Huh? Nunes is in a super conservative district. Trump beat Hillary by 10 pts there. Obama lost it by double digits twice. Nunes won with 67% in 2016. Hardly a barometer for November.

First the Eagles, then Sessions loses the sanctuary city lawsuit in Philly:


Federal Judge Sides With Philadelphia In Sanctuary City Lawsuit Against Trump Administration « CBS Philly

Ivanka Trump being investigated for meetings with an Olympic Russian weightlifter who offered a Trump/Putin meeting:


https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycorm...bE#.usKVxdvQDR

This feels like an Onion article.

CBC News has confirmed a CNN report that Trudeau and U.S. President Trump had a 'testy' phone call in May about U.S. tariffs. Trudeau asked how Canada could be a national security threat. Trump brought up the burning of the White House in 1812. Background: https://t.co/qAWj0uq7RS

— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) June 6, 2018

:::insert Picard facepalm here:::

I mean, he's not wrong.


The best part of all of this is it's paving the way for President Kanye West in 2020.

4chan, Anonymous, Russian hackers, please please find a recording of this conversation. I really want to hear how Trudeau reacted to that one.

Lol...good heavens.

Trump gave clemency to the person Kim K was lobbying for.

Meanwhile in Stormy Daniels news, Michael Avernatti has filed a lawsuit on her behalf against her first lawyer, Keith Davidson-saying he colluded with Michael Cohen with the President's knowledge.

Trudeau said "Well, you guys did also burn Toronto. Twice."

To which Trump replied, "Yeah, well he was an Indian. Not a good friend of the Lone Ranger."

Giuliani: Kim Jong-un 'begged' for summit to take place - BBC News

Do they (Trump and Underlings) even want this to happen ? I honestly wonder if they wouldn't be happier if the NKs again cancelled on the basis of the rhetoric coming from the US side. "Hey, at least we tried but those bad and crazy North Koreans just don't want to negotiate!"

So here is a weird story. CNBC tried to contact an architect, originally from New Jersey, but now working in Eastern Europe where he's had an architecture firm for the last 10 years, because of his connections to Trump. He had designed many Trump projects, some never started, and Trump liked him a lot.



8 hours after the reporter contacted her (and he did not respond to an email or phone calls), he announced on Twitter he was closing his firm of 10 years. Soon thereafter he closed the Twitter account too. By the end of the week all of his content had been removed from his company's website with a message stating he was going to work for a NJ based engineering company. He has not responded to any of CNBC's messages since:


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/how-...rn-europe.html

The Senate quietly approved a resolution to allow Senate intel to work with the DOJ on a pending investigation. The two chairman of the committee Burr and Warner are not commenting on the resolution.



Manu Raju‏Verified account @mkraju 3h3 hours ago




The Senate quietly approved a resolution tonight allowing Senate Intel to assist DOJ on a “pending investigation. The Committee is cooperating with the Department on this matter,” per Burr and Warner, referring questions to DOJ


May have something to do with Devin Nunes and House Intel committee leaking Senator Warner's texts with someone connected with Christopher Steele who he has been trying to contact back in March:


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/u...?smid=pl-share

The Canada/War of 1812 comment was bad, but this may be up there as well:

Trump speculates about why the Coast Guard made so many rescues in Texas during #Harvey: “People went out in their boats to watch the hurricane. That didn’t work out too well.”

— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) June 6, 2018

No, Donald, folks in Houston didn't go out in boats to watch the hurricane. Coast Guard was rescuing people on shore that were flooded out of their homes.

Apparently there's lots of "Executive Time" in today's Presidential schedule.

So... we've seen this movie before:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...ocial_facebook

Broke: Comparing Trump to Hitler


Woke: Comparing Trump to Kaiser Wilhelm

Yeah, you go girl.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/polit...ani/index.html

So they were talking a little bit more about this today, but still tight-lipped. Apparently its a former Senate intelligence Committee aide disclosing classified info. They have not officially said the name, but others have found out that it Sen. Feinstein's ex-aide apparently.

so this kind of snuck up on me today. I know some Democratic members of Congress and others have been talking about taking legal action against the Trump Organization because of the Foreign Emoluments Clause (foreign gifts). I did not know they had started the process. Judge heard first arguments today:


Trump Organization Deals In Asia Fuel Debate On Emoluments Lawsuit : NPR


Also I was incorrect about the Paul Manafort hearing. It's taking place tomorrow, so he could be going to jail then.

Well that didn't work out like they hoped.

NBC/WSJ poll: in swing House districts, knowing that a candidate supports Trump tax-cut bill makes voters LESS likely to back the candidate by a margin of 12 percentage points https://t.co/493qx2CnZl

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 7, 2018

You know, I have been trying to figure out Giuliani's end game ever since he was brought on.

I mean, Giuliani is the consummate smarmy politician. He has his ugly failures and skeletons just like anyone. And he definitely doesn't have the polished respect that someone like McCain, for instance, gets in some quarters.

But I don't think he's stupid. Abit too willing to take his time at the mike, completely in bed with special interests and staunchly supportive of the Republican Party (whatever that is), but not dumb.

So now, here he is, saying stupid stuff, sometimes being contradicted by Trump himself and being another off the cuff mouthpiece for an admimistration that already has too many leaks and official/unofficial sources.

And to me, Rudy G comes off as just another fool, playing this political game that I suspect will end up sealing him off from ever mattering.again once it's done.

I don't see a positive here for him, and I don't get it.

looks really interesting, would love to hear it

Is the blue wave crashing? 11 experts on Democrats’ chances in 2018.

Pretty well done Trump.

Leave it at that, no stupid followups please.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ant...ide/index.html

So, um, legal people: what use does a dead person whose conviction was overturned have for a pardon?

I think he is enjoying the limelight for now.

I think he wins if Trump "wins" (and he's not fired before). Trump's base will support Rudy if Trump is supportive of him.

If he is fired, then he is likely doomed in the dung heap of history.

He'd pardon a guy for refusing to honor his drafting because of his belief that the war and country were racist? So what, again, is the NFL fight about?

Ali's conviction was overturned if I remember correctly. There is nothing to pardon.

Which is he now saying he wants kneeling athletes to recommend friends of theirs, or people they know of that have been unduly convicted and he will look at pardons for them.

This is what happens when somebody really has no deep seated convictions or firm beliefs, they become tofu, absorbing the beliefs/agenda of whomever is in their ear last.

This

impossible to overstate how clueless this idiot is

If Trump starts randomly pardoning people that don't even have convictions, the next step is pardons for fictional characters. I'd personally like him to take a serious look at those two guys from Shawshank Redemption.

Yeah I think that prisoner in The Wizard of Id comic strip has been behind bars too long.

Mueller adds an indictment to Manafort's list, and brings new charges against his Russian/Ukranian partner business partner Konstanin Kilimnik:


https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidne...0d#.igORWg7war


Edit: Mueller is seeking to seize the following assets from Manafort: 4 houses, Life insurance policy, 2 bank/investment accounts

G7: Trump says Russia should be part of summit - BBC News


Putin really couldn't have found a better puppet.

Putin doesn't want to be part of it. He wants it destroyed.

I think he's just Putin us on.

Thanks to my loyal sponsors from @potcoin and my team at @Prince_Mrketing , I will be flying to Singapore for the historical Summit. I'll give whatever support is needed to my friends, @realDonaldTrump and Marshall Kim Jong Un. pic.twitter.com/QGPZ8nPrBE

— Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman) June 8, 2018

Looks like a sitcom. Two and half crazy men.

So we can give the Nobel Prize to Rodman then? Wouldn't that frost Donald?

Again, we are at the point in US geopolitical relations where Dennis Rodman sponsored by what I can only assume is some half baked Bitcoin company and a marketing company I’ve never heard of is rolling into town to support one of the biggest diplomatic conferences in recent memory, and we all go “yeah, I can see it”. What a time to be alive.

I hope Macron and Trudeau speak only french to each other when they are around Trump, and regularly drop "Mueller" in their conversation.

— Jᴀsᴏɴ W. Tᴀʏʟᴏʀ (@JWadeTaylor) June 7, 2018

:D

LOL Cartman

The Trump administration has declined to defend key provisions of the Affordable Care Act in court, essentially arguing that protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be declared unconstitutional. https://t.co/NLbeGY9q95

— NPR (@NPR) June 9, 2018

So here's the full story about the leaker from the Senate Intelligence Committee staff:


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...porter-n881186

Why Guiliani may be sticking up for Trump:

Giuliani had an affair with his 2nd wife while still married to his 1st wife, when he was NYC Mayor. His 1st wife was his cousin. His 2nd wife was his press secretary, so she was on his payroll. He then cheated on his 2nd wife with his 3rd wife. Now he's preaching about morals ��

— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) June 8, 2018

Yep, which seems to have effectively happened. Putin seems likely to be one of those figures in history that folks will still be writing books about in 500 years' time. Assuming there's anyone left to read them, anyway.

He's such an easy mark.