via All Over America, Citizens Turned Out Last Night To Support Trump’s Impeachment | Crooks and Liars
Category: Trumpland
Would you could you get an American visa? ODT
Punishing foreign film-makers and other visa applicants with needless social media surveillance is not just another instance of the government’s dim view of our interconnected world. The registration requirement violates our core constitutional commitment to freedom of expression. The state department should abandon it; otherwise, the courts must invalidate it.
67 Votes away from yet another record Mr President. (ODT)
But if the Republican president is hoping for a public backlash like the one against the 1998 impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton, it has so far not worked out that way, Reuters/Ipsos polling data over the past few months shows.
via Trump campaign says impeachment backfiring. Not really, polls suggest
Yes, yes, I know: the rule of law reflects the interests of the powerful. That principle was certainly on display in Brazil. But the rule of law also protects the weak against the predations of the strong. And in this brave new world that Trump presides over, this latter understanding of the rule of law is under siege. It can be seen in how the Trumps of the world are attacking the courts, attempting to roll back the gains of social movements in the area of human rights, and undermining a range of watchdog institutions.
If Trump wins in the Senate and then at the polls in 2020, he won’t just beat the impeachment rap. Like Putin in Russia, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, and (so far) Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, he’ll have successfully destroyed the mechanisms that stand in the way of his absolutism.
via A Coup against Trump? Or Trump’s Coup against the Rule of Law?
Thank you for your service. (ODT)
Turns out the IG Report made public today concludes that the FISA warrants and investigation into the activities of Carter Page were NOT “politically biased” and were instead legitimate investigations (which, by the way, netted 37 indictments from the Trump campaign including Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and his personal fixer/attorney Michael Cohen, both in jail).
via UPDATED: Even Fox News Must Admit IG Report Is Death Of FISA Conspiracy Theories | Crooks and Liars
Trump ignored the report’s conclusions and reiterated a baseless claim of victimhood.
“It’s a disgrace what’s happened with respect to the things that were done to our country,” he said at the White House. “It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible, far worse than I ever thought possible, and it’s an embarrassment to our country, it’s dishonest.”
In instant response to the president’s remarks, Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, told the MSNBC network: “We are officially living in an alternate reality. I have the IG report in my hand. I can assure you the president hasn’t read it and is lying about it.”
via FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry wasn’t biased against president, watchdog finds | US news | The Guardian
The GOP & far-right leaders regularly weaponize antisemitism against progressive leaders of color & use Jews as a shield,” the group said in a Twitter thread. “Where is their outrage when Trump is blatantly antisemitic? When he insinuates Jews control money & power? When he calls us disloyal?”
via ‘Pushing Blatant Antisemitism’: Trump Rebuked for ‘Disturbing’ Comments | Common Dreams News
The construction of a private border wall partially funded by rightwing allies of Donald Trump continued with vigor in south Texas this week, seemingly in blatant violation of a court injunction ordering work to be suspended.
On Thursday and Friday, within three days of a temporary restraining order being issued, the Guardian found construction crews with at least 10 heavy machinery vehicles moving soil, digging trenches and positioning tall metal posts along the US bank of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo county, which forms the border with Mexico. A 3.5-mile, privately-funded concrete barrier is planned on the site, near Mission, Texas.
via Private border wall construction continues despite court order | US news | The Guardian
Trump has made the Supreme Court the busiest court in the USA due all the cases against him being heard there. He owns that court. (ODT)
via Trump asks Supreme Court to fight House subpoena for his tax returns
We all know why that’s not what Trump said, though. And we all know why Fox News is telling its viewers to tune out of the Impeachment hearings. They are all very, very afraid of witnesses like Prof. Pamela S. Karlan.
via Impeachment Witness Rips GOP & Trump — Framers Would Be ‘Horrified’ | Crooks and Liars
US President Donald Trump subverted official foreign policy for his personal gain, undermined American national security and engaged in an unprecedented attempt to obstruct an impeachment investigation, according to a pivotal report released by Democrats.
The report by the Democrat-controlled House Intelligence Committee, released on Tuesday (Wednesday Australian time), provides a likely blueprint for forthcoming articles of impeachment against Trump over his dealings with Ukraine.
via ‘Worse than Nixon’: Democrats lay out impeachment case in landmark report
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Some of the Trump agenda is standard for a Republican president. White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low. The Justice Department defends state laws that could kick thousands off the voting rolls. The National Labor Relations Board is now more sympathetic to employers than unions. And military spending is on track to reach the same levels as during the height of the Iraq War.
But he’s gone further.
via Trump’s policy record: environment, Wall Street regulation, and more – Vox
People on the inside are forwarned of a Trump decision to bring the market down and the reverse and bring it back up wow easy money. (ODT)
The US president’s motorcade arrives at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 27, 2019. Trump is spending Thanksgiving week at his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump was aware of the whistleblower complaint when he lifted the suspension of nearly $400 million in military assistance for Ukraine. The funds had been approved by Congress but were stalled by the administration without explanation.
She’s Australian and she’s black and imprisoned by Trump’s Racist American Immigration in revenge. So much for any special relationship (ODT)
“This no-jail outcome must’ve infuriated [immigration] officials who proceeded (without Adau’s knowledge) to revoke her valid visa and subsequently arrested her for being in the country illegally,” it states.
“Meanwhile, a judge never ordered that Adau should leave the country. My sister has been in jail for over two months, she’s not been given any trial since arrest by [US immigration] nor found guilty of overstaying her visa, just kept in jail indefinitely.”
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Australian model locked in US immigration detention for months
Will this be appealed? (ODT)
via Judges Orders Trump’s Former White House Counsel to Testify Before Congress – Mother Jones
two lawyers for Lev Parnas say that Parnas tells them he arranged meetings for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) in the Ukraine for the purpose of pushing investigations of Hunter Biden and Burisma. They say he has offered to testify to Congress.
Nunes as Fox Guarding Henhouse: Parnas alleges he was part of Ukraine Scandal
Calls for Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to resign spread rapidly on social media Friday night following reports that Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, is willing to testify to House impeachment investigators that Nunes met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor in an effort to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
Parnas’ attorney Joseph Bondy told CNN Friday that his client “learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December,” news that sparked the trending Twitter hashtag #NunesResign.
“When I saw my photo crossed out in a secret government database, I realized the secondary screening and interrogation wasn’t random. I was being targeted by my own government for reporting on conditions at the border.”
—Bing Guan, photojournalistFive journalists who were tracked, detained, and interrogated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for reporting on conditions at the southern border in 2018 and 2019 brought a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday for what the ACLU called an “unprecedented, coordinated attack on the freedom of the press.”
The crime that can’t be remembered (ODT)
Murdoch’s America (ODT)
via Fox News’ take on Sondland’s testimony: nothing to see here | US news | The Guardian
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a decorated military veteran responsible for co-ordinating US policy on Ukraine, said he reported the call because he feared that Ukraine was being drawn into a “partisan play” to benefit Trump politically.
via Impeachment: Alexander Vindman alarmed by Trump’s ‘improper’ Ukraine call
He might control the Senate and SCOTUS but not the House (ODT)
Trump refused to agree to an in-person interview with Mueller’s team. The president’s attorneys said that was because Trump feared a perjury trap—in other words, that he would be unable to testify without lying. When Trump eventually agreed to answer some questions in writing, he still refused to answer queries about allegations that he had obstructed justice.
via Congress Is Now Investigating Whether Trump Lied to Mueller – Mother Jones
Day Two focused on a Giuliani-run smear campaign and Trump’s passion for settling scores—real or imagined.
The blood drained from her face as Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat removed as the US ambassador to Ukraine, read the reconstructed transcript of President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day it was released. There was the president referring directly to her: “The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news,” Trump told the Ukrainian leader. And as Yovanovitch read on, she came across another Trump statement that seemed menacing: “She’s going to go through some things.” Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday morning as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, Yovanovitch recalled how she had been “shocked,” “appalled,” and “devastated” to see a president undermine and threaten a US ambassador. And about the same time as she was telling the committee this, Trump was blasting Yovanovitch, claiming, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go?” This was a shocking move that even a Fox News anchor likened to witness intimidation.
Source: Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony Showcases Donald Trump’s Obsession With Revenge – Mother Jones
Now, Giuliani and Parnas snipe at each other through their lawyers.
Unlike Fruman, Parnas is no longer represented by one of the President’s former lawyers, John Dowd. “Igor has much more money than Parnas and can afford a strong defense team,” says one of their confidants, trying to explain the split.
Trump ― the man who was obsessed with the fact that Hillary Clinton used a private email server as secretary of state ― continues to use a personal cellphone, despite warnings from security experts. The practice also, conveniently, allows him to avoid extra public scrutiny.
Trump’s cellphone does not have security features to shield his communications from espionage, and he has reportedly resisted measures to make his phone more secure.
via Rudy Giuliani’s Calls To Trump Are Conveniently Secret | HuffPost
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