Stormy Daniels has a really smart attorney. She’s playing this pretty much perfectly, while Team Trump are acting like the inept buffoons we all knew they were. Here’s a copy of her attorney’s letter, pdf. Source: CNN Adult film actress Stormy Daniels is offering to return the $130,000 payment she received from President Donald Trump’s attorney… Continue reading “Stormy offers to return Trump’s $130,000 hush money”
Yesterday afternoon, Vanity Fair published this report from Gabriel Sherman: A Republican in frequent contact with the White House told me Trump is “frustrated by all these people telling him what to do.” Continue reading “Why doesn’t the Trump administration just merge with Fox News?”
Robert Mueller has learned of two conversations in recent months in which Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, three people familiar with the encounters tell NYT. https://t.co/1S8xuXT92q
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 7, 2018
WASHINGTON — The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters.
In one episode, the president told an aide that the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, should issue a statement denying a New York Times article in January. The article said Mr. McGahn told investigators that the president once asked him to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Mr. McGahn never released a statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked Mr. McGahn to see that Mr. Mueller was dismissed, the people said.
In the other episode, Mr. Trump asked his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, how his interview had gone with the special counsel’s investigators and whether they had been “nice,” according to two people familiar with the discussion.
A leading Republican contender running to be the next governor of Maine offered the dumbest idea ever to stop mass shootings. If a teacher encounters a madman with an AR-15 who just opened fire, just clock the guy over the head with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading “GOP candidate: Instead of gun control, have teachers hit active shooters with fire extinguishers”
An awful lot of people melting down lately!
Here is the full Sam Nunberg meltdown. 17 minutes and well worth a watch. Maybe two. https://t.co/ICoAx2XiWw
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 5, 2018
Didn’t we already know he was mentally ill?
President Donald Trump’s friends and confidantes are reportedly more worried about his emotional health than ever before.
As Trump becomes ever more focused on perceived attacks against him, constantly obsesses over TV coverage, and lashes out at friends and foes alike in public, many close to him say he is approaching “pure madness,” according to the Washington Post.
Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey did not mince his words about Trump’s current mental state.
“I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well,” he told the Post. “Trump’s judgment is fundamentally flawed, and the more pressure put on him and the more isolated he becomes, I think, his ability to do harm is going to increase.”
But others say things will likely get worse before they get better.
“We haven’t bottomed out,” one official told the paper.
Breaking news tonight, via the Washington Post: Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, had his security clearance downgraded Friday, sharply limiting his access to some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets amid concerns raised by the ongoing investigation of his background, two White House officials said Tuesday. Kushner was one of several White… Continue reading “Finally: Jared Kushner’s security clearance ‘significantly’ downgraded”
President Donald Trump said Monday that he believed he would run into an active school shooting “even if I didn’t have a weapon.” The president was speaking in the aftermath of a shooting at a high school in Florida in which 17 people were killed and more than a dozen more injured. Continue reading “Trump says he’d have run into school shooting”
Republican Florida state Rep. Brian Mast revealed on Sunday that he had reversed his position on gun control and is calling for an immediate ban of AR-15s, the type of military-style assault rifle that was used to murder 17 at a school in Parkland, Florida. Continue reading “GOPer slams Trump for banning Muslims instead of guns”
Run after someone with an assault rifle? I don’t know that I would have been all that eager:
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said during a Thursday news conference that the officer waited outside the building for about four minutes without ever going in. Authorities say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14.
The sheriff says the deputy responded to the building where the shooting took place, took up a position outside a door and never went in.
