Day 518 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #fakenews #TrumpLies
Day 305 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injured 546 and Congress has taken NO action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget
School administrators consider the likelihood of a shooting real enough that some districts are buying active-shooter insurance, WSJ reports. wsj.com/articles/more-…
@MomsDemand: “Every time we plan to stand up for students there is always a group or someone who thinks it is OK to threaten innocent lives.... however we will not be bullied into fear.” buff.ly/2vD4TFg
Hundreds of protesters are rallying outside the NRA's Virginia HQ. The rally comes on what would have been the birthday of one of the students killed in the Parkland shooting.
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NRA member Robert Johnson gets shouted down by protestors after he tried to speak at an Ollie North protest at Murray State. #NRA
Hope Hicks boarded Air Force One.
Reminder: Hope resigned 1 day after she testified before the House Intelligence Committee regarding Russia. Over the course of 8 hours of testimony, Hicks acknowledged that she's told lies as a part of her job.
*WITNESS TAMPERING IN 5 STEPS*
1. Trump knows Hicks is a witness in a federal case
2. He's been told to not speak to her
3. His chief topic in public & private is the Russia probe
4. Hicks boarded plane with Trump
5. Trump tampers with a federal witness
Sec. Pompeo warns Russia to respect sanctions on North Korea after UN report finds Pyongyang has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs.
Thus, admitting Trump got played. Whoops!
nbcnews.to/2AEnUwu
Trump is at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring.
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LeBron James invested $8,000,000 opening a school in his hometown where students get free bikes, meals, and college tuition.
Trump opened Trump University so he could scam students out of thousands of dollars.
Here's a list of what @KingJames' I Promise School will be providing its students and their families 👏
Don Lemon: Who’s the real dummy? A man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages? #BeBest cnn.com/videos/tv/2018…
“Why did you offer us sneakers if you could give us scholarships?” Andres Rodriguez, 11, asked.
Mr. Trump demanded to know who told Andres to ask him that. “No one,” the boy said. nytimes.com/2015/09/02/nyr…
Michael Jordan backs LeBron through spokesperson: "I support LJ. He’s doing an amazing job for his community," via @GeoffRBennett
Trump's stepping up his PR blitz against Mueller, increasingly emboldened because Giuliani has convinced him the special counsel has nothing on him.
"Rudy’s told him the other player is bluffing with a pair of 2’s,” one adviser tells us. wapo.st/2OK0Bo8
“Trump has latched onto Giuliani’s talking point that ‘collusion is not a crime,’ believing it is catchy and brilliantly simplistic, according to people with knowledge of internal talks”
It's also a confession! #IfIDidIt
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Morton Halperin, one of 3 members of Nixon’s enemies list are still alive, was asked what he thought of the proliferating Trump-Nixon comparisons.
"He's far worse than Nixon," Halperin said, "certainly as a threat to the country." newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
In a rare moment of introspection, according to WaPo, Trump has expressed to confidants 'lingering unease' about how some in his orbit — including Don Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe.
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Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who's been called 'Putin's favorite congressman,' says "there's not a person in this town" who wouldn't have taken the Trump Tower meeting with Russians like Don Jr. did.
Hmm. Al Gore notified the FBI.
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A bipartisan Senate contingent has introduced what Lindsey Graham has called the "sanctions bill from hell," targeting Russia and Putin.
One interesting aspect of the bill? It would require a report on Putin's assets and net worth.
We'll see...
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This argument involves an obscene degree of bad faith.
Kavanaugh was advocating insane levels of presidential invulnerability on the legal circuit while participating in Starr’s drive for impeachment.
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Exclusive w/ #FOIA master @JasonLeopold: New Documents From Kavanaugh’s Time In The Bush White House Show He Worked On Key Questions Of Presidential Power —>
The only WH documents Republicans want revealed before Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing are documents that have been pre-screened & hand-picked by his former deputy, who is also Steve Bannon’s and Don McGahn’s lawyer. #WhatAreTheyHiding
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A court filing obtained by Mother Jones alleges that at least four migrant fathers were separated from their children again after being briefly reunited with them.
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Fathers being held in an immigration detention facility after reunification with their children engaged in a protest this week out of frustration and despair over being "restrained from our freedom as human beings," as one father put it.
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@anneapplebaum: The Trump White House is destroying our civil service washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
Remember the presidential commission on voter fraud?
One member says it was extraordinarily opaque and it’s mission was to prove Trump’s made-up claims that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in 2016.
It found no such evidence.
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The GSA has granted the Trump Org. $534,000 in rental credit for its D.C. hotel for maintaining the building's historic clock tower.
"It's hard to imagine a more stark, compelling or blatant conflict of interest," Professor Steven L. Schooner said.
washingtonpost.com/business/2018/…
Tyson Foods, the U.S.'s biggest meat producer by sales, has blamed fallout from the Trump admin's recently-imposed tariffs for part of its decision to downgrade its earnings outlook by more than one-tenth.
ft.com/content/81650e…
“They” do not pay the tariffs. We, American consumers, pay the tariffs. Tariffs are taxes.
Turkey's President Erdogan accuses US of "disrespect" as the countries exchange sanctions over the detention of an American pastor. nbcnews.to/2LZJdx7
Judge's ruling invalidates FEC regulation allowing anonymous donations to 'dark money' groups politi.co/2ncpcp7
Trump: I "destroy careers" of Republicans who say bad things about me.
...is what a mob boss would say.
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A glimpse at what Trump is enabling:
"Once we start shooting you f—ers you aren’t going to pop off like you do now," said the voice in @BretStephensNYT voicemail. "You’re worthless, the press is the enemy of the United States people."
nytimes.com/2018/08/03/opi…
UPDATE: The Newseum says the "Fake News" t-shirts have been removed from the gift shop and online:
"We made a mistake and we apologize. A free press is an essential part of our democracy and journalists are not the enemy of the people." nbcnews.to/2Kr51wD
Trump traveled to Lewis Center, Ohio to host his third rally in less than a week.
This was a very telling line:
"We're doing a lot of things that people don't even know about."
Trump brings Jim Jordan on stage at his rally, despite Jordan being accused of failing to report sexual abuse at OSU — abuse that students say he knew was happening.
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