not be treated as less than just because they are a woman,” Holvey said.
Crooks noted that given the rich asshole owned the building in which she worked, she didn’t have any power to do anything.
“Given this hostile work environment, my only solution at the time was to simply avoid additional encounters with him,” Crooks said. “I do realize that in the grand scheme of things there are far worse cases of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault. But make no mistake, there is no acceptable level of this behavior. That some men think they can use their power, position or notoriety to demean attack women speaks to their character and not ours. Which, believe me, is a tough lesson learned.”
She went on to say that it was only through other remarkably similar accounts that she felt empowered to come forward.
“Instead, this was serial misconduct and perversion on the part of some rich asshole,” Crooks continued. “Unfortunately, this behavior isn’t rare in our society. Many women of any background can be victims. The only reason I am here today is because this offender is the president of our country.”
She went on to say that when the rich asshole dismissed his “Access Hollywood” tape as “locker room talk,” but “having been the victim of such actions, I knew better.”
She asked that some things should transcend politics and that all people, regardless of position or power be held accountable for their actions, including the rich asshole.
Leeds walked through her disgusting story and further encounter, saying that she never once anticipated being on the front page of a newspaper. She was “absolutely destroyed” buy the rich asshole’s election.
“The United States is a big strong country,” Leeds said that she thought at the time. “We can survive this person.”
But women kept coming up to her in public and told Leeds their own story. She said that she had hoped things were better for women in business, but “apparently I was wrong.” When the Harvey Weinstein story hit and woman after woman began to come forward, people were finally being held accountable.
“Except for our president,” Leeds said. She quoted the rich asshole’s White House, who has said that the women are all “liars.” She noted that some are holding men accountable for bad behavior, however, “our president is not being held accountable for what he is and who he is.”
Leeds said that this is part of the problem that is happening in Alabama. Crooks agreed, saying that the rich asshole endorsed Roy Moore because he denied the allegations and it “worked for him.”
Lisa Boyne spoke via phone to the press conference, telling her own story of being invited to a dinner party with the rich asshole in the West Village. She said that he wanted the women to rate other women on a 1 to 10 scale. While at dinner, the men used the table as a “casting couch.” The women were brought to the table one by one and he told them to walk across the table. Boyne said that the rich asshole looked up their skirts as they walked by.
She said that John Casablancas ordered her to drink more but she refused and he was bothered by her refusal. She ultimately excused herself to the ladies room and from the restaurant. She explained that over the years her story was met with shame and questions of why she was there. She tried to pitch it to reporters, but no one wanted to hear it. It was only after the “Access Hollywood” tape that people begin to
“As a parent I was so deeply deeply offended… because he had a son around the age of my son and what sort of values are we teaching our children when we say that something like rape is ‘locker room talk,'” she shouted. “And that her husband talking about that is ‘boy talk.’ Everybody is normalizing as something that boys and men say in the locker room. That is the talk of horrible people and the rich asshole keeps staying it to the press pool. And you’re all taking it in like it’s normal. It is not a normal way for people to talk. Why aren’t people calling him out on that. Something that is so horrific — I’m so fed up of listening to people. We take it in like it’s nothing. We shouldn’t teach our boys to talk like this.”
She went on to say it was “one thousand times worse that what Al Franken has done.”
Watch the full event below:
You can watch the clip of the Brave New Films documentary below:
Rachel Crooks, Samantha Holvey and Jessica Leeds with documentarian Robert Greenwald (Photo: Screen capture)
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY!
A total of 16 women joined together Monday to address their stories of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the hands of President some rich asshole.
While many of these women came forward during the 2016 election, the rich asshole campaign attacked them, their lives and many right-wing activists invented information designed to discredit them.
The three women that spoke earlier to Megyn Kelly sat at a table with documentarian Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films. He commended the reporters who have investigated the many accounts across all industries about sexual harassment.
“There was one man that wasn’t being held accountable — who’s not being called out,” Greenwald said. That’s why he decided to create the documentary with the women.
“It really had an impact on your heart, your soul, your emotions,” Greenwald said. He noted that so many women came forward to warn Americans, but “attention was not paid.”
Today, Greenwald said “we know better. We know a lot better,” when it comes to predators. He demanded those in politics to act against anyone of either party not to give anyone “a pass.”
Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks each introduced themselves, telling story after story of their horrifying encounters with the rich asshole.
“I have a new dream now that this man will be held accountable for his actions and that future women will not be treated as less than just because they are a woman,” Holvey said.
Crooks noted that given the rich asshole owned the building in which she worked, she didn’t have any power to do anything.
“Given this hostile work environment, my only solution at the time was to simply avoid additional encounters with him,” Crooks said. “I do realize that in the grand scheme of things there are far worse cases of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault. But make no mistake, there is no acceptable level of this behavior. That some men think they can use their power, position or notoriety to demean attack women speaks to their character and not ours. Which, believe me, is a tough lesson learned.”
She went on to say that it was only through other remarkably similar accounts that she felt empowered to come forward.
“Instead, this was serial misconduct and perversion on the part of some rich asshole,” Crooks continued. “Unfortunately, this behavior isn’t rare in our society. Many women of any background can be victims. The only reason I am here today is because this offender is the president of our country.”
She went on to say that when the rich asshole dismissed his “Access Hollywood” tape as “locker room talk,” but “having been the victim of such actions, I knew better.”
She asked that some things should transcend politics and that all people, regardless of position or power be held accountable for their actions, including the rich asshole.
Leeds walked through her disgusting story and further encounter, saying that she never once anticipated being on the front page of a newspaper. She was “absolutely destroyed” buy the rich asshole’s election.
“The United States is a big strong country,” Leeds said that she thought at the time. “We can survive this person.”
But women kept coming up to her in public and told Leeds their own story. She said that she had hoped things were better for women in business, but “apparently I was wrong.” When the Harvey Weinstein story hit and woman after woman began to come forward, people were finally being held accountable.
“Except for our president,” Leeds said. She quoted the rich asshole’s White House, who has said that the women are all “liars.” She noted that some are holding men accountable for bad behavior, however, “our president is not being held accountable for what he is and who he is.”
Leeds said that this is part of the problem that is happening in Alabama. Crooks agreed, saying that the rich asshole endorsed Roy Moore because he denied the allegations and it “worked for him.”
Lisa Boyne spoke via phone to the press conference, telling her own story of being invited to a dinner party with the rich asshole in the West Village. She said that he wanted the women to rate other women on a 1 to 10 scale. While at dinner, the men used the table as a “casting couch.” The women were brought to the table one by one and he told them to walk across the table. Boyne said that the rich asshole looked up their skirts as they walked by.
She said that John Casablancas ordered her to drink more but she refused and he was bothered by her refusal. She ultimately excused herself to the ladies room and from the restaurant. She explained that over the years her story was met with shame and questions of why she was there. She tried to pitch it to reporters, but no one wanted to hear it. It was only after the “Access Hollywood” tape that people begin to
“As a parent I was so deeply deeply offended… because he had a son around the age of my son and what sort of values are we teaching our children when we say that something like rape is ‘locker room talk,'” she shouted. “And that her husband talking about that is ‘boy talk.’ Everybody is normalizing as something that boys and men say in the locker room. That is the talk of horrible people and the rich asshole keeps staying it to the press pool. And you’re all taking it in like it’s normal. It is not a normal way for people to talk. Why aren’t people calling him out on that. Something that is so horrific — I’m so fed up of listening to people. We take it in like it’s nothing. We shouldn’t teach our boys to talk like this.”
She went on to say it was “one thousand times worse that what Al Franken has done.”
Watch the full event below:
You can watch the clip of the Brave New Films documentary below:
'A weapon of desperation': the rich asshole loyalists are doubling down on a familiar strategy as the Russia probe reaches a boiling point
- As special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation ramps up, President some rich asshole’s allies have doubled down on claims that Mueller’s team is biased against him.
- Right-wing figures latched onto new reports last week that two investigators on Mueller’s team expressed views favouring former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
- FBI veterans refute that characterization, saying agents don’t let political views interfere with their work.
- One former federal prosecutor called the strategy a “weapon of desperation.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election is ramping up, and with it, President some rich asshole’s allies are reaching new heights to discredit Mueller and the Russia probe.
Right-wing media lashes out
The revelations drew intense backlash from the rich asshole loyalists.
On Hannity’s show Wednesday night, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called Mueller’s investigation “illegitimate and corrupt,” and accused the special counsel of using the FBI as a political weapon and acting as “America’s secret police.”
‘A weapon of desperation’
Former federal prosecutors and FBI agents agreed that investigators should be careful about expressing their personal views while working on politically charged cases, but they pushed back on the claims of bias on Mueller’s team from the rich asshole’s allies.
Mainstream conservatives jump on the bandwagon
But it looks like the right-wing and far-right talking point has trickled into the comments of more mainstream conservative figures and lawmakers.
the rich asshole Gets Put In His Place After Calling Journalists A ‘Stain On America’
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SOME RICH ASSHOLE AND THE RICH ASSHOLE JR. CARRY OUT FATHER SON ATTACK ON THE MEDIA
some rich asshole and his son Donald Jr. carried out a father-son attack on the media over the weekend, both lashing out at the errors made in reports during the week.
The president rolled out his favorite “fake news” phrase as he lambasted stories containing errors from CNN and ABC over the past week that have involved the president and the Russia probe.
“Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media,” the rich asshole wrote, despite the widespread attention the erroneous reports have drawn over the past week.
“They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America!” he added.
Among the stories containing errors was a report from Brian Ross, who mistakenly reported that former national security adviser Mike Flynn had been told by the rich asshole to make contact with Russia prior to his election.
The network later corrected the report to state that the rich asshole had made the request as president-elect, prior to taking office in January.
Taking a leaf out of his father’s book, the rich asshole Jr. also lashed out at journalists on social media. Sharing a link to remarks from the senior editor of The Atlantic, David Frum, who argued journalists were looking for the truth, the president’s son suggested people could not trust the press.
“If they were really trying to get to the truth you would think they would reach out to the other side before running with it. They all have my number... they couldn’t care less about the truth,” he wrote on Sunday.
IF THEY WERE REALLY TRYING TO GET TO THE TRUTH YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO THE OTHER SIDE BEFORE RUNNING WITH IT. THEY ALL HAVE MY NUMBER... THEY COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT THE TRUTH. TWITTER.COM/BRIANSTELTER/S…
some rich asshole and his son Donald Jr. carried out a father-son attack on the media over the weekend, both lashing out at the errors made in reports during the week.
The president rolled out his favorite “fake news” phrase as he lambasted stories containing errors from CNN and ABC over the past week that have involved the president and the Russia probe.
“Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media,” the rich asshole wrote, despite the widespread attention the erroneous reports have drawn over the past week.
“They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America!” he added.
Among the stories containing errors was a report from Brian Ross, who mistakenly reported that former national security adviser Mike Flynn had been told by the rich asshole to make contact with Russia prior to his election.
The network later corrected the report to state that the rich asshole had made the request as president-elect, prior to taking office in January.
Taking a leaf out of his father’s book, the rich asshole Jr. also lashed out at journalists on social media. Sharing a link to remarks from the senior editor of The Atlantic, David Frum, who argued journalists were looking for the truth, the president’s son suggested people could not trust the press.
“If they were really trying to get to the truth you would think they would reach out to the other side before running with it. They all have my number... they couldn’t care less about the truth,” he wrote on Sunday.
IF THEY WERE REALLY TRYING TO GET TO THE TRUTH YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO THE OTHER SIDE BEFORE RUNNING WITH IT. THEY ALL HAVE MY NUMBER... THEY COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT THE TRUTH. TWITTER.COM/BRIANSTELTER/S…
“So this week is precisely why people should trust the media??? Have you lost your mind? MSM happy getting their narrative out there and forgetting about the truth. Only did so when forced to by people with large enough platforms to call them out. Sadly, most don’t have that!” he said in a separate tweet.
the rich asshole slams 'false' reporting: 'A stain on America!'
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 12/10/17 04:24 PM EST
PRESIDENT THE RICH ASSHOLE RIPPED JOURNALISTS ON SUNDAY, CALLING THEIR WORK "A STAIN ON AMERICA" AFTER A SERIES OF REPORTING ERRORS LAST WEEK RECEIVED EXTENSIVE MEDIA ATTENTION.
VERY LITTLE DISCUSSION OF ALL THE PURPOSELY FALSE AND DEFAMATORY STORIES PUT OUT THIS WEEK BY THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA. THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL - CORRECT REPORTING MEANS NOTHING TO THEM. MAJOR LIES WRITTEN, THEN FORCED TO BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THEY ARE EXPOSED...A STAIN ON AMERICA!
PRESIDENT THE RICH ASSHOLE RIPPED JOURNALISTS ON SUNDAY, CALLING THEIR WORK "A STAIN ON AMERICA" AFTER A SERIES OF REPORTING ERRORS LAST WEEK RECEIVED EXTENSIVE MEDIA ATTENTION.
"VERY LITTLE DISCUSSION OF ALL THE PURPOSELY FALSE AND DEFAMATORY STORIES PUT OUT THIS WEEK BY THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA. THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL - CORRECT REPORTING MEANS NOTHING TO THEM. MAJOR LIES WRITTEN, THEN FORCED TO BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THEY ARE EXPOSED...A STAIN ON AMERICA!" THE RICH ASSHOLE TWEETED.
VERY LITTLE DISCUSSION OF ALL THE PURPOSELY FALSE AND DEFAMATORY STORIES PUT OUT THIS WEEK BY THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA. THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL - CORRECT REPORTING MEANS NOTHING TO THEM. MAJOR LIES WRITTEN, THEN FORCED TO BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THEY ARE EXPOSED...A STAIN ON AMERICA!
In White House, mood is perseverance amid the storm
BY JORDAN FABIAN AND JONATHAN EASLEY - 12/10/17 06:00 AM EST
THE WHITE HOUSE BELIEVES IT IS WEATHERING THE STORM WROUGHT BY FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN’S GUILTY PLEA AND STAFF REMAINS OPTIMISTIC PRESIDENT THE RICH ASSHOLE WILL SURVIVE THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION THAT HAS CLOUDED HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE.
THE MOOD LARGELY REFLECTS THE COOL ATTITUDE OF ATTORNEY TY COBB, WHO IS TELLING THE RICH ASSHOLE AND HIS AIDES THE INVESTIGATION WILL WRAP UP BY YEAR'S END OR SOON THEREAFTER, ACCORDING TO INTERVIEWS WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN CURRENT AND FORMER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS AND OUTSIDE ADVISERS IN TOUCH WITH THE WEST WING.
“The feeling now, over the last 48 hours, is very positive,” said one former transition official. “I feel good about it. Everyone I talk to does.”
THERE IS SATISFACTION WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION THAT TAX LEGISLATION IS MOVING IN CONGRESS AND THAT THE WHITE HOUSE ACCOMPLISHED ITS CAMPAIGN GOAL OF RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL — EVEN AS SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER’S INVESTIGATION MOVES CLOSER TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
MUELLER HAS COME UNDER ATTACK RECENTLY BY GOP LAWMAKERS, CONSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS AND PRO-THE RICH ASSHOLE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES WHO ACCUSE HIS OFFICE OF BEING COMPROMISED BY PARTISAN BIAS, AN EFFORT SOME IN THE WHITE HOUSE BELIEVE IS TAKING ITS TOLL ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S CREDIBILITY.
FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST STEPHEN BANNON HAS SPOKEN BY PHONE WITH THE RICH ASSHOLE TO WARN HIM HE IS RECEIVING A BUNCH OF “HAPPY TALK” FROM HIS LEGAL TEAM AND TO URGE HIM TO TAKE A MORE AGGRESSIVE STANCE AGAINST MUELLER, ACCORDING TO SOMEONE FAMILIAR WITH BANNON’S THINKING.
FLYNN, THE RICH ASSHOLE’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IN THE WHITE HOUSE, PLEADED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF LYING TO THE FBI ABOUT HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH RUSSIA’S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. AND LATER SAID HE IS COOPERATING WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S TEAM.
IT’S AN INDICATION MUELLER’S PROBE COULD STRETCH WELL INTO 2018 AND POSSIBLY BEYOND, DESPITE COBB’S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REASSURANCES.
Asked about the legal advice the rich asshole is receiving, the person responded, “they’re giving him ibuprofen to cure cancer.”
THAT FRUSTRATION WITH THE RICH ASSHOLE’S LEGAL TEAM — AND COBB IN PARTICULAR — IS GROWING AMONG SOME CRITICS, WHO SAY IT IS NOT TAKING MUELLER’S THREAT TO THE ADMINISTRATION SERIOUSLY ENOUGH.
“THE INCOMPETENCE IS STAGGERING,” SAID ONE ADVISER WITH CLOSE TIES TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
COBB DID NOT RESPOND TO REQUESTS TO COMMENT FOR THIS STORY.
INSIDE THE WEST WING, IT IS HARD TO MISS THE CONSTANT CHURN OF NEWS ABOUT THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION.
High-definition televisions mounted on the walls of West Wing offices show a split screen of four major cable news networks, whose programming is often consumed by the latest Russia-related developments.
But for the most part, aides say they aren’t affected by the press coverage and are staying focused on whatever happens to be the task at hand, according to one White House staffer.
“There’s a numbing effect too,” said a person who is close to the administration. “If you work there, you stop getting bothered by every new thing that’s coming out.”
One former White House staffer called the news reports “background noise for a vast majority of folks.”
New revelations this week about alleged anti-the rich asshole sentiment among some key members of Mueller’s team are driving anger at the special counsel and a sense that his findings will be dismissed as compromised by politics.
Attacks against senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was reassigned from the probe, and top Mueller lieutenant Andrew Weissmann for private anti-the rich asshole messages they allegedly sent are being amplified every night to conservative audiences tuning into Fox News.
“It’s as if the worm has turned with everything that’s being exposed about FBI and the special counsel,” said a former transition adviser who is in touch with White House staff.
While Flynn’s guilty plea last Friday shook Washington, White House staff say they were less surprised because the guilty plea, for making false statements to the FBI, was far short of what many expected.
There is a sense of optimism that the former national security adviser will be the biggest fish Mueller nets.
“I just really do think we’re in the last month or months of this and it’s going to be all over,” said former the rich asshole adviser Barry Bennett.
The escalating pace of developments surrounding the special counsel investigation, however, has at times been an added stressor in a tumultuous year for White House staff.
There has already been considerable turnover among senior staff, and the White House is bracing for another potential exodus at the end of the year.
That wave will include Dina Powell, the rich asshole’s deputy national security adviser and one of the most well-regarded members of his team, who the White House announced Friday will leave in the coming weeks.
Some junior White House staffers feel overworked, a symptom of having to pick up duties at agencies, from the Department of Energy to the State Department, that the administration has been slow to staff, according to outside advisers.
“The White House nomination process is a black hole,” said one adviser.
And there is concern that the rich asshole’s tendency to shoot from the hip on Twitter and during impromptu press gaggles will land him and his team in further legal jeopardy.
The White House was forced to scramble into damage-control mode after the rich asshole tweeted last Saturday that he fired Flynn for lying to Vice President Pence and the FBI.
Legal experts said the tweets could be used by Mueller’s team in building an obstruction of justice case against the president.
Hours after the tweet appeared, the rich asshole attorney John Dowd said he wrote it, a claim that, if true, could limit the president's legal exposure.
Many of the rich asshole’s closest friends, such as Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, are warning him to stay out of it and focus instead on muscling through his legislative agenda.
“The best approach for the president, in my opinion, is to drive his popularity by creating a bipartisan consensus on such things as infrastructure, education and other matters,” Ruddy said in an email. “the rich asshole has the ability to be a great unifier, and popular presidents are not removed from office.”
BY JORDAN FABIAN AND JONATHAN EASLEY - 12/10/17 06:00 AM EST
THE WHITE HOUSE BELIEVES IT IS WEATHERING THE STORM WROUGHT BY FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN’S GUILTY PLEA AND STAFF REMAINS OPTIMISTIC PRESIDENT THE RICH ASSHOLE WILL SURVIVE THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION THAT HAS CLOUDED HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE.
THE MOOD LARGELY REFLECTS THE COOL ATTITUDE OF ATTORNEY TY COBB, WHO IS TELLING THE RICH ASSHOLE AND HIS AIDES THE INVESTIGATION WILL WRAP UP BY YEAR'S END OR SOON THEREAFTER, ACCORDING TO INTERVIEWS WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN CURRENT AND FORMER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS AND OUTSIDE ADVISERS IN TOUCH WITH THE WEST WING.
“The feeling now, over the last 48 hours, is very positive,” said one former transition official. “I feel good about it. Everyone I talk to does.”
THERE IS SATISFACTION WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION THAT TAX LEGISLATION IS MOVING IN CONGRESS AND THAT THE WHITE HOUSE ACCOMPLISHED ITS CAMPAIGN GOAL OF RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL — EVEN AS SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER’S INVESTIGATION MOVES CLOSER TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
MUELLER HAS COME UNDER ATTACK RECENTLY BY GOP LAWMAKERS, CONSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS AND PRO-THE RICH ASSHOLE TELEVISION PERSONALITIES WHO ACCUSE HIS OFFICE OF BEING COMPROMISED BY PARTISAN BIAS, AN EFFORT SOME IN THE WHITE HOUSE BELIEVE IS TAKING ITS TOLL ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S CREDIBILITY.
BUT THAT SANGUINE OUTLOOK IS FAR FROM UNANIMOUS.
A SMALL, BUT SIGNIFICANT, SEGMENT OF THOSE IN THE PRESIDENT’S ORBIT SAY IT’S WISHFUL THINKING THAT THE PROBE WILL END SOON, REFLECTING THEIR GROWING ANXIETY THAT MUELLER IS METHODICALLY WORKING HIS WAY UP THE FOOD CHAIN IN AN INVESTIGATION THAT IS MONTHS — IF NOT YEARS — FROM COMPLETION.
FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST STEPHEN BANNON HAS SPOKEN BY PHONE WITH THE RICH ASSHOLE TO WARN HIM HE IS RECEIVING A BUNCH OF “HAPPY TALK” FROM HIS LEGAL TEAM AND TO URGE HIM TO TAKE A MORE AGGRESSIVE STANCE AGAINST MUELLER, ACCORDING TO SOMEONE FAMILIAR WITH BANNON’S THINKING.
EVEN IF MUELLER DOES NOT PROVE THE RICH ASSHOLE CAMPAIGN COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA’S ELECTION MEDDLING EFFORTS IN 2016, SOME ALLIES WORRY THE WHITE HOUSE IS SUFFERING IRREPARABLE POLITICAL DAMAGE UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE INVESTIGATION. IN ADDITION TO EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF COLLUSION, THE CENTERPIECE OF THE PROBE, MUELLER’S TEAM IS LOOKING INTO ALLEGED FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE RICH ASSHOLE CAMPAIGN AIDES AND POSSIBLE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
FLYNN, THE RICH ASSHOLE’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IN THE WHITE HOUSE, PLEADED GUILTY TO ONE COUNT OF LYING TO THE FBI ABOUT HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH RUSSIA’S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. AND LATER SAID HE IS COOPERATING WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S TEAM.
IT’S AN INDICATION MUELLER’S PROBE COULD STRETCH WELL INTO 2018 AND POSSIBLY BEYOND, DESPITE COBB’S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REASSURANCES.
“IT’S A POLITICAL CANCER AND IF YOU DON’T GIVE THE PATIENT SOME CHEMOTHERAPY, THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS,” SAID ONE PERSON CLOSE TO THE THE RICH ASSHOLE ADMINISTRATION.
Asked about the legal advice the rich asshole is receiving, the person responded, “they’re giving him ibuprofen to cure cancer.”
THAT FRUSTRATION WITH THE RICH ASSHOLE’S LEGAL TEAM — AND COBB IN PARTICULAR — IS GROWING AMONG SOME CRITICS, WHO SAY IT IS NOT TAKING MUELLER’S THREAT TO THE ADMINISTRATION SERIOUSLY ENOUGH.
“THE INCOMPETENCE IS STAGGERING,” SAID ONE ADVISER WITH CLOSE TIES TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
COBB DID NOT RESPOND TO REQUESTS TO COMMENT FOR THIS STORY.
INSIDE THE WEST WING, IT IS HARD TO MISS THE CONSTANT CHURN OF NEWS ABOUT THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION.
High-definition televisions mounted on the walls of West Wing offices show a split screen of four major cable news networks, whose programming is often consumed by the latest Russia-related developments.
But for the most part, aides say they aren’t affected by the press coverage and are staying focused on whatever happens to be the task at hand, according to one White House staffer.
“There’s a numbing effect too,” said a person who is close to the administration. “If you work there, you stop getting bothered by every new thing that’s coming out.”
One former White House staffer called the news reports “background noise for a vast majority of folks.”
New revelations this week about alleged anti-the rich asshole sentiment among some key members of Mueller’s team are driving anger at the special counsel and a sense that his findings will be dismissed as compromised by politics.
Attacks against senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was reassigned from the probe, and top Mueller lieutenant Andrew Weissmann for private anti-the rich asshole messages they allegedly sent are being amplified every night to conservative audiences tuning into Fox News.
“It’s as if the worm has turned with everything that’s being exposed about FBI and the special counsel,” said a former transition adviser who is in touch with White House staff.
While Flynn’s guilty plea last Friday shook Washington, White House staff say they were less surprised because the guilty plea, for making false statements to the FBI, was far short of what many expected.
There is a sense of optimism that the former national security adviser will be the biggest fish Mueller nets.
“I just really do think we’re in the last month or months of this and it’s going to be all over,” said former the rich asshole adviser Barry Bennett.
The escalating pace of developments surrounding the special counsel investigation, however, has at times been an added stressor in a tumultuous year for White House staff.
There has already been considerable turnover among senior staff, and the White House is bracing for another potential exodus at the end of the year.
That wave will include Dina Powell, the rich asshole’s deputy national security adviser and one of the most well-regarded members of his team, who the White House announced Friday will leave in the coming weeks.
Some junior White House staffers feel overworked, a symptom of having to pick up duties at agencies, from the Department of Energy to the State Department, that the administration has been slow to staff, according to outside advisers.
“The White House nomination process is a black hole,” said one adviser.
And there is concern that the rich asshole’s tendency to shoot from the hip on Twitter and during impromptu press gaggles will land him and his team in further legal jeopardy.
The White House was forced to scramble into damage-control mode after the rich asshole tweeted last Saturday that he fired Flynn for lying to Vice President Pence and the FBI.
Legal experts said the tweets could be used by Mueller’s team in building an obstruction of justice case against the president.
Hours after the tweet appeared, the rich asshole attorney John Dowd said he wrote it, a claim that, if true, could limit the president's legal exposure.
Many of the rich asshole’s closest friends, such as Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, are warning him to stay out of it and focus instead on muscling through his legislative agenda.
“The best approach for the president, in my opinion, is to drive his popularity by creating a bipartisan consensus on such things as infrastructure, education and other matters,” Ruddy said in an email. “the rich asshole has the ability to be a great unifier, and popular presidents are not removed from office.”
“You can’t overstate the paranoia.” WH reporter exposes West Wing freakout over Mueller
DECEMBER 10, 2017
"What you're seeing is the boiling of the frog slowly."
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
some rich asshole and his cronies, including those in right wing media, continue to push the “no collusion” line in an effort to evince a lack of concern about the Russia investigation.
And they have persisted in attempting to smear special counsel Robert Mueller in the hope of discrediting him in the eyes of the public, and to provide a basis — albeit a transparently tenuous one — for firing him as he zeroes in on the rich asshole’s inner circle, and the rich asshole himself.
But to many observers, Team the rich asshole doth protest too much. And the stubborn insistence that the entire investigation is all a hoax or a fraud all but confirms the exact opposite.
As Hallie Jackson, chief White House correspondent for NBC News, noted during a panel discussion Sunday morning on “Meet the Press,” the lashing out hardly shows the kind of confidence it likely intends to.
“My sense is, what you’re seeing is the boiling of the frog slowly,” she noted, highlighting the stark difference between the rich asshole’s complaints about a “witch hunt” and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ claims from the podium that the rich asshole is fine with Mueller continuing to do his job.
And as far as the mood among those in the West Wing, Jackson offered a notable assessment.
“You can’t overstate the paranoia,” she declared.
JACKSON: So, I think my sense is, what you’re seeing is the boiling of the frog slowly. This started back when the president talked about this as a witch hunt back in the day. But then the White House, very publicly said at the podium, that we’re at — when we asked Sarah Sanders, she said, ‘No, no, the president is going to continue to allow Bob Mueller to do his job.’ But I think slowly you’re seeing this escalation of real questions being raised about Mueller’s credibility, with the FBI agent who was let go. That is a major issue.I also — for people, Republicans, allies of the president — I will also tell you, mood-wise, you can’t overstate the paranoia, I think, and the concern inside the West Wing about this investigation. Although the president, I’m told, with associates, loves to be talking about his tax bill. He’s actually feeling pretty good about where he is right now.CHUCK TODD: You think the groundwork’s being laid here for the president to have at least some support to fire Mueller?DAVID BROOKS: Totally.
The frantic insistence that the Russia investigation is not worth the paper on which the multiple indictments of the rich asshole’s associates have been written, and also that long-time public servant and decorated war hero Mueller is a hack with no credibility, are not going to put a halt to the probe any time soon.
People in the White House and within the bubble that is right-wing media may think they are projecting an air of calm assurance.
But what non-propaganda news outlets, and indeed the vast majority of the public, actually see is a growing sense of fear about who may be next up on Mueller’s long list.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried it. Obama aide Jon Favreau responded with a few actual facts.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“Alternative facts” just won’t die in the the rich asshole administration.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the latest stab at attempting to supplant actual reality with the some rich asshole version of it, in which everything good is thanks to him, and anything bad is the fault of someone, anyone, often everyone, else.
Sunday morning, Sanders took to Twitter to lash out at President Barack Obama, who recently commented on the strength of the current economy, tying it to policies his administration had put in place.
He finished the statement with a tongue-in-cheek, “Thanks, Obama!”
To anyone who has been on the internet in the past decade, it was clear that thanking himself was meant somewhat in jest.
Sanders seems to have missed that meme memo:
Or can we?
Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau offered up a quick history and economics lesson in response to Sanders’ willful ignorance:
2016: 196,000 jobs per month
2017: 170,000 jobs per month
Unemployment rate when Obama left office: 4.5%@QuinnipiacPoll, 11/15: Who gets credit for the economy?
Obama: 50%
Trump: 37%
Let me know if you need any other facts, @PressSectwitter.com/presssec/statu…
Indeed, the rich asshole’s economic performance thus far supports those Quinnipiac poll results.
the rich asshole has presided over the loss of nearly 250,000 jobs to outsourcing, despite repeated claims during the campaign that he would bring jobs back to America. And job growth has dropped to a six-year lows.
And in order to boast about economists’ support for his disastrous tax scam bill, he had to literally make them up.
Even a massive bribe to HVAC manufacturing company Carrier wasn’t enough to help the rich asshole keep his promises on retaining jobs. And just two months into his time in office, the rich asshole was already trying to blame job loss on American workers themselves.
The rich asshole team keeps trying to make “alternative facts” happen. But people who care about reality will keep calling them out for their pitiful stubbornness.
some rich asshole's demands that journalists who make even the most minor mistakes ought to be fired is growing more disturbing by the day.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
some rich asshole calling anyone else out for being “out of control” and telling “major lies” would be amusing, if it weren’t frighteningly dictatorial because of his position.
For the person occupying the office of the presidency to attack reporters by name on social media, directing his mob of followers after them, is bad enough. But to double down on that despotic behavior and smear the free press as harmful to the nation is truly appalling.
On Saturday, Washington Post reporter David Weigel posted photos from the rich asshole’s rally in Florida the night before which called into question the rich asshole’s claims about attendance. It turned out that some of the images were misleading, and Weigel quickly deleted them and explained his error.
But that wasn’t good enough for the rich asshole, who tagged Weigel in a tweet screeching about “FAKE NEWS” and calling for Weigel to be fired.
As CNN’s Brian Stelter pointed out, by including Weigel’s Twitter handle, the rich asshole was all but directing his 44 million followers to attack the reporter over an innocent, and quickly corrected, mistake.
And numerous other voices from the media spoke up in defense of Weigel and to shame the rich asshole for his outrageous behavior.
But the rich asshole wasn’t done, as he randomly spouted off on Twitter again 24 hours later, whining about “purposely false and defamatory stories … by the Fake News Media.” And he had the utter audacity to slam the entire free press — a pillar of our democracy — as “a stain on America.”
This has apparently become the rich asshole’s newest obsession — any reporter or journalist who makes any kind of mistake, no matter how innocent or how quickly accounted for, ought to be fired.
The hypocrisy is as galling as it could be, considering the rich asshole’s penchant for dishonesty, and his unwillingness to admit he might be wrong no matter the evidence presented.
And using his position in the White House to smear private citizens and demand that they lose their job is thoroughly despicable, and smacks of precisely the kind of authoritarianism he so blatantly admires in other world leaders.
the rich asshole watches CNN and ‘Morning Joe’ to get fired up
Carlos Ballesteros
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Its common knowledge that President Donald Trump enjoys watching a lot of television.
But according to a New York Times article published on Saturday based on conversations with dozens of Trump's advisers and confidants, the President doesn't watch T.V. just for fun and reassurance--he also watches it to get fired up.
But according to a New York Times article published on Saturday based on conversations with dozens of Trump's advisers and confidants, the President doesn't watch T.V. just for fun and reassurance--he also watches it to get fired up.
"Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House’s master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to 'Fox & Friends' for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' because, friends suspect, it fires him up for the day," the Times article says.
Once the sun sets and he puts his phone down, Trump tunes into Fox News most of the time to end his day. But if he's looking for a fight, aides who spoke with the Timessay that the President can always count on one CNN host to rile him up.
"[Trump] sometimes 'hate-watches' CNN to get worked up, especially Don Lemon," the article states.
Lemon's affinity for angering the President makes sense given the news' hosts unflinching criticism of Trump during last year's presidential campaign and throughout Trump's first year in office.
Most recently, Lemon slammed Trump's use of a derogatory slur aimed at Senator Elizabeth Warren during a ceremony honoring the Navajo Code Talkers.
Trump denied any wrongdoing, but Lemon wasn't having any of it.
“Just because you say you’re not racist doesn’t make it so,” said Lemon, “especially if you say, do, and defend racist behavior over and over and over again. Especially if you have lost your credibility by telling countless lies, big and small.”
In the past, Lemon has called the President an " unhinged child," adding that Trump is " ignorant" of the history of race relations in the United States.
Trump is quoted in the Times piece as calling reports of his copious television binges "fake news," saying that he is kept busy with official White House business.
“I do not watch much television,” Trump told reported on Air Force One last month en route to Vietnam. “I know they like to say — people that don’t know me — they like to say I watch television. People with fake sources — you know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents a lot.”
However, according to the Times, the President went on to complain later that day that the only thing he could watch while in the Phillippines was CNN.
Once the sun sets and he puts his phone down, Trump tunes into Fox News most of the time to end his day. But if he's looking for a fight, aides who spoke with the Timessay that the President can always count on one CNN host to rile him up.
"[Trump] sometimes 'hate-watches' CNN to get worked up, especially Don Lemon," the article states.
Lemon's affinity for angering the President makes sense given the news' hosts unflinching criticism of Trump during last year's presidential campaign and throughout Trump's first year in office.
Most recently, Lemon slammed Trump's use of a derogatory slur aimed at Senator Elizabeth Warren during a ceremony honoring the Navajo Code Talkers.
Trump denied any wrongdoing, but Lemon wasn't having any of it.
“Just because you say you’re not racist doesn’t make it so,” said Lemon, “especially if you say, do, and defend racist behavior over and over and over again. Especially if you have lost your credibility by telling countless lies, big and small.”
In the past, Lemon has called the President an " unhinged child," adding that Trump is " ignorant" of the history of race relations in the United States.
Trump is quoted in the Times piece as calling reports of his copious television binges "fake news," saying that he is kept busy with official White House business.
“I do not watch much television,” Trump told reported on Air Force One last month en route to Vietnam. “I know they like to say — people that don’t know me — they like to say I watch television. People with fake sources — you know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents a lot.”
However, according to the Times, the President went on to complain later that day that the only thing he could watch while in the Phillippines was CNN.
the rich asshole-led American politics is swamped by epidemic of unprecedented lying
Roy Moore and some rich asshole (CNN/screen grab)
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Americans are drowning in a sea of political lies. But depending on their politics, they don’t notice or they don’t care, and if they do care there’s little anyone can do about it.
There’s even competition for the worst daily lie. As Time magazine’s recent headline noted, “71 Percent of Alabama Republicans Don’t Believe Claims Against Roy Moore.” Then there’s this headline from a Friday Washington Post commentary, “I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President the rich asshole,” which cites WaPo’s (apparently fruitless) fact-checking department and says the rich asshole is on track to cross the 2,000-lie mark before New Year’s Eve. That’s five lies a day. “President the rich asshole has made 1,628 false or misleading claims over 298 days,” WaPo said.
This race to the bottom only gets more dismal from here. Of the 71 percent of Alabama Republicans who don’t believe Moore’s accusers, that poll from CBS News and YouGov found “92 percent of those who said they do not believe the allegations say it is because Democrats are to blame for them, while 88 percent said the media was,” Time said. So blaming political opponents and messengers augments falling for expedient lies.
If you think this is only an Alabama phenomenon, think again. A Quinnipiac Universitypoll after fellow Democratic senators called on Al Franken to resign following sexual harassment allegations against him, “asked Americans whether a lawmaker facing multiple sexual harassment accusations should resign,” WaPo noted. “While just 51 percent of Republicans agreed, a full 77 percent of Democrats agreed.”
So not only is there a tidal wave of lies swamping the nation’s political shores, there’s more political froth dampening any truth-telling, especially if it stands in the way of politically expedient goals. This slimy dynamic is increasingly dominating the political world under the rich asshole, and it stands in stark contrast to other areas of public life where the law—yes, rules passed by the same people who traffic in lies—has made lying a crime.
Commercial advertising, for example, is not allowed to lie or mislead the public. Those who testify in court are not allowed to lie on the witness stand; that’s a crime. People being questioned by law enforcement are also not allowed to lie—they can assert the right to stay silent. That’s a distinction the rich asshole’s team is learning the hard way, after lying while being questioned by Robert Mueller’s federal probe of campaign collusion with Russia.
There’s nothing new about the hypocrisy of not being allowed to lie before the law, even though lawmakers and those who aspire to elected office can lie their way into those jobs. As Jack Myers complained in the Huffington Post well before the rich asshole won, “The rules for political advertising, in the context of the wave of mistruths spouted across the political spectrum in recent elections, are all too obviously outdated. As reported in the Broadcast Law Blog, ‘It’s very basic—broadcasters can’t censor a candidate ad, so they can’t reject it (or remove it from the air) no matter what its content is.’”
The right to lie in politics has been upheld in the Supreme Court, where the pattern over time has been a great reluctance even to address the phenomenon head-on. In 2014, an anti-choice group sued the state of Ohio because it passed a truth-in-political advertising law and set up a state board to call out political liars. The Supreme Court didn’t make a First Amendment ruling, but instead went after the state regulators as excessive—and sent that suit back down to lower court. That followed a 2012 case concluding that any attempt to parse campaign speech was going to be in trouble, even if it were very specific and narrow.
Government speech police are more dangerous than outbreaks of political lying, the court has said again and again. That’s also true when it comes to candidates successfully suing other candidates who lie about their opponents. Basically, public figures face much higher thresholds of proof to win in court, which is why you don’t see many suits in this vein. This legal landscape defers to another protected First Amendment institution, the press, to be the checks and balances for calling out political lies and liars.
That brings us to the present, and the 2016 election, in which the most influential mainstream media—starting with the New York Times, according to an exhaustive investigation by the Columbia Journalism Review—trafficked far more in political gossip and horserace coverage than in substantive policy analysis and truth-telling. Its headline give you the gist, “Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame the media.”
So where are we slightly less than 11 months after the rich asshole took office? The liar-in-chief is poised to cross the 2,000-lie threshold by New Year’s Eve. There will be no believable resolutions there. Nearly three-fourths of Alabama Republicans don’t believe the women accusing Roy Moore of sexual harassment and assault, and may elect him to the Senate next week.
Meanwhile, mainstream media, including the most popular social media platforms—led by Facebook and Google (which includes Instagram and YouTube)—have launched an anti-fake news crusade. They are fine-tuning their algorithms to grade media content, using brain-imitating artificial intelligence to grade content and act as the censor that the government isn’t allowed to be. Three weeks ago, Facebook added a “trust indicator” feature to its newsfeed, “to give people additional context on the articles they see.”
But, of course, Facebook is a giant capitalist corporation in a capitalist society. So its partnership with the biggest mainstream media organizations, leading advertising groups and Silicon Valley platforms, is an emerging and self-reinforcing bubble and all of the participants have more concealed motives. Silicon Valley wants to ward off government regulation, after its social platforms were open invitations for 2016’s most propagandistic messaging. The mainstream media wants to reassert its dominance in an era where online competition has grown and questions its authority. Advertisers want to keep selling ads.
Meanwhile, political lies and liars in high office are proliferating. The best anyone can do is try to pay attention, look to a range of sources outside official channels—including the newest Silicon Valley content police—and decide for themselves what’s real and what isn’t. And nobody should expect the lying to stop or the liars to go away.
“Most of us use the internet acronym LOL to mean ‘laugh out loud,’” James Cusick, the political correspondent for the UK-based Independent and The Independent on Sundaywrote in 2015. “But in U.S. political circles, where campaign strategists are supposed to have superpowers, it stands for ‘lie or lose’—the public doesn’t like the truth, and those who flirt with telling it don’t stand a chance.”
Sometimes it takes an outsider like Cusick to see American politics for what it is—the last thing those who practice its dark arts will admit.
“There is no such thing as an outright political lie,” he wrote. “Instead there’s distortion, exaggeration, misrepresentation, deception, half-truth and overstatement. The assumption is that the risk is worth it. Hubris and narcissism mean the consequences of a politician getting caught are outweighed—they think—by the benefits of telling voters what they want to hear. They know we seek support for our preconceived notions, and avoid information that challenges established views.”
That was before some rich asshole launched his presidential bid and before most Americans had even heard of fake news. And what does Cusick say about media efforts to filter and censor content?
“The primary role of the Fourth Estate, the media, is to act as a lie detector, and that—more than courts—acts as a deterrent to politicians,” Cusick wrote. “Do papers behave? Not always. Russia had a century of Pravda—that means ‘truth’ in English.”
WATCH: Fox Host Calls For A ‘Cleansing’ Of The FBI, And To Arrest Everyone Investigating the rich asshole
‘Judge’ Jeanine Pirro has continued her screamy ragey meltdown over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into any possible collusion between the the rich asshole campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The Fox host is trying to discredit the FBI and we’re wondering where the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ crowd is as she tries to take down law enforcement officials. On Saturday night, Pirro said there needs to be a “cleansing” at the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Pirro claims that quite a few officials are protecting Hillary Clinton – who does not hold public office – or are destroying some rich asshole, and singled out Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI official Peter Strzok, former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, former FBI Director James Comey and you guessed it: Special Counsel Robert Mueller – all of whom she says need to be arrested and placed in handcuffs.
“There have been times in our history where corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive, that examples had to be made,” she shrieked. “This is one of those times.”
“There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and Department of Justice — it needs to be cleansed of individuals who should not just be fired. But who need to be taken out in cuffs,” Pirro declared.
Watch:
.@JudgeJeanine: "There have been times in our history where corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive, that examples had to be made. This is one of those times."
Pirro has been trying to work the rich asshole up into a frenzy over Hillary Clinton by using conspiracy theories. She got so out of hand that even the rich asshole became ‘visibly agitated’ and walked out on her during her rant.
Pirro’s husband was convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000. For that, he was sentenced to spend over two years ‘locked up’ in prison for improperly deducting $1.2 million of his personal expenses as business write-offs while living a lavish lifestyle. Mr. Pirro was convicted on all 34 counts.
Pirro split with her hubby after he admitted to fathering a child with another woman. He told the press and Pirro failed to give him enough attention. I know! Maybe if he changed his name to Hillary Clinton then he’d get all the attention he needs.
Pirro’s hatred for Hillary Clinton goes way back and it appears to stem from jealousy.
Maybe Pirro should heed the advice from Pirro in 2016 when she said, “We cannot have a country run by a president subject to ongoing criminal investigations, potential indictments and never-ending hearings…[W]hether she’s indicted or even guilty, it doesn’t matter.”
I’ll just leave this here:
When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing twitter.com/politicalwire/…
‘Judge’ Jeanine Pirro has continued her screamy ragey meltdown over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into any possible collusion between the the rich asshole campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The Fox host is trying to discredit the FBI and we’re wondering where the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ crowd is as she tries to take down law enforcement officials. On Saturday night, Pirro said there needs to be a “cleansing” at the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Pirro claims that quite a few officials are protecting Hillary Clinton – who does not hold public office – or are destroying some rich asshole, and singled out Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI official Peter Strzok, former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, former FBI Director James Comey and you guessed it: Special Counsel Robert Mueller – all of whom she says need to be arrested and placed in handcuffs.
“There have been times in our history where corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive, that examples had to be made,” she shrieked. “This is one of those times.”
“There is a cleansing needed in our FBI and Department of Justice — it needs to be cleansed of individuals who should not just be fired. But who need to be taken out in cuffs,” Pirro declared.
Watch:
.@JudgeJeanine: "There have been times in our history where corruption and lawlessness were so pervasive, that examples had to be made. This is one of those times."
Pirro has been trying to work the rich asshole up into a frenzy over Hillary Clinton by using conspiracy theories. She got so out of hand that even the rich asshole became ‘visibly agitated’ and walked out on her during her rant.
Pirro’s husband was convicted of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2000. For that, he was sentenced to spend over two years ‘locked up’ in prison for improperly deducting $1.2 million of his personal expenses as business write-offs while living a lavish lifestyle. Mr. Pirro was convicted on all 34 counts.
Pirro split with her hubby after he admitted to fathering a child with another woman. He told the press and Pirro failed to give him enough attention. I know! Maybe if he changed his name to Hillary Clinton then he’d get all the attention he needs.
Pirro’s hatred for Hillary Clinton goes way back and it appears to stem from jealousy.
Maybe Pirro should heed the advice from Pirro in 2016 when she said, “We cannot have a country run by a president subject to ongoing criminal investigations, potential indictments and never-ending hearings…[W]hether she’s indicted or even guilty, it doesn’t matter.”
I’ll just leave this here:
When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing twitter.com/politicalwire/…
WATCH: the rich asshole wall-supporters and counter-protesters brawl at San Diego border rally
Border brawl in San Diego -- screenshot
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Fans of President some rich asshole’s wall and immigration activists clashed near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego on Saturday afternoon, with flagpole- wielding anti-immigration supporters using their flag poles and metal batons to beat the counter-protesters.
According to News8 San Diego, the rally had been planned by members of San Diegans for Secure Borders, Unite America First, Frontline America, San Diego Patriots, Latinos for the rich asshole and Make America Great PAC using Facebook to arrange the meet-up.
While embattled wall-supporter tRep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) signed autographs for some of the crowd, counter-protestors chanted “Racists go home!” which led to a physical confrontations between the two groups.
The report states that words were exchanged leading to one wall supporter throwing a punch and then skirmishes broke out in several spots, until local police moved in and separated the two groups.
You can watch multiple videos taken at the event below:
Emails reveal Manafort and Gates discussed ‘press strategy’ involving Russia after leaving the rich asshole campaign: report
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According to ABC News, indicted former the rich asshole campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates exchanged emails with each other outlining a “press strategy” they wanted to follow after Manafort was dismissed from the campaign in 2016.
The emails came to light when special counsel Robert Mueller asked the court to deny Manafort’s request to alter his bail conditions. include correspondence between Manafort and Gates from August 21, 2016, two days after Manafort resigned.
The e-mails, sent between Manafort and Gates in August of 2016, outline “3 main attacks” in the strategy: “1. Cash ledger 2. Fara (redacted) 3. Russia,” the report states.
An email, dated September 5, 2016 from Gates to Manafort, included a memo titled “Outline of Issues” that contains a section referencing Manafort’s work with Ukraine as well as talking points, including: “1. Never worked in Russia or for Russians,” and “2. Work was centered on pro-Ukraine efforts to enter into the EU.”
The memo also specified a “need to beat back the idea that this was nefarious work,” with an insistence that the work be described as “on behalf of the US government” to “support and promotion of pro-democratic values around the world.”
You can read the whole ABC report here.
the rich asshole walked out on meeting with Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro as she ranted about Hillary and Comey: report
some rich asshole, Jeanine Pirro --(AFP/ screenshot)
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ANew York Times examination into how President some rich asshole spends his days in the Oval Office reveals that the leader of the free world granted a meeting to Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro — only to walk out on her when he grew tired of her harangue about topics that infuriate her.
The Times reports that Pirro — known as Judge Jeanine on her Fox News show — asked to meet with the rich asshole in early November to discuss her obsession with former Hillary Clinton’s supposed approval to sell uranium to the Russians.
With Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II in attendance, Pirro — who once ran against Clinton for a U.S. Senate seat representing New York — attacked special counsel Robert Mueller and accused former FBI director James B. Comey of “employing tactics typically reserved for Mafia cases,” claims a White House insider briefed on the meeting.
The report states that the rich asshole became upset when Pirro decried hardball legal tactics, reminding her that hard-charging McCarthy-era attorney Roy Cohn was once his mentor who might serve him well now as one of his defenders.
The White House source reports that at one point in the meeting, Kelly grew weary with Pirro’s rant, with the White House Chief of Staff interrupting her to tell her she was “not helping things.”
The report notes that the rich asshole “eventually tired of Ms. Pirro’s screed,” and walked out on her.
You can read the whole report here
With Twitter as his Excalibur, the president
takes on his doubters, powered by long spells
of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if
some rich asshole has yet to bend the presidency
to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, GLENN THRUSH and PETER BAKERDEC. 9, 2017
WASHINGTON — Around 5:30 each morning, President the rich asshole wakes and tunes into the television in the White House’s master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to “Fox & Friends” for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” because, friends suspect, it fires him up for the day.
“He feels like there’s an effort to undermine his election and that collusion allegations are unfounded,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who has spent more time with the president than most lawmakers. “He believes passionately that the liberal left and the media are out to destroy him. The way he got here is fighting back and counterpunching.
Day breaks on the South Portico of the White House. CreditTom Brenner/The New York Times
John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has labored 14-hour days to impose discipline on a chaotic operation, with mixed success. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
Before taking office, some rich asshole told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes his rivals. Here, he called journalists back into the Roosevelt Room in January to hear a union leader praise him. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
some rich asshole’s uninhibited approach seems erratic to veterans of both parties in the capital.Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
some rich asshole has said that the Oval Office feels empty now that Keith Schiller, his longtime aide, is gone.CreditAl Drago for The New York Times
On weekdays, some rich asshole’s principal mode of blowing off steam is his nightly dinner in the residence. He has always relished gossiping over plates of well-done steak, salad slathered with Roquefort dressing and bacon crumbles, tureens of gravy and huge slices of dessert with extra ice cream.Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times
takes on his doubters, powered by long spells
of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if
some rich asshole has yet to bend the presidency
to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.
the rich asshole catches hell online over call to fire Washington Post’s Dave Weigel for Twitter mistake
President some rich asshole gives speech about Jerusalem (Screen capture)
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On Saturday, President some rich asshole called for The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel to be fired from his job over a tweet Weigel posted to his personal account showing small crowds at the rich asshole’s Pensacola, FL rally on Friday night.
“.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!” the rich asshole tweeted angrily.
.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!
Weigel took down the tweet, apologized and posted a correction, but many administration critics hit back at the rich asshole’s hypocrisy, given the number of lies, sins of omission and outright fabrications the White House has foisted on the public.
Sure thing: I apologize. I deleted the photo after @dmartoskotold me I'd gotten it wrong. Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Weigel’s defenders were legion — and not happy.
Your Chief of Staff lied about @RepWilson when are you going to fire him? twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
By including Dave Weigel’s @ handle, the president’s statement is inviting followers to gang up on a reporter twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Take a moment and follow @daveweigel, a great reporter and a fantastic guide to this political age. twitter.com/daveweigel/sta…
Trump is attacking @daveweigel because he is sad and vain but also because he doesn’t want his supporters to believe what they read in the @washingtonpost about Mueller
He apologized for his tweet and explained he made an error and got it wrong. Weigel is an honest journalist — anyone that knows him knows he wouldn’t intentionally tweet misinformation. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The fact is @daveweigel has more integrity than the entire White House staff put together and all Trump’s lackeys know it, too.
Dave Weigel is one of the best reporters in the world.
He made a mistake — in a tweet! — about CROWD SIZE. He admitted it. He apologized for it. And now the President of the United States is trying to get him fired.
Thanks for tackling the important issues, Mr. President. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Tfw you’re the President of the United States and you’re very worked up about a reporter’s minor Twitter blooper twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The president calling for a journalist to be fired seems like a public threat to the First Amendment. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The irony of this clown wanting someone fired for misrepresenting a crowd size is too much twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
The most hated @POTUS in history trying to get another journalist Dave Weigel fired. A shame we are stuck with this weak, incompetent @realDonaldTrump until 2020, sooner if #TrumpRussia gets him first.
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