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The rise and fall of Paul Manafort: he sold composure but lived on the edge
Tom McCarthy in New York
Tue 21 Aug 2018 18.36 EDT
Last modified on Wed 22 Aug 2018 10.29 EDT

The rise and fall of Paul Manafort: he sold composure but lived on the edge

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"This frictionless revolving door involved the biggest names in Republican politics. Manafort helped Gerald Ford win at the 1976 Republican national convention, helped Ronald Reagan capture the White House in 1980 and helped George HW Bush hold it in 1988. He ran the Republican national convention as late as 1996.

The client list on the corporate side was equally impressive, including Bethlehem Steel, the Tobacco Institute, Johnson & Johnson and Trans World Airlines, according to the Atlantic.

The business was lucrative, delivering the partners an income of more than $450,000 each ($1m today) in 1986, they boasted. Manafort began a lifelong indulgence in multiple homes, custom suits, luxury automobiles, Concorde flights and first-class everything.

To keep the business moving, Manafort’s firm shopped its services to clients further afield with reputation enhancement needs, including Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko, the Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos and Angolan rebel Jonas Savimbi."

 

What was it?

 

Stormy Daniels

 

Hahaha

 

Badum tish!

 

Been waiting all morning for someone to reply to that perfect set up.

 

Stormy Daniels said he had an average weenie and only lasted 2 minutes! Hell, I can spend a half an hour on the little one in the canoe then rake it for forty minutes. No wonder she wanted that much cash from him. A real man would get re-invited in no time!

 

I don't believe it. That fucker doesn't look like he would last two seconds. I'll ask Melania, though.

 

Trump Orders Declassification Of Documents About FBI Sought By House Republicans
Martina Stewart
September 17, 2018 6:48 PM ET

Trump Orders Declassification Of Documents About FBI Sought By House Republicans

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"The documents in question are specific pages of the June 2017 FISA warrant application related to onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, all FBI interview reports prepared in connection with all FISA warrant applications in connection with Page and all FBI reports of interviews with Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr prepared in connection with the FBI's Russia investigation.

Additionally, Trump has ordered DOJ and FBI to release all text messages related to the Russia investigation — in unredacted form — of former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and Ohr."


"In another headline-grabbing move Monday that had likewise been anticipated, the Trump administration announced it was imposing 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, the latest salvo in the president's escalating trade dispute with China."

 

Trump orders Justice Dept. to declassify Russia-related material
By Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett and Karoun Demirjian
September 17 at 6:44 PM

Trump orders Justice Dept. to declassify Russia-related material

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"The list of those whose text messages Trump said should be released — Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page and Ohr — have long been targets of the president’s ire.

Trump fired Comey as FBI director, saying the Russia case was on his mind when he did so. McCabe and Strzok were fired later — McCabe after he was accused of lying about a media disclosure, Strzok for sending anti-Trump text messages to Lisa Page.

Representatives for all five either declined to comment or could not be reached Monday night.

Former officials said the president’s action was troubling, and seemed to be politically motivated.

“This order is an unprecedented misuse of the President’s declassification authority for purely political reasons, and manifests a dangerous disregard for the protection of information developed in sensitive counterintelligence investigations,” said David Laufman, a former chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section who had been involved in the Russia case. “Given the Administration’s intensified efforts to identify and prosecute leakers of classified information, it’s also more than a little ironic.”

The Justice Department already has released thousands of texts of Page and Strzok, and it has also made public a heavily redacted version of its application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order to monitor Carter Page.

David S. Kris, a former Assistant Attorney General for National Security who is now at the Culper Partners consulting firm, said the release of the surveillance order was “totally unprecedented.”

“The President has the authority to do this, but here, as in so many other areas, his exercise of authority is tainted by a severe conflict of interest, as he is a subject of the investigation to which these [orders] pertain,” he said."

 

Well Egger, the whole thing spells OBSTRUCTION pursuant to the Manafort guilty plea and agreement to cooperate. Trump has panic-ed and done something which really makes him look guilty. The emails, records, and text messages he wants could tell us more about his guilt? Trump's actions now have us in a true constitutional crisis. We now have the most criminal and corrupt presidency. Some people are already saying he's committed impeachable offences. Remember to vote in November!

 

Air Force: Space Force would cost $13 billion over 5 years

WASHINGTON — Creating a Space Force as a separate military service, as proposed by President Donald Trump, would cost an estimated $12.9 billion in its first five years

This is the first publicly available cost estimate. When the White House announced plans to establish a Space Force in August, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan declined to give a figure but said it would be in "the billions."

The Air Force's estimate is contained in a Sept. 14 memo from Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, who proposed that the Pentagon ask Congress for the authority and money to establish a Space Force headquarters in 2020.

The mission of Space Force is to bring law and order to the interplanetary frontier.

High adventure in the wild vast reaches of space!
Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice!
Travel into the future with Buzz Trump, commander-in-chief of Space Force!





Air Force: Space Force would cost $13 billion over 5 years

 

He's got money for tax cuts for the rich. He's got money for space wars. He does not have money for poor disabled old people, or money for the school lunch program.

 

Whatever the issue, in Trump's mind it always comes back to Trump (I alone can fix it) and the loyalty he demands from others or that he mistakenly believes he has from others (U.S. farmers, Cohen, Manafort).

When referring to retaliation against China, this time Trump used the expression 'great and fast' instead of his usual and worn-out 'the likes of which have never been seen before'.


Trump vows 'great and fast' economic retaliation on China if it goes after American farmers
Liz Moyer
September 18, 2018

Trump vows 'great and fast' economic retaliation on China if it goes after American farmers

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Trump tweets:

China has openly stated that they are actively trying to impact and change our election by attacking our farmers, ranchers and industrial workers because of their loyalty to me. What China does not understand is that these people are great patriots and fully understand that.....
8:50 AM - Sep 18, 2018

.....China has been taking advantage of the United States on Trade for many years. They also know that I am the one that knows how to stop it. There will be great and fast economic retaliation against China if our farmers, ranchers and/or industrial workers are targeted!
8:55 AM - Sep 18, 2018

 

Adam Schiff and the FBI are both saying Trump has crossed a red line in ordering the release of classified documents in an on-going investigation into his own criminal activity. Cummings and Nadler are saying Trump has reacted irrationally to Manafort's flip and is worried because the walls are closing in on him. Republican Mark Meadows has praised Trump for transparency, even after he and his committee had refused Democrat requests for transparency.

 

The Trump administraiton is citing 'transparency' to justify the selective release of unredacted classified documents related to an ongoing criminal investigation in which Trump and his associates are prime suspects. The selective declassifited information is related to people who have been the target of Trump's wrath. The intent is to taint the investigation and score political points for the upcoming mid-term election.

This is the same 'transparency-minded' Trump who has refused to release his tax returns and visitor logs at the White House and his Trump-branded properties where he has entertained foreign government officials. Lack of transparency by Trump was part of what precipitated the cruimbling of his voter fraud commission.


Trump refuses to release documents to Maine secretary of state despite judge’s order
By Colin Woodard Staff Writer
Updated January 6, 2018

Trump refuses to release documents to Maine secretary of state despite judge’s order

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"Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, said separate lawsuits by Dunlap and more than a half-dozen other parties combined to block overreach and illegal acts by the commission, which was formally chaired by Vice President Mike Pence and led week-to-week by vice chairman Kris Kobach, a voter fraud activist and Kansas secretary of state.

“It wasn’t as though the lawsuits took so much time that the commission didn’t have the bandwidth to be able to do its job,” Hasen said. “It’s that the lawsuits and related scrutiny indicated that the commission was going to have to operate with a certain level of transparency and evenhandedness which I think would have stymied their ability to have come forward with a sham report to justify a crackdown on alleged voter fraud.”"

 

An example of selective transparency by Trump.


Trump refuses to declassify Democratic response to GOP Russia memo but had no problem declassifying the GOP memo of Nunes.
Kevin Breuninger
Published 8:03 PM ET Fri, 9 Feb 2018 Updated 4:14 PM ET Sat, 10 Feb 2018

Trump refuses to declassify 'political' Democratic response to GOP Russia memo

 

In other words: Two Faced? And he still would not release what he and Putin talked about?

Top Republican in Weld County Colorado forged his wife's signature so he could vote twice for Trump...and got busted!

 

Trump Refuses to Release Data on Immigration Crackdown
ICE’s disappearing records make it difficult to examine whether reality meets the president’s rhetoric.
By Dune Lawrence
Bloomberg
June 14, 2018, 4:00 AM EDT

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"In place of detailed reports, ICE issues press releases describing raids and arrests, citing criminal records of detainees, and complaining about the lack of cooperation from sanctuary cities. “I don’t want bullet-pointed press releases that say some large numbers of people were apprehended over the weekend and here are five examples of how dangerous these individuals were,” says César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, an associate professor of law at the University of Denver. “I want to know details about the large number of people. I want percentages. I want actual numbers about what kinds of crimes.”"