President Trump- The Implications

[Townsend]

Sex allegations rock Alabama senate race

Even Trump has changed his mind about sex with 14 year old girls...

GOP lawmakers urge Roy Moore, the GOP nominee in Alabama for a US Senate seat, to step aside if an explosive Washington Post report that accuses him of engaging in sexual conduct with underage women is true. CNN's Martin Savidge reports.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/11/10/roy-moore-wapo-sex-allegations-savidge-dnt-newday.cnn/video/playlists/roy-moore/

[patric]

Renditions"R"Us

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mueller-probes-flynns-role-in-alleged-plan-to-deliver-cleric-to-turkey-1510309982

[BKDotCom]

Renditions"R"Us
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mueller-probes-flynns-role-in-alleged-plan-to-deliver-cleric-to-turkey-1510309982

Paywall.  Boo.

[patric]

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, ripped President Trump in a statement Saturday for suggesting he accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.

Schiff blasted Trump for what he said was acceptance of Putin's denials that Russia meddled "over the solid evidence of our own intelligence agencies."

"The president fools no one. He understands that the Russians intervened through the hacking and dumping of his opponent's emails, the fruits of which he exploited time and again on the campaign trail. He understands that they mounted an unprecedented effort on social media to help him, hurt [Hillary] Clinton and divide and damage the country he is now supposed to serve," Schiff said in the statement.

"And he understands that his victory was razor thin, and all protestations to the contrary, he lost the popular vote," he added.

"He understands all this and more," Schiff continued. "He just doesn't understand how to put country over self."

"Or to put it in terms he is more familiar with — Mr. Trump simply can't bring himself to put America first."

[patric]

Paywall.  Boo.

I could almost swear it was in the clear when I linked, but its their scoop so its not surprising.  Excerpts may have to do:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/special-counsels-interest-mike-flynn-comes-sharper-focus

[swake]

Trump believes Putin over US Intelligence.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/11/563481331/trump-putin-issue-joint-statement-on-defeating-syria

Trump is a traitor. Pure and simple.

[BKDotCom]

Trump believes Putin over US Intelligence.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/11/563481331/trump-putin-issue-joint-statement-on-defeating-syria

Trump is a traitor. Pure and simple.

But crooked Hillary and the democrats paid for the dossier!  There's your collusion story.
/s

[patric]

The hits keep coming


Senate Panel Votes to Turn Blogger Without Trial Experience Into a Federal Judge
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/brett-talley-judge-senate.html


A 36-year-old lawyer whom President Donald Trump nominated for a lifetime federal district judgeship and was deemed "not qualified" by the American Bar Association failed to disclose that he is married to a top White House lawyer when asked to disclose conflicts of interest...
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judicial-nominee-brett-talley-married-white-house-lawyer-2017-11

[patric]

Wow, the stupidity from people who apparently have no understanding about the many benefits of Cannabis.  I wonder if they have bothered to study what has happened in states where both medical and recreational MJ use have been legalized.  There is solid evidence out there that CBD and THC have a valuable purpose in steering people away from opioids.

Opioid commission's anti-marijuana argument stirs anger
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/health/marijuana-opioid-commission/index.html

[swake]

The hits keep coming


Senate Panel Votes to Turn Blogger Without Trial Experience Into a Federal Judge
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/brett-talley-judge-senate.html

Keep draining that swamp. He's married to the chief of staff to the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/trump-judge-brett-talley-nomination.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

[heironymouspasparagus]

Sex allegations rock Alabama senate race

Even Trump has changed his mind about sex with 14 year old girls...

No he hasn't.  He got elected President in spite of it, so what difference does it make.

Moore will be elected in Alabama, too.   Because, as with Trump, all his male supporters are pedophiles, too.  And it just shows how many of them there are out there....

[cannon_fodder]

Seriously.  It seems like everyone is being petty.  But any one of these would have been a "scandal" under Obama that dragged on for months.  Sex scandals.  Electoral defeats.  Diplomatic meetings with shady world leaders. Appointment of unqualified judges.  That's one weekend! But my favorite one over the weekend is the Putin conversation.

CIA:  Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
NSA: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
FBI: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
Congressional Investigators: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
AGs Office: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
Tech Industry: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
Media: Hey it looks like the Russians meddled with the elections.
Trump: Liars.
Putin:  Hey, I totally didn't meddle in your elections.
Trump: Seems legit.

That's pretty funny, but it gets so much better. The Russians say the two never even talked about the issue:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359893-putin-trump-did-not-bring-up-election-meddling

So either
1) Trump believed Putin who is now lying about that very conversation
or
2) Trump is lying about the conversation.

Either way its a really sad day for US foreign policy.  Which is worse, believing a KGB Agent over US intelligence agencies and then getting played, or making crap up when it would easily be called out.  It's a truly amazing lack of awareness.  Like he's still giving second rate celebrity interviews to the press about issues people will forget day to day.  I assume Russian media covered the event again, so if Trump challenges them on it (like the IQ test) it could be even sadder.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I don't drink coffee, but I guess now I am gonna have to go out and buy a Keurig machine anyway...!

[patric]

I don't drink coffee, but I guess now I am gonna have to go out and buy a Keurig machine anyway...!

They have an adapter that makes tea.

As for Moore, hes just a product of his culture.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/11/13/roy-moore-allegations-prompt-reflections-on-fundamentalist-culture-in-which-some-christian-men-date-teens

[swake]

Next up in Mueller's crosshairs is one Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States. And not just for obstruction.

From noted "liberal rag" Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-investigation/investigators-probe-trump-knowledge-of-campaigns-russia-dealings-sources-idUSKBN1DB04J?il=0

Investigators probe Trump knowledge of campaign's Russia dealings: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of President Donald Trump's election campaign, to determine if Trump or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team's contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.
The focus of the questions put to Clovis by Mueller's team has not been previously reported.
"The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-elect Trump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them," said one source. "That is still just a question."
Clovis testified in late October before the grand jury in Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He is also cooperating with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the same issues.
Contacted late on Friday, the White House declined to comment.
One of the sources described Clovis as "another domino" after former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his own contacts with Russians during the 2016 election campaign.