Today, @facebook, who is still ensnared in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, added Breitbart, whose owner and former President were OWNERS of Cambridge Analytica, as a “trusted” news source.— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) October 25, 2019
This scandal writes itself.
Remember, this doesn’t just mean Facebook is credentialing Breitbart it is also subsidizing Breitbart. These Facebook approved news outlets are now all being paid. https://t.co/tuRTr9qH5g— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 26, 2019
I’m starting to think Facebook doesn’t want to solve this problem at all 🤔— Barend 🇪🇺 (@grooveplex) October 25, 2019
I'm out of things to say on Facebook, except this. They have chosen Breitbart as a trusted news partner.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 25, 2019
You should read this story about what Breitbart did to a city in Idaho, turning neighbors against one another, in an effort to smear immigrants.https://t.co/nGiRiWBDMG
She served a ridiculously long sentence essentially for not filing the right paperwork. But now she is free. Sadly, she was jailed to satiate the rampant Russophobia in the US these days. We are better than this.https://t.co/ZNkKfD9wnP— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 25, 2019
“People are objecting to us making so much money on the hotel, and therefore we may be willing to sell.”Right, you're making soooo much money on the hotel, you want to sell it. It couldn't be that it's become a legal liability to your corrupt father, or, more likely, that you see the 2020 election handwriting on the wall and see those corrupt foreign potentates taking their bribes elsewhere in the aftermath.
The state of New Jersey is seeking to revoke the liquor license for one of President Trump’s golf clubs — a rare and potentially damaging punishment, triggered by a 2015 case in which state officials said the Trump club overserved alcohol to a man who then caused a fatal wreck. [snip]
If the club’s liquor license is revoked, that would be a blow for the Colts Neck course, near the Jersey Shore. The club could lose significant revenue from the two restaurants and a bar it operates for members, and find it hard to attract banquets or golf tournaments from outsiders.
But for Trump, the potential damage is greater than that.
We'll drink to that!Under New Jersey law, anyone who has one liquor license revoked must also give up all their other liquor licenses for two years. Trump has two other New Jersey golf clubs, including one in Bedminster that he uses as a summer White House.
Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.
Do you notice something missing from the Times' sources' account? Like maybe the grounds for making it a criminal inquiry? They're not there because there are none. The leak of this dubious (at best) information is coming at a time when the impeachment inquiry is taking up all the media oxygen, polls are moving quickly in the direction of impeach and remove, and the involvement of corrupt theocrat AG William "Low" Barr up to his double chin in the Ukraine shakedown scandal is becoming more public.The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. Mr. Trump fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director under whose watch agents opened the Russia inquiry, and has long assailed other top former law enforcement and intelligence officials as partisans who sought to block his election.
I think it's plausible that William Barr might release his "review" of the origins of the Russia investigation as impeachment hits its climax, for maximum confusion/fog machine effect:https://t.co/2rjCJ4R9Lo pic.twitter.com/HwZaseTePi— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 23, 2019
The testimony from Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, also contains a key revelation about Attorney General William P. Barr — one that provides an occasion to revisit his role in this scandal, and hints at how Barr will likely continue perverting the U.S. government machinery to help Trump get away with it.
Taylor’s key mention of Barr comes in a very damning passage. Taylor recounted that he’d learned that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, had informed Ukraine that the frozen military aid would be conditioned on launching the “investigations” Trump wanted. [snip]
Looks like Barr is forging (yes) ahead on his "investigate the investigators" sham, regardless of Ukrainian/U.K./Italian/etc., cooperation. He's nothing if not a corrupt tool. His eagerness to undermine his own Justice Department's and intelligence community's findings are a profound attack on our institutions and the rule of law. But, as with all these vicious Trump lickspittles, the only thing that matters is power, and maintaining it, regardless of the damage done to our country. (Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler released a joint statement on the matter.)Taylor then adds:We also discussed the possibility that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, rather than President Zelenskyy, would make a statement about investigations, potentially in coordination with Attorney General Barr’s probe into the investigation of interference in the 2016 elections.
Senate Intel is wrapping up a three-year bipartisan investigation, and we've found nothing remotely justifying this.— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 25, 2019
Mr. Barr's "investigation" has already jeopardized key international intelligence partnerships.
He needs to come before Congress and explain himself. https://t.co/hl9qM86QrM
Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. in "knowingly and intentionally conspired to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the Federal Election Commission in administering federal requirements that prohibit soliciting, accepting or receiving a thing of value from a foreign national in connection with a federal election."Rudy Colludey has been back and forth over whether he needs to hire his own lawyer. Reading this detailed draft "indictment" prepared by two of the sharpest former prosecutors might persuade him.
Conspiracy to Commit Bribery in "corruptly seek a thing of value, that is, an agreement by the government of Ukraine to publicly announce that it was investigating certain matters that were favorable to Individual-1’s political campaign, in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act, that is, releasing to Ukraine military aid that had been approved by Congress."
Contempt of Congress for failing to produce subpoenaed documents required by Congress in the impeachment inquiry.
(Levine) There were, in fact, many more allegations involving inappropriate behavior that had been reported, but were never been fully amassed in one specific number. When we began building up those numbers, it was staggering. It began to show patterns in the way Trump did things. We came upon a story involving a supermodel at the Plaza Hotel where Trump entered this woman’s suite in the middle of the night. This follows something that another of his accusers had previously named in court papers, in which Trump had entered the room of a model at Mar-a-Lago during the night." [snip]
(El-Faizy) A classmate of Trump’s told us that they learned about women through Playboy, then they graduated and realized, I can’t be like that. Trump never had that realization. I think the man is responsible for refusing to change his attitudes, but I also think he’s a reflection of larger societal trends. His evangelical supporters talk about that. They say, “What do you expect? That’s how society treats women. Why should we expect the president to be any different?” [snip]
(El-Faizy) Without question, [beauty pageants were] a hunting ground not only for Trump, but for wealthy men who were in this circle. They would go to parties arranged specifically with models, many of them very young, in which the sole purpose of these parties was for men to pick up these women. These things are always about power, not about sex. You have these older, rich, powerful men, and girls who are there alone. [snip]
(Levine) I was surprised by how much predatory behavior connected to Donald Trump is still out there. We did this book on a deadline. If we’d been able to devote two years of reporting to this book, there’s no telling how many untold stories we would have found. That was the most shocking thing--that there are still so many women with stories to tell. I’ve been overwhelmed emotionally by hearing so many of these stories--how difficult it is for these women to feel comfortable telling their stories.Read the whole interview. Although we've become familiar with this monster's depravity as we're exposed to it regularly, the victims' stories need to be aired if only to help repair the damage he's done to them.
