If your head is spinning after today, welcome to the club. It’s part of their MO.
Let’s have a review, because perhaps you’ve forgotten just how bad things are for Trump.
Let’s have a review, because perhaps you’ve forgotten just how bad things are for Trump.
As of yesterday evening:
Trump’s been outed as asking a foreign government to interfere in our elections in exchange for aide, among other things, and covering it up.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Trump’s been outed as asking a foreign government to interfere in our elections in exchange for aide, among other things, and covering it up.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Oh, and he’s hiding all kinds of other stuff too.
cnn.com/2019/09/27/pol…
cnn.com/2019/09/27/pol…
Whistleblowers here, whistleblowers there.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Giuliani—mutual lawyer to Trump and money launderer Zarrab—is/was in deep deep D-E-E-P sh*t.
His biz/Ukraine extortion buddies had been arrested.
nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/…
His biz/Ukraine extortion buddies had been arrested.
nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/…
And then another Ukraine extortion buddy had been arrested.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/11/and…
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/10/11/and…
And then ANOTHER ONE.
miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Turns out Giuliani is under investigation.
nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/…
Turns out Giuliani’s under COUNTER INTELLIGENCE investigation.
Maybe it had something to do with him picking up where Mike Flynn left off.
washingtonpost.com/politics/giuli…
washingtonpost.com/politics/giuli…
Volker had resigned and headed straight for Capitol Hill to answer questions.
nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/…
Then showed up again unexpectedly.
We’d been reading the “well *I’M* not gonna eat this sh*t sandwich” texts Trump’s admins sent to each other in the middle of the night.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Maria Yovanovitch corroborates that Trump’s a narcissistic mobster squatting in the White House.
pbs.org/newshour/world…
pbs.org/newshour/world…
Fiona Hill had testified that Trump’s choices put us all at risk.
Sondland: I DEFINITELY do not want to eat this prison-grade sh*t sandwich.
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Trump’s outed for asking his Secretary of State to make Turkey’s money laundering/DOJ problem go away.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2nd Circuit had just ruled that, yeah, the House SHOULD have those financial records.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Cuomo had just signed a law allowing NY State to prosecute those Trump has pardoned. Gee, if some of their laundered money has passed through a bank with a branch in NY, they could be in trouble!
cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Turkey + Iran’s money laundering machine - Halkbank - had been indicted.
DC had just unsealed a stunning indictment demonstrating that they - and our allies - can track crypto payments anywhere and everywhere, AND that people who do disgusting, horrifying things to children have no f*cking place to hide.
justice.gov/opa/pr/south-k…
justice.gov/opa/pr/south-k…
Annnd….he’s melting down.
So, what to do? WHAT. TO. DO…Trump can’t have us thinking about all that 👆, much less letting it take hold in our brains.
Well, he’s picked up a few things from his sugar Vladdy.
rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
Well, he’s picked up a few things from his sugar Vladdy.
rand.org/pubs/perspecti…
He’d already created chaos…
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
But apparently even that’s not enough to make us forget about how much deep sh*t Trump, Giuliani, et al are really in. They needed more.
So, release a batsh*t letter. Has it actually been sent? Who knows? And, for Trump, who cares? What matters for him is that we talk about the embarrassing, insane, this-can’t-be-real letter, and not all the money laundering and crimes.
cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Then, shock and awe.
TODAY, here is a timeline of all the insane sh*t that emanated from the White House (times approximate):
TODAY, here is a timeline of all the insane sh*t that emanated from the White House (times approximate):
12:30: Lindsey Graham holds a press conference listing all the ways he says he thinks Turkey should be sanctioned by Congress.
1:30: Mulvaney holds a press conference telling us that Trump’s decided to have a certain high profile event at Mar-a-Lago (except, oops, he confirms Trump’s extortion scheme, AGAIN, in the process)
1:45: as Lindsey finishes his soliloquy on sanctions, and Mulvaney sets phones buzzing about who’ll be the bed bugs’ roommates next summer, Pence announces he’s reached an agreement with Turkey - it’s a cease fire and no sanctions needed! WHAAAAAT?
2:30: Lindsey Graham tweets how he continues to live in Trump’s butt.
2:30: Turkey - yeah, whatever Pence said: NO.
2:30: Trump says Turkey needed to “clean out” the place; thanks Turkey, says Erdogan—president of Turkey, the country that owns just-indicted-for-money-laundering-with-Erdogan’s-help HALKBANK—is his friend.
Ready for the Friday news dump?
