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Freeloading Rusty

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Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report
Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump’s shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.

Sources told The Spectator‘s Paul Wood that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deep dive into Trump’s business practices may be yielding results.

Trump recently made remarks that could point to a money laundering scheme, Wood reported.

“I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows?” the president said.

Sater, who has a long history of legal troubles and is cooperating with law enforcement, was one of the major players responsible for selling Trump’s condos to the Russians.

And according to Wood’s sources, Sater may have already flipped and given prosecutors the evidence they need to make a case against Trump.

For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. ‘He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison,’ someone talking to Mueller’s investigators informed me.

Sater hinted in an interview earlier this month that he may be cooperating with both Mueller’s investigation and congressional probes of Trump.

“In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” Sater told New York Magazine. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.”
 

Ted Williams' head

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It's funny we actually live in a world where saying "all lives matter" means you're a racist and saying "hatred, bigotry and violence is wrong and we need to call it out on all sides" means you're a card carrying member of the KKK.

I expect that kind of lazy, sensationalist garbage from TNY and TIME, but I am disappointed in The Economist.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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4 weeks of #winning for the Trump administration:
  • Threatens Venezuela
  • Threatens NK with nukes
  • Encourages police to rough up suspects
  • Shit talks, then endorses leaks
  • Signs Russia sanctions with resistance
  • Thanks Putin for retaliating to the sanctions against Russia
  • Fabricates phone calls with the boy scout leader & Mexican president
  • Shames GOP who voted against R&R
  • Tweets out a military ban on transgendered people
  • Repeal and replacing Obamacare fails
  • Shames AG Sessions
  • Shames Mconnell
  • Hires & fires the MOOCH
  • Hires Jon Kelly
  • Fired Priebus
  • Denounces white supremacy while also claims their were 'fine people' at the white supremacy rally
  • Promotes his Charlottesville winery
  • Tweets hateful myth during Barcelona terrorist attack
  • Shames business CEOs involved in his councils
  • Shuts down business councils after many quit
  • Gets condemned talked from Republicans, Democrats, allies, world leaders, the pope an his won staff
  • Fired Bannon


Now that is a whole lot of WINNING!
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Carl Icahn Steps Down As Special Advisor To Trump: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced his decision to end his informal position as a special advisor to the president on regulation.


Members Of Presidential Arts Committee Resign In Protest Of Trump's Comments And Actions: A day after the White House announced that a planned infrastructure council will not move forward, 16 members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, including actor Kal Penn and novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, announced their resignation in a letter today. "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions," they write.


View: https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/898547257062174724/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigg.com%2F2017%2Fwhat-did-trump-do-today-august-18-2017
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Read the Letter Trump's Immigrant Grandpa Wrote Begging Not to Be Deported
In November, a German tabloid unearthed a 1905 letter from Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, in which he begged German authorities not to deport him. The handwritten letter—originally in German—has now been translated and published in the latest issue of Harper's.

The elder Trump first emigrated to the US from the Bavarian town of Kallstadt in the German Empire in 1885 at the age of 16, illegally skipping out on mandatory military service (sounds familiar). That move lost him his citizenship, and he later became a US citizen where he made his fortune running brothels and barsduring the Yukon gold rush.


Trump returned to his homeland in the early 1900s, but he was scheduled to be deported because of his draft-dodging history. The newly translated letter is a plea to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, who ruled over the Kallstadt at the time, not to deport Trump back to the US.

"Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family," Trump writes. "What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree—not to mention the great material losses it would incur."

Apparently the letter didn't do enough to convince the prince, since history has it that Trump wound up in the United States again, churning out a lineage of children that would someday wind up in the White House. Would the 2017 political climate be a different place if a well-bearded Bavarian royal did Friedrich Trump a solid in 1905? Let's not dwell on that one too much.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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President Trump's Popularity Took a Dive In These 3 Key Swing States
Amid a tumultuous week across America, President Donald Trump saw low approval ratings in three key swing states that helped catapult him to victory last November.

According to a new NBC News/Marist poll released Monday, Trump has an approval rating of under 40% in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three states that turned red in the 2016 election for the first time in a presidential election since the 1980s. He won each of those states by less than 100,000 votes.


In those states, more than six in 10 voters said they believe Trump has embarrassed them since the election. About one in four said Trump made them proud, according to the poll.

In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, 36%, 35% and 34% of voters, respectively, said they approved of Trump's performance as President. About 55%, 54% and 56% of voters, respectively, disapproved of Trump's work in the White House.

Additionally, voters in these swing states expressed a preference for a Democratic-controlled Congress in 2018.

The NBC News/Marist poll was conducted between Aug. 13-17, with 795 voters in Michigan, 773 voters in Pennsylvania and 801 voters in Wisconsin. All polls had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Opinion | Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton: Now is not the time for Trump to visit my city

President Trump’s response to Charlottesville reminds us that the words and actions of our political leaders in the wake of tragic events matter.

America is hurting. And it is hurting largely because Trump has doused racial tensions with gasoline. With his planned visit to Phoenix on Tuesday, I fear the president may be looking to light a match.

That’s why I asked the president to delay his visit. It’s time to let cooler heads prevail and begin the healing process.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Black caucus has had it with Trump, plans to discuss impeachment

The Congressional Black Caucus, a formidable bloc of lawmakers with a big say in the fate of President Donald Trump and his legislation, Monday sent him a terse, clear message: We don't think you understand us at all.

The caucus' chairman Monday urged cancellation of next month’s highly-anticipated meeting between White House officials and leaders of the nation’s historically black colleges. And he plans to have the 49-member caucus meet when Congress returns in two weeks to discuss whether to back Democratic-led efforts to impeach Trump.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., the caucus chairman, said the president’s remarks after the deadly August 12 protest in Charlottesville show he has no commitment to the schools or the African American community.

Richmond said the caucus was outraged by Trump’s assertion of “blame on both sides” for the violent rally dominated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

“You can make an argument based on pure competency and fitness to serve, and that’s the conversation the caucus will have,” Richmond told reporters in a conference call Monday. The caucus includes 46 House Democrats, Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Republican Rep. Mia Love of Utah.

“Am I concerned about high crimes and misdemeanors?” Richmond asked. “Absolutely. Am I concerned about this president’s fitness to serve? Absolutely.”
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump nominee: Same-sex marriage could lead to legalizing pedophilia

Sam Clovis made the comments on his conservative radio show and in an op-ed in a conservative blog in separate incidents ranging from 2011 to 2015, according to the news network's investigative unit.

“If we protect LGBT behavior, what other behaviors are we going to protect? Are we going to protect pedophilia?” he asked
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump Team Making Progress On Tax Reform: Politico reports that the "Big 6" leaders in charge of getting tax reform off the ground are making headway. The group is considering ideas such as eliminating deductions for state and local taxes, taxing 401(k) contributions up front, and capping the mortgage interest deduction.
 

La Paix

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from my local news site.turns out canadians dont hate trump as much as the CBC would lead you to believe
To be fair I'd guess that very few outside our area know about that site, I visit daily as well. That's probably 12,000+ people in Canada's south west corner that we call home. Still pretty interesting though.