All the President's Men pic.twitter.com/QynsI57NQa — Schooley (@Rschooley) February 14, 2017 Intercepted calls show Trump campaign members had repeated contact with Russian intelligence before the election https://t.co/601WwxujBu — The New York Times (@nytimes) February 15, 2017 … The call logs and intercepted communications are part of a larger trove of information that the F.B.I. is …
Republican Venality
GOP Venality Open Thread: REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!
NBC News has confirmed that Sally Yates warned the WH last month that Flynn had not accurately recounted his talks with Russian ambassador. — Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) February 14, 2017 Sooo… let me see if I have the timeline correct… when Acting Attorney General Sally Yates ordered her Dept. of Justice lawyers not to enforce …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Hearts & Flowers Brickbats
Mark the calendar: Tues. Feb. 14 is a national call-in day to flood phone lines on ACA repeal. 866-426-2631 (English) 877-736-7831 (Spanish) — Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) February 10, 2017 Potentially good news: Big news on Obamacare tonight: Conservatives will oppose any repeal that preserves the Medicaid expansion.https://t.co/FH9NKde0xj — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) February 14, 2017 Repealing …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: Oh Canada
It's an action figure. It signs things and tweets. pic.twitter.com/pyutX4CueJ — Schooley (@Rschooley) February 13, 2017 Today, we are all Justin Trudeau. (Explanation of actual news photo here) *********** Apart from remaining extremely skeptical, what’s on the agenda for the evening? . This is how senators from the president's party now talk about him IN …
Open Thread: What’s the Japanese Translation for “Grifter-in-Chief”?
Trump reportedly got call about N. Korea during dinner at Mar-a-Lago and discussed it there in a public dining room. https://t.co/qCFP6jOaNj — Philip Bump (@pbump) February 13, 2017 CNN [warning: autoplay]: … Swanning through the club’s living room and main dining area alongside Abe, Trump was — as is now typical — swarmed with paying …
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Of Course It Would Be the Saudi Government, and Lobbying for Such A Fine Cause, Too…
This may become the first case in the emoluments clause. Keep an eye on this. https://t.co/qux3PN63hO — Marty Kady (@mkady) February 10, 2017 A lobbying firm working for Saudi Arabia paid for a room at Donald Trump’s Washington hotel after Inauguration Day, marking the first publicly known payment on behalf of a foreign government to …
When the Levee Breaks
If you’ve been giving political news programs a miss lately (understandable!), perhaps you didn’t see Rachel Maddow’s summary on Friday of the latest developments in the case of crackpot NatSec Adviser Flynn and Russian interference in the U.S. election. IMO, it’s worth the 12-minute investment: According to CNN, on Friday, Trump claimed to be “unaware …