‘But through a process that Kemp calls voter roll maintenance and his opponents call voter roll purges, Kemp’s office has cancelled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012. Nearly 670,000 registrations were cancelled in 2017 alone.’
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The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Haven’t Gone Away
NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to SCOTUS, but the ethics complaints filed against him haven’t gone away — per letter just made public, Chief Justice John Roberts is transferring them to the 10th Circuit
Californian Who Unwittingly Aided Russian Election Interference Gets 6 Months in Prison
BREAKING: Mueller takes down another bad actor.
‘The man, Richard Pinedo, was the third defendant to be sentenced in the investigation of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russia’s election interference and whether any Trump associates conspired. He was also ordered to serve six months of home detention after his time in prison.’
Nikki Haley has up to $1 million in debt as she steps down as U.N. ambassador
‘Federal ethics reports show Nikki Haley had debt from $525,000 to about $1.1 million in 2017 from two credit cards, a mortgage and a line of credit last year.’
Rick Gates Sought Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm for Trump Campaign
HUGE: ‘Rick Gates, a top Trump campaign aide, requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton
Scoop: Trump has accepted Nikki Haley’s resignation
BREAKING: President Trump has accepted Nikki Haley’s resignation as UN Ambassador, according to two sources briefed on their conversation. The timing of her departure is still unclear.
AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers
‘A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.’
Hope Hicks Lands As Communications Chief for New Fox
Hope Hicks Lands As Communications Chief for New Fox
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State Media – Trump controls Fox’s message.
‘Hicks, who joined the Trump campaign early on and was considered the president’s most-trusted advisor, left the White House at the end of March. At the time, Hicks did not announce her plans for the future, though some have speculated that she could return to the Trump administration in some capacity.’
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?
‘But Trump’s victory appeared to elevate Alfa Bank’s connections there—at least by association. Don McGahn, the White House counsel, came from Jones Day, one of the law firms that represent Alfa Bank in the United States. McGahn brought five Jones Day lawyers with him into the White House; six more were appointed to senior posts in the Administration. Jones Day has done work for businesses belonging to a long list of Russian oligarchs, including Oleg Deripaska, Viktor Vekselberg, and Alexander Mashkevich. The firm has also represented the Trump campaign in its dealings with Robert Mueller. For this reason, McGahn secured an ethics waiver that allows him to talk to his old firm when its clients have business before the U.S. government.’
China watchers see no evidence of Beijing tampering with elections
‘Experts that have long tracked Beijing’s espionage operations and propaganda campaigns say Donald Trump’s claim that China is meddling in the midterms does not ring true’