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Monday, June 26, 2017

Top Democrat Says Obama ‘Made Mistake’ On Russia

June 26, 2017 1:54 pm

New York Times Publishes Astonishing Timeline Of Trump Lies

June 24, 2017 9:13 am

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

Is there anything President Trump hasn’t lied about since taking office?

This has become a serious question. The world is in an unaccustomed position, as longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer put it in his 2016 book, Trump and Me, of being forced to take Donald Trump seriously. Given that he is not just a serial liar, a boundless egomaniac and a chaos-embracing provocateur—the man, as Singer exquisitely depicts, was born lacking genes for self-reflection or shame. But now that he’s president, the world—especially journalists—have to take this heap seriously.

The New York Times has published a compendium of Trump’s lies since taking office.…

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Neo-Nazis Join With Pro-Russian Forces In Germany

June 24, 2017 7:53 am

National Memo Russia: Top Posts
In The Shadows, Rogue FBI Agents Deface Democracy
Leaking investigative material is always a violation of rules that protect the rights of all citizens. Violating those rules to achieve a partisan objective before the election is an assault on democracy.
On A Wave Of Anger, Trump Defeats Clinton And Republicans Sweep
A Reuters/Ipsos national Election Day poll offered some clues to the outcome. It found Clinton underperformed expectations with women, winning their vote by only about 7 percent, similar to Obama when he won re-election in 2012.
Whatever Mike Pence Won On 'Style,' He Lost By Shamelessly Lying
During the debate, Mike Pence repeatedly made statements that were easily checked and found to be false -- including his banal slurs against the Clinton Foundation.
CNN: Officials Have Evidence That Trump Associates 'Coordinated With Russians'
Coming two days after FBI director James Comey confirmed that agency has been investigating the Trump campaign’s connections with Russian interference in the election since July 2016, the CNN report is stunning but not surprising. It also follows an Associated Press report on Tuesday that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chair, had secretly devised a plan as early as 2005 to “greatly aid” the Putin regime by influencing the U .S. government and media.
Trump May Name Iraq War Propagandist John Bolton As Top US Diplomat
Not only did John Bolton support the scheme to attack Iraq, but he actively promoted the official lies and propaganda that led up to the US invasion.
Trump Hit By His Own Lewd Remarks About Women, Caught On Tape
In the recorded conversation, Trump was wearing a microphone and chatting on a bus with NBC's "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. "I did try and fuck her. She was married," Trump said. "I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there."
5 Trump Cabinet Members Who’ve Made False Statements To Congress
As most of the world knows by now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not tell the truth when he was asked during his confirmation hearings about contacts with Russian officials. But Sessions isn’t the only one.
Investigate The Hackers -- And Ignore Trump's Chaff
There can be no doubt that the series of electronic thefts of information from Democrats, released with the obvious purpose of damaging Clinton's campaign, represented major crimes. The serious nature of those offenses is aggravated by their purpose, striking at the heart of the republic.
National Memo Russia: Archive
Danziger: Keep That War Cold, Please!
June 24th, 2017
Is Trump Under Federal Investigation—Or Not?
The move by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Trump’s conduct marks a major turning point in the nearly year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
June 23rd, 2017
Russia Investigation Seems Stranger Than Fiction
While it's true that Sessions rightly recused himself from any investigation into Russian hacking in March, he had already had a month to learn about Russian interference in the election. And he could still ask for a briefing without putting the investigation, now headed by special counsel Robert Mueller, in jeopardy. Isn't he concerned?
June 20th, 2017
Danziger: Too Much To Bear
June 17th, 2017
White House Ignoring Russia Threat: Former CIA Analyst
A former CIA analyst warns the Trump administration’s approach to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election is comparable to how the the Bush administration treated warnings about Al-Qaeda before 9/11. Russia’s influence and propaganda “is continuing in the United States and across Europe,” said Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst and targeting officer during an interview on MSNBC ahead of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony Tuesday.
June 16th, 2017
Will Russian Hacking Affect Georgia's Runoff Election?
The past 10 days saw dizzying details about possible election saboteurs. It started with the Intercept’s report of a May 2017 National Security Agency document confirming and detailing Russian intelligence efforts to hack local election offices as a stepping-stone to voting technology. In his Senate Intelligence Committee testimony last week, ex-FBI director James Comey said there could have been “more than 1,000” government and near-government targets.
June 16th, 2017
If Trump Tries To Fire Mueller, It Might Be Up To This Woman
On Monday, I predicted Trump would soon begin talking about firing special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Within hours NewsMax publisher Christopher Ruddy told PBS NewsHour that the president was considering exactly that possibility. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Trump had genuinely contemplated trying to get rid of the independent counsel, only to have aides talk him out of it.
June 15th, 2017
Report: Special Counsel Is Investigating Trump For Obstruction Of Justice
President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified officials. Mueller is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
June 14th, 2017
#EndorseThis: Watch Seth Meyers Freeze-Frame Jeff Sessions
Commenting on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Senate Intelligence Committee testimony on Tuesday, Meyers flashes back to his earlier appearance before the before the Judiciary Committee, when he wrongly told Senator Al Franken (D-MN) that he'd had no contact with Russian officials in 2016. Meyers freezes the camera on Sessions' face after that exchange -- a moment that is worth the click all by itself.
June 14th, 2017
Puncturing The Myth Of Trump's Unwavering Base
It’s his loyal base that supposedly gives Trump so much cover and allows him to embrace a deeply radical agenda. The theory holds that regardless of how Democratic and independent voters view Trump (and they overwhelmingly view him unfavorably), as long as Trump maintains the support of his strongest political backers, his support is “stable” -- he “has held onto the support of the voters who put him in the White House,” and his base is "steady."
June 14th, 2017
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