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OK. Mueller report did not get him. And i have little faith in the SDNY. Dems need to focus on 2020 AND the swing states. Who can connect w the swing states n get young ppl out to vote....

I dont have the answer, but dems need to figure it out. Cuz if trump wins in 2020 he is never leaving.

America had a good run with democracy. But nuthin last forever. smh
 
TheNightKing said:
I'm not saying nothing will happen with the other investigations and what not.

What I'm saying is wait until something does happen then talk.

As far as interviewing Mueller, what's that going to do? What more context can he provide that they will take action on. A bipartisan committee received a report where only the grand jury items are redacted and there's not nearly as many grand jury redactments. What context will Mueller provide outside of that?

Plus they've interviewed how many people and nothing's come of it?

I'm just saying, they need to shut up and move in silence until they have something actionable on Trump.

And yes, place more focus on shit other than Trump.
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The spirit of what you are saying is right.

We should have a broader message that we push forward outside of Trump ...

We already have that by the way.

But it’s not as simple and straightforward as you make it out to be.

There is a lot lore nuance.

This is a seminal moment in American History. It’s about our Democracy going forward and not just Trump.
 
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Senate Republicans Keeping Quiet After Mueller Report Release

Senate Republicans don’t seem to see the Mueller report’s release as cause for celebration.

Asked by reporters Thursday about their reactions to the nearly 500-page document’s revelations, top GOP senators said little, praising Attorney General Bill Barr’s shepherding of the release process but offering no commentary on President Trump’s actions.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he looked forward to “carefully reviewing the report.”

“I’m grateful for the attorney general’s diligent work to release as much of the special counsel’s report as possible to Congress and to the American people,” McConnell said, according to the Washington Examiner.

The report revealed that, contrary to Barr’s characterization, Mueller identified 10 instances where Trump may have obstructed justice. It contains a wealth of unflattering information about the President’s efforts to control the probe and his campaign’s connections to Russians eager to help him win the 2016 election.

Both Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) told Politico they needed to read through the full document before offering comment on the implications for Trump.

On obstruction, Blunt said he had “no reason to question what the attorney general or the deputy attorney general thought was the right way to deal with that material.”

Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also focused on praising Barr rather than opining on the President’s innocence.

“I applaud Attorney General Barr for his commitment to transparency and keeping the American people informed, consistent with the law and our national security interests,” Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Politico.

Trump, meanwhile, has said the report means “game over” for those concerned about his campaign’s links to Russia. And top Republicans in the House rushed to his defense, mocking Democratic lawmakers for investigating the matter and even asking them to apologize.
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Trump’s 4 Most Willing Lackeys, As Told By The Redacted Mueller Report


The redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report released on Thursday revealed a lot about President Trump, but it also shined a spotlight on those he surrounded himself with during the campaign and in the White House.


Some of Trump’s staff pushed back on his worst impulses, refusing to carry out the President’s efforts to curb the Russia investigation. Yet others proved themselves to be quite willing lackeys, following Trump’s orders with little hesitation.

We’ve rounded up some of Trump’s most loyal abettors, as laid out in Mueller’s report:

Corey Lewandowski
White House staff who spoke to Mueller’s team described Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, as a “devotee” of the President, which is an apt description if you look at the report.

Angered over Sessions’ recusal from the Russia probe and the appointment of a special counsel, Trump asked Lewandowski to pass messages to Sessions several times.

First, Trump asked Lewandowski to direct Sessions to deliver a speech defending Trump from the Russia probe and noting that Sessions would discuss the probe with Mueller. Lewandowski set up a meeting with Sessions to deliver Trump’s message, but the attorney general had to cancel at the last minute.

Lewandowski then asked Rick Dearborn, a former Sessions aide who worked at the White House at the time, to deliver the message to Sessions. Dearborn agreed to do so without asking about the content of the message, per the report. Trump later followed up with Lewandowski, prompting Lewandowski to ask Dearborn again about delivering the message. Upon actually reading the message, Dearborn told Lewandowski he would handle it, but did not actually deliver the message to Sessions.

Michael Flynn
During the campaign, Trump asked one of his top advisers, Michael Flynn, to track down the 30,000 emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her server. Trump asked the right man, as Flynn then went to great lengths to uncover the emails his boss was obsessed with unearthing.

Flynn in turn contacted the late Republican operative Peter Smith and Senate staffer Barbara Leeden, asking for help digging up the emails, and they both made attempts to find them, according to the report.

Despite Flynn’s best efforts to fulfill his boss’ wishes, the emails were not uncovered.

Don McGahn
Though White House counsel Don McGahn did rebuff several of Trump’s attempts to meddle in the Russia probe, he followed Trump’s orders sometimes as well.

When then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, McGahn made several attempts to persuade Sessions to change his mind, at Trump’s behest.

McGahn spoke to Sessions directly, telling the attorney general that Trump was unhappy with the recusal decision, but that did not move Sessions to reverse his plans. McGahn then spoke to several others who worked for or were close to Sessions in an attempt to stop the recusal.

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Hope Hicks
When Trump was faced with the news that the New York Times was working on a story about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, he told Hicks to remove a line in Donald Trump Jr.’s draft statement that said he was told that the Russian lawyer had “information helpful to the campaign.” Though Hicks originally pushed for full disclosure about the meeting, she relented and edited the statement.

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French Ambassador Excoriates Trump on His Way Out: ‘A Big Mouth, Who Reads Basically Nothing’

Gerard Araud — France’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S. — did not seem to enjoy his time working with President Donald Trump.

In an exit interview with Foreign Policy, Araud absolutely scorched the earth — holding nothing back on a President whom he clearly does not hold in high regard.

Araud, at one point in the interview, compared Trump to his predecessor, former President Barack Obama

“On one side, you had this ultimate bureaucrat, an introvert, basically a bit aloof, a restrained president,” Araud told Foreign Policy. “A bit arrogant also but basically somebody who every night was going to bed with 60-page briefings and the next day they were sent back annotated by the president. And suddenly you have this president who is an extrovert, really a big mouth, who reads basically nothing or nearly nothing, with the interagency process totally broken and decisions taken from the hip basically.”

The ambassador also criticized the constant turnover in the West Wing, as well as the fact that many offices remain vacant.

“A lot of offices are still empty,” Araud told Foreign Policy. “It’s amazing—after 55 months, a lot of people are changing overnight. It’s the fourth G-7 [emissary] we’ve had in the White House in two years! So the first problem is we have nobody in the offices or if they are there, they’re going to leave. But on top of that, even if you have somebody in the offices, they don’t know what the president is going to say. And if the president has said something, they don’t know what he means.”

Add all that up, and you have an ambassador who seems only too happy to say au revoir.
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Matt Gaetz Hires White House Speechwriter Fired For Speaking at Conference With White Nationalists


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has added a controversial new member to his staff. The lawmaker announced on Friday that he hired “the talented Dr. Darren Beattie” to work as a speechwriter for his team.

On its face, the hiring isn’t surprising for Gaetz: Beattie is an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, wrote numerous op-ed pieces supporting the president, and he even worked in the White House last year as a speechwriter. The question is: when Gaetz’s office looked at Beattie’s resume, did they notice he was fired from the White House for appearing at an event alongside white nationalists?

CNN’s KFile team reported last year that Beattie spoke at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, an event regularly attended by noted white nationalist Richard Spencer. Other conference speakers included writers John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg (both of whom were fired from the National Review for racism). Beattie spoke alongside Peter Brimelow, founder of anti-immigrant website VDARE.

According to reports, Beattie was asked to resign by the White House after the CNN report, and fired when he refused.

The Daily Beast reached out to Gaetz to ask about the hiring, and the congressman responded that Beattie was not accused of saying anything offensive, but was merely in attendance when “other people said bad stuff.”
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Sen. Gillibrand Says She Misses Al Franken: ‘He Was Someone Who Really Served Us Well’

During a town hall in Iowa, presidential candidate and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand(D-NY) said she and everyone else in the Senate misses former Sen. Al Franken(D-MN), who resigned over sexual misconduct allegations in 2018.

“Who asked that he’s very concerned about Senator Franken, now we are all concerned about Senator Franken and frankly we all miss him. He was someone who really served us well on the Judiciary Committee and was a strong senator, but the truth is he had eight credible allegations against him for groping and forcible kissing and they were corroborated at the time that happened, they were investigated by the press and they were found to be credible by multiple sources.”

“Two of those allegations were said when he was a senator and so for me and the other members of Congress, particularly the women in the Senate, we couldn’t carry his water any farther. We couldn’t stay silent and we couldn’t defend him. I couldn’t defend him,” she continued.

Gillibrand maintained it was ultimately his decision to resign since no senator can force another to resign.

“So I know we miss him, but he made a decision, it’s his alone to decide whether he resigns or not and that’s his choice,” she added.
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