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”
Breaking news via the Washington Post: President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nation’s top diplomat, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday. Trump last Friday asked Tillerson… Continue reading “Trump fires Rex Tillerson; Mike Pompeo named as his replacement”
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump said he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May for talks on denuclearization, South Korea says https://t.co/Qvr5T82K7s pic.twitter.com/WLEaQsmP0o
— CNN International (@cnni) March 9, 2018
If he successfully pulls this off, I’d be happy to give him credit. But clearly he’s going to be the sucker in this particular poker game. He’s completely oblivious to the important nuances of diplomacy and ill-prepared on policy. I predict he’s going to make disastrous promises he can’t keep, but he won’t be able to simply talk them away this time, and it will have serious consequences. There is no way Kim Jong Un is going to give up his nukes, but Trump will flatter himself that he pulled it off:
North Korea has invited President Donald Trump to meet their leader Kim Jong Un according to a senior US official and a former US senior official.
Trump told reporters Thursday that South Korea will make a “major announcement” concerning North Korea at 7 p.m. ET.
On Thursday a South Korean delegation came to the White House to brief officials on its most recent talks with North Korea — the most significant talks between the two countries in more than a decade.
The South Korean officials visiting the White House on Thursday talked to Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.
They delivered a letter from Kim Jong Un to Trump inviting him to meet, according to a senior US official and a former US senior official.
The senior US official said North Korea has offered to suspend their nuclear missile testing alongside their invitation for talks. The official also said there are no plans to suspend the upcoming planned military exercises with South Korea.
However:
Tillerson: U.S. ‘a long ways from’ direct talks with North Koreahttps://t.co/JHsN6m3DRa pic.twitter.com/SwkwYtpDQh
— POLITICO (@politico) March 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/971915561587261440
THIS. https://t.co/IPdnJR3cHQ
— Nope. (@JoyAnnReid) March 9, 2018
Who goes to arbitration over something that never happened?
JUST IN: White House responds to Stormy Daniels' lawsuit:
"The president has denied the allegations against him, and again this case has already been won in arbitration." pic.twitter.com/Ph7x4KBIcY
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 7, 2018
1. The Stormy Daniels story is not about an affair or consensual sex.
It's about a candidate for President going to extreme lengths to buy a woman's silence in an apparent violation of campaign finance law and then lying about it https://t.co/wx4ogHkVkS
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 7, 2018
2. The case also suggests that, as a result of Trump's personal conduct, he is vulnerable to extortion and blackmail.
How many agreements has he pushed on women? If he's willing to pay $130K to keep this affair secret, what else is he willing to do? https://t.co/wx4ogHkVkS
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 7, 2018
And of course, the dick pics.
Mueller gathers evidence that 2016 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin https://t.co/wFkbY7Pu0z
— Peter Finn (@PeterFinnWP) March 8, 2018
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back-channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin — apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.
In January, 2016, Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to President Vladimir Putin, and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.
A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the two countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
I have to say, the pace of these stories makes me feel like my head’s about to explode…
In the grand scheme of his many legal and regulatory conflicts, President Donald Trump’s spats with state regulators over damaged wetlands and excess water use at his New Jersey golf courses seem almost trivial. Continue reading “The six stages of Trump’s resistance”
A in-depth piece from the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer this morning has some stunning news. In a deep dive into the credibility of Christopher Steele and his famous memo, she reports that one of his Russian memos was never made public: One subject that Steele is believed to have discussed with Mueller’s investigators is a memo… Continue reading “Second Steele memo: Kremlin blocked Romney for State”
Alec Baldwin got the last laugh once again after Trump attacked him on Twitter last week during SNL’s Cold Open: “In times like this we look to our leaders for guidance,” says Cooper, played by Alex Moffat. “But instead, we’ll hear from Donald Trump.” “I hear you and I care,” says “Trump,” referring to the Parkland… Continue reading “SNL: Baldwin’s Trump promises to take everyone’s (even whites) guns away”
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.
President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney and friend, Michael Cohen, could be used as a means for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to “take down” the commander-in-chief, according to a former Trump aide. Continue reading “Former Trump aide worried about lawyer Cohen”
