The Smoking Gun: Trump, The Least Charitable Billionaire

“ Kellyanne Conway's husband says she's an 'enabler' of 'criminal' Trump”

The shit show begins

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Trump Wonders Why Coin Commemorating 100-Year Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage Wasn’t “Done a Long Time Ago”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...ial-100-year-anniversary-womens-suffrage.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/poli...tion-supreme-court-executive-power/index.html
Judge tells Trump he's not a king -- the President is not so sure

” It is indisputable that current and former employees of the White House work for the People of the United States, and that they take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," the judge added.”

In case you think Trumpets are not a cult
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...icans-say-trump-better-president-than-lincoln
Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln

Here’s an update. There is too much bullshit to post charges, replies, more charges and just plain silliness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f96062-14f2-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/north-korea-very-dangerous-challenge-if-trump-calls-kim-rocket-man-again-idUSKBN1Y91L0


I shall taunt you a second time: North Korea threatens Trump ‘dotard’ insults

Judge rejects government’s motion to toss suit over missing Trump-Putin meeting notes

Two watchdog groups charge that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated the Federal Records Act.

Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’

Russian commentators note, rightly, that “sooner or later, the Democrats will come back into power," and they’re already joking about offering Trump asylum.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-state-tv-calls-trump-their-agent

Trump encourages family feuds
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/7911...in-winning-arguments-with-snowflake-relatives
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Trump Campaign Site Offers Help In Winning Arguments With 'Snowflake' Relatives Featuring videos on topics from the economy to immigration and attacks on the media, snowflakevictory.com seeks to provide pro-Trump tidbits that can be brought to the holiday dinner table.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ny...s/politics/trump-iran-cultural-sites.amp.html
Trump threatens Iran’s cultural sites- a war crime but who is surprised.
Bolton lives it.

Also Bolton has agreed to testify for the impeachment trial in the Senate, of course the Senate plans to not call any witnesses. If some republicans loose control of impeachment and witnesses are called, bets are Trump will resign rather than face evidence of his crimes ( I mean MORE evidence) and Bolton looks good.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...35c218-31a0-11ea-9313-6cba89b1b9fb_story.html
Live updates: Trump says Iranian strike caused no American or Iraqi deaths; new sanctions on Iran will be imposed

” Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases in Iraq and claimed that at least 80 U.S. troops were killed. The U.S. military said it was still assessing casualties.”

Iran told Iraq before the missile strikes, Iraq told the US, supposedly everyone got to safety according to Trump who has sent a conciliatory message to a Iran.

Trump also said he was adding new sanctions against Iran and told the rest of the World and NATO to leave the Iran deal...

This is good background on Iran proxy war in Iraq
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/reports/IraqReport06.pdf

The Hezbolla militia groups acting in Iraq say they will continue to attack the US.

And once again, Ukraine gets injured.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/americans-arent-rallying-trump/604612/

“The truly horrible news seems instead to be an accident: the crash of a Ukrainian Airlines flight to Tehran, which killed all 176 people aboard. The largest group among them consisted of 63 Canadian nationals. The cause of the crash remains uncertain. As of early this morning, the Iranian authorities had recovered the aircraft’s black boxes, but said they did not intend to send them to the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. If a poorly aimed rocket struck the plane, then Iran has truly escalated the crisis. Otherwise, a night that opened with bellicosity closed in the shared grief of accidental tragedy.”

THE SLATEST:
Donald Trump Not Causing Nuclear War Is What Now Qualifies as Good News in America, Hooray?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...med-to-stop-escalating-his-pointless-war.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump

” A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.”.......
” One that reads “If my vagina could shoot bullets, it’d be less REGULATED” has “vagina” blurred out. And another that says “This Pussy Grabs Back” has the word “Pussy” erased.”

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-po...es-after-she-joins-trump-impeachment-defense/

Bondi was photographed meeting Parnas and now she is on Trumps defense team. ....

Tape Made Public of Trump Discussing Ukraine With Donors
”The recording from a dinner in 2018 showed that the president spent an hour with two key players in the Ukraine pressure campaign. He has repeatedly said he does not know them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-donors.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
” Therecording — a video shot on Mr. Fruman’s phone during the dinner in April 2018 — largely confirmed Mr. Parnas’s account of having raised with Mr. Trump criticisms of the ambassador to Kyiv at the time, Marie L. Yovanovitch, and the president’s immediate order that Ms. Yovanovitch should be removed from the post.
“Get rid of her,” Mr. Trump can be heard responding.

how did this meathead get himself videotaped and his calls taped? Over and over.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-trial-01-27-20/h_fa47658875d156ed5ab47366cc080c2c
“ Another source familiar with conversations ongoing since the Bolton news broke told CNN that the White House is hearing from Republican senators who are frustrated that at least someone in the White House had the Bolton manuscript since the end of December and they were kept in the dark”

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Bolton Revelations Anger Republicans, Fueling Push for Impeachment Witnesses
The former national security adviser’s account threatened to derail Republican hopes of bringing President Trump’s impeachment trial to a quick close with his acquittal.‘
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/john-bolton-impeachment-witness.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage” The newly disclosed revelations by Mr. Bolton, whose forthcoming book details how Mr. Trump conditioned military aid for Ukraine on the country’s willingness to furnish information on his political rivals, angered key Republicans and reinvigorated a bid to call witnesses. Such a move would prolong the trial and pose new dangers for the president.”” Behind closed doors, Republicans were singularly focused on the former national security adviser’s account, which stoked turmoil in their ranks and opened cracks in their near monolithic support for the White House strategy of denying witnesses and rushing toward a final verdict, almost certain to be an acquittal.