Day 628 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 418 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 #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
Real-time American gun violence numbers for 2018:
•13,083 gun deaths
•25,225 gun injuries
•598 children shot
•2,535 teenagers shot
•1,792 armed home invasions
•1,582 incidents of defensive gun use
•1,422 unintentional shootings
•317 mass shootings
Bill Shine will receive $3.5 million bonuses from the parent company of Fox News this year and next year, even while working for Donald Trump's White House:
hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-shin…
Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now more than 14,000 are in U.S. custody.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
sfchronicle.com/nation/article…
North Korea ignoring Donald Trump as nuclear site expands, report says bit.ly/2R8lxWu
Ri Yong Ho, the North’s foreign minister, bemoaned America’s “coercive methods, which are lethal to trust-building”
econ.st/2R9f3qC
The New York State Supreme Court denied the motion to dismiss lawsuit against the Trump Foundation and its directors: @realDonaldTrump, Donald J. Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.
Trump Foundation lawsuit: New York state judge rejects Trump claim that he can't be sued because he is president cnbc.com/2018/11/23/new…
Senate Dem on Armed Services panel: Trump lying about CIA report on Khashoggi @CNNPolitics
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“They look at Washington and they don’t see a champion of freedom and human rights.
They see a preening, clueless clown.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
Saudi Arabia's crown prince had been overseeing a negotiation with the Energy Department and the State Department to get the United States to sell designs for nuclear power plants to the kingdom
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Rep.-elect Tom Malinowski on CNN on Trump believing the Saudi Crown Prince over Jamal Khashoggi: "It seems like [Trump] instinctively sympathizes with powerful leaders who are accused of moral transgressions, and I don't think it's too hard to figure out why that is."
Adam Schiff confirms the House Intel Committee will be examining what intelligence concluded about Khashoggi's murder and whether Trump is downplaying the findings, along with other questions related to Trump's response to the Khashoggi murder.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
Schiff says Intel Dems will delve into Trump's financial entanglements — on the Saudi matter and others.
"There are a whole set of potential financial conflicts ... and emoluments problems that Congress will need to get to the bottom of."
washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
France says that it has imposed sanctions, including travel bans, on 18 Saudi citizens linked to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and says more could follow depending on results of an investigation, according to Reuters.
reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Trump has spent about 1/3 of his days at Trump properties, and about 1/4 of his days at a Trump golf club.
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
Reminder: Trump said if elected, he would never see his golf courses ... would be working all the time #TrumpLies
MI6 chiefs are secretly battling Trump to stop him publishing classified info linked to the Russia probe.
The UK is warning that Trump would undermine intel gathering if he releases pages of an FBI app to wiretap one of his ex-campaign advisers. telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/2…
Russian arms dealers wanted to supply a Mexican drug cartel with weapons from the Hungarian Defense Forces to shoot down US helicopters.
It was a secret DEA sting operation, but the Russians managed to escape US extradition - thanks to Hungary
direkt36.hu/en/ket-orosz-f…
Roger Stone associate and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with Robert Mueller, a person with knowledge of the talks tells WaPo. washingtonpost.com/politics/stone…
Jerome Corsi, an associate of Roger Stone, confirms to the AP that he's in plea talks with Mueller's team.
apne.ws/20dAETp
Roger Stone on associate Jerome Corsi: "It is clear from his recent videos and his recent interviews that my friend Dr. Corsi has been under a tremendous amount of pressure and it is beginning to affect him profoundly." apne.ws/20dAETp
Many have been asking, "Where's Jared?"
Jared Kushner is in Rajasthan for a friend's wedding: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jared-ku…
When Matt Whitaker was a U.S. Attorney, his office was more likely than all but one other in the U.S. to impose the harshest sentences on drug offenders, according to a finding by an Iowa federal judge who it called a "deeply troubling disparity."
washingtonpost.com/politics/as-us…
That the administration is doing this today — on a day when many offices are closed and people are not at work and are out shopping or with their families or friends somewhere and not paying attention to the news — should not be lost on anyone.
buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
A massive new federal report warns that extreme weather disasters, like California's wildfires and this year's hurricanes, are worsening in the U.S.
The White House report quietly issued today also frequently contradicts Trump. apne.ws/y8s9BDG
When Bill McBride was asked if stock jitters foretold an imminent recession. "I do not see any signs of a recession," he said.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Then Larry Kudlow said everything was fine, and he emailed back: “Just saw Kudlow’s remarks. Maybe I’m wrong!”
Trump’s frustration with his Fed chair has splashed up on many (and has become a regular gripe.) WSJ reports Mnuchin is getting a lot of the blame. wsj.com/articles/trump…
Trump on Friday quickly fired back at a Wall Street Journal report that he had openly expressed dissatisfaction with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, slamming it as another example of "fake news."
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In case you missed yesterday's thread:
The Department of Homeland Security wants to use credit scores to decide who gets to become a legal resident: slate.trib.al/x8r9g87
LOL. Someone hacked Trump's Wikipedia page, replaced photo with image of penis.
newsweek.com/someone-hacked…
The US has spent more than $1 trillion and lost more than 2400 troops in Afghanistan, without much to show for it brook.gs/2iorfqy