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Steve Bannon, who left the White House as chief strategist in August.

Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for Trump who testified before congressional investigators in October.

Rick Gates, Trump's former deputy campaign manager, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy and lying to the FBI.

Hope Hicks, who resigned last week as Trump's communications director.

Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager until June 2016.

Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign manager and Gates' business partner, who pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements last week.

Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide.

Keith Schiller, a former bodyguard for Trump who left as director of Oval Office operations in September.

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican political operative and Trump campaign adviser who sources have told NBC News is the focus of investigators interested in his contacts with WikiLeaks during the campaign.

although for some reason NBC News missed a name on the list: Donald J. Trump

they also seem to think this is a subpoena for all those people, when it's actually one for a prior witness and their communications with these people

the fucking axios "story" is only like a paragraph long

i don't even nbc news

benjipwns · « **Reply #14890 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:06:04 AM »

Rudy Guiliani just told vile “joke” about Hillary at Mar-a-Lago that angered his own wife

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On Friday night, President Trump entertained around 250 Republican donors in his Mar-a-Lago ballroom. Spotted in the audience: Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, who recently admitted to paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The most shocking moment of the evening came when Trump brought his old pal Rudy Giuliani onto the stage.

Giuliani told the crowd he had been down there for Trump's wedding.

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"Hillary was also here," he said, according to two sources in the room, "and she actually fit through the door.”

The crowd gasped. I'm told Giuliani's wife gave him a "most foul look." Trump later told the audience: "I'm just glad I didn't say it."

spoiler (click to show/hide)

*immediately goes to check Peter Daou's twitter*

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Mandark · « **Reply #14891 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:13:02 AM »

I'm beginning to think it's possible this investigation might not be wrapped up by *checks calendar* two months ago.

benjipwns · « **Reply #14892 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:19:39 AM »

Cindi, etoliate, Optimus and Assimilate proven right once again? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/us/politics/democrats-primaries-division.html

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When Representative Daniel Lipinski, a conservative-leaning Democrat and scion of Chicago’s political machine, agreed to one joint appearance last month with his liberal primary challenger, the divide in the Democratic Party was evident in the audience that showed up.

Mr. Lipinski’s outnumbered supporters were the diminished lunch-pail Democrats that once dominated his Southside district. Those of his rival, Marie Newman, came from the party’s ascendant coalition — young progressives and women like Elizabeth Layden, a Patagonia-clad teacher who explained her opposition to Mr. Lipinski in blunt terms.

“Because he’s a dinosaur, ’cause he’s a phony, ’cause he’s a Republican who claims to be a Democrat,” said Ms. Layden, 49, who has been making phone calls and knocking on doors to help unseat Mr. Lipinski, a seven-term House member, in the primary race this month. “Hello, women’s rights, and hello, my reproductive rights. Get out of my uterus.”

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“This is part of the reason Donald Trump won,” Mr. Lipinski said in an interview, adding, “Democrats have chased people out of the party.”

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In California, party activists at the state Democratic Convention last week rejected Senator Dianne Feinstein, a moderate lawmaker, refusing to formally bless her re-election. In Texas, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee opened fire on a progressive candidate, Laura Moser, posting negative research to blunt her rise in fear that a victory by her in Tuesday’s primary race could doom the party’s bid for a suburban Houston district in November.

But the battle to define the party is playing out most vividly in overwhelmingly safe House districts around cities like Boston, Chicago and New York, where younger liberals, often women, people of color or both, are confronting men who are products of a clubhouse politics where fealty to the organization was paramount.

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Representative Kurt Schrader of Oregon, who leads the political arm of the centrist Blue Dog caucus, has complained to the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee about the intervention of Ms. Schakowsky and said he would seek a rule change so that members like her who have formal positions on the committee cannot oppose incumbents.

“That’s just wrong, and we’re going to change that,” he said.

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Her headquarters, not far from the elder Lipinski’s old clubhouse, is filled with signs trumpeting “Intersectional Feminism” and L.G.B.T.Q. rights. When she stopped recently to rally phone-bankers, one volunteer wore a T-shirt demanding “Reparations Now,” a reference to the movement by African-Americans to retrieve compensation for slavery.

Speaking to her supporters, Ms. Newman invoked her transgender daughter.

Over a diner lunch, where her Mercedes stuck out in the parking lot, she said a victory over Mr. Lipinski this month would echo across the country.

“We need to have more diversity across people of color, gender and types of folks,” Ms. Newman said. “We can’t have all millionaires, billionaires, businesspeople and doctors in Congress.”

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Though the primary race is not until September, Ms. Pressley’s candidacy has already roiled the party in Massachusetts, a rigidly hierarchical and predominantly white organization that is closely intertwined with organized labor.

In an unusual show of deference to Ms. Pressley, two of the state’s highest-profile Democrats, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Seth Moulton, said they would stay neutral rather than back their colleague in Congress. Setti Warren, a former mayor of Newton who is the leading Democratic candidate for governor, endorsed Ms. Pressley. Damali Vidot, a Pressley supporter who is the president of the City Council in Chelsea, said there had been private pressure on Democrats not to buck Mr. Capuano.

...

Mr. Capuano, 66, is one of three Democratic members of Congress facing primary opponents in Massachusetts, and he appears to be the most endangered. In an interview, Mr. Capuano acknowledged that he faced a new kind of race in a “significantly different” political environment, and said he was prepared to defend a record of assailing Mr. Trump that includes two votes in favor of impeachment.

“My district is upset,” Mr. Capuano said. “They don’t like the Donald Trump agenda, and I’ve been as vocal as I can be.”

You know what that means:

Mandark · « **Reply #14893 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:24:11 AM »

Given what's going on in West Virginia, and maybe soon in Oklahoma, it's pretty interesting that the reporter contrasted "lunch pail Democrats" with teachers.

benjipwns · « **Reply #14894 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:27:56 AM »

teachers eat catered meals in the teachers lounge when they aren't pushing the lieberal-homosexualist agenda in math classes

they wouldn't be seen dead with a lunchpail in tow

benjipwns · « **Reply #14895 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:32:14 AM »

also i'll be calling the NYT to cancel my subscription, first they publish articles that do nothing but promote neo-nazism but now they run an article on progressive challengers without devoting even a sentence to Brianna Wu's realigning campaign?

/garbage thread related joke

warcock · « **Reply #14896 on:** March 05, 2018, 06:50:12 AM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on March 05, 2018, 05:34:28 AM

Quote from: Trent Dole on March 03, 2018, 10:26:56 PM
Quote from: Shostakovich on March 03, 2018, 09:00:29 PM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/970071393990832129
(Image removed from quote.)

I hope that protester is really fucking satisfied with the current state of things. I’d love to send her a MAGA hat. Also send one to everyone who signal boosted the idiotic “Not My Abuela” meme. Like, fucking congrats, assholes, you sure showed her.

Maybe someday we on the left will learn to stop shooting ourselves in the dicks.

Not my abuela. Center left's done next to shit for us in the past 20 years, why are you angry that i'm angry? Dunno about shooting in the dick but i'll settle to taking one of your eyes out.

warcock · « **Reply #14897 on:** March 05, 2018, 06:59:39 AM »

how exactly does that work you shill?

benjipwns · « **Reply #14898 on:** March 05, 2018, 07:19:52 AM »

what

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/969663700897583106

https://twitter.com/leeladaou/status/969666443091595264

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/969676844600578049

benjipwns · « **Reply #14899 on:** March 05, 2018, 07:20:27 AM »

at least he's left us with some positive vibes for the tough days ahead

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/969213489867837443

agrajag · « **Reply #14900 on:** March 05, 2018, 07:28:10 AM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on March 05, 2018, 06:53:03 AM

LMAO, I will take you to the ground and snap multiple joints before you get close.

Newsfeed pls

warcock · « **Reply #14901 on:** March 05, 2018, 07:37:18 AM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on March 05, 2018, 07:20:18 AM

Quote from: warcock on March 05, 2018, 06:59:39 AM
how exactly does that work you shill?

Well, remembering that you’re the aggressor in this scenario advancing on me with the goal of gouging out an eye, I’d do my best to block your initial strikes, then shoot a takedown at the first opportunity, ideally a double leg, but if our arms are all tied up I might go for a judo throw. I’d immediately take knee on belly and then mount - it will be tough for you to eye gouge from the bottom position unless you have exceptionally long arms, and even then I’m fairly confident I can deal with them. As you go for the eyes I’ll grab an arm, push it to the floor, and get an Americana shoulder lock, angling myself to prevent the eye gouge from your free arm. No worries about tapping here, I’ll just snap the shoulder joint. You’ll probably bring the other arm across at that point, so I’ll grab it and armbar you, snapping the elbow. If I’m in an exceptionally bad mood, say if National Review ran a column that day about how Hillary should have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act, I might move over to the legs. Since both your arms are useless, I can probably just pick one leg up and sit into a straight ankle lock, which I’d just crank to dislocation. Maybe heel hook the other leg and snap your knee ligaments.

Tbh I would never actually do any of this, and would probably just try to talk it out, but you asked how it would work.

The most you could hope to accomplish is throw your taylor swift album at my chin you fruity taco.

Ps. who the fuck is this peter daou guy i've only seen briefly replying to Taleb's twitter in one of my weekly outrage browsing sessions.

kingv · « **Reply #14902 on:** March 05, 2018, 08:20:29 AM »

Quote from: Jack Remington on March 05, 2018, 05:34:28 AM

Quote from: Trent Dole on March 03, 2018, 10:26:56 PM
Quote from: Shostakovich on March 03, 2018, 09:00:29 PM
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/970071393990832129
(Image removed from quote.)

I hope that protester is really fucking satisfied with the current state of things. I’d love to send her a MAGA hat. Also send one to everyone who signal boosted the idiotic “Not My Abuela” meme. Like, fucking congrats, assholes, you sure showed her.

Maybe someday we on the left will learn to stop shooting ourselves in the dicks.

Even though trump is terrible, and probably a traitor... I’m still glad Hillary isn’t President.

We’d be staring down a President with a 40% approval rating who would be pretty much guaranteed to lose big in ‘18 and ‘20 handing Republicans another decade at Gerrymandering. Dems at least have an outside shot at making big gains by 20 in the state races, and can hopefully fix gerrymandering as a result.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14903 on:** March 05, 2018, 09:54:21 AM »

Quote from: Dufus on March 05, 2018, 09:32:48 AM

so you prefer trump over hillary because you think it'll be better over the long term

that's a bold strategy cotton

4 dimensional chess

Nola · « **Reply #14904 on:** March 05, 2018, 09:59:53 AM »

Acclerationism and beyond!!

kingv · « **Reply #14905 on:** March 05, 2018, 10:44:43 AM »

Quote from: Dufus on March 05, 2018, 09:32:48 AM

so you prefer trump over hillary because you think it'll be better over the long term

that's a bold strategy cotton

I voted for Hillary over Trump. If I had to
choose between the two I would choose Hillary, but I still
think she sucks.

Let me rephrase, I’m glad Hillary is not the President but I also wish Trump was not the President.

I don’t think Hillary would be terrible, exactly, so much as uninspiring and not particularly progressive.

kingv · « **Reply #14906 on:** March 05, 2018, 11:22:36 AM »

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376746-russia-says-it-stopped-mitt-romney-from-becoming-secretary-of-state

If true... then holy shit, this is probably worse than cheating in the election.

zomgee · « **Reply #14907 on:** March 05, 2018, 11:27:27 AM »

Quote from: kingv on March 05, 2018, 11:22:36 AM

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376746-russia-says-it-stopped-mitt-romney-from-becoming-secretary-of-state

If true... then holy shit, this is probably worse than cheating in the election.

Christopher Steele has had his name dragged through enough mud to allow nearly immediate dismissal of this report by the standard voices. "Fake News," etc.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14908 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:28:53 PM »

Quote from: kingv on March 05, 2018, 11:22:36 AM

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376746-russia-says-it-stopped-mitt-romney-from-becoming-secretary-of-state

If true... then holy shit, this is probably worse than cheating in the election.

Now THIS is something I doubt. I don't doubt that Russia preferred that Romney not be SoS, however I don't believe Trump was truly planning on making him SoS until Russia told him no. No major cabinet jobs went to people who denigrated Trump during the primaries. Not only did Romney refuse to endorse Trump, he blasted him on multiple occasions. I'm more apt to believe that Trump's public courting of Romney for SoS was done to embarrass Romney (for hypocrisy), not because he seriously wanted Romney for the job.

Tillerson's name was being floated pretty early in the process. Which of course coincides with the dossier's claims about the gas line.

etiolate · « **Reply #14909 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:31:47 PM »

Russia used up the last of my eggs this morning

benjipwns · « **Reply #14910 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:32:14 PM »

Quote from: kingv on March 05, 2018, 11:22:36 AM

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376746-russia-says-it-stopped-mitt-romney-from-becoming-secretary-of-state

If true... then holy shit, this is probably worse than cheating in the election.

Putin's agent Barack Hussein Obama stopped Mitt Romney from becoming President first.

Then he (Obama, on Putin's orders) manipulated things so Trump could win the Presidency over his (Obama, and Putin) old enemy Hillary and they (Obama and Putin) could snub Romney yet again.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14911 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:45:47 PM »

That Hill headline is extremely misleading btw. Russia didn't "say" anything...Steele alleged that they did. The headline makes it sound like Russia came out and admitted to this.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14912 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:47:50 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 05, 2018, 12:45:47 PM

That Hill headline is extremely misleading btw. Russia didn't "say" anything...Steele alleged that they did. The headline makes it sound like Russia came out and admitted to this.

Maybe he read it on Putin’s twitter.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14913 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:52:41 PM »

BTW...anyone else think Kushner is the person who leaked that subpoena? Him or Don Jr, but I'd bet on Kushner. He's tied to all of the people listed, was a more trusted advisor than Don Jr, and has been mentioned quite a bit lately.

Still I gotta think Mueller will hold off indicting him until he gets towards the end. Trump will react with maximum fuckery the minute any member of his family is indicted.

Mandark · « **Reply #14914 on:** March 05, 2018, 12:57:50 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on December 01, 2017, 05:54:03 PM

Maybe this is all a long con by Trump so Kushner gets thrown in prison and Ivanka's single again.

Man, listen...

Nintex · « **Reply #14915 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:07:40 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 05, 2018, 12:52:41 PM

BTW...anyone else think Kushner is the person who leaked that subpoena? Him or Don Jr, but I'd bet on Kushner. He's tied to all of the people listed, was a more trusted advisor than Don Jr, and has been mentioned quite a bit lately.

Still I gotta think Mueller will hold off indicting him until he gets towards the end. Trump will react with maximum fuckery the minute any member of his family is indicted.

The Axios source is always Javanka (Jared + Ivanka) and they're not even trying to hide it.

When Trump did the Muslim ban they did all the: "But Ivanka tried really hard to make her father do other things!!!" reporting.

They're probably rooting for Kushner now because if he's gone they lose their sources.

benjipwns · « **Reply #14916 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:16:56 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 05, 2018, 12:45:47 PM

That Hill headline is extremely misleading btw. Russia didn't "say" anything...Steele alleged that they did. The headline makes it sound like Russia came out and admitted to this.

we get it, you think Trump is the new and improved Rick Snyder, you don't need to deploy a full court press attacking the last bastion of American democracy, the Washington based press

read beyond the headline for once:

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Russia says it stopped former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney from becoming President Trump’s secretary of State

...

individuals inside Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed to have stopped Romney from becoming head of the State Department.

...

Russia used “unspecified channels” to request that Trump choose a secretary of State who would remove “Ukraine-related sanctions,”

...

The Kremlin also reportedly wanted the department's head to accommodate Russia in regards to Syria, where the Russian government has been backing President Bashar Assad in a years-long civil war.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14917 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:19:51 PM »

I've never heard of Rick Snyder. Isn't he the main character on that zombie show?

Mandark · « **Reply #14918 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:20:11 PM »

What happened to the Hill?

I never read it regularly but it wasn't always this trash, right?

Nintex · « **Reply #14919 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:23:00 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on March 05, 2018, 07:19:52 AM

what

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/969663700897583106

https://twitter.com/leeladaou/status/969666443091595264

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/969676844600578049

Has Peter given up?

Who's left in the #resistance? Clinton, Kim Jong Un?

benjipwns · « **Reply #14920 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:25:41 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 05, 2018, 01:19:51 PM

I've never heard of Rick Snyder. Isn't he the main character on that zombie show?

No, I'm pretty sure he's a real person. I think he's the owner of the Washington Redskins or something.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14921 on:** March 05, 2018, 01:35:01 PM »

#ReleasetheRickSnyderCut

agrajag · « **Reply #14922 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:04:17 PM »

This dude Sam Numberg just said he refuses to comply with Mueller's subpoena.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-called-before-grand-jury-says-he-will-refuse-to-go/2018/03/05/24c8b86a-20a9-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14923 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:07:12 PM »

So that's who probably leaked

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/970748634659729410
The smartest people.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14924 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:07:38 PM »

More like Sam Nuremberg.

Cuz he's probably a nazi, you see.

kingv · « **Reply #14925 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:11:34 PM »

Jail is cool I guess.

Mandark · « **Reply #14926 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:14:36 PM »

Apparently Nunberg just went Carter Page in that interview?

agrajag · « **Reply #14927 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:19:09 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on March 05, 2018, 03:14:36 PM

Apparently Nunberg just went Carter Page in that interview?

Yeah he did.

Mandark · « **Reply #14928 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:21:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/970748833473941504

And it's just Monday. Feels like we're in for another wild Infrastructure Week.

Nintex · « **Reply #14929 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:25:40 PM »

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/970751271304073216

Holy shit, he's going all in because he doesn't want spend 50 hours to go over his e-mails, so people can read how much he and Roger Stone e-mail about hating people.

Mandark · « **Reply #14930 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:25:54 PM »

Did we even get confirmation that Mueller had asked to interview Trump yet?

Feels like everything we heard about that was coming from Ty Cobb.

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #14931 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:28:39 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on March 05, 2018, 03:21:39 PM

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/970748833473941504

And it's just Monday. Feels like we're in for another wild Infrastructure Week.

Is there a link to the full interview? Nothing in that tweet is in the article that he linked to.

Nintex · « **Reply #14932 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:28:50 PM »

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/970753457832505344

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/970753766877224965

Mandark · « **Reply #14933 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:29:26 PM »

Nunberg's the dude who Trump was suing for $10 million after kicking him off the campaign, and who was going to file a counter-suit for the same amount.

God, I barely remember this subplot.

Mandark · « **Reply #14934 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:30:23 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on March 05, 2018, 03:28:39 PM

Is there a link to the full interview? Nothing in that tweet is in the article that he linked to.

I think it's just the reporter throwing some tidbits that didn't make the final cut of the story up on Twitter.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #14935 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:41:39 PM »

The media missed a huge opportunity by not calling this The Nunberg Trials

Mandark · « **Reply #14936 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:42:30 PM »

Caught some of when he jumped on to CNN after the MSNBC interview.

"We were a joke, everyone was laughing at us, the idea that we were the Manchurian Candidate and somehow colluding with Russia is insane!"

15 seconds later

"Donald Trump might have done something with Russia. If he did I don't know."

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14937 on:** March 05, 2018, 03:57:31 PM »

See, I never just did things just to do them, c'mon I mean, what I'm gonna do just all of the sudden just jump up and grind my feet in somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on, I got a little more sense than that. ...Yeah, I remember grinding my feet into Eddie's couch.

Nintex · « **Reply #14938 on:** March 05, 2018, 04:26:30 PM »

https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/970769414323884033

https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/970768689313341440

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14939 on:** March 05, 2018, 04:26:56 PM »

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/970768946730332161

this dude is scared shit-less

News:

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