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Kush seems to have definitely perjured himself, saying under oath he had no knowledge of attempts to contact the campaign by WikiLeaks.

 

https://t.co/CaEL97VDKA

 

He also failed to disclose this:

 

An email chain described Aleksander Torshin, a former senator and deputy head of Russia's central bank who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as wanting Trump to attend an event on the sidelines of a National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 2016, the sources said. The email also suggests Torshin was seeking to meet with a high-level Trump campaign official during the convention, and that he may have had a message for Trump from Putin, the sources said.

 

This guy ended up seated next to Don Jr at an event at the convention

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Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.

 

 

Here we go...plenty of time for this garbage, but not a single trade deal or major piece of legislation approved.

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And here I thought the NFL's popularity was declining because of the over-commercialization/over-analyzation and that Millennials just aren't as interested in watching black men attempt to kill each other for entertainment. It's actually because a small group of players are protesting by not standing for a song with little modern relevance.

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At least “half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 presidential election until the country can fix [the voter fraud] problem.” Additionally, half of Republicans also believe that Trump did, in fact, win the popular vote over Clinton, despite official results proving otherwise.

 

The poll also found that “larger fractions” of those surveyed believed “millions” of undocumented immigrants had voted and that “voter fraud happens somewhat or very often” (approximately 68 percent of those surveyed and 73 percent, respectively). source:Washington Post

 

 

The scary thing (to me) is this group of potentially 30-45 million Americans and what they turn to when Trump is out of office....especially if a woman or minority becomes the next president.

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Not sure if this is the best place for it, but DOJ has sued to stop ATT/Time Warner merger.

 

Makan Delrahim, head of DOJ antitrust division, was a lobbyist for Comcast. Comcast previously acquired NBC Universal in a similar deal. Will be interesting to see why it was okay then, but bad now.

 

 

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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 05:10 PM)
Not sure if this is the best place for it, but DOJ has sued to stop ATT/Time Warner merger.

 

Makan Delrahim, head of DOJ antitrust division, was a lobbyist for Comcast. Comcast previously acquired NBC Universal in a similar deal. Will be interesting to see why it was okay then, but bad now.

Because of CNN

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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 20, 2017 -> 05:10 PM)
Not sure if this is the best place for it, but DOJ has sued to stop ATT/Time Warner merger.

 

Makan Delrahim, head of DOJ antitrust division, was a lobbyist for Comcast. Comcast previously acquired NBC Universal in a similar deal. Will be interesting to see why it was okay then, but bad now.

 

They've also simultaneously relaxed television station ownership rules so that the right-wing Sinclair media group can buy Tribune Co.

 

I wonder if we'll see Trump's own tweets used against him in court rulings again.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 21, 2017 -> 08:04 AM)
What about Fox News? When does Trump turn on them, too?

 

Shep Smith and Cavuto have both gone after him pretty hard in recent weeks.

We are inching closer and closer to state sponsored and censored news. They will be the mouthpiece like they currently are.

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AS THE F.B.I. CLOSES IN, TRUMP’S LAWYERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO KEEP HIM CALM

The White House is projecting optimism that the investigation will soon conclude, but experts think it’s “just getting started.”

 

 

With Donald Trump predisposed to self-sabotage in what may ultimately become an obstruction of justice case, the president’s lawyers have assured him that he has nothing to fear from Robert Mueller. It’s a tricky balancing act, given Trump’s past history of criticism for the special counsel. The president’s natural impulse for obstructive, combative behavior is also, in this case, a potential legal risk. So while F.B.I. investigators appear to have zeroed in on critical events that transpired before and after the real-estate mogul’s unexpected victory last fall, including Jeff Sessions’s recusal and the ouster of James Comey, Trump’s lawyers are taking pains to project calm, telling the president that he has nothing to fear and that the investigation, which some posit is just getting started, will wind down soon.

 

“The people who have been interviewed generally feel they were treated fairly by the special counsel, and adequately prepared to assist them in understanding the relevant material,” White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who has urged the president to cooperate with Mueller and his team, told The Washington Post. “They came back feeling relieved that it was over, but nobody I know of was shaken or scared.” Cobb added that the idea that Mueller was looking beyond the election into Trump’s personal finances and business dealings—something Trump has said would be “out of bounds”—was incorrect.

 

One of the goals of this effort, it appears, is to prevent Trump from flying into a rage and firing Mueller, as several of his allies have suggested he do if it appears Mueller is expanding the scope of his investigation into the president’s finances. “I’ve done my best, without overstepping, to share my view that the perception of the inquiry—that it involved a decade or more of financial transactions and other alleged issues that were mistakenly reported—just wasn’t true, and that the issues were narrower and wholly consistent with the mandate provided by the Justice Department to the Office of the Special Counsel,” he said, adding that he believes the investigation will be wrapped up by the end of the year, or shortly thereafter. As for further revelations regarding foreign contacts that are reportedly on the horizon, Cobb said he does not expect them to “unduly extend the inquiry.”

 

But that optimism is not universal. And while Trump’s lawyers and spokespeople had previously said they believe the investigation will be over by Thanksgiving, that timeframe was probably always fantastical. Allen notes, “I’m told that Mueller's team is rooting around inside Trumpworld more deeply than is publicly known. Outside West Wing advisers tell me that may create a showdown.” One G.O.P. operative in close contact with the Trump White House characterized Mueller’s approach as “working through the staff like Pac-Man” and dismissed the idea that Trumpworld is undaunted. “Of course they are worried,” the Republican said. “Anybody that ever had the words ‘Russia’ come out of their lips or in an e-mail, they’re going to get talked to. These things are thorough and deep. It’s going to be a long winter.”

 

One source told the Post that Mueller is executing a “a classic Gambino-style roll-up” that “will reach everyone in this administration.”

 

 

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NY attorney General alleges the telecommunications industry created a massive fraud/identity theft scheme to support the ending of Net Neutrality regulations and the FCC is refusing to cooperate in the investigation. Could very easily have submitted in the name of someone here.

In May 2017, researchers and reporters discovered that the FCC’s public comment process was being corrupted by the submission of enormous numbers of fake comments concerning the possible repeal of net neutrality rules. In doing so, the perpetrator or perpetrators attacked what is supposed to be an open public process by attempting to drown out and negate the views of the real people, businesses, and others who honestly commented on this important issue. Worse, while some of these fake comments used made up names and addresses, many misused the real names and addresses of actual people as part of the effort to undermine the integrity of the comment process. That’s akin to identity theft, and it happened on a massive scale.

 

My office analyzed the fake comments and found that tens of thousands of New Yorkers may have had their identities misused in this way. (Indeed, analysis showed that, in all, hundreds of thousands of Americans likely were victimized in the same way, including tens of thousands per state in California, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and possibly others.) Impersonation and other misuse of a person’s identity violates New York law, so my office launched an investigation.

 

Successfully investigating this sort of illegal conduct requires the participation of the agency whose system was attacked. So in June 2017, we contacted the FCC to request certain records related to its public comment system that were necessary to investigate which bad actor or actors were behind the misconduct. We made our request for logs and other records at least 9 times over 5 months: in June, July, August, September, October (three times), and November.

 

We reached out for assistance to multiple top FCC officials, including you, three successive acting FCC General Counsels, and the FCC’s Inspector General. We offered to keep the requested records confidential, as we had done when my office and the FCC shared information and documents as part of past investigative work.

 

Yet we have received no substantive response to our investigative requests. None.

 

This investigation isn’t about the substantive issues concerning net neutrality. For my part, I have long publicly advocated for strong net neutrality rules under the Title II of the Communications Act, and studies show that the overwhelming majority of Americans who took the time to write public comments to the FCC about the issue feel the same way while a very small minority favor repeal.

But this isn’t about that. It’s about the right to control one’s own identity and prevent the corruption of a process designed to solicit the opinion of real people and institutions. Misuse of identity online by the hundreds of thousands should concern everyone — for and against net neutrality, New Yorker or Texan, Democrat or Republican.

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Trump was giving a speech honoring Navajo Code Talkers.

 

He gave the speech in front of a portrait of... Andrew Jackson. He of the Indian Removal Act.

 

Then he made a joke about Warren and Pocahantas.

 

There has been no President in the last century who can even come close to touching the sheer stupidity and crassness of this guy. He can't be gone soon enough.

 

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