In this weekly update to the still ongoing Trump Russia Corruption Timeline we now have Trump’s official Consigliere ensuring the rules of Omerta to keep the secret actions of Trump Crime Family out of the eyes of the public as noted by Jeffrey Toobin.
“Barr established four categories that were off limits for public disclosure,” wrote Toobin. “They are: ‘Material subject to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) that by law cannot be made public’—that is, matters subject to grand-jury secrecy; classified information; matters relating to other pending investigations; and, finally, ‘information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.'”
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“In all, Barr has taken every possible step to lessen the sting of the Mueller report—and, so far, to block it from view altogether,” wrote Toobin. “Senator Moynihan was educated not only in the halls of academe but in the streets of New York, and he might well have reached an earthy conclusion about this Attorney General and his President: the fix is in.”
Yep, it certainly is — but it may not stay that way.
Like Toobin, Former Federal Prosecutor Ellie Honig basically feels that Attorney General Bill Bar has been prejudiced from the start.
“First of all, I focus on Mueller’s summaries,” he said, referring to the special counsel’s office writing up its own summaries of its conclusions. “We know Robert Mueller did his own summary. I would ask, ‘Why didn’t you produce those and will you produce them now?’ I would focus on the obstruction… ‘Look, you made a call on obstruction — did Robert Mueller ask you to make your call or do you think he intended that for Congress?”
He also argued that Barr should be made to answer questions about his own bias against the entire investigation.
“Bill Barr has been prejudiced about this case from the start,” he said. “I mean this in the literal sense: That he prejudged it. Before he became attorney general, he referred to ‘so-called collusion,’ sarcastically, and called Mueller’s obstruction theory ‘asinine.'”
Let’s just imagine if back in 2016 instead of just having a conversation with Bill Clinton about their grandkids, then Attorney General Loretta Lynch had written her own 19 page single spaced letter about how HIllary Clinton couldn’t have possibly violated security rules because as the
OCA [Original Classification Authority] for the State Department anything she decided to put anywhere she felt like, or any classified material she chose to release to anyone was fully and completely up to her discretion — which is technically is true
just as Trump was legally able to reveal classified Israeli intelligence to the Russians — would anyone have taken it seriously when she later stated that James Comey’s report said she hadn’t committed any crimes and then Lynch refused to state anything further than that?
Fuck, no!
Members of Mueller’s team are reportedly primarily frustrated with Barr’s conclusion that Trump did not obstruct justice, telling the Post that their findings were “alarming and significant.” One person told the Post the evidence of obstruction was “much more acute than Barr suggested.”
The special counsel’s team reportedly prepared summary information for various sections of the investigation for the Justice Department to make public, but Barr opted to write his own assessment, two people familiar with the matter told the Post.
“There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead,” one official briefed on the matter told the Post.
In other words, there was significant evidence of obstruction of justice — even though Mueller himself didn’t make that call — many of his people don’t think it was an easy call to make and object to Barr just blowing it off.
Then again,that was his position before he was ever made Attorney General.
I mean, If someone had done that to Hillary they would have become a bigger Conservative Hero than Linda Tripp.
The chant wouldn’t have been “Lock Her Up, Lock Her Up” it would have been “Shoot Her Now, Shoot Her Now!”
Attorney General Bill Barr was hired to manage the cover-up of Donald Trump and his campaign’s ties to Russian efforts to undermine American democracy. After his appearance before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, there can no doubt left that Barr is very good at his job. He stonewalled, he dodged and he dissembled with an acuity developed from decades of practice concealing Republican malfeasance.
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Repeatedly, Democrats tried to expose that Barr is not entirely being honest when he claims, as he did during Tuesday’s hearing, that he believes it’s “important for the public to have an opportunity” to read Mueller’s full report. They repeatedly confronted him about his choice to release a four-page letter that suggested Trump had been cleared of all wrongdoing in lieu of the full report, and raised concerns that Barr will abuse his redaction power to hide any information in the full report that would be politically damaging to the president.
As Serrano pointed out, Barr portrayed his four-page letter as a reasonable summary of Mueller’s findings, but the New York Times reports that members of Mueller’s team are complaining that Barr “failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated.” As Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., noted in particular, Barr’s own rules for redaction of the report give him quite a bit of leverage to hide all sorts of information.
Barr’s strategy at deflecting these inquiries was simple but effective: Be as boring as humanly possible. When answering questions about the Mueller report, Barr took on a quiet, droning tone, playing the role of an unremarkable bureaucrat whose only interest is in following the law and who has no particular investment in the outcome. Barr promised that the report would be ready “within a week,” but spoke about it in tones meant to imply that it was of no more general interest than, say, a USDA report on fertilizer levels.
House Judiciary Chair Jerrod Nadler has already been granted authority to issue a subpoena for the full un-redacted Mueller report so it’s only a matter of time before Congress has full access to all the facts, even if that will be months and months away. The fight to find the truth has not ended, in fact if this report is released in a balderized form and then we later discover just how much has been kept in the dark and hidden from the American people — it’ll only be worse for TrumpCo.
In other News Trump appears to be implementing a blood bath at Homeland Security with the firing of Kirstjen Nielsen, the ousting of the head of the Secret Service Randolph Alles, the yanking fo the nomination for ICE director Ronald Vittelo, and also
DHS General Counsel John Mitnick and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna who “are expected to be gone soon” — all apparently because Stephen Miller wants a “tougher” line on immigration and Trump wants to resurrect his family separation policy by claiming that “Obama did it too” — even though he didn’t.
“Obama separated the children, just so you understand. President Obama separated the children,” Trump said. “The cages that were shown, very inappropriate, they were built by President Obama and the Obama administration –not by Trump,” the president told reporters.
“President Trump has made similar claims before. Following are the facts.” Smith said.
Adding, “It’s undeniably true that the roots of this issue stretched back many years. In 2005, President George W. Bush launched operation streamline to arrest, imprison and deport those here illegally.”
“Fox News research shows officials gave children a pass. President Obama continued the operation. However, the Obama Administration tended to keep families together. There were exceptions, but it was not the policy to separate,” he said.
The fact is that this week it was reported that 47,000 children have been separated from their parents starting in June 2017 long before the “zero tolerance” policy was originally enacted and in fact the practice has continued since then whenever the accompanying parents have been shown to have outstanding criminal charges, and the Trump Admin says it may take as long as two years to finally reunite all these families.
The Justice Department said in a court filing late Friday that it will take at least a year to review about 47,000 cases of unaccompanied children taken into government custody between July 1, 2017 and June 25, 2018 — the day before U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw halted the general practice of splitting families. The administration would begin by sifting through names for traits most likely to signal separation — for example, children under 5.
The administration would provide information on separated families on a rolling basis to the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued to reunite families and criticized the proposed timeline on Saturday.
“We strongly oppose a plan that could take up to two years to locate these families,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney. “The government needs to make this a priority.”
Sabraw ordered last year that more than 2,700 children in government care on June 26, 2018 be reunited with their families, which has largely been accomplished. Then, in January, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s internal watchdog reported that thousands more children may have been separated since the summer of 2017. The department’s inspector general said the precise number was unknown.
Now, Trump as part of his purge of DHS has been considering making a policy that offers families a terrible Hobson’s choice of giving up their legal international rights to apply for asylum — or having their children stolen from them, with frankly little chance of ever being reunited.
As I stated this weekend in my Sunday FP diary this is a human rights crime in progress, and it's not likely to get much better.
Here are the daily details (this technically covers two weeks, because I took a break last week after doing this for over a year and half straight!):
March 25th —
March 26th —
March 27th --
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Trump says that Schiff is a “Pencil Neck” and criticizes his golf skill. His cabinet is divided on push to have Obamacare repealed by the SCOTUS.
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Despite Barr’s memo about half of Americans still believe Trump colluded with Russia.
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Vanity Fair reports that Ivanka’s lawyer Abbe Lowell had modified Cohen’s statement to congress about the Moscow project by adding statements that gave the impression she was less involved than she actually was. He claimed she wasn’t involved in any meetings or the “back and forth” between Cohen and Sater on the project, however she was briefed about it at least 10 times.
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McConnel still opposes the resolution to require the release of Mueller’s report because it would be ‘politically advantageous to one side’. [I guess he doesn’t think that side is his, then.]
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Barbara Bush blamed Trump for her heart attack and said she was “No longer a Republican.”
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Schiff maintains he’s seen damning evidence and “Undoubtedly, there is collusion.”
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Comey says Mueller’s decision to allow the political appointees to decide on obstruction is “really confusing.” [No Shit!]
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Stephen Moore promises not to be a “Trump sycophant” if he gets on the Fed. [Unlike what he is right now.]
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Guiliani says his initial response to Mueller saying “Trump is not exonerated” was “What the hell?”
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CNN John Berman scorches Popadopoulos for his repeated contacts with Russians : “You didn’t notify the FBI.”
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George Conway: If the verdict was “unfit for office, Trump would be guilty.”
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Lewinsky says “If. Fucking. Only.” the Clinton’s AG Janet Reno had been allowed to get an advance copy of Starr report and write her own opinion on the case before it was released to Congress and the public.
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Sen. Collins “vehemently” disagrees with Trump allowing Obamacare to be struck down.
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Dems and GOPers blast Pompeo’s proposal to cut the diplomatic budget by 23%.
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Prosecutor David Goodhand reveals during a hearing on the foreign company subpoena that the Mueller Grand Jury is “continuing robustly.”
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Trump claims he’s made Obamacare “better” even though he’s been failing implement and advertise for it, as well as Cost Sharing Payments to help bring down premiums to the point that 2 Million have left the system.
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A FOIA request indicates that the FBI investigated Trump for grating undocumented campaign finance gift of just $250 for a renting a sprawling mansion to the campaign of former District Attorney Janine Pirro in 1997.
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Tons of Conservatives do a victory lap over the Barr memo, and start trashing Dems and the media over the fact that the Mueller probe even happened. [Even though it didn’t exonerate Trump on obstruction or collusion, they just didn’t find enough for an indictment.]
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House oversight sends request to Trump’s accountant for ten years of his financial information.
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On Hannity Trump blasts NBC for cutting the part of his Lester Holt interview where he said he expected firing Comey would cause the Russia probe to go longer. [And it did.]
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A report indicates that Whitaker quit the DOJ because of concerns about being asked about Trump asking him to “curb the Cohen investigation.”
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Papadopoulos’ wife Simona Mangiante argues that because they met each other through Prof. Mifsud people would argue that they are somehow involved in his disappearance. [Nope, not the slightest bit of paranoia and victim complex here.]
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US approves a deal to do secret Nuclear Power work with Saudi Arabia. [Which is a deal that Michael Flynn was illegally paid to help setup.]
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Fox News Legal analyst Judge Napolitano says the Meuller report is 700 pages and contains evidence of conspiracy.
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Jay Sekolow’s former spokesman Mark Carollo suggest that Trump and Hope Hicks may have lied to Mueller about the false letter saying the Don Jr. met Veselnitskaya over “adoptions.”
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Trump’s Fed pick Stephen Moore has a 5-year-old $75,000 federal tax debt
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Stacey Abrams patiently schools The View’s Meghan McCain on the truth about the Mueller investigation.
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Trump calls on Adam Schiff to resign from Congress, however he doubles down and repeats the point that there is evidence of collusion in plain sight. He also says that if Bill Barr had always been Attorney General the Mueller probe would not have happened.
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Fox and Friends pushes Trump to target John Brennan for revenge following Mueller probe, however Brennan’s criticism was based on Helsinki, not Mueller.
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Pelosi says it’s “arrogant” of Barr to expect Dems would automatically accept his version of Mueller’s report.
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Puerto Rico's Republican Governor hits back at Trump's for whining about relief funds.
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Lindsay Graham says that Barr will release the rest of the Mueller report by April’
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House Dems grills Betsy Devos over the decision cut funds to the Special Oympics.
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Jay Sekolow’s former spokeman Mark Corallo details how he argued with Hope Hicks about her generating the fake AF1 notes to help cover-up for Don Jr’s meeting with Vesenitskaya, and how he had to explain to Trump that he needed to discuss the issue with his lawyers.
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Charlottesville Murder convict James Alex Fields changes his plea to guilty.
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56 % of Americans believe that “Trump was not exonerated, but collusion could not be proven.” 43 % are completely confused and deluded. Actually, he did the collusion,; but they didn't have sufficient evidence of his being part of Russia’s election conspiracy.”
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Comey says “Trump’s comments to me sounded like obstruction of justice.”
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Nadler says that Barr won’t commit to released an unredacted version of the Mueller report to Congress.
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Pence’s COS announced Trump will announce a health care plan “This year.”
March 28th —
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April 1st —
April 2nd —
April 3rd —
April 4th —
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Associates of members of Mueller’s team report to NYTimes and WaPo that they are upset with AG Barr’s “summary” of their report arguing that it is far more negative about Trump’s actions, particularly on obstruction, than Barr alleged. They also were upset because summaries of the reports findings were already included in the report itself, but Barr only used 100 words excerpted from two separate sentences.
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Jared Kushner is again named as one of the 25 WH Staffers who had been denied a clearance due to his extensive foreign contacts according to Whistle-blower Tracy Newbold who had been harassed by Carl Kline after she complained when the denial was overridden. Ivanka had also been denied clearance until Trump ordered it granted.
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Steve Coll, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, who awarded the New York Times and the Washington Post a Pulitzer for their reporting on Trump and Russia, wrote in a New Yorker magazine essay this week that it’s wrong for Trump to claimed journalism failed because Mueller did not charge Trump with conspiring with Russians to influence the 2016 election.
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Giuliani blows off the report that Barr white-washed the Mueller report saying the claims come from “unethical leakers.”
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Fox and Fools Host Brian Kilamead previews that Trump will visit the border to view portions of wall built “under his reign”. [Although it’s not new barriers, it’s replacement fencing that was authorized years ago.]
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Newsweek reports that Gen. Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, let internal Defense Department memos leak recently to show the damage President Donald Trump’s wall obsession is doing to military families and combat readiness, including causing languishing repairs on hurricane-damaged bases and a decline in training exercises.
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Grassley says he supports release of Mueller report.
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The Government Ethics office finally certifies Jared and Ivanka 2018 financial disclosures.
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House Judiciary will hold a hearing next Tuesday (4/9) about the rise of hate crimes and white nationalist propaganda across social media.
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FBI Director Wray says he hasn’t read the Mueller report.
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DOJ Spokesman Kerri Kupec pushes back on the NYTimes/WaPo report about Mueller team members grumbling about Barr’s skimpy summary letter saying every page of the report says it may contain “grand jury information” which would be illegal to share with the public.
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Trump tweets that the NYT/WaPo Mueller team complaints are from “Illegal sources.” [They didn't specify anything from Grand Jury testimony in detail, so no it’s not “illegal”]
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Congress passes a resolution that would end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen which is on the verge a cause a famine which could kill 14 million women and children.
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Trump is reportedly considering Herman “Shucky Ducky” Cain for the Fed.
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Elizabeth Warren demands DHS Inspector General probe the WH involvement in vetting the Mar-a-Lago Guest list.
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Adam Schiff says about Barr's assessment of the Mueller report that “he didn’t come into this with clean hands.”
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Trump kicks his border closing threat one year down the road and demands that Mexico stop the flow of migrants, or else.
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Nadler tells Barr to release the internal summaries from Mueller’s report.
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Politico reports that Capital One has told Congress that they’ll need a subpoena to gain access to Trump financial records which they requested last month.
April 5th --
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Oversight Chairman Cummings (D-MD) tells the Atlantic that there are “dozens” of whistle-blowers in the Trump admin who are working with them secretly.
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Michael Cohen says he’s “Found” a hard drive with 14 Million documents that he needs time to review so he sends a letter to congress asking them to contact SDNY to push back the start of his jail time. [Yeah, that’s not likely.]
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A small Russian bank — Bank of Ivonovo — owned by former Republican U.S. congressman Charles Taylor was stripped of its license after allegedly breaking anti-money laundering rules.
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Buzzfeed reports that DHS employees have been warned by a letter not to release “nonpublic information” or else face civil and criminal penalties. [Which begs the question, how do we know this letter was sent?]
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Trump will dump the WHCD again because it’s “boring” and “negative.” [Only for you and people with no sense of humor.]
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British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says Julian Assange is a “Free man” who can now leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London. [But he doesn’t because they're are a couple indictments waiting for him for rape and espionage.]
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IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig stated in a Forbes column in 2016 when he was tapped for the position that he didn’t think Trump should releases his tax returns, but also that by law congress could request them. He also owns a condo in a Trump branded complex in Hawaii.
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The Republican Communications strategist who has been sued by Rep. Nunes for trolling him with a parody twitter accounts says Nunes “doesn’t understand the Bill of Rights.”
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By a 2-1 vote, the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that judges do not have the authority to approve the release of confidential grand jury materials, outside of the five exemptions carved out in the federal law governing grand jury secrecy. Other appellate courts have previously ruled the list isn’t exclusive, but this court has jurisdiction over judges in DC and Congress. [This could prevent congress from asking a judge to release the grand jury portions of Mueller’s report.]
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A 3rd court rules that Trump’s Citizenship Question in the Census is Illegal.
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Trump’s personal attorney William Consovoy writes Treasury General counsel William McIntosh telling him not to comply with Rep. Neal’s request for Trump’s tax returns because it would be setting a “bad precedent and opening Pandora’s box." [This would be telling him to violate the law which requires that he fulfill the request.]
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Huffpost releases a letter by DHS Senior Policy adviser Katherine Gorka which called for pulling a $400,000 grant to anti-hate group Life After Hate, founded by former members of extremist groups intended to guide people out of the white nationalist movement, by arguing that “Anti-Fascists are “The Actual Threats” to national security. Other emails indicate that she had also pushed to cancel their grant because the founder once tweeted “Fuck you, asshole” to Trump. Gorka is also the wife of former WH Counter terrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka who thinks Democrats are trying to “take away your hamburgers” and has a habit of proudly wearing his father’s Vitezi Rend pin which was awarded to Nazi collaborators in his native Hungary. Both had previously written books on jihad and ran an anti-Islamic think tank.
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House Dems have filed a lawsuit to prevent Trump from spending more on his Border Wall than Congress authorized using his “emergency declaration” work around, since he vetoed their resolution against it.
April 6th ---
April 7th —
April 8th —
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Axios reports that after the Access Hollywood tape former Speaker Paul Ryan was ready to toss Trump under the bus. “I am not going to defend Donald Trump,”
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Politico reports that Nielsen’s sudden ouster may be part of a powerplay by Stephen Miller to install more hardliners inside DHS.
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Nadler tells Face the Nation that congress is entitled to see the full unredacted Mueller report and says they’ll go to court with a subpoena if they have to.
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Trump brands the Iranian Guard as a Terrorist Group.
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Ranking House Judiciary member Doug Collins (R-GA) urges Democrats to bring in Mueller to testify.
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Mulvaney says the GOP health care plan will be coming “fairly shortly”. [Oh, dear god, not again.]
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WH Spokes-shill Hogan Gidley lashes out at Dems for overreach “It’s disgusting. What we do is never going to be enough” [You should go ask Hillary Clinton how she felt about two years of Benghazi investigations.]
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Newly released schedules for Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt show hundreds of deletions of previously secret meetings with his former lobbying clients.
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Motel 6 agrees to pay a $12 Million settlement for handing over personal info on 80,000 guests to ICE without a warrant.
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Daily Stormer website founder Andrew Anglin must return to the U.S. for questioning in relations to a “troll storm” attack on a Montana real estate agent and his family.
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Kirstjen Nielsen tell the press “I just want to thank [Trump] again” in a short statement after she’s fired. Her resignation letter blames Congress and the Courts for blocking Trump’s agenda. [How — by making that shit illegal?]
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Trump Fed Nominee Stephen Moore reportedly didn’t pay his child support until four cops, two realtors and a locksmith showed up at his home.
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Trump’s State Dept lists 16 people they hold responsible for Khashoggi’s murder, MbS isn’t included.
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Former Federal Processor Ellie Honig says that Barr has been “prejudiced from the start” on the Mueller investigation.
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NBC news reports that Trump was furious that DHS Sec. Nielsen resisted restarting the family separation policy by offering asylum seekers with children a Hobson/Sofie’s choice of relinquishing their asylum rights and staying with their children in detention, or exerting their rights and having their children taken from them. NYTimes reports that he flew into a rage when he was told this plan was illegal.
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A Secret Service agent accidentally corrupted his work computer with Malware by plugging in the flashdrive found on Chinese Mar-a-Lago infiltrator Yujing Zhang, who was also found to have signal detectors capable of finding hidden cameras in her hotel room.
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The Office of Special Counsel — which is not connected to Mueller — is reportedly investigating the Trump administrations attempts to enter a Nuclear Power-plan deal with Saudi Arabia. [This may be the resurrection of a plan to work with sanctioned Russian contractors that had been spear-headed by Michael Flynn.]
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Sam Patten who plead guilty to violating FARA rules as part of the Mueller investigation asks for probation from the Judge. Prosecutors call Patten a “valuable resource” on multiple ongoing criminal investigations.
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Secret Service Chief Randolph “Tex” Alles is leaving his position, and the nomination for ICE director Ronald Vittelo has been pulled, also DHS General Counsel John Mitnick and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna “are expected to be gone soon” in the wake of DHS Sec. Nielsen’s being fired indicating that the WH is going in a more “tough” direction with Homeland Security.
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Mar-a-Lago Malware girl Yujing Zhang loses her U.S. Visa.
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Schumer wants the now ousted Secret Service Alles chief to testify on Mar-A-Lago vulnerabilities.
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Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) is going “concerned” about the leadership vacuum at DHS.
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Court filings indicate that Meuller reviewed Comey’s notes on his meetings with Trump and that his report includes evidence of obstruction.
April 9th —
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The Victory Lap is over as Trump continues to whine: “The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get,”
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Federal Judge blocks Trump’s rules requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their cases to be resolved.
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Grassley is “Very, Very Concerned” about the hatchet job going on over at DHS.
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Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) says that Trump is violating the “law of succession” by having the, commissioner of CBP take over for Nielsen instead of her under-secretary Claire M. Grady.
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Nunes sues McClatchy for $150 Million claiming that communications strategist Liz Mair “conspired” with the Fresno Bee to undermine is former Chairmanship of the Intelligence committee while they were undermining the FBI over the Clinton and Russia investigations, because of story written by journalist MacKenzie Mays with the headline, “A yacht, cocaine and prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event” claiming that it was part of a coordinated social media attack on him. He then claims he “coming after all who defamed him.” [Yeah, he’s gonna wind up in deep doo doo for frivolous lawsuits.]
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Rep. Omar tweets that Stephen Miller is a White Nationalist — so Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) attacks her for “name calling” of Jewish people. [Yeah, but she’s pretty much right about Miller.]
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Trump lover Candice Owens delivers an unhinged screed about Antifa during a hearing about online hate speech.
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Attorney General Bill Barr testifies before Congress:
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CNN analyst Evan Perez say Barr was “playing games” with Congress during his testimony.
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Treasury Steve Mnuchin also testifies before Congress
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The hearing on online Hate Speech which is being carried live on Youtube results in the live chat being shutdown because of White Hate and anti-Semitic comments. Louis Gohmert suggests that comments such as “anti-hate means anti-white” and “the Jews want to destroy white nations” could be false flags and some kind of “hate hoax” intended to inflate the perception of racism. [It doesn’t need any inflation.]
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CNN Legal Analyst Jennifer Rogers says that White Nationalist Terrorism is on the rise, but that the Trump administration is ignoring it, although Federal prosecutors are not.
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Reports indicate that White Nationalist are increasingly recruiting gamers into their ranks.
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Former FBI Counsel James Baker told Congress last year that Rod Rosenstein had two Cabinet officials lined up to invoke the 25th Amendment on Trump. [Oh my!]
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Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) tries to whisper that Kris Kobach can’t be confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security and gets caught on a hot open mic. “We can't confirm him.” Then he says “I never said that to you.” [Too late.]
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Congress is about to ban the IRS from offering a free tax filing service, thanks to Turbo Tax.
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Trump says “I never said I was ‘cleaning house’ at DHS” [You didn't have to, we have eyes.] Then he blames Obama for the child separation policy [He only did that when the parents had criminal records and outstanding charges], then he says only that policy keeps people from coming into America and that otherwise “it’s like going to Disneyland.”
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Stacy Abrams also says that Stephen Miller is a “White Nationalist” who doesn't care about protecting Americans. Somehow Rep. Zeldin doesn’t talk any anti-Semitic shit to her. [Maybe it’s because she’s not Muslim?]
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NBC reports that Stephen Miller is pushing for CBP agents — who are under Homeland Security — to do asylum credible fear interviews [even though they haven’t been trained for it] rather than USCIS [who have been trained] because “Border Protection agents will be tougher on asylum seekers and will pass fewer of them on the initial screening.”