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And that's why he is not president, and never will be.
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Trump Kick-started his Campaign for 2020, with the same old fear mongering racist BS.
'Are you concerned by sharia law?': Trump canvasses supporters for 2020
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is canvassing supporters about the potential spread of sharia law, whether English should be the official language of the US and whether they regard Russia as “a concern”.
The online survey, funded by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, offers an early insight into likely themes in what is set to be a bitter battle for the White House in 2020. This week Trump named digital strategist Brad Parscale as his campaign manager.
The multiple-choice questionnaire appears to be aimed squarely at the so-called Trump base, as it delves into slashing regulations, support for “merit based” legal immigration and imposing tariffs to protect American industry. One question reads: “Do you believe many universities indoctrinate rather than teach students?” Read more
Democrats buoyed by Texas voter turnout in quest to retake U.S. House
AUSTIN, Texas, March 6 (Reuters) - After record-high early voter turnout, Democrats hope Texas' primary election on Tuesday will show that anger over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies could help them flip congressional seats from Republican control in November.
Democrats need to gain 24 seats nationwide to retake the U.S. House of Representatives, a feat that would allow the party to block the Republican president's legislative agenda.
In the first U.S. primary of the 2018 midterm election season, Texas Democrats were fielding their largest contingent of congressional and legislative candidates in a primary in several decades, and were encouraged the strong early turnout was a sign of electoral success to come in the most populous Republican-held state. Texas Democrats, however, have not won a statewide race for posts such as governor or U.S. senator in more than two decades. Read more
You are somehow right, clearly it seems our government and intelligence agencies had no clue what the heck was going on. According to the Robert Mueller’s indictment, Russian spies landed in the United States way back in 2014 to lay groundwork for an intelligence operation targeting the 2016 election. They stole American identities, credit card information and opened PayPal to pay for social media advertising etc. But at this time, I really don’t know how much role the Russians played in Trump’s victory, I’ll rather wait for Robert Mueller to complete his investigation.
But so far one thing is very clear it was quite a sophisticated operation, not as simple as you are describing it, and If you are really interested then I will urge you to read the 37-page indictment.
US is not the only target, Russia has been meddling in European elections for almost 10 years now and they have become masters in the cyber espionage operations. Russians very smartly used our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, YouTube etc.) to exploit our racial, religious, gender, and political divisions that unfortunately already existed in our society.
Russia’s short-term agenda was to undermine Hillary Clinton, and according to Mueller indictment, they mainly supported Trump but also supported Bernie and Jill Stein. And their long-term agenda is to undermine Western democracies and discredit our election process.
Here are few examples:
As many as 126 million people — or one-third the U.S. population — may have seen material posted by a Russian troll farm under fake Facebook identities between 2015 and 2017, according to testimony presented by Facebook's general counsel at a hearing before the Senate on Tuesday.
Facebook's new disclosures that a Kremlin-linked misinformation agency used original content in users' feeds, as well as paid ads. Previously Facebook said 10 million people saw Russia-linked advertising that sought to sway U.S. voters.
Twitter, which originally said it found 201 accounts linked to Russia that were sending out automated, election-related content, also increased its estimates of the reach these operatives had on its platform. It has now found 36,746 such accounts
Twitter says the Russia-related accounts sent “approximately 1.4 million automated, election-related Tweets,” which were seen by approximately 288 million Twitter users.
That was just one part of their cyber war, the other was the hacks and leaks of Democratic party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails.
And according to reports, Mueller is pursuing Kushner for the same reason. And most probably one of the reason he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance last week by Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly. Even after 13 months, the FBI has still not given him top-secret clearance, so clearly, something is very fishy.
Interestingly, Trump is following the same policy.
'Are you concerned by sharia law?': Trump canvasses supporters for 2020
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is canvassing supporters about the potential spread of sharia law, whether English should be the official language of the US and whether they regard Russia as “a concern”.
The online survey, funded by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, offers an early insight into likely themes in what is set to be a bitter battle for the White House in 2020. This week Trump named digital strategist Brad Parscale as his campaign manager.
The multiple-choice questionnaire appears to be aimed squarely at the so-called Trump base, as it delves into slashing regulations, support for “merit based” legal immigration and imposing tariffs to protect American industry. One question reads: “Do you believe many universities indoctrinate rather than teach students?” Read more
Democrats buoyed by Texas voter turnout in quest to retake U.S. House
AUSTIN, Texas, March 6 (Reuters) - After record-high early voter turnout, Democrats hope Texas' primary election on Tuesday will show that anger over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies could help them flip congressional seats from Republican control in November.
Democrats need to gain 24 seats nationwide to retake the U.S. House of Representatives, a feat that would allow the party to block the Republican president's legislative agenda.
In the first U.S. primary of the 2018 midterm election season, Texas Democrats were fielding their largest contingent of congressional and legislative candidates in a primary in several decades, and were encouraged the strong early turnout was a sign of electoral success to come in the most populous Republican-held state. Texas Democrats, however, have not won a statewide race for posts such as governor or U.S. senator in more than two decades. Read more
Keep in mind, Mueller’s investigation is not all about Trump’s collusion with the Russian and his (firing of FBI Dir James Comey.) obstruction. The main purpose of the investigation is Russia’s meddling in our election. Mueller was appointed after the office of the Dir of National intelligence reported that the US military and civilian intelligence agencies had concluded with high confidence that the Russian government interfered in our election.US regime has proven to be weaker than I thought, if that's true. That bad news is good news. With a few hundred thousands dollars, one allegedly can rig US elections and put there someone who likes to grab ****** but hates to read.
You are somehow right, clearly it seems our government and intelligence agencies had no clue what the heck was going on. According to the Robert Mueller’s indictment, Russian spies landed in the United States way back in 2014 to lay groundwork for an intelligence operation targeting the 2016 election. They stole American identities, credit card information and opened PayPal to pay for social media advertising etc. But at this time, I really don’t know how much role the Russians played in Trump’s victory, I’ll rather wait for Robert Mueller to complete his investigation.
But so far one thing is very clear it was quite a sophisticated operation, not as simple as you are describing it, and If you are really interested then I will urge you to read the 37-page indictment.
US is not the only target, Russia has been meddling in European elections for almost 10 years now and they have become masters in the cyber espionage operations. Russians very smartly used our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, YouTube etc.) to exploit our racial, religious, gender, and political divisions that unfortunately already existed in our society.
Russia’s short-term agenda was to undermine Hillary Clinton, and according to Mueller indictment, they mainly supported Trump but also supported Bernie and Jill Stein. And their long-term agenda is to undermine Western democracies and discredit our election process.
Here are few examples:
As many as 126 million people — or one-third the U.S. population — may have seen material posted by a Russian troll farm under fake Facebook identities between 2015 and 2017, according to testimony presented by Facebook's general counsel at a hearing before the Senate on Tuesday.
Facebook's new disclosures that a Kremlin-linked misinformation agency used original content in users' feeds, as well as paid ads. Previously Facebook said 10 million people saw Russia-linked advertising that sought to sway U.S. voters.
Twitter, which originally said it found 201 accounts linked to Russia that were sending out automated, election-related content, also increased its estimates of the reach these operatives had on its platform. It has now found 36,746 such accounts
Twitter says the Russia-related accounts sent “approximately 1.4 million automated, election-related Tweets,” which were seen by approximately 288 million Twitter users.
That was just one part of their cyber war, the other was the hacks and leaks of Democratic party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails.
I’m not an expert on American law. But Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been charged for almost similar reason by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller. One of the charges against them were “conspiracy to defraud the United States”, meaning, that they were really serving the interest of foreigner governments, and that by hiding their true intent, the defendants prevented the United States government from protecting our politics from undisclosed outside influence. Rick Gates has accepted guilty plea to the same charge.
And according to reports, Mueller is pursuing Kushner for the same reason. And most probably one of the reason he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance last week by Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly. Even after 13 months, the FBI has still not given him top-secret clearance, so clearly, something is very fishy.
That clip is from 2015, most probably he was indirectly criticizing Pres Obama’s Syrian policy.
Interestingly, Trump is following the same policy.
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I told you so, he is a snake oil salesman.
He repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” in his rallies and tweets. But has filled, not drained, the swamp.
Trump supporters, you were fooled.
Donald Trump Says He Is Will "Drain The Swamp in Washington DC:
What We Found in Trump’s Drained Swamp: Hundreds of Ex-Lobbyists and D.C. Insiders
ProPublica
Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw, Isaac Arnsdorf 50 mins ago
When the Trump administration took office early last year, hundreds of staffers from lobbying firms, conservative think tanks and Trump campaign groups began pouring into the very agencies they once lobbied or whose work they once opposed.
Today we’re making available, for the first time, an authoritative searchable database of 2,475 political appointees, including Trump’s Cabinet, staffers in the White House and senior officials within the government, along with their federal lobbying and financial records. Trump Town is the result of a year spent filing hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests; collecting and organizing staffing lists; and compiling, sifting through and publishing thousands of financial disclosure reports.
Here’s what we found: At least 187 Trump political appointees have been federal lobbyists, and despite President Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp,” many are now overseeing the industries they once lobbied on behalf of. We’ve also discovered ethics waivers that allow Trump staffers to work on subjects in which they have financial conflicts of interest. In addition, at least 254 groups affiliated with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and at least 125 staffers came from prominent conservative think tanks, many of whom are on teams to repeal Obama-era regulations.
Drilling down even further, at least 35 Trump political appointees worked for or consulted with groups affiliated with the the billionaire libertarian brothers Charles and David Koch, who also have a network of advocacy groups, nonprofits, private companies and political action committees. At least 25 Trump appointees came from the influential Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank founded in 1973, and at least two came from Heritage Action, its related political nonprofit. Heritage says the Trump administration, in just its first year, has enacted nearly two-thirds of its 334 policy recommendations.
We also found — for the first time — dozens of special-government employees, or SGEs, who work as paid consultants or experts for federal agencies while keeping their day jobs in the private sector. This rare government gig allows them to legally work for both industry and the Trump administration at the same time. Under the Obama administration, Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, benefited from this policy while simultaneously working at the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a corporate consulting firm, drawing scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Government Accountability Office.
Roughly 60 percent of the Trump administration officials included in our analysis have financial disclosure reports. We have requested these reports for the rest. Since our last update of financial disclosure records in August, we have added 660 such reports from across the government.
We also did a more limited version of this project in 2009, at the start of the Obama administration. As part of this year’s analysis, we compared the number of appointees in the first year of both the Obama and Trump administrations who had been active lobbyists in the two years prior to their nomination for Senate-confirmed government jobs. Even though the Trump administration has lagged significantly behind previous administrations in appointing people for such positions, more Trump appointees were recent lobbyists than Obama appointees: Trump had 18 in his first year, while Obama had 14.
“Focusing on novel scandals alone can distract from the enormous scale of the Trump administration’s embrace of revolving-door hiring,” said Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project at the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The pipelines between conservative policy think tanks — namely the Heritage Foundation and the Koch Brothers’ Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce — and the Trump administration are clear, as is their effect on federal policy.
Just before Trump took office last January, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, one of the main conservative advocacy groups funded by the Koch Brothers, unveiled a deregulatory wish list. The action plan highlighted 19 Obama-era policies affecting the environment, labor and technology that Freedom Partners wanted gone. “This strategy can help to unravel eight years of regulatory overreach starting immediately,” the organization’s vice president, Andy Koenig, wrote in an accompanying press release.
A few weeks later, Koenig joined the White House as a policy assistant, putting him in a position to implement his former employer’s agenda. Sure enough, just over a year later, the administration has acted on 16 of the 19 suggestions that Freedom Partners listed.
The moratorium on federal coal leases? Lifted. The Paris climate agreement? Withdrawn. The Clean Power Plan? Repealed. The FCC’s net neutrality policy, the EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rules? All reversed.
Freedom Partners and the White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The Trump campaign had a small staff and was light on policy chops, so it leaned heavily on personnel from the Koch network and the Heritage Foundation during the transition. “When you have a president committed to strong deregulatory policy, there’s no better place to figure out what regulations put a stranglehold on the economy than to go to the Koch network and the Heritage Foundation,” said Marc Lampkin, the co-chair of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s lobbying practice and a former aide to House Speaker John Boehner. “It makes perfect sense that they would be part of the intellectual breeding ground for the administration.”
The Heritage Foundation has touted its influence over Trump’s agenda. On Jan. 23, the organization said the Trump administration embraced two-thirds of the 334 policy recommendations in its “Mandate for Leadership,” such as shrinking national monuments in Utah, preventing taxpayer funding for international groups involved in abortion (known as the Mexico City Policy), raising military spending, and withdrawing from UNESCO.
Heritage cited the efforts of about 70 of its former employees working throughout the transition and administration. Our analysis found 28 officials who used to work at the Heritage Foundation and its advocacy arm, Heritage Action.
Not all political appointments are announced. In digging through lists of special-government employees, we found several in key positions in the Trump administration, including Wendy Teramoto, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s chief of staff and a longtime aide at his private equity firm; James D. Ray, a George W. Bush-era staffer who worked as an unpaid consultant at the Department of Transportation while keeping his job as a principal in KPMG’s infrastructure consulting practice; and Leonard Wolfson, who was lobbying on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association on Capitol Hill while getting paid $64 per hour as an expert at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Wolfson’s case is a prime example of the inherent business conflicts in such arrangements: Wolfson is a well-known housing lobbyist among House Republicans and served in the Bush administration at HUD from 2005 to 2008. Senate records show Wolfson was actively lobbying on banking legislation and regulatory issues in April and May.
By mid-May, Wolfson had taken a relatively rare position as an outside “expert” at HUD while he was still employed at the 2,200-member lobbying group. To take the HUD gig, Wolfson took an unpaid leave from the Mortgage Bankers Association. He didn’t fully resign from the group until July 31.
At HUD, Wolfson worked on getting nominees for senior positions at the agency through the backlogged and slow Senate confirmation process, according to HUD officials.
Reached for comment, a HUD spokesman denied there was any conflict. “There was absolutely no overlap,” said Brian Sullivan. “He took one hat off and put another one on.”
His paid government consulting work this past summer was not previously disclosed. And in December, Wolfson himself was appointed and confirmed as HUD’s assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental relations.
We’re releasing Trump Town as a resource for journalists, researchers and the public. Its goal: to increase understanding of who the current administration’s taxpayer-funded decision-makers are and how their work histories and financial holdings might influence public policy. Source
He repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” in his rallies and tweets. But has filled, not drained, the swamp.
Trump supporters, you were fooled.
Donald Trump Says He Is Will "Drain The Swamp in Washington DC:
What We Found in Trump’s Drained Swamp: Hundreds of Ex-Lobbyists and D.C. Insiders
ProPublica
Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw, Isaac Arnsdorf 50 mins ago
When the Trump administration took office early last year, hundreds of staffers from lobbying firms, conservative think tanks and Trump campaign groups began pouring into the very agencies they once lobbied or whose work they once opposed.
Today we’re making available, for the first time, an authoritative searchable database of 2,475 political appointees, including Trump’s Cabinet, staffers in the White House and senior officials within the government, along with their federal lobbying and financial records. Trump Town is the result of a year spent filing hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests; collecting and organizing staffing lists; and compiling, sifting through and publishing thousands of financial disclosure reports.
Here’s what we found: At least 187 Trump political appointees have been federal lobbyists, and despite President Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the swamp,” many are now overseeing the industries they once lobbied on behalf of. We’ve also discovered ethics waivers that allow Trump staffers to work on subjects in which they have financial conflicts of interest. In addition, at least 254 groups affiliated with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and at least 125 staffers came from prominent conservative think tanks, many of whom are on teams to repeal Obama-era regulations.
Drilling down even further, at least 35 Trump political appointees worked for or consulted with groups affiliated with the the billionaire libertarian brothers Charles and David Koch, who also have a network of advocacy groups, nonprofits, private companies and political action committees. At least 25 Trump appointees came from the influential Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank founded in 1973, and at least two came from Heritage Action, its related political nonprofit. Heritage says the Trump administration, in just its first year, has enacted nearly two-thirds of its 334 policy recommendations.
We also found — for the first time — dozens of special-government employees, or SGEs, who work as paid consultants or experts for federal agencies while keeping their day jobs in the private sector. This rare government gig allows them to legally work for both industry and the Trump administration at the same time. Under the Obama administration, Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, benefited from this policy while simultaneously working at the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a corporate consulting firm, drawing scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Government Accountability Office.
Roughly 60 percent of the Trump administration officials included in our analysis have financial disclosure reports. We have requested these reports for the rest. Since our last update of financial disclosure records in August, we have added 660 such reports from across the government.
We also did a more limited version of this project in 2009, at the start of the Obama administration. As part of this year’s analysis, we compared the number of appointees in the first year of both the Obama and Trump administrations who had been active lobbyists in the two years prior to their nomination for Senate-confirmed government jobs. Even though the Trump administration has lagged significantly behind previous administrations in appointing people for such positions, more Trump appointees were recent lobbyists than Obama appointees: Trump had 18 in his first year, while Obama had 14.
“Focusing on novel scandals alone can distract from the enormous scale of the Trump administration’s embrace of revolving-door hiring,” said Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project at the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The pipelines between conservative policy think tanks — namely the Heritage Foundation and the Koch Brothers’ Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce — and the Trump administration are clear, as is their effect on federal policy.
Just before Trump took office last January, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, one of the main conservative advocacy groups funded by the Koch Brothers, unveiled a deregulatory wish list. The action plan highlighted 19 Obama-era policies affecting the environment, labor and technology that Freedom Partners wanted gone. “This strategy can help to unravel eight years of regulatory overreach starting immediately,” the organization’s vice president, Andy Koenig, wrote in an accompanying press release.
A few weeks later, Koenig joined the White House as a policy assistant, putting him in a position to implement his former employer’s agenda. Sure enough, just over a year later, the administration has acted on 16 of the 19 suggestions that Freedom Partners listed.
The moratorium on federal coal leases? Lifted. The Paris climate agreement? Withdrawn. The Clean Power Plan? Repealed. The FCC’s net neutrality policy, the EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rules? All reversed.
Freedom Partners and the White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The Trump campaign had a small staff and was light on policy chops, so it leaned heavily on personnel from the Koch network and the Heritage Foundation during the transition. “When you have a president committed to strong deregulatory policy, there’s no better place to figure out what regulations put a stranglehold on the economy than to go to the Koch network and the Heritage Foundation,” said Marc Lampkin, the co-chair of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s lobbying practice and a former aide to House Speaker John Boehner. “It makes perfect sense that they would be part of the intellectual breeding ground for the administration.”
The Heritage Foundation has touted its influence over Trump’s agenda. On Jan. 23, the organization said the Trump administration embraced two-thirds of the 334 policy recommendations in its “Mandate for Leadership,” such as shrinking national monuments in Utah, preventing taxpayer funding for international groups involved in abortion (known as the Mexico City Policy), raising military spending, and withdrawing from UNESCO.
Heritage cited the efforts of about 70 of its former employees working throughout the transition and administration. Our analysis found 28 officials who used to work at the Heritage Foundation and its advocacy arm, Heritage Action.
Not all political appointments are announced. In digging through lists of special-government employees, we found several in key positions in the Trump administration, including Wendy Teramoto, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s chief of staff and a longtime aide at his private equity firm; James D. Ray, a George W. Bush-era staffer who worked as an unpaid consultant at the Department of Transportation while keeping his job as a principal in KPMG’s infrastructure consulting practice; and Leonard Wolfson, who was lobbying on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association on Capitol Hill while getting paid $64 per hour as an expert at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Wolfson’s case is a prime example of the inherent business conflicts in such arrangements: Wolfson is a well-known housing lobbyist among House Republicans and served in the Bush administration at HUD from 2005 to 2008. Senate records show Wolfson was actively lobbying on banking legislation and regulatory issues in April and May.
By mid-May, Wolfson had taken a relatively rare position as an outside “expert” at HUD while he was still employed at the 2,200-member lobbying group. To take the HUD gig, Wolfson took an unpaid leave from the Mortgage Bankers Association. He didn’t fully resign from the group until July 31.
At HUD, Wolfson worked on getting nominees for senior positions at the agency through the backlogged and slow Senate confirmation process, according to HUD officials.
Reached for comment, a HUD spokesman denied there was any conflict. “There was absolutely no overlap,” said Brian Sullivan. “He took one hat off and put another one on.”
His paid government consulting work this past summer was not previously disclosed. And in December, Wolfson himself was appointed and confirmed as HUD’s assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental relations.
We’re releasing Trump Town as a resource for journalists, researchers and the public. Its goal: to increase understanding of who the current administration’s taxpayer-funded decision-makers are and how their work histories and financial holdings might influence public policy. Source
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P.orn star Stormy Daniels sues Pres of the United States of America, the role model of the conservatives and the Leader of the family party, what a damn disgrace.
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Raises Election Law Questions for Trump
Roll Call
Griffin Connolly 4 hrs ago
As Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller continues to probe members of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for possible collusion with Russia, some lawmakers have raised ethical concerns over the president’s alleged preemptive coverup of an affair with **** actress Stormy Daniels.
Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both former prosecutors, have asked the FBI to investigate payments from Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, to Daniels, who filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the president in Los Angeles Superior Court.
NBC News first reported the lawsuit.
Lieu and Rice believe the alleged “hush” agreement — which involved a $130,000 payment from Cohen to Daniels — violates federal election laws.
“[The] hush agreement & side letter attached to Stormy Daniels’ filing essentially shows coordination between @realDonaldTrump, Cohen & Daniels,” Lieu tweeted Tuesday night. “That means the $130k payment from Cohen to Daniels to silence her during the campaign violated federal election law.”
The penalty, he added, is a five-year felony sentencing.
In the lawsuit complaint filed Tuesday, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, states that her nondisclosure agreement regarding her alleged 2006 affair with Trump is invalid because Trump never actually signed the document — only Cohen and Daniels did.
According to the lawsuit, Daniels’ affair with Trump lasted “well into 2007.”
The suit alleges that Cohen has tried to intimidate Daniels into silence on the matter as recently as Feb. 27.
“To be clear, the attempts to intimidate Ms. Clifford into silence and ‘shut her up’ in order to ‘protect Mr. Trump’ continue unabated,” the suit claims. “On or about February 27, 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney Mr. Cohen surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding against Ms. Clifford in Los Angeles.” Read more
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Raises Election Law Questions for Trump
Roll Call
Griffin Connolly 4 hrs ago
As Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller continues to probe members of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for possible collusion with Russia, some lawmakers have raised ethical concerns over the president’s alleged preemptive coverup of an affair with **** actress Stormy Daniels.
Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both former prosecutors, have asked the FBI to investigate payments from Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, to Daniels, who filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the president in Los Angeles Superior Court.
NBC News first reported the lawsuit.
Lieu and Rice believe the alleged “hush” agreement — which involved a $130,000 payment from Cohen to Daniels — violates federal election laws.
“[The] hush agreement & side letter attached to Stormy Daniels’ filing essentially shows coordination between @realDonaldTrump, Cohen & Daniels,” Lieu tweeted Tuesday night. “That means the $130k payment from Cohen to Daniels to silence her during the campaign violated federal election law.”
The penalty, he added, is a five-year felony sentencing.
In the lawsuit complaint filed Tuesday, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, states that her nondisclosure agreement regarding her alleged 2006 affair with Trump is invalid because Trump never actually signed the document — only Cohen and Daniels did.
According to the lawsuit, Daniels’ affair with Trump lasted “well into 2007.”
The suit alleges that Cohen has tried to intimidate Daniels into silence on the matter as recently as Feb. 27.
“To be clear, the attempts to intimidate Ms. Clifford into silence and ‘shut her up’ in order to ‘protect Mr. Trump’ continue unabated,” the suit claims. “On or about February 27, 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney Mr. Cohen surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceeding against Ms. Clifford in Los Angeles.” Read more
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And the chaos continues, my friend. Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic adviser is out of the Mad House, oh I mean, White House. Looks like Trump is determined to plunge us in a global trade war.
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The really crazy thing about this whole Stormy Daniels saga is the payoff of that $130K since it happened during the campaign and could be subject to campaign finance laws which is apparently why Cohen made the payment and claims he paid it out of his own money and never sought any reimbursement from Trump in any fashion.
Here's the problem, though, how many lawyers do you know would go out of their way to dish out $130K out of the kindness of their own heart and out of their own pocket as a favor to a multi-billionaire like Trump and that billionaire not know anything about it? lol Obviously it was done in a way not to connect Trump to the hush-hush payment but if there ever was proof to link the payment to him....yikes.
And the whole thing with Trump talking to witnesses about things they discussed with the special council is absolutely insane. To think that no one around him is capable of advising him that doing such a thing is a complete no-no or that even if there was someone warning him, he obviously isn't listening to them. Crazy, crazy.
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This whole thing is fake.
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Absolutely. Isn’t it amazing, we’re supposed to believe Trump’s lawyer paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a p.orn star to keep her quiet about an affair that supposedly never happened.
Of course, there is not an ounce of credibility to the claim. I have heard many lies in my life, but this one is the stupidest lie I have heard so far.
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Come on with the fake news excuse! Everything we don't like now is immediately "Fake News!"
What did Sarah Sanders mean then when she said "the case has already been won in arbitration?"
What it means is they're doing everything they can to keep her quiet.
Look, Clinton was a GREAT president but he couldn't keep it in his pants either and this guy here?
Absolutely. Isn’t it amazing, we’re supposed to believe Trump’s lawyer paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a p.orn star to keep her quiet about an affair that supposedly never happened.
Of course, there is not an ounce of credibility to the claim. I have heard many lies in my life, but this one is the stupidest lie I have heard so far.
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I love the way they put Trump's alias on that hush-hush agreement, what was it, DD? LOL!
Seriously, though, if I was packing this package, I would've asked for a hell of a lot more than $130K!
I thought this was a goodone, Rabzon! lol
This was KILLER LOL!
Oh, and anyone who thinks North Korea is going to give up its nukes or ballistic missiles without asking for at least a complete withdrawal of all US involvement in SK as well as billions upon billions of $ for compensation for almost 2 decades of sanctions is sadly mistaken. What they'll want will make what Iran settled for look like child's play.
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A GREAT president? The man who sold out the factories to China. Maybe the worst in my books.
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A GREAT president! Some of his accomplishments were things that hadn't been done for 25 years and up to the days of Teddy Roosevelt!
Here's just a sampling of the accomplishments under his presidency.
https://clintonwhitehouse1.archives.gov/White_House/Accomplishments/html/accomp-plain.html
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I really don't understand how anyone can NOT like this man !
what a guy, POTUS 45, you fecking legend.. there will never be another like him !
Trump !
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I really don't understand how anyone can NOT like this man !
what a guy, POTUS 45, you fecking legend.. there will never be another like him !
Trump !
Yes and he is funniest president ever. A stand up comedian basically.
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an amazing stand up comedian !
and he means business, like no US president has ever meant business before.. love this guy !
