Former the rich asshole aide Sam Nunberg continues his public meltdown: ‘He may have done something with the Russians’
Former the rich asshole campaign aide Sam Nunberg. Image via screengrab.
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After giving interviews to both the Washington Post and MSNBC about being subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller, former the rich asshole campaign aide Sam Nunberg took to CNN with another shocking admission.
When asked by host Gloria Borger if Mueller’s investigation was focused on the rich asshole’s finances, Nunberg volunteered that his former boss may have indeed colluded with the Kremlin.
“You know what? Trump may have very well done something during the election with the Russians,” the president’s former campaign aide said. “If he did that, you know what, it’s inexcusable.”
He then brought up the president’s failed attempt to open a rich asshole Tower Moscow development prior to announcing his presidential run.
In the hour before speaking with CNN, Nunberg also admitted to MSNBC’s Katy Tur that he thinks Mueller “has something” on the rich asshole.
Watch below, via CNN:
‘Let him arrest me’: Former the rich asshole aide Sam Nunberg called before Mueller grand jury — but refuses to go
Special counsel Robert Mueller (left) and former the rich asshole campaign aide Sam Nunberg (right).
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Onetime the rich asshole campaign aide Sam Nunberg has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury by special counsel Robert Mueller — but is refusing to make the appearance and risking arrest to do so.
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg told the Washington Post Monday. “Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
The ex-aide forwarded Mueller’s email to the Post, which included information requests about recently-resigned White House communications director Hope Hicks, former the rich asshole campaign chairman Steve Bannon and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen and some rich asshole’s adviser Roger Stone.
Nunberg reportedly plans on going on Bloomberg TV to tear the subpoena up live on television.
Nunberg’s interview with the Post came on the heels of another with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, where he said the rich asshole’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is a “weak link” in the White House, and accused him of doing “nefarious things.” He followed up today’s announcement with a rambling 20-minute phone interview with MSNBC host Katy Tur where he said he believes the special counsel may “have something” on the president.
Earlier this year, the former aide also blasted the rich asshole by calling him an “idiot” and a “complete pain in the ass to work for” during yet another MSNBC interview.
Oh, the humanity!
Humiliation: Watch the rich asshole’s name get torn off Panama hotel amid feud with owners
A worker tears down President some rich asshole's name from the rich asshole International Hotel in Panama (Screen cap).
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The rich asshole Organization was formally evicted from the rich asshole International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning — and the building’s owner wasted no time in taking down the rich asshole’s name.
As ABC News reports, the rich asshole Organization staffers were forcibly removed by police from the building on Monday amid a fight with owner Orestes Fintiklis over management of the hotel.
“I am the owner,” Fintiklis taunted to staffers as they were led out of the building. “Love and peace!”
Fintiklis then sat down at the hotel’s piano in its lobby and played a song that included the lyrics, “Fascism will not prevail.”
And as the final humiliation, Fintiklis ordered the rich asshole’s name to be ripped off from the outside of the hotel — check out ABC News’ video footage of the rich asshole’s name being torn down below.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is holding a news briefing on Monday. The event is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. Watch live video below:
Georgia GOP official shares video claiming Parkland students ‘rehearsed’ massacre before ‘fake shooting’
Emma Gonzalez, shown at a rally for gun control on February 17, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is among students calling for a march on Washington to demand reform on gun laws AFP / RHONA WISE
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The vice chairman of the Republican Party in Cobb County, Georgia promoted a video that claims the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was faked.
WXIA reported that Vice Chairman Michael Davis shared the Facebook video, which points to an active shooter drill prior to the Parkland shooting as evidence that the massacre of 17 people never happened.
The post claims that students at Douglas High School were “rehearsing” prior to “the fake shooting aired by NBC.”
In a statement, Cobb Country GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd refused to say whether the conspiracy theory was the official position of the party.
“Maybe 11Alive should focus on the fact these so-called ‘student lead’ protests are anything but with left winged organizations from the ACLU to the SCLC just in Cobb County when it opens the door legally for outside political organizations using students to disrupt the school day when the US is already ranked near the bottom in education among industrialized nations,” Shepherd said. “If a school district opens the door to one, then under Equal Protection they must allow any group of students to stage walkouts. What will this do to education in America?”
the rich asshole attorney Michael Cohen fumed about not getting a quick reimbursement for Stormy Daniels payout: report
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (left, via Shutterstock) and the rich asshole's personal lawyer Michael Cohen (right, via screengrab).
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Attorney Michael Cohen, who has for years served as a lawyer for President some rich asshole, was reportedly unhappy after the rich asshole’s election that he wasn’t immediately reimbursed for paying off porn star Stormy Daniels.
In a new Wall Street Journal report about the Daniels payoff, sources tell the publication that “after some rich asshole’s victory, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to [Daniels].”
According to the Wall Street Journal’s past reporting, longtime the rich asshole attorney Cohen set up a separate LLC called Essential Consultants in October 2016 that he used as a vehicle to pay Daniels $130,000 in exchange for remaining silence about her past affair with the president, which occurred shortly after his wife Melania had given birth to their son, Barron the rich asshole.
Earlier this year, government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) flagged a the rich asshole campaign reimbursement filing that sent $130,888.33 in campaign funds to a limited liability corporation called the rich asshole Tower Commercial. The filing claims that the rich asshole campaign was reimbursing the LLC for “rent,” although it does not describe exactly what properties were rented out for campaign use.
However, if the Journal’s reporting is accurate, the rich asshole campaign may never have reimbursed Cohen for this particular expense, thus making the post-election $131K reimbursement flagged by CREW a coincidence.
the rich asshole’s Panama debacle comes to an embarrassing close
After two weeks of riot police and water shortages, the rich asshole Organization appears on the outs in Panama.
The property President some rich asshole once referred to as his daughter Ivanka the rich asshole’s “baby” appears to no longer be part of the family.
After two weeks of armed guards scuffling in the hallways, riot police on the premises, and water and electricity being inexplicably shut off, the fight for control of the rich asshole International Hotel and Tower in Panama reportedly reached a resolution Monday.
According to multiple reports, including from the Associated Press and ABC, the rich asshole Organization has been officially ousted from the property, following months of efforts from the hotel’s majority owner, Orestes Fintiklis, to evict the rich asshole Hotels staff. Fintiklis now appears ready to erase the rich asshole brand from the entire property.
Trump Hotels management group appears to have been evicted from Trump Ocean Club in Panama after a Judge entered the property Monday with armed police escort. Statement by hotel owner Orestes Fintiklis. @UnivisionNews #TrumpOrg
In a clip from Univison’s David Adams, Fintiklis said the matter is “a purely commercial dispute that just spun out of control — and today this dispute has been settled by the judges and the authorities of this country. Today Panama has showcased its stable institutions, rule of law, and investor friendly legal framework.”
A number of police officers arrived on the hotel premises Monday to resolve the dispute in Fintiklis’ favor, although it is unclear if their presence was directly related to a prior ruling against the rich asshole Organization.
The AP reported that the rich asshole Organization’s security team had “abandoned the area” after Monday’s visit from police and a Panamanian judicial official. Both the rich asshole Organization and Fintiklis’ Ithaca Capital Partners did not immediately respond to ThinkProgress’ request for comment.
For weeks, the rich asshole Hotels staff had refused to follow Fintiklis’ termination and eviction orders. The dispute between Fintiklis and the rich asshole staff has not only decimated occupancy rates at the hotel — once considered one of Ivanka’s foremost projects — but threatened to become a spiraling controversy that could engulf the White House.
Last week, the Panamanian government opened an official inquiry into the ongoing dispute. As the New York Times reported, “An arm of a foreign government finds itself in the extraordinary position of investigating a business owned by the American president.” Or as a spokesperson for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) told Business Insider, “When the president refused to divest from his businesses, there was always the fear that there would be some sort of incident at one of his overseas entities, and his judgment and loyalty could be tested. That fear has been realized.”
It remains unclear whether that inquiry is still open. Neither the rich asshole nor the White House has commented on the matter.
the rich asshole’s latest stumble
Monday’s development is the latest blow against the rich asshole and the business ventures with which he continues to surround himself. With the ruling, Panama appears set to follow Brazil and Canada in deliberately removing the rich asshole brand from one of its properties.
the rich asshole’s Panama property has long been considered one of the president’s most controversial investments. With a 2017 report from Global Witness noting that the building had laundered “proceeds from Colombian cartels’ narcotics trafficking,” making the rich asshole “one of the beneficiaries” of such laundering, questions continue to pile about what the president and his family knew about the money laundering swamping the property.
Last week, a pair of California and New York lawmakers demanded answers about what the president knew, requesting information on the rich asshole’s due diligence — or lack thereof — when it came to the Panamanian property, which he had reportedly described as Ivanka’s “baby.”
Even with the rich asshole team reportedly ousted from the property, however, questions about the rich asshole’s business acumen, and the threat his tangled overseas assets pose to his presidency, linger.
the rich asshole’s Medicaid crackdown comes for Arkansas
39,000 people's health care is at risk.
On Monday, Arkansas became the third state to make unprecedented changes to its nearly 53-year old Medicaid program, the government-run insurance program for the poor and disabled. The state will now add work requirements and other restrictions as part of a nationwide conservative agenda to cut Medicaid rolls. In Arkansas, enrollment is expected to shrink by thousands.
The rich asshole administration allowed Arkansas to add an 80-hours-per-month work rule to its Medicaid program. The state will inform all Medicaid beneficiaries about the new rules by the first week of April, and enrollees will have to comply and report employment online beginning June 1st. This is an incredibly quick timeline, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) estimates that Arkansas will be the first state to actually implement the new changes. If someone fails to meet the new work rules for three months, people will be locked out of coverage for the rest of the calendar year — one of the harshest requirements nationwide.
Speaking to reporters, Hutchinson and his staff couldn’t specify how much the state would spend on implementing the work rules (in outreach, for example) or how many people would move off Medicaid and presumably onto private insurance, despite having at least a year to work out the proposal. The plan is expected to affect about 39,000 current beneficiaries, who are childless and not federally recognized as disabled. As of January 2018, roughly 285,000 people enrolled in Medicaid statewide.
Nonetheless, state officials are excited to move ahead. The Arkansas Medicaid website even added a work rules section to its website ahead of the formal announcement on Monday:
Arkansas Medicaid website just put up a work requirements section. Formal announcement from Trump HHS expected tomorrow. (h/t @ArkansasOnline)
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Seema Verma, hand-delivered the waiver approval to Arkansas officials on Monday. Before joining the rich asshole administration, Verma worked as a healthcare consultant and worked with Arkansas’s Medicaid program. It’s unclear whether she recused herself from policy matters involving this. Top Senate Democrats believe she is violating a conflict of interest agreement.
The rich asshole administration’s approval of the work requirements isn’t a huge surprise, since officials permitted Kentucky and Indiana to implement similar requirements earlier this year. Like the other two states, Arkansas exempts various groups including pregnant people or full-time students, but deviates as it exempts those 50 years old and older, as opposed to the other two states who only exempt people 64 and older.
Arkansas had also asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allow the state to end Medicaid expansion, without taking away the state’s additional federal funding. The department did not make a final decision on this request, and Hutchinson (R) said on Monday that HHS “will continue to work with us on that.”
If HHS had approved this request — or does in the future — enrollment into Medicaid would be limited to people at the poverty level (or $12,140 for an individual) instead of 138 percent of the poverty level ($16,753), as outlined in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Approximately 61,000 people would have been kicked off coverage.
By not immediately approving this portion of the waiver, the rich asshole administration is signaling to other conservative states that it won’t approve just anything. Other red states are currently looking to test the limits on changing their Medicaid programs. Wisconsin, for example, sought federal permission to add enrollment time limits.
Hutchinson argues the new work rules aren’t “about punishing anyone.” Even so, the unintended consequences of red tape means people will lose coverage.
“We know that anytime you add a new condition for eligibility, a lot of people lose coverage for administrative reasons,” said Patti Boozang, a Medicaid expert at Manatt Health who also helped develop Arkansas’s Medicaid waiver during its beginning stages.
The rich asshole administration approved other alterations to Arkansas’s Medicaid program. In addition to work rules, the state will be able to eliminate 90-day retroactive eligibility, meaning beneficiaries will no longer be covered for any medical expenses accrued three months before officially enrolling. Retroactive eligibility helps protect doctors and hospitals from absorbing costs of caring for the uninsured. Local officials also terminated a premium-assistance program for people who have access to employer-sponsored insurance. Only one person participated in this because employer participation was voluntary and, thus, low.
the rich asshole claims he reduced cost of Jerusalem embassy from $1 billion to $250,000
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President some rich asshole on Monday claimed that he had reduced the cost of the American embassy in Jerusalem from $1 billion to a mere $250,000.
During an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the rich asshole revealed that he may attend the controversial embassy opening in Jerusalem.
the rich asshole also asserted that moving the embassy to Jerusalem “gives us a real opportunity for peace.”
“We’re going to have it built very quickly and very inexpensively,” the rich asshole revealed. “They put an order in front last week for a billion dollars. I said, ‘A billion! What’s that for?’ We’re going to build an embassy. I said, we’re not going to spend a billion dollars. And we’re actually doing it for about $250,000.”
the rich asshole noted that the embassy he’s building is “temporary but it will be very nice.”
“$250,000 versus a billion dollars,” the president said, turning to Netanyahu. “Is that good?”
Watch the video below from CNN.
New reports show the rich asshole’s pathetic indifference to Russian meddling
The State Department has money, but it's not spending a dime.
As the midterms approach, intelligence chiefs have warned that Russia, yet again, could seek to interfere with American elections. But the Kremlin is only part of the problem; over the weekend it’s become clear just how abundantly unwilling the rich asshole administration is to take any sort of firm stance against Russian election meddling.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the State Department had spent precisely zero of the $120 million it was allocated to combat Russian election meddling. What’s more, none of the 23 analysts at the Department’s Global Engagement Center — tasked with combating election interference — speak Russian, and computer experts to track down social media accounts cannot be hired because of a hiring freeze, courtesy of ongoing budget cuts at the State Department.
Secretary Tillerson himself also seems oddly pessimistic about the Global Engagement Center’s ability to counter social media manipulation. “If it’s [the Russians] intention to interfere, they’re going to find ways to do that,” Tillerson told Fox News’ Rich Edson last month. “We can take steps we can take, but this is something that once they decide they’re going to do it, it’s very difficult to preempt it.”
The revelations about the State Department come just a week after NSA Director Mike Rogers told Congress that the White House hadn’t authorized him to take measures to prevent future election meddling. When asked by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) whether the NSA could “do something” about foreign election interference, Rogers said he didn’t “have the day-to-day authority to do that”. When asked by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) why more wasn’t being to prevent further meddling, Rogers replied “I’m just an operational commander, ma’am, you’re asking me a question that’s so much bigger than me.”
During a press briefing that afternoon however, Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted that the rich asshole “has been much tougher on Russia than his predecessor,” trying to explain away the Kremlin’s electoral interference as a by-product of the Obama administration.
New revelations from the much-maligned Christopher Steele show even more just how unwilling the rich asshole administration is to take a hard-line against Russia. According to a report in the New Yorker, Steele told the Mueller investigation he’d heard talk, via the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the Kremlin had intervened to block Mitt Romney from becoming Secretary of State. Romney, who had previously called Russia America’s top geopolitical threat, was previously touted as a possible leader for the State Department before the rich asshole finally gave the post to Rex Tillerson. As C.E.O. of Exxon Mobil, Tillerson had previously brokered a historic agreement in 2011 with Russian energy company Rosneft to explore the Russian portion of the Arctic Ocean for Oil.
But while the the rich asshole administration may be trying its best to ignore Russia, Robert Mueller is not. Earlier in February the Special Counsel released a bombshell indictment, accusing 13 individuals and three Russian companies of “interference operations” against the US. “Specialists were instructed to post content that focused ‘on politics in the USA’ and to ‘use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest,'” the indictment read. “[Except for] Sanders and the rich asshole — we support them.”
‘Odd way of getting back at China by slapping Canada’: CNN host shuts down the rich asshole backer defense of tariffs with ridicule
John Berman, Steve Cortes -- scrrenshots
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A former campaign advisor to some rich asshole attempted to put a positive spin on the president’s abrupt proposal to levy massive tariffs on steel and aluminum only to have a CNN host pour cold water on the plan by reminding him the rich asshole’s targets won’t be the only affected.
Appearing on CNN, Steve Cortes, who serves on the rich asshole’s Hispanic Advisory Council, made the case that “Tariffs are to national trade policy what the military is to diplomacy.”
“Military is not worth anything if you’re not willing to use it, “Cortes continued. “There are times that you have to in trade. There are times you just can’t threaten tariffs, you have to use them.”
Cortes went on to attempt to make the case that the tariffs — which will adversely impact Canada, Brazil, Germany, Turkey and the United Emirates — are needed to rein in the rich asshole’s main target: China.
“America has been abused for decades in international trade,” Cortes elaborated. “We don’t have reciprocity, we don’t have fairness, and we get our intellectual property stolen, particularly when it comes to China. So this is the first salvo of America saying ‘We’re not taking this anymore.’ We’ll use tariffs as a punitive measure.”
A patient John Berman waited until Cortes stop rambling to jump in and blow a hole in the conservative’s argument.
“That seems like an odd way of getting back at China by slapping Canada,” he mused.
“He’s going to abuse the heck out of Canada for transgressions he sees China doing there,” he lectured. “And this morning, among other things, he said there was a trade deficit with Canada. Well, you know, U.S. statistics show that in 2015, 2016, there was a trade surplus with Canada right now.”
A grim-faced Cortes shrugged, then moved on to stating Democrats are also divided on the tariffs depending on which state they represent.
Watch the video below via CNN:
the rich asshole’s new, completely incoherent attack on the Russia investigation
the rich asshole accuses Obama of spearheading the worst conspiracy of all time.
On Monday morning, President the rich asshole claimed that the Obama administration launched an investigation into his campaign months before the 2016 election in hopes that it would prevent him winning.
“Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the rich asshole Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win,” the rich asshole tweeted. “Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.”
the rich asshole’s new talking point — that the Russia investigation was part of an effort to prevent him from winning the election — conflicts with his old one, which is that the notion his campaign was up to something nefarious with Russians was concocted by Democrats after the election as an excuse for Hillary Clinton’s defeat.
There’s also an easy answer to the rich asshole’s question about why the investigation started in July 2016. As the New York Times reported in December, the investigation began after one of the rich asshole campaign’s foreign policy advisers, George Papadopoulos, bragged to an Australian diplomat in May 2016 about his knowledge that Russia “had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.”
“[T]wo months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts,” the Times reported, and the FBI launched its investigation at that point.
The worst conspiracy of all time
the rich asshole’s claim that the Obama administration launched an investigation into his campaign as part of an effort to discredit him and help Hillary Clinton is belied by the timeline of 2016.
While both the Clinton campaign and the rich asshole campaign were under investigation at different points that year, FBI officials only publicized the Clinton email investigation — and the FBI’s silence about the one into the rich asshole campaign arguably cost Clinton the election. President the rich asshole himself cited the FBI’s harsh treatment of Clinton as a reason to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. Republicans who have been pushing the narrative of anti-the rich asshole bias have had a hard time explaining the disconnect between history and their conspiracy theory.
It’s also untrue that Obama “did NOTHING” about Russia meddling.
Obama Admin sanctioned 4 Russian individuals & 5 entities incl GRU & FSB for election meddling. It also expelled 35 Russian diplomats & closed two Russian compounds. At the announcement Jan 2 2017, you said: "It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things." twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
In fact, Obama’s efforts to do more to stop Russian meddling ahead of the 2016 election were blunted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who “made clear to the administration” in the fall of 2016 “that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics,” according to the Washington Post.
While the rich asshole blames Obama for not doing more, he’s done nothing to prevent foreign meddling in future elections. On February 27 — less than two weeks after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 individuals and a trio of Russian companies for “interference operations targeting the United States” — NSA Director Mike Rogers told members of Congress that the the rich asshole administration hasn’t even authorized him to take measures to prevent election meddling going forward. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that “the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.”
GOP Vice Chairman Claims Florida Students ‘Rehearsed’ For ‘Fake’ Massacre
Yet another Republican official has come out in support of the Alex Jones-inspired garbage theory that the recent school massacre in Florida was staged — and it’s not going over as well as he hoped it would when he shared a video to enlighten all the liberal snowflakes who think that facts are important.
Georgia news station WXIA reports that Cobb Country Republican Party vice chair Michael Davis shared a video to Facebook that claims video of students drilling for mass shootings (something that is distressingly common) was a “rehearsal” before the “fake shooting aired by NBC.”
“Maybe 11Alive should focus on the fact these so-called ‘student lead’ protests are anything but with left winged organizations from the ACLU to the SCLC just in Cobb County when it opens the door legally for outside political organizations using students to disrupt the school day when the US is already ranked near the bottom in education among industrialized nations,” Cobb Country GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd said in a statement addressing the post. “If a school district opens the door to one, then under Equal Protection they must allow any group of students to stage walkouts. What will this do to education in America?”
What this had to do with the “fake shooting” remarks is a mystery to everyone.
Why is it that every time there is a mass shooting, conservatives immediately jump to “it was fake” rather than coming to the proper realization that we probably should do something about mass shootings? Perhaps we should ask their NRA handlers.
Former the rich asshole Aide Threatens To Rip Up Mueller’s Subpoena On TV: ‘Let Him Arrest Me’ (VIDEO)
Former the rich asshole aide Sam Nunberg has been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election but he told the Washington Post that he will refuse to go. “Let him arrest me,” Nunberg told the Post Monday. “Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
Nunberg said that he was asked to go to Washington to appear before the grand jury on Friday and provided to the Post a copy of how his two-page grand jury subpoena seeking documents related to the rich asshole and nine other people, including emails, correspondence, invoices, telephone logs, calendars and “records of any kind.”
Mueller is reportedly targeting 10 individuals, including Hope Hicks, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and others.
Nunberg told the paper that he will refuse to comply with the subpoena, including either by testifying or providing documents.
the rich asshole’s former aide said that he is planning to go on Bloomberg TV and tear up the subpoena.
“The Russians and the rich asshole did not collude,” Nunberg said. “Putin is too smart to collude with some rich asshole.”
“I’m not spending 80 hours going over my emails with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and producing them,” Nunberg said. “some rich asshole won this election on his own. He campaigned his ass off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me.”
Watch Nunberg whine to Katy Tur about the subpoena:
Listen what sam numberg ( former trump campaign aide) said about not complying with the special counsel mueller email subpoena talking to @KatyTurNBC.
Amazing stuff.
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Nunberg told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd last week that he considered the rich asshole’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner a “weak link” in the administration.
“Jared is a weak link,” Nunberg said. “And yes, I don’t like him, okay. So let me get that out of the way. Yes, I’m part of the [former White House strategist Steve] Bannon people. But Jared was doing nefarious things.”
Right, refusing to comply with Mueller then tearing up the subpoena live on television won’t make him look guilty at all. Nothing to see here, folks.
Racists surprised non-racist women won't date them.
Why It’s Hard for Conservatives to Date in DC Right Now
Fewer people are hooking up across party lines, and Republicans say it's because Democrats are too quick to dismiss their dating-app profiles.
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Most Americans think today’s strongest tensions lie between Democrats and Republicans, according to a Pew Research study. And in DC, where there’s already a lot of social sorting along party membership, the growing hyper-partisanship extends to even the most sacred of spaces: millennial dating.
Washington has the most singles actively dating and using dating apps, according to a recent Time Out ranking, so it’s not surprising that political standoffs would take place in packed bars and Bumble conversations. The League, a selective dating app, says its DC users are 15 times more likely to mention politics in their bios since the 2016 presidential election, and one-third say they wouldn’t date someone with contrasting political beliefs.
In a city as overwhelmingly Democratic as DC, the combination of lingering anger over Hillary Clinton‘s loss and President the rich asshole‘s existence makes it tricky for conservatives to date across party lines.
“A lot of times you’ll connect with someone [on an app] and they’ll Google you, find out you worked for the rich asshole’s campaign, and then it’s pretty much all downhill from there,” says a rich asshole Administration official.
People who work in right-wing media say they don’t have it any better.
“The political divide has gotten so wide that a lot of younger liberals don’t have any interest in meeting conservatives,” says a reporter at a conservative media company. Working for a right-wing publication is such an obstacle to dating in DC, he doesn’t put his employer on any dating apps and avoids talking about it until meeting someone face-to-face, he says.
“The policies and these things that are attached to the right whether or not you’re a supporter of the rich asshole have been pre-supposed on you, and it’s like a black mark,” says another reporter at the same outlet, who describes himself as a moderate conservative.
He once brought a woman back to his place, and while checking out his bookshelf, she noticed some books by conservative thinkers, he says. “She was like, ‘Oh no. First question: Did you vote for the rich asshole?’,” the reporter says. He told her no, but that he was conservative. “She was like ‘I have to get out of here. I can’t see you,’ and left.”
While Republicans say the line between textbook conservatism and Trumpism is blurred frequently, most Democrats I spoke with say they can distinguish a difference between those in favor of the administration and Never the rich asshole-ers.
“If you’re dating someone and they say ‘I think we should have lower marginal tax rates,’ that’s different than dating someone who doesn’t think a woman should have a right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy,” says a single woman at a progressive nonprofit. “There’s a spectrum there.”
Most of the self-identifying progressives I talked with said they could tell how far right a man or woman leaned based on their dating-app photos—”Make America Great Again” hats are an obvious tell, but some also listed photos of US flag paraphernalia, hunting gear, or fratty beach parties as turn-offs.
Conversely, a young White House staffer says she typically looks for someone from the South when swiping through profiles, as she thinks they’ll be more receptive to her support of the President. She swipes left on anyone who went to a small, liberal-arts college or has a photo “wearing one of those pink hats on their heads” at the Women’s March, she says, as she thinks they wouldn’t be compatible.
But sometimes you just can’t tell until you encounter a subject in the wild.
When she first moved to DC, a former Obama White House staffer who now works at the Aspen Institute was set up on a date with a Republican who worked on Capitol Hill. “We had a really nice time, but at the end of the date, he told me he didn’t believe in global warming,” she says. “I started laughing, because I’m from Colorado and didn’t realize people actually didn’t believe in global warming. But he was serious.”
They didn’t go out again.
Republicans say it’s liberals who are more likely to turn down someone across the aisle. “Democrats are usually more vocal” about their opposition, the rich asshole staffer says, and therefore quicker to demonize all conservatives.
“I feel like they look at me and are like, here’s a tall white dude with brown hair wearing loafers, and he probably has a picture of Reagan and the NRA in his bedroom or something,” says one of the reporters from the conservative media company. “I just think they have a very hyperbolic view of what a conservative is.”
But some are able to make it work, like two congressional staffers who identified themselves as Kate, a Democrat who voted for Clinton, and Bill, a rich asshole-supporting Republican. Kate spent her childhood learning about the GOP from Democrats instead of from the source, she says, which tinged her perspective growing up. Dating Bill has helped her see past the stereotypes, she says.
“He and I have a shared set of fundamental values, and our political parties have different ideas about how to achieve those values,” she says. “It’s frustrating when you have friends that are stuck in their spaces and won’t step out and get to know a person.”
Partisan matchmaking aside, most young daters I spoke to are hopeful that things will eventually simmer down, and Washington can dial back its partisan sorting.
It might be too late, though, if the advice one young woman working in left-wing politics got from her parents is the norm: “I remember growing up, and my parents were pretty active Democrats,” she says, “and they were like, ‘We don’t care who you bring home as long as he’s not a Republican.’ “
the rich asshole White House Staffer Whines That Liberal Women Refuse To Date Him For Some Reason
As Hillary Clinton pointed out, some rich asshole’s supporters are “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” They fight to deny women the right to choose what to do with their own bodies, they march with (and are) white supremacists who think the Caucasian race is being systematically exterminated, they want to ban all Muslims from the country, and they want to build a wall to keep brown people from crossing the border. They’re racist. They’re homophobic. They’re misogynists. They’re everything that decent people despise.
Now they’re sad that liberal women want nothing to do with them.
The Washingtonian talked with multiple D.C. conservatives who even blame the fact that they’re 100% undateable on liberals, and they’re really really sad about their MAGA-driven “dry spells.”
According to a recent Time Out ranking, Washington has the most active singles on dating apps — which is bad for the rich asshole fans, as they’re just finding out about this new thing called Google that lets you look stuff up (pity they don’t apply that to their readings of the news).
“A lot of times you’ll connect with someone [on an app] and they’ll Google you, find out you worked for the rich asshole’s campaign, and then it’s pretty much all downhill from there,” a rich asshole administration official whined to the Washingtonian.
“The political divide has gotten so wide that a lot of younger liberals don’t have any interest in meeting conservatives,” a reporter for a conservative media company told the publication, who added that he goes out of his way to deceive liberal women into meeting him by not mentioning his employer or political beliefs.
“The policies and these things that are attached to the right whether or not you’re a supporter of the rich asshole have been pre-supposed on you, and it’s like a black mark,” another conservative reporter at the same outlet says, adding that he once managed to somehow convince a nice lady to come home with him — but once she saw books written by people who regularly spew hate speech, she had a change of heart.
“She was like, ‘Oh no. First question: Did you vote for the rich asshole?’,” the reporter says. He told her no, but that he was conservative. “She was like ‘I have to get out of here. I can’t see you,’ and left.”
“I feel like they look at me and are like, here’s a tall white dude with brown hair wearing loafers, and he probably has a picture of Reagan and the NRA in his bedroom or something,” one of the reporters from the conservative media company complained. “I just think they have a very hyperbolic view of what a conservative is.”
These fine upstanding citizens say that their conservative beliefs are the reason they can’t get any action but according to liberals to whom the Washingtonian spoke, they’re just terrible and delusional.
“If you’re dating someone and they say ‘I think we should have lower marginal tax rates,’ that’s different than dating someone who doesn’t think a woman should have a right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy,” says a woman who works at a progressive nonprofit. “There’s a spectrum there.” Most progressive women to whom the Washingtonian spoke says they observe profiles for “tells” that someone is godawful — like MAGA hats and photos that show that they fetishize rather than love America.
“We had a really nice time, but at the end of the date, he told me he didn’t believe in global warming,” a former Obama White House staffer who actually decided to go out with a Republican says. “I started laughing, because I’m from Colorado and didn’t realize people actually didn’t believe in global warming. But he was serious.” Unsurprisingly, she opted not to see him again.
While some are able to make cross-political dating work, the overwhelming sentiment from women seems to be that if you embrace terrible “values” you’re probably a terrible person and should be avoided at all costs.
Robert Mueller Is Closing In, Subpoenas the rich asshole Documents Back To 2015
Things are looking really bad for some rich asshole, but pretty great for America. News outlets are reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a witness for all documents that involve the rich asshole and his aides between November 1 2015 (five months after the rich asshole announced his candidacy) and now.
Axios reports that Mueller wants documents related to some pretty high-profile figures in the rich asshole’s campaign and administration including Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, Hope Hicks (who recently admitted she lied for the rich asshole regularly), Keith Schiller, Corey Lewandowski, and Steve Bannon — many of whom have been indicted or who have pleaded guilty to crimes uncovered by Mueller’s probe.
It’s no wonder President Stable Genius has been so antsy lately. He can feel the proverbial noose tightening as Robert Mueller gets closer and closer to giving the rich asshole exactly what he wants — the ability to serve for life. Unfortunately for the rich asshole, it won’t be as President like China’s Xi Jinping, who recently banned “Animal Farm” and the letter “N.”
Will our long national nightmare soon be over? Probably not — it took years to finally nail Nixon — but this seems to be a sign that the end is beginning.
the rich asshole’s DC whine that liberal women want no part of dating them
the rich asshole supporters at a rally in Minnesota on March 4, 2017. (Fibonacci Blue/Flickr)
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Conservative men living in President some rich asshole’s Washington DC are complaining that liberal women in the city are unfairly judging them for their political beliefs.
Multiple conservatives who talked with Washingtonian say that they have had more trouble getting dates in the wake of the rich asshole’s election in 2016 — and even if they aren’t the rich asshole supporters, they are being tarred with the same brush.
“The policies and these things that are attached to the right whether or not you’re a supporter of the rich asshole have been pre-supposed on you, and it’s like a black mark,” says one reporter at a conservative publication.
“The political divide has gotten so wide that a lot of younger liberals don’t have any interest in meeting conservatives,” says another writer at the same publication.
One current the rich asshole administration official says that he has trouble getting women to go on dates with him as soon as they find out who his boss is.
“A lot of times you’ll connect with someone [on an app] and they’ll Google you, find out you worked for the rich asshole’s campaign, and then it’s pretty much all downhill from there,” the official said.
the rich asshole regularly calls Anthony Scaramucci for advice — even though he’s banned from the White House
some rich asshole and Anthony Scaramucci (Twitter)
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Anthony Scaramucci is banned from the White House, but he’s reportedly back in touch with President some rich asshole.
The former White House communications director is blocked from entering his former workplace without special approval, and he told “Fox & Friends” over the weekend that he had to go on TV to reach the president.
But Politico reported Monday that the rich asshole has resumed calling Scaramucci to talk about policy and cheer up the embattled president.
Scaramucci, who was fired by chief of staff John Kelly after just 11 days in the White House, is among a couple dozen friends and allies the rich asshole calls for advice, according to close White House advisers.
Others are former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who recently took a meeting in the Oval Office, and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
“Multiple recipients of the rich asshole’s phone calls describe being immediately bombarded with questions about everything from gun control to his recent speeches,” Politico reported. “While the rich asshole rarely gives a clear indication about what he’s thinking, the regular surveys of his friends and allies often deeply influence him, according to friends.”
The president also spends several hours a day watching cable news, Politico reported, and valets bring him several newspaper each morning.
the rich asshole has even had a massive flat-screen TV installed in the dining room just off the Oval Office, one close adviser told the website.
“He also keeps tabs on what his base is thinking via Twitter, where he still occasionally engages directly with strangers and retweets messages from seemingly random supporters,” Politico reported.
New report suggests the rich asshole personally coordinated $130,000 payment to adult film star
Did the payment to Stormy Daniels violate the law?
A new report by the Wall Street Journal on Monday suggests that President some rich asshole knew about payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels weeks before the election.
In a previous statement made in mid-February, the rich asshole’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen claimed he used his “personal funds” to “facilitate” the payment and was not reimbursed by the rich asshole campaign or the rich asshole Organization. Cohen refused to say if he was reimbursed by the rich asshole organization or the rich asshole personally.
“In a private transaction in 2016, I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford,” Cohen said in the statement. “Neither the rich asshole Organization nor the rich asshole campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.”
The Wall Street Journal story, however, presents a very different narrative.
According to the Journal, Cohen missed two deadlines earlier in the month to pay Daniels because he needed to contact the rich asshole and had openly complained to friends after the rich asshole’s win that the president hadn’t reimbursed him for the $130,000, which was used as hush money in return for signing an agreement that barring Daniels from discussing an alleged sexual encounter with the rich asshole in 2006.
Campaign finance experts were already suspicious of the payment when it was first reported in February.
Advocacy group Common Cause filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, asking for an investigation into whether the payment to Daniels violated election law. The payment would be illegal if its purpose was to benefit the campaign. Cohen’s statement that he would “always protect some rich asshole” seemed to bolster that theory.
These new details only make it far more likely that the rich asshole violated campaign finance laws.
More Stormy Daniels scoops from @joe_palazzolo & @mrothfeld that relate to @CommonCause's pending @FEC/@DOJ complaints.
1. Sure does look like decision to pay $130,000 was coordinated w/ Trump himself.
2. Cohen "complained" about not being reimbursed.
wsj.com/articles/trump…
There's a liabilities section in the financial disclosure form for reporting personal liabilities over $10,000. Cohen previously said the Trump organization wasn't a party to the transaction. If Trump personally owed $130,000 to Cohen or the LLC, it was a reportable liability. twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/…
According to the Journal, proving any violation of campaign finance laws would require evidence of coordination between Cohen and the rich asshole.
Cohen has repeatedly denied allegations made by groups like Common Cause, calling them “factually unsupported and without legal merit” in his February statement. He called the new revelations reported by the Wall Street Journal “fake news.”
the rich asshole Organization ousted from Panama luxury tower in ownership dispute: report
President some rich asshole holds up a "peace" symbol at CPAC 2013. Image via Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.
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President some rich asshole and the rich asshole Organization have reportedly lost control of their family hotel business in Panama.
According to the Associated Press and Washington Post, the owner of the hotel seems to have won a legal victory in court this morning. “The hotel’s owner says he has wrested control of the hotel,” the Post’s David Fahrenthold tweeted.
Investor Orestes Fintiklis then played a piano concert in the lobby of the hotel.
NEW: the owner of @realDonaldTrump's hotel seems to have won a victory as a result of this police/judge visit this morning. He just played a piano concert in the lobby. Still figuring out exactly what happened.
UPDATE: The hotel's owner says he has wrested control of the hotel from @realDonaldTrump's company. Still waiting to hear confirmation from Trump Org. Story coming soon. twitter.com/Fahrenthold/st…
It was then confirmed by the AP:
Last Tuesday, Panamanian police handcuffed a security guard working for the hotel after the hotel’s owner tried to fire the rich asshole Organization. The rich asshole staff refused to leave. The guard was detained after he refused to allow officers to enter the hotel’s offices. The Washington Post reported.
The most recent financial disclosure from the rich asshole showed $810,000 in revenue from the hotel over the past 15 months.
ABC News reported that the police and a judge were forced to evict the security guards preventing entrance for non the rich asshole Organization staff.
Watch the video below of the scene:
the rich asshole claims Obama launched Russia probe to discredit campaign
Washington (CNN)President some rich asshole on Monday accused the Obama administration of using the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia's meddling in the 2016 election to discredit his bid and boost the chances of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
"Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the rich asshole Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling," the rich asshole tweeted Monday morning.
It's unclear exactly what pre-election investigation the rich asshole was referring to, though the FBI opened its investigation into the rich asshole campaign's links to Russia in July 2016. Then-FBI Director James Comey oversaw that investigation until the rich asshole fired him in May 2017. Shortly after that, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to continue the probe.
Former the rich asshole campaign chairman Paul Manafort was wiretapped before and after the election. Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, three sources familiar with the investigation have told CNN. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive. Manafort was the rich asshole's campaign chairman from May to August 2016.
The FBI also eavesdropped on Carter Page, a campaign associate that then candidate the rich asshole once identified as a national security adviser, on suspicions he was acting as a Russian agent. Page stepped away from the campaign in September 2016 amid questions about his Russian ties.
The surveillance of Manafort and Page was approved by the secret court that oversees domestic surveillance of American citizens under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In Page's case, the FBI and Justice Department presented enough evidence to the court to convince Republican-appointed judges to continue the surveillance into mid-2017.
the rich asshole, who has called the investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia a "witch hunt," has repeatedly slammed the Obama administration's handling of the Russia investigation, saying it "did nothing."
Before leaving office, however, Obama applied new economic sanctions on the Russian government, ordered the State Department to shut down Russian compounds in Maryland and New York, and expelled 35 Russian diplomats that he described as "intelligence operatives."
Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to stop President the rich asshole from levying harsh tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, arguing that the move runs counter to the core of their economic agenda and could even cause political problems heading into the 2018 midterms.
“We are extremely worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the White House to not advance with this plan,” AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), said in a statement Monday. “The new tax reform law has boosted the economy and we certainly don’t want to jeopardize those gains.”
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee were also circulating a letter arguing against the tariffs, and high-ranking Senate Republicans
It’s unclear whether the GOP pushback will have any effect on the rich asshole, who surprised fellow Republicans Thursday when he announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports. He has repeatedly defending the plans, including after the statement from Ryan’s office Monday, when he said in Oval Office remarks that he was “not backing down.”
For all of the controversies the rich asshole has faced, the tariffs decision marks one of the few times he has taken a step that runs directly counter to Republicans’ legislative and economic goals. Many Republicans have voiced concerns that the move will undermine the $1.5 trillion tax cut bill they passed in December.
They also said it could cause political problems ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Democrats hope to take back control of the House and Senate in November, while Republicans planned to run on an economic argument to defend their majorities.
But it is difficult to predict how far Republicans would go to stand up to the rich asshole, who remains popular with core GOP voters.
The tariff decision has not yet been finalized, but that is expected to happen in the next week or two. The goal of congressional Republicans is to keep that from happening; but if that fails, other options remain on the table, according to a congressional aide who spoke anonymously to discuss the private deliberations.
The Constitution gives Congress authority over taxation and tariffs, but Congress has delegated trade negotiation and tariff authority to the president over recent decades. Congressional leaders believe that approach has worked well — until now.
A spokeswoman for House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) said in a statement that “the administration and Congress must work together on trade policies that build off the momentum of the president’s tax cuts, which is why any tariffs should be narrow, targeted, and focused on addressing unfairly traded products, without disrupting the flow of fairly traded products for American businesses and consumers.”
the rich asshole dismissed fears Monday that the trade moves could damage the economy.
“Our country on trade has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world, whether it’s friend or anybody — China, Russia, people we think are wonderful, the European Union,” the rich asshole said while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. “We lost $800 billion a year on trade. Not going to happen.”
Republicans and others have warned that major U.S. trading partners could retaliate by imposing tariffs on U.S. products, but the rich asshole — who wrote on Twitter on Friday that a trade war would be “easy to win” — dismissed those concerns as well.
He added, in an apparent reference to the European Union, that “if they want to do something, we’ll just tax their cars, which they send in here like water.”
Last year, the rich asshole ordered an investigation into whether U.S. reliance on steel and aluminum imports posed a national security threat to the United States, invoking a rarely used legal provision that gives him expanding trade powers. The Commerce Department found that there was a national security risk tied to the large amount of steel and aluminum imports, and the rich asshole has vowed to use that decision as the basis for tariffs.
But he has not mentioned the national security element when discussing trade in recent days. Instead, he has accused Canada, Mexico and Germany of ripping off the U.S. based on the way they export goods to this country, which has long been his central concern.
In announcing the tariffs, the rich asshole followed through on campaign promises to crack down on imports that he argues have decimated the U.S. manufacturing industry. But the rich asshole’s optimistic views about the impacts and outcome of a trade war are not shared by most lawmakers of his own party. Some remember the imposition of steel tariffs under the George W. Bush administration, which they argue cost more jobs than it created.
Indeed, GOP senators have spent months trying to argue the rich asshole down from his protectionist views, and convince him to back off tariff threats and stay in the North American Free Trade Agreement. For now the rich asshole has opted to try to renegotiate NAFTA rather than pull out of it, but his tariff announcement and subsequent rhetoric on Twitter suggests that congressional GOP leaders have only limited influence over the rich asshole on the issue.
Damian Paletta and Philip Rucker contributed to this report.
Former the rich asshole aide Sam Nunberg said Monday that he has been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election but that he will refuse to go.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Nunberg said he was asked to come to Washington to appear before the grand jury on Friday. He also provided a copy of what appears to be his two-page grand jury subpoena seeking documents related to President the rich asshole and nine other people, including emails, correspondence, invoices, telephone logs, calendars and “records of any kind.”
Nunberg forwarded an email listed as coming from the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III seeking his appearance in front of the panel on Friday.
Among those that the subpoena requests information about are departing White House communications director Hope Hicks, former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the rich asshole lawyer Michael Cohen, former the rich asshole campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and adviser Roger Stone.
Nunberg said he does not plan to comply with the subpoena, including either testimony or providing documents.
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg said. “Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
Nunberg said he was planning to go on Bloomberg TV and tear up the subpoena.
It is unclear what actions Mueller would take if Nunberg does not appear in front of the grand jury. Nunberg, an early campaign aide, was dismissed by the rich asshole and no longer is in his good graces.
“The Russians and the rich asshole did not collude,” Nunberg said. “Putin is too smart to collude with some rich asshole.”
“I’m not spending 80 hours going over my emails with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and producing them,” Nunberg said. “some rich asshole won this election on his own. He campaigned his ass off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me.”
‘This is grift’: Internet flays the rich asshole for ordering presidential seal on his golf course tee markers
some rich asshole plays golf at the rich asshole National Doral (screen grab)
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President some rich asshole was pilloried on Monday after a report revealed that he had possibly violated the law by ordering golf course tee markers with the presidential seal.
According to a ProPublica investigation, “the rich asshole Organization has ordered the manufacture of new tee markers for golf courses that are emblazoned with the seal of the President of the United States.”
Experts noted that the move may run afoul of U.S. laws that state the seal cannot be used for commercial purposes.
The idea also did not go over well on Twitter, where readers lamented that the rich asshole would never be held accountable for the possible crime.
“This is grift, graft, corruption, unAmerican and embarrassing all at the same time,” former Clinton spokesperson Jesse Ferguson wrote.
Read some of the tweets below.
#NotTheOnion
Trump is putting the Presidential Seal on the MARKERS FOR THE GOLF TEES AT HIS GOLF COURSES.
This is grift, graft, corruption, unAmerican and embarrassing all at the same time. propublica.org/article/trump-…
and here's yet another example of @realDonaldTrump and his properties breaking the law...it is illegal to use the presidential seal for commercial ventures and yet there is this propublica.org/article/trump-…
The Trump Organization is right that there's no separation between Trump the president and Trump the businessperson. propublica.org/article/trump-…
Nothing about this presidency or administration is legitimate
I hear the word 'illegal' getting used on an almost daily basis with respect to this administration, but nothing seems to ever actually happen, there are no actual consequences...
No theft is too small for these crooks
So? Practically everything he does is illegal and even more is immoral. The #ComplicitGOP does not gaf!
GOP congress looks the other way when Donald Trump does anything illegal.
This is disgusting, but not surprising. It’s just a matter of time that he has golf ball replicates of the presidential coin he destroyed...
This guy and swag! I'll be damned if I'll let my tax dollars go to golf tees while homeless vets eat from dumpsters! #TheResistance
It may be illegal but it is definitely tacky.
Even the freaking golf tees are illegal. What a fiasco.
Geez. Now he’s turning his private course into trump owner govt branded assets. Remember we all watched this happening but nobody stopped him. Compare this with our baseline understanding of pres ethics in Dec 2016. Pay for play in full view.
Everything is up for sale and stands to make Trump money, including the Presidential seal!! FFS!! Enough all ready!! Someone needs to put a stop to all this. The United States is NOT Trumps personal piggy bank.
Of course they did. Soon it will be on the toilet paper.
This, is disgusting. I can’t believe this is the guy, who makes such a big deal of respecting the flag, he doesn’t even respect the office that he’s stolen With the help of a foreign power. How low can you go? #TheResistance
It only counts if they actually DO something about it, though.
The list keeps getting longer and politicians are acting like they're trying to ignore the stench that is permeating the room instead of acknowledging it reeks and opening a window.
All WE can do is write and vote
Wait’ll the “kneeling during the national anthem disrespects the flag and the troops” crowd gets a load of this. They’ll be furious, right? Right?
Illegal and unethical but we’re trying to apply standards to a company and man that have no ethics and and live and work in the dark miasma of a stagnant swamp. As a result, their myopic vision is bankrupt and produces only corruption.
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