Trump, his whole clown show of an administration, and the dummys that chant(ed) the garbage they were fed by these dbags, are all turning America into a joke.
Imagine if Hillary won, or Obama did any of this stuff, unbelievable.
There would be thousands of Republican lead investigations.
FBI Director James B. Comey said at a hearing last week that it made him “mildly nauseous” to think that he may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 campaign.
New revelations about his apparently botched testimony are liable to make Democrats — and Comey — a little more than mildly nauseous. And they are going to damage Comey's best defense of his actions.
The Post's Devlin Barrett has confirmed ProPublica's reporting that Comey misstated key details of an investigation into Hillary Clinton at a hearing last week.
Specifically at issue are Comey's statements that:
1. Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails” from Clinton's private email server to her husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, as part of a “regular practice” of forwarding emails for Weiner to print out for Clinton, and …
2. These emails contained classified information.
Barrett reports that this first claim is just not true and the second one obscures the fact that the few classified emails weren't marked classified at the time:
Neither of those statements are accurate, according to people close to the investigation. The investigation found that Abedin did occasionally forward emails to her husband for printing, but it was a far smaller number than described by Comey, and it wasn’t a “regular practice,’’ these people said. None of the forwarded emails were marked classified but a small number — a handful, according one person said — contained information that was later judged to contain classified information, these people said.
To be clear, these weren't just small details that emerged from Comey's testimony on Wednesday; they were the headline for many new outlets that covered Comey's visit to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including The Post.
President Trump’s upset November victory never seems to be far from the White House’s mind.
On Tuesday, Dan Scavino, the White House director of social media, celebrated the six-month anniversary of the election by tweeting a screen grab of the late night phone call in which Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton called to concede to Republican candidate Donald Trump. Scavino promised to share video of the conversation
McCain is a paper tiger. besides, he loves the fact that trump want to pour untold riches into his beloved military. he'll turn a blind eye to everything to have that happen.
its unfortunate... once upon a time a guy like McCain was seen as a voice of reason on the GOP side of things, recalling a era when both parties could debate issues without the crass vitriol that derails any kind of substantive debate...
the "Maverick" clearly cashed in those chips when he allied himself with Palin in a move that was all about winning and no longer about principle.
Seeing what the modern GOP has become in their single minded pursuit of power should give any clear minded American some pause.
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Apparently a look into the Wisconsin's voter suppression policies have found over 200,000 votes were suppressed in a State where Trump only won by 22,748 votes.
Quote:
Prior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016. He brought his expired Illinois photo ID, birth certificate, and Social Security card to get a photo ID for voting in Wisconsin, but the DMV in Milwaukee rejected his application because the name on his birth certificate read “Eddie Junior Holloway,” the result of a clerical error when it was issued. Holloway ended up making seven trips to different public agencies in two states and spent over $200 in an attempt to correct his birth certificate, but he was never able to obtain a voter ID in Wisconsin. Before the election, his lawyer for the ACLU told me Holloway was so disgusted he left Wisconsin for Illinois.
Holloway’s story was sadly familiar in 2016. According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsin’s voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
The study compared turnout in states that adopted strict voter-ID laws between 2012 and 2016, like Wisconsin, to states that did not.
I never realized how bad US voter suppression was before. Why is the electoral system in the US so ######ed that it is partisan and not independent? Why is it politicians can choose their voters and not voters choose the politicians?
Apparently Paul Ryan's office emailed the Seth Meyers show, annoyed by a segment they did last week on the GOP health care fiasco. Hilarious.
Honestly, loving all the coverage by these shows, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, the Daily show and now Kimmel is getting into the act (Where are you Jimmy Fallon?)
Sure they do a bit of cherry picking themselves when it comes to facts and quotes, but really it allows whoever is watching to see things like the Republicans not answering questions on how they voted to screw the common American but have no idea what's in the actual bill (most haven't read it) and also shows clips like Ryan saying completely different things in 09/10 and today. It;s like the GOP has no idea video exists when they constantly contradict themselves on almost everything they say. Probably posted before but I really like this one...
Also, Trumps Tweets yesterday before the Yates hearing were clearly witness intimidation, bu the POTUS- sad
Apparently a look into the Wisconsin's voter suppression policies have found over 200,000 votes were suppressed in a State where Trump only won by 22,748 votes.
I never realized how bad US voter suppression was before. Why is the electoral system in the US so ######ed that it is partisan and not independent? Why is it politicians can choose their voters and not voters choose the politicians?
But you see it's completely about the integrity of elections and has nothing to do with certain demographics voting Democrat. It's a happy coincidence.
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Honestly, loving all the coverage by these shows, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, the Daily show and now Kimmel is getting into the act (Where are you Jimmy Fallon?)
Sure they do a bit of cherry picking themselves when it comes to facts and quotes, but really it allows whoever is watching to see things like the Republicans not answering questions on how they voted to screw the common American but have no idea what's in the actual bill (most haven't read it) and also shows clips like Ryan saying completely different things in 09/10 and today. It;s like the GOP has no idea video exists when they constantly contradict themselves on almost everything they say. Probably posted before but I really like this one...
Also, Trumps Tweets yesterday before the Yates hearing were clearly witness intimidation, bu the POTUS- sad
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The Trump camp has talked a lot about cybersecurity—or “the cyber”—particularly to criticize Hillary Clinton for the risks posed by her private email server and to savor the damage done by hacks against the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Its own record, however, is less than sterling—in January, notably, after Trump named Rudolph Giuliani as a cybersecurity advisor, experts promptly discovered that the Giuliani Security corporate website was riddled with known vulnerabilities.
So, three weeks ago, Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk launched a security preparedness test directed at Giuliani and 14 other people associated with the Trump Administration. We sent them an email that mimicked an invitation to view a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The emails came from the address security.test@gizmodomedia.com, but the sender name each one displayed was that of someone who might plausibly email the recipient, such as a colleague, friend, or family member.
The link in the document would take them to what looked like a Google sign-in page, asking them to submit their Google credentials. The url of the page included the word “test.” The page was not set up to actually record or retain the text of their passwords, just to register who had attempted to submit login information.
Some of the Trump Administration people completely ignored our email, the right move. But it appears that more than half the recipients clicked the link: Eight different unique devices visited the site, one of them multiple times. There’s no way to tell for sure if the recipients themselves did all the clicking (as opposed to, say, an IT specialist they’d forwarded it to), but seven of the connections occurred within 10 minutes of the emails being sent.
At least the recipients didn’t go farther. Our testing setup—which included disclaimers for careful readers at each step—did not induce anyone to go all the way and try to hand over their credentials.
Two of the people we reached—informal presidential advisor Newt Gingrich and FBI director James Comey—replied to the emails they’d gotten, apparently taking the sender’s identity at face value. Comey, apparently believing that he was writing to his friend, Lawfare.com editor-in-chief Ben Wittes, wrote: “Don’t want to open without care. What is it?” And Gingrich, apparently under the impression he was responding to an email from his wife, Callista, wrote: “What is this?”
The White House has a new explanation for its decision not to immediately fire National Security Adviser Michael Flynn after learning that he could be the target of Russian blackmail efforts: The acting attorney general, who supplied that information, was a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
On January 26, Sally Yates, then acting attorney general, met with White House Counsel Donald McGahn to warn him that Flynn could be compromised by the Russians. He had lied to the Vice President Mike Pence about the content of his conversations with the Russian ambassador, and the Russians knew he had lied. But President Donald Trump waited 18 days before showing Flynn the door for lying to Pence.
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended the administration's decision to keep Flynn on as national security adviser for more than two weeks after Yates' warning by implying that Yates, a Barack Obama appointee, could not be trusted because she was "a strong supporter of Clinton."
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended the administration's decision to keep Flynn on as national security adviser for more than two weeks after Yates' warning by implying that Yates, a Barack Obama appointee, could not be trusted because she was "a strong supporter of Clinton."[/i]
What was better, and I wished the fake media would have followed up on this, but they didn't, but someone asked how he knew that, and he said there were strong rumors, that she was a Clinton supporter, I may be paraphrasing.
Anyways, I was so hoping someone would ask if strong rumors always play a part in national security for the Trump admin.
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended the administration's decision to keep Flynn on as national security adviser for more than two weeks after Yates' warning by implying that Yates, a Barack Obama appointee, could not be trusted because she was "a strong supporter of Clinton."[/i]
