Month: July 2018

I keep reading that if the FBI wasn’t out to “get Trump” they would have warned him about the Russian threat when they discovered it. THEY DID. In July 2016.

‘In the weeks after he became the Republican nominee on July 19, 2016, Donald Trump was warned that foreign adversaries, including Russia, would probably try to spy on and infiltrate his campaign, according to multiple government officials familiar with the matter.

The candidates were urged to alert the FBI about any suspicious overtures to their campaigns, the officials said.’ https://goo.gl/f5RTgo

Must Read – This story ties together a lot of what is going on – if you need a primer on what is going on – take the time to stay informed!

‘It never should have gotten to this point. The political pundits are still busy debating whether Trump impeachment is a good fall political strategy for the Democrats or a losing hand. But things have already moved way beyond that. If we’re at the point where we can tolerate soliciting foreign governments for help in a presidential election, using stolen data, reality-bending psychological warfare and voter suppression of blacks to win, a president and his son-in-law senior adviser profiting from deals while sitting in the White House, slush funds to pay off mistresses and God knows what else, and then making life-or-death decisions based on all of these utterly corrupt things, then the United States is not a country anymore. How much worse does the worst political scandal in American history have to get before the people who actually can do something wake up and do something?’ https://goo.gl/93VKrX

‘Futerfas said George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, was at the meeting with Trump Jr. The Times reported that Nader told Trump Jr. “that the crown princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president.”

The other attendees were Joel Zamel, an Israeli and social media specialist, who presented “a multi-million dollar proposal,” for an effort to help Trump, and GOP donor Erik Prince –a former Navy SEAL, brother of current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater — who arranged the meeting, according to the Times.’ https://goo.gl/Xxyc2Z

‘The Swedish government has begun sending all 4.8m of the country’s households a public information leaflet telling the population, for the first time in more than half a century, what to do in the event of a war.

Om krisen eller kriget kommer (If crisis or war comes) explains how people can secure their basic needs such as food, water and heat, what a range of alarms and warnings mean, and how they can contribute to Sweden’s “total defence”.’ https://goo.gl/VdDrXt

‘China will increase its purchase of American goods and services in order to reduce the multibillion-dollar trade imbalance with the United States, the two countries said in a joint statement Saturday.

How much the imbalance will be reduced remains to be seen.

Trump administration officials had said during negotiations this week that China was prepared to make up to $200 billion in additional purchases. Notably absent from Saturday’s announcement were any dollar figures — or a sense of the scale of the agreed-upon increases.’ https://goo.gl/bSkLPY

This is the 2nd Stone associate to be subpoenaed this week.
‘Breaking: U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest sign that Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election is increasingly focusing on Stone.’ https://goo.gl/PavS1F

‘If Trump succeeds in raising shipping charges for Amazon in retaliation for articles written at the Washington Post, that would violate the First Amendment. Thank goodness we still have the Constitution to protect us against tyranny.’ https://goo.gl/5nKk1n

‘In an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combined stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in GOP-leaning states.’ https://goo.gl/tVBmaJ

Guess we have to wait another while before it isn’t too soon after a school shooting to talk about policy change…

‘Someone opened fire at a high school in the southeastern Texas city of Santa Fe on Friday morning, officials said, leaving more than one person injured and students running from the school.

A suspect in the shooting at Santa Fe High School has been arrested, assistant principal Cris Richardson told reporters near the school.’ https://goo.gl/yYzFt9

‘The White House will announce Friday that it is reviving a rule similar to one proposed during the Reagan administration barring groups that provide abortions or refer patients for the procedure from receiving federal funding, a Trump administration official speaking on background tells NPR.’ https://goo.gl/mupHvs