Cohen, Trump’s Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20M
John Dean to WH staffers: 'Get out!' “Whatever you do, don’t be me”
Trump is paying (RNC campaign fund) Keith Schiller, John McEntee, Brad Parscale & Gary Coby 15k per month. Hush money?🙄
Trump: “I called it my weekend in Moscow; I was with the top level people, both oligarchs & generals & top of the gov’t people. I can’t go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people”
Cohen's lawyer says he's talking to Watergate's John Dean
Trump Lawyers’ Sudden Realization: They Don’t Know What Don McGahn Told Mueller’s Team
CU: “Don McGahn: His uncle Paddy McGahn was boss of Atlantic City & brought gambling & Trump to A.C. That turned out so well that Trump owed $4B & had to be bailed out by RU.”
RU state-controlled media betray the Kremlin’s concern that Trump will be impeached if DEMs win control of the House. They describe the MTs as “the electoral death match.”
Multiple countries In fight against ISIS’s propaganda machine, raids & online trench warfare
Rand Paul got on AF1 this afternoon. He wants Trump to let all RU lawmakers (incl 2 who are banned) into the US, in exchange for Kremlin allowing US lawmakers into RU.
Erik Prince is launching a cable news tour to convince Trump to privatize the war in AFG.
An analysis by NYT found more than 250 examples of exaggerated, misleading or flat-out false claims by Trump re the RU probe.
DEMs:’We're the party of responsible budgets. Elect us if you're mad abt 45 racking up trillion-dollar deficits w/ his gigantic tax cut.’
Russia is contemplate retaliatory acts against the US in reaction to sanctions:
“Start arresting Americans, shut down American businesses in Russia, form an anti-American front with the enemies of the US , steal Western technologies."
📌Rand Paul shenanigans
Trump (Mattis) is planning big changes to the upper ranks of the military as part of an emphasis on stealth operations
Israeli questioning of US Jews (if they do any advocacy work on behalf of Palestinians) at border exposes deeper rift
The average top CEO make $312 to every $1 a worker makes.
Last year a top exec received a 17.6% increase, while the average wage worker received .03% increase.
Divisive Kremlin influenced DSA want free everything w/o a feasible plan to pay for it
EPA Is Set to Roll Back Restrictions on Coal-Burning Power Plants
The Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other conservation programs.😱😱😱
Twitter has a problem with 'toxic' content. CEO Jack Dorsey says he's trying 'everything' to fix it
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Trump has repeatedly promised to support coal despite plummeting costs of cleaner fuels including natural gas, wind and solar
New software helps uncover Mafia crime masked as ordinary business
Suspicious patterns are revealed by crunching financial data
4-in-10 NH GOP Support a 2020 Primary Challenge for Trump
Maduro has a plan to fix VZ’s inflation, which may make things worse
The Women Who Gave Trump the White House Could Tip the Midterms to Democrats
The fate of the House majority may depend on whether working-class white women turn on the GOP this fall—or simply sit out the election.
Federal authorities investigating whether Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, committed bank and tax fraud have zeroed in on well over $20 million in loans obtained by taxi businesses that he and his family own.
nytimes.com/2018/08/19/nyr…
The rise and fall of New York City's 'Taxi King' who reportedly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness against longtime business partner Michael Cohen
businessinsider.com/nyc-taxi-king-…
latimes.com/nation/la-na-p…
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
"House of Trump House of Putin"
nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/…
cnn.com/2018/08/19/pol…
Does the Kremlin have a direct line into CNN?
money.cnn.com/2018/08/19/med…
thinkprogress.org/erik-prince-ca…
These changes are due to expected retirements, & the nominees have sterling credentials, but do require routine Senate confirmations.
dailykos.com/story/2018/8/1…
abcnews.go.com/International/…
Trump is paying the following people 15k per month, via same campaign fund as Omarosa: Keith Schiller, John McEntee, Brad Parscale, and Gary Coby.
fortune.com/2018/08/14/tru…
nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/…
nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/…
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS…
thedailybeast.com/trump-is-ours-…
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
He’s seen this movie before.
Hell, he’s helped make this movie before.
And now he’s saying to White House staffers,
“Whatever you do, don’t be me”:
dailykos.com/story/2018/8/1…
"I called it my weekend in Moscow ... I was with the top level people, both oligarchs & generals & top of the gov’t people. I can’t go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people & ... "
Tortured to death by Putin's jackboot state: Inside the rat-infested Gestapo-like Russian prison where eight guards beat lawyer who exposed Moscow's gangster regime
By @Billbrowder
H/T @PaulHanley12
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Divisive Kremlin influenced DSA want free everything w/o a feasible plan to pay for it.
nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Trump has repeatedly promised to support coal despite plummeting costs of cleaner fuels including natural gas, wind and solar
wsj.com/articles/epa-i…
Suspicious patterns are revealed by crunching financial data
H/T @lauferlaw
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
In 1965, it was 20-to-1.
In 1989, it was 58-to-1.
Last year, it was 270-to-1.
Last year a top exec received a 17.6% increase, while the average wage worker received .03% increase.
abcnews.go.com/Business/us-ce…
Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America
ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…
The Atlas That has Not Shrugged: Why Russia’s Oligarchs are an Unlikely Force for Change
H/T @texdj123
mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116…
A Putin ally's jet arrived in the US within hours of a meeting between Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian operative
H/T @texdj123
businessinsider.com/oleg-deripaska…
Why the U.S. Targeted This Russian Oligarch
The billionaire Oleg Deripaska is no Putin crony, but he helps flood the U.S. with imported aluminum.
bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
insidesources.com/exclusive-4-10…
Let yourself be encouraged by the awesome, beautiful, brilliant goodness that still occupies this place, and allow a new word to ascend to the top spot of your mind, where it belongs.
May Hope trend in your head today.
johnpavlovitz.com/2017/08/10/hop…
🔆We the People standing #UnitedTogether!
🔆We love our friends & Fams.
🔆We love our communities
🔆We love &respect our fellow brothers & sisters!
🔆We have each others’ backs.
🔆We are the land of the Free
🔆We #EmbraceUnity
Folks, brace for impact;
Take heart in knowing 1000s of Patriots have this in hand & we will fine as we emerge on the other side & enjoy a new beginning.
Take ♥️ in knowing that regardless of how crazy things get, the story has a really awesome ending.
We will get through this nightmare together and emerge better, stronger & more resolute because of this challenge.
I am honored to stand with you in this #Fight.
Hang in there! Mueller’s got this!
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August 19, 2018
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