Month: August 2019

US Senate fails to override a series of vetoes issued by President Trump, allowing the admin. to move forward with plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. https://t.co/5HD3BHeeMG

Russians & Brexit – no way! 

The new revelation comes as authorities in the UK are investigating the funding behind a pro-Brexit campaign, and whether it might have included illegal foreign donations. The National Crime Agency (NCA) is investigating the insurance executive and political donor Arron Banks, who was suspected by the UK’s Electoral Commission of not being the “true source” of £8m in funding to the Leave.EU campaign. The matter was referred to the NCA by the commission after it said it had “reasonable grounds” to suspect a number of criminal offences.

BREAKING

“Today’s report reveals new and extensive evidence that corroborates Committee whistleblowers and exposes how corporate and foreign interests are using their unique access to advocate for the transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The American people deserve to know the facts about whether the White House is willing to place the potential profits of the President’s personal friends above the national security of the American people and the universal objective of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.”

Reminder: What provoked Trump’s attacks on Cummings? New facts about crime or poverty in Baltimore? Nope. It was that Cummings’ committee voted to subpoena work-related texts and emails on personal accounts by WH officials, including Ivanka and Jared. https://t.co/1n5qkEuNMo

Remember – DURING – 9/11 – as it was happening – Trump famously stated that he now had the highest building in lower Manhattan…
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Details about Navalny’s condition were scarce after Navalny was rushed to a hospital Sunday from a detention facility where he was serving a 30-day sentence for calling an unsanctioned protest. He was arrested several days before a major opposition rally on Saturday that ended with nearly 1,400 people detained.

Mulvaney, like Trump, claimed Mueller’s testimony about his investigation into Russian election meddling had cleared the president of any wrongdoing, and falsely said Mueller had testified that he would “absolutely not” have indicted Trump if he weren’t the president. 

“No, that’s not what he said,” said host Chris Wallace.

“He said we didn’t because of the OLC, the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines,” Wallace said, referring to a 2000 Justice Department determination that “a sitting President is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution.”

“I actually just think you’re wrong on that,” Mulvaney said.

“The record will show what it shows. I promise you, you’re wrong,” Wallace replied.