Bannon’s Out!
Steve Bannon has been fired. This should create some interesting fallout, although Charles Pierce thinks it might not all be for the good. While this is all entertaining as hell, and it is, and while...
View ArticleKushner Money Blues
There’s a must-read report at Bloomberg News about the Kushner family finances. Executive summary: You think you have money problems? Boy howdy, you do not want to be them. Here’s the story: Back in...
View ArticleNoted in Passing
The Rapture was yesterday. So far, nobody has turned up missing. Stupid is as stupid does: Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials...
View ArticleThe Trump Campaign: Too Screwed to Collude?
In light of Jeff Sessions’s testimony today, I call your attention to Paul Waldman’s commentary: Unlike his boss, who claims he possesses “one of the greatest memories of all time,” Attorney General...
View ArticleAnother Jared-Russian Connection
The drips, they keep dripping. Jared Kushner is in trouble with the Senate Judiciary Committee over emails he received and forwarded but did not disclose. In the letter, Grassley and Feinstein...
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Jared’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
Jared Kushner, May 2017: Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the...
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Who’s the Turkey Now? Jared’s Wings Clipped
This should cheer you up. Gabriel Sherman writes for Vanity Fair: When Donald Trump appointed John Kelly as chief of staff in July, the four-star Marine general arrived with a mandate to bring order to...
View ArticleIs Mueller Closing In?
It sure seems so … President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December,...
View ArticleHow Can We Impeach Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
A quick rundown … Obstruction of Justice. There’s a hell of an obstruction of justice case against Trump just based on what he’s done publicly. The obstruction of justice case was a slam dunk months...
View ArticleAnother Foreign Policy Unforced Error: Jerusalem
Following Trump’s slurred announcement that the U.S. Embassy in Israel would be moved to Jerusalem, the State Department updated its Worldwide Caution alert to be sure Americans traveling abroad know...
View ArticleWaiting on the Alabama Returns
I just checked the news for the latest on voter turnout in Alabama. Word is that turnout is “high”; they expect about 25 percent of registered voters to vote. WTF, Alabama? The whole country is biting...
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Merry Whatever
Even though it’s not a religious holiday for me, I have to admit I appreciate that there’s one time of year when everything comes to a screeching halt. Routines go out the window; businesses close....
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House of Bad Security Clowns
Conservative opinion writer Kathleen Parker explains why Rob Porter was kept at his job without a security clearance. He was one of the few people working at the White House “who knew how to do...
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Jared and Ivanka Are Buried in Debt
Let this soak in: Politico reported last week that the debt Jared and Ivanka were carrying on one Visa card dropped from a range of $100,001 to $250,000 down to a range of $50,001 to $100,000....
View ArticleBob Mueller Is Still Investigating
The latest: Rick Gates done gone and flipped, folks. And he must have flipped good. The lead Russia investigator asked a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia Tuesday to dismiss a series of criminal...
View ArticleDid Jared Get Caught?
The New York Times is reporting an apparent conflict of interest between Jared Kushner and companies that met with him in the White House. Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying...
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The Further Adventures of Jared
I’m trying to remember what it was I used to write about before Trump became president. Anyone? Today The Intercept reported that it appears Jared Kushner arranged to punish Qatar for not giving him a...
View ArticleBob Mueller’s New Best Friend
George Nader seems to be another key to Trump’s various plots. Josh Marshall: George Nader was returning to Dulles airport on January 17th, apparently from abroad, when he was met by FBI agents with...
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Japan Went to Jared
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meeting with the Usual Suspects in Trump Tower, November 17, 2016. Remember the meeting with Shinzo Abe in Trump Tower, a couple of weeks after the election, when...
View ArticleIn the Nooz: Pruitt, Kushner, Manafort
The AP reports: Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt’s concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times...
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