Exclusive: Hacked Emails Take Us Inside the Billionaires’ Club Around Vladimir Putin

‘Exclusive: Hacked Emails Take Us Inside the Billionaires’ Club Around Vladimir Putin
How a little-known lawyer is at the center of a complex nexus of connections between Western fixers, Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Putin—and even Donald Trump’

Week 91

Week 91

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This was a week of widespread and outrageous corruption in the Trump orbit — from Congressman Chris Collins and insider trading, to Secretary Wilbur Ross and grifting, to Secretary of State Kris Kobach miscounting votes, to the “Mar-a-Lago Crowd” controlling the Department of Veterans Affairs, and more. The phrase “drain the swamp” has disappeared from Trump’s vernacular, as he and his apostles appear to be squarely inside the swamp.

US capital ramps up security ahead of white nationalist rally

‘Sunday is likely to be tense. It marks the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville demonstration in which white supremacists and other far-right groups, angry over efforts to remove statues of Confederate leaders, clashed violently with counterprotesters.

One woman was killed and 19 injured when a 20-year-old man drove a car into a group of the counterprotesters.

President Donald Trump, in a low point of his presidency, blamed “both sides” for the bloodshed, a reaction that triggered astonishment among many and was widely seen as escalating tensions.’

U.S. Officials Scrambled Behind the Scenes to Shield NATO Deal From Trump

‘Senior American national security officials, seeking to prevent President Trump from upending a formal policy agreement at last month’s NATO meeting, pushed the military alliance’s ambassadors to complete it before the forum even began.

The rushed machinations to get the policy done, as demanded by John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, have not been previously reported. Described by European diplomats and American officials, the efforts are a sign of the lengths to which the president’s top advisers will go to protect a key and longstanding international alliance from Mr. Trump’s unpredictable antipathy.’

Trump officials pushing Hope Hicks to join 2020 campaign: report

‘Assuming Hope Hicks would be paid to return to the Trump campaign, this is Trump and other Trump campaign officials who are under investigation *offering money* to a young woman who is currently a prospective witness against them in a federal criminal investigation. Process that.

So Trump meets with Hicks both on Air Force One and during two limo rides in Ohio; she has a private conversation with a man she’ll be asked to testify against in a federal case and impeachment hearings; we now learn she has a job offer. Does America realize this isn’t normal?’ – Seth Abramson

The Whole Republican Party Seems to Be Going to Jail Now

List of people charged with/pleading to crimes (so far w indictments still sealed…):

-Trump’s 2nd campaign manager
-Trump’s deputy campaign manager
-Trump’s national security adviser
-Trump’s foreign policy adviser
-Trump’s 1st campaign manager (battery charges later dropped)
-Trump’s first congressional endorser