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It’s good to laugh sometimes, people.
There’s so much bad shit happening. We gotta find time to laugh.
“Between me and Meryl at least we’ve had some victories,” was a genuinely great line.
The whistleblower has become a red herring similar to the dossier.
Mostly correct and a critical conversation starter? Yes.
Relevant after a mountain of additional evidence has been released? No, not really.
Mostly correct and a critical conversation starter? Yes.
Relevant after a mountain of additional evidence has been released? No, not really.
Anyone who attacks the whistleblower is gaslighting for the sake of distracting everyone from the other hugely voluminous amount of damning evidence.
The whistleblower, like Chris Steele, is a profile in not only courage but heroism.
Now, it would be a monumental mistake to make the focus of the Ukraine scandal him or her or even what s/he reported.
Now, it would be a monumental mistake to make the focus of the Ukraine scandal him or her or even what s/he reported.
Holy moly. Pew finds that 58% of Americans say Trump has probably or definitely committed impeachable acts. This includes 20% of Republicans. 
Pew had 57% of independents favoring the impeachment inquiry
61.5ish % of people under 50 support this inquiry
I'm not sure the public appreciates how much of Putin's longterm agenda has been accomplished by Trump moves in just 1000 days. The 2016 attack paid off for Putin tens times over.
It's not fun to say that and it's not a commentary on Putin or Russia but rather an objective look at studies and expert sentiment.
A longterm goal of Putin's: Chaos in Democracies like the US. Anyone who pays attention to politics know that this is one of the most polarized times in modern US history. Trump's attacks on the FBI and CIA (entrapment during 2016 nonsense) are music to Putin's ears, as well.
This article blew my mind vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/t…
"In the last 10 minutes of trading on Friday, August 23, as the markets were roiling in the face of more bad trade news, someone bought 386,000 September e-minis. Three days later, Trump lied about getting a call from China to restart the trade talks..."
"...and the S&P 500 index shot up nearly 80 points. The potential profit on the trade was more than $1.5 billion."
BREAKING: FBI *counterintelligence* agents have been probing Giuliani’s dealings for months cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
This fits with my reporting from 2 days ago that federal investigators were tracking *the money* behind Parnas and tracked it back to Kremlin sources.
The Russian businessmen funding Parnas were identified as possible 2020 election interference agents.
49 Americans were slaughtered in a nightclub by a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS.
14 Americans were slaughtered at their company Christmas party by two people who pledged allegiance to ISIS.
8 Americans were murdered on a bike path in NYC when a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS used a truck as a battering ram.
I find it very concerning that Victoria Toensing, who has been thrust into the middle of the Ukraine scandal, has a son who moved from her law firm (the same law firm that signed up to rep Firtash and Parnas) to DOJ as Senior Counsel under Bill Barr.
Brady Toensing's bio: linkedin.com/in/brady-toens…
Hunter Biden being on Burisma's board was a national disaster though.
SOURCE with direct knowledge: The Giuliani Grand Jury has compiled info on Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian oligarch who paid Giuliani in 2017-2018. Fuks previously tried to build Trump Tower Moscow in the 2000s. @rebeccaballhaus brought up Fuks name in her piece yesterday.
Fuks, while negotiating with Trump in the 2000s to build Trump Tower Moscow had a Cyprus LLC managed by the lawyer who.... managed the developer of the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2015/2016
The lawyer, Christodoulos Vassiliades, is infamous for his Russian money laundering clients: Firtash, Mogilevich, Kerimov, etc
NEW: Rep Pete Sessions subpoenaed in Giuliani probe. wsj.com/articles/ex-re…
Confirmation here that a Grand Jury has been convened.
"Mr. Giuliani is the primary focus of the subpoena"
This can't be real. Mike Flynn somehow got Joseph Mifsud's phone data?
If Stephan Roh is feeding Mike Flynn info from Joseph Mifsud's phone, I'm going to rip my hair out.
Barr flies to Italy, meets with Roh, gets a bullshit affidavit from Mifsud and now apparently feeds Mike Flynn info that was on Mifsud's phone. 2019.
Ronan Farrow reports in Catch and Kill that Harvey Weinstein was part of the Hillary Clinton campaign's "brain trust"
Weinstein was emailing back and forth with Clinton's Campaign Manager Robby Mook.
Farrow quotes a conversation he had with Nick Merrill, Clinton's Press Secretary who said that the Weinstein story was "a concern for us"
Reminder that Giuliani was telling people that he had to borrow $100k from Marc Mukasey to pay his taxes this year. It doesn't add up. dailycaller.com/2019/07/25/giu…
Mukasey has represented Trump, Joel Zamel and many others.
Giuliani and Mukasey also teamed up to rep Reza Zarrab. Trump, according to reports, tried to get the money laundering case into Zarrab dropped.
The Delaware Secretary of State's office just confirmed to me that "Fraud Guarantee LLC" was cancelled June 1, 2018 because they did not pay taxes. Giuliani says he was paid in August 2018.
The only other possibility here is that Giuliani was paid by "Fraud Guarantee Holdings LLC", a SEPARATE, previously unreported LLC set up in February 2016. That entity, per the Delaware gov, is now also delinquent in its taxes.
Exclusive docs show that "Fraud Guarantee Holdings LLC" was set up by the indicted David Correia.
Two federal sources have told me that Parnas is paid by Russian businessmen close to the Kremlin and state-owned Russian institutions. The sources were tracking the money long before Giuliani popped up. “We know who pays Parnas and it isn’t pretty”
The businessmen were identified many months ago as possible Kremlin political influence operators that may disrupt the 2020 elections.
This prediction has come true. The Russian businessmen have successfully funneled money to the President’s lawyer
BREAKING: Giuliani received half a million dollars from the indicted Ukrainian Lev Parnas reut.rs/32gaxfz
Reminder that Lev Parnas is paid by Dmitry Firtash, a senior Russian mafia leader. Giuliani has lined his pockets with blood money.
I deleted my original reaction because my mom said I’m using the f word too much.
.@forensicnewsnet will be ending all ads on Facebook moving forward
I defended Facebook last week but this story clearly demonstrates Zuckerberg’s right wing agenda. I don’t want to participate in that.
The lack of transparency is a huge issue here. @forensicnewsnet won’t be associated with that.
Confirming that this is the video shown at the Trump event.
This is just one section of the video. Trump pistol whips the late John McCain. Absolutely vile.
A Youtube account posted the video in September 2018. Not sure if that is where it originated or how it got all the way to Trump’s inner circle. It has 77 views.
Oh no Tom got triggered by a funny woman, everybody :/
It never ceases to amaze me how “old school values” people like Tom act like they’re 8 years old when a strong woman says something
66% of women support same sex marriage compared to 57% of men. So Warren is, first of all, correct that it’s more likely to be a man that opposes same sex marriage. pewforum.org/fact-sheet/cha…
Parnas was hired by Joe diGenova as a "translator" for Dmitry Firtash? Do these people think we are morons?
Oh damn, I need a translator really quick for this Russian mafiosio. I know, I'll hire the Ukrainian dude who is breaking US laws left and right and meeting with Trump and Giuliani to try to win in 2020.
And then I'll get my Russian mafioso client to let the Ukrainian prosecutor who my "translator" and Giuliani are working with to give a bullshit affidavit framing the Democrats and Biden!
Hate to break it to everyone but Trump's approval hasn't budged a bit.
STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP saying these are bad polls. 538 weights for bias and many other factors.
The lowest it has ever been (35% in 2017) is 114,000,000 people. The way to defeat whatever the fuck Trump/Pence stand for isn't to insult these people. Are a good chunk racist, unpatriotic losers? YEP! Are some good people who have been brainwashed? YEP!
Wow. Italian press: Joseph Mifsud's Russian funded lawyer got 5% of the company that manages Link Campus in Rome at an EXTREME discount in 2016. Roh paid €250k for the 5% at a valuation of 5M. One problem, the company a year later had a €35M value. pressreader.com/italy/il-fatto…
The newspaper reports that Roh then had an agreement to find a buyer to purchase 40% of the company for €20M. He never found a buyer and his 5% was relinquished. This appears to be a (failed) attempt by Roh to find Russian funders so he could get rich quick.
The report notes that Roh brought Russian Senator Alexey Klishin to Link in late 2016, perhaps to woo him to buy the 40%.
BREAKING: Trump pressured Tillerson to drop a case into Reza Zarrab - A Turkish/Iranian gold trader who was a client of Rudy’s bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This came just months after Flynn tried to free Zarrab - an event that Mueller probed nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
“investigators are examining whether Flynn and other participants discussed a way to free a Turkish-Iranian gold trader, Reza Zarrab, who is jailed in the U.S.”
