#Russia's state TV discusses Rand Paul's pro-Russian stance, lamenting he is in the minority and showing this little collage. pic.twitter.com/l1r2ZzMpZt — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 6, 2018 Young Rand is a dude who knows how to hustle! Kleptocracy is so libertarian. https://t.co/7e24kvhzxz — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 6, 2018 At the meeting with the …
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The Strawberries That’s… That’s Where I Had Them
According to Vanity Fair, working at the White House is increasingly like serving on a certain destroyer-minesweeper careening through increasingly violent storms while its captain chases wisps round the wardroom. Exhibit A: “The Manafort trial is spinning him into a frenzy,” one Republican in frequent contact with the president told me. Another Republican told me …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Fortunate in Our Enemies
Per White House spokesman @hogangidley45 on AF1, Trump is NOT ruling out a pre-election government shutdown over immigration: "He said whether a shutdown happens before or after the elections his focus is getting the problem fixed. It's been a 40-year problem in the making." — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 31, 2018 Good news for us …
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C.R.E.A.M. Open Thread: Manafort Trial, Day Two
Day Two: The Judge In Paul Manafort's Case Is Pissed At Prosecutors For Focusing Too Much On His "Luxury" Lifestyle https://t.co/1I4l2N46A6 pic.twitter.com/L5utMRVh8A — Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 1, 2018 … Prosecutors have countered that the evidence about Manafort’s lifestyle is relevant because it goes toward showing how much income he was bringing in during the …
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Late Night Open Thread: Mueller Trial, Day One
Breaking via @TheTerminal, a first glimpse at the Manafort defense: *MANAFORT'S LAWYER BLAMES RICK GATES FOR TAX CRIMES *GATES ACCUSED BY MANAFORT'S LAWYER OF EMBEZZLING *GATES HAD 'HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR,' DEFENSE LAWYER SAYS pic.twitter.com/UlRLUdQtuk — David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) July 31, 2018 Per TPM: … The opening day of trial took off like …
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C.R.E.A.M. Open Thread: The Trial(s) of Paul Manafort
????On July 30, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon surrendered the first group of subpoenaed Watergate tapes that the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered him to turn over to Federal District Judge John Sirica pic.twitter.com/PA00cV3CH8 — RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) July 30, 2018 D.C., as the company town where politics is the monopoly, and its hometown the Washington …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Dumbfellas
Giuliani is calling into Fox News right now to clarify his collusion comments from this morning: "My client didn't do it, and even if he did it, it's not a crime." pic.twitter.com/4Lem500Wuj — Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) July 30, 2018 Rudy explains to @swin24 that his odd set of media appearances today were designed to essentially …
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