As always, please go to the links for the full articles!
We'll start this Monday morning with the State of Alabama. The three main Alabama news papers owned by Advanced Publications (The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the Press- Register of Mobile) have a recommendation:
By the various misdeeds, miscalculations and mistakes of its voters and leaders, Alabama has left itself with few options. Alabamians must show themselves to be people of principle, reject Roy Moore and all that he stands for.
There is only one candidate left in this race who has proven worthy of the task of representing Alabama. He is Doug Jones.
The voters must make their voices heard.The editorial is accompanied by this (click on image to enlarge):
(J.D. Crowe, AL.com)
UPDATE: NBC's Today show had an interview this morning with Leigh Corfman, the first woman to tell her Roy Moore sexual assault story. If there's a more credible person than her on this planet, we'd like to know about them. Here's the interview:
WATCH: @savannahguthrie's full interview with Roy Moore's 1st accuser, Leigh Corfman, who says Moore sexually abused her when she was 14 pic.twitter.com/ll4FGmPvUZ— TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 20, 2017
We believe the wide- ranging investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is focusing more and more on "what do the Russians have on Trump?" Politico has some pieces of the puzzle:
It was around this time that Donald Trump appears to have attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence. How that happened, and where that relationship began, is an answer hidden somewhere in the KGB's secret archives. Assuming, that is, that the documents still exist.
Trump's first visit to Soviet Moscow in 1987 looks, with hindsight, to be part of a pattern. The dossier by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele asserts that the Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for “at least five years” before his stunning victory in the 2016 US presidential election. This would take us back to around 2011 or 2012.As they say in intelligence circles, he's dirty. Mueller will get the goods on him and his crime family.
UPDATE II: But wait, there's more:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating whether President Donald Trump sought to obstruct a federal inquiry into connections between his presidential campaign and Russian operatives has now directed the Justice Department to turn over a broad array of documents, ABC News has learned.
In particular, Mueller's investigators are keen to obtain emails related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the earlier decision of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the entire matter, according to a source who has not seen the specific request but was told about it.
Issued within the past month, the directive marks the special counsel's first records request to the Justice Department, and it means Mueller is now demanding documents from the department overseeing his investigation.We're betting Mueller already has some of these documents in hand and is waiting to see what's turned over -- or at least he wants the Trumpkins to think that way.
Finally, we would again like to recommend the link round- up assembled by Infidel 753. You're going to find something there to inform, amuse, and possibly enrage -- always worth a look.
