Part One – Trump Updates: Evidence of Crimes in the Family

Newest Trump updates really hitting close to home, or in this case the White House….

Well, well, it looks like Jared the sonny-in-law was trying to hide his communications with WikiLeaks.  Does anyone care to guess why he keeps hiding his emails & contacts with Russians?  Looks like he definitely has something to hide.  These new Trump updates plays into the strong evidence of both cooperating with Russia & the cover-up.  Kushner was also the one who had previously been caught trying to set up backchannel communications with top Russian officials. Then we have his brother-in-law also deep in the soup.  Between the email communications sonny-boy Donny Jr. had with the Russians he met in Trump Tower, along with the recent evidence of his contacts with WikiLeaks, it’s practically been proven Donny Jr. was colluding with our enemies during the campaign. And it would defile credulity to think daddy-Donald wouldn’t have known about any of this.

This case overall is very complicated, but some of these basic points are simple & clear.  There’s compelling evidence sonny & sonny-in-law both engaged in collusion & obstruction!  More was clearly revealed in the headlines today & the smoke just keeps billowing, with the likelihood we’re on the precipice of finding one or more smoking guns directly implicating the prez.  Consider that between Donny & Jared, that’s about as close to the President as it can get.  And don’t forget both attended that Trump Tower meeting with the Russians to discuss the dirt on Hillary.  We’ll probably soon discover criminal activity was a family affair.  We’ve also just learned more than a dozen officials in the Trump campaign have been subpoenaed to turn over documents related to Russia.  We continue to witness history in the making unraveling before us as the White House continues to unravel.

In other articles from the newsfeeds, the British spy assures us most of that dossier is accurate, & he hinted to Mueller the smoking gun might be found behind Trump’s attempted real estate deal in Moscow.  Follow the money.  We also get word of a witness spilling the beans on Flynn, while Giuliani might also be roped into this mess. I do remember during the campaign Rudy was one of those predicting the imminent email leak on the Dems. In the Russia news we also saw Sessions’ public testimony where he once again suffered a severe case of amnesia over any Russian contacts or meetings related to Russia. Mueller is also ready to question Hope Hicks, which many communications to & from Trump went through her.  It looks to me like these investigations are really ratcheting up now.

trump updates including flow chart for uranium one

In other links below, don’t miss the flow chart on the uranium deal put together by whom I’ve referred to as the dumbest person walking the halls of Congress, Louie Gomer Pyle. That chart is a piece of work. There’s also Kimmel’s interviews with those wanting Hillary impeached.  And if that uranium thing was such a big scandal as echo-world constantly claims, it would not have been approved by 9 different federal agencies when it happened 7 years ago.  Also there were no provisions for exporting uranium to Russia & Hillary did not personally approve or sign off on the deal.  To the extent far-right fans of the echo believe this is a scandal, they’re being lied to & are swallowing the lies.  It’s so obviously an attempted diversion away from the real & current Russian scandal, I can’t even begin to understand the level of gullibility it takes to actually believe this stuff.  Several links below explain the true story including reports from Shepard Smith.  In a Hill article, as a real journalist in the otherwise bizarre world of Fox (it seems he has way too much integrity to stay at Fox), he lays out why the evil side of the echo is lying about the Uranium One deal, with these 3 paragraphs explaining why there is no scandal here:

The Clinton State Department had no power to approve or veto that transaction. It could do neither,” the Fox News host noted.  Smith then laid out the approval process for the sale, which involves a nine-person committee made up of the heads of federal agencies, and noted that no one person could approve or veto the deal — only former President Obama could do either.

 

The Fox News anchor also detailed Trump’s claim that the Clinton Foundation received money after the deal was completed.  “Here, the timing is inaccurate,” Smith said, noting that the source of the majority of the donations, Frank Giustra, said he sold his stake in the uranium company before the company was sold and before Clinton became secretary of State.

 

“The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale,” Smith said. “She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia. That is Uranium One.

Whatever became of that major announcement the President promised us upon returning from Asia? Other than a Rubio-like imitation of awkwardly taking swigs out of his water bottle during the speech, his specific achievement from the trip could offer no tangible results or Trump updates, other than patting himself on the back as he always does.  His review of the trip had about the same level of substance as a friend discussing their recent vacation. Perhaps the most significant thing to come out of the summit is China agreeing to send a high-level entourage to North Korea in trying negotiations, but that’s relying on them to rein in Jong-un’s nuke threats.  Also part of his train wreck are articles with Trump’s buffoonery on full display, as he continues to fill the swamp rather than draining it.  Then the final group of links we see his declining poll numbers & unprecedented number of lies, which the final article offers up these eye-popping stats:

But how much does he lie? The Washington Post has been tracking his falsehoods and, as of this writing, he is up to a whopping 1,628 at just 298 days into his first year as president. Trump has plenty of days left, and as Mashable pointed out, that amount could rise to an astounding 8,000 by the end of his first term if the whoppers keep up at this pace.

That’s 8,000, with three zeroes. Barack Obama, who was no saint, lied just over 70 times while in office, according to PolitiFact, which won a Pulitzer Prize, as their website never, ever lets you forget.  Trump, on average, lies 5.5 times a day. 

Views from the far-left….
Back by popular demand to give Cubs fan & all echo-fans an alternative view.  Notice I said Kos is an alternative view, not alternative facts like the rightwing echo.  So while these hard-hitting opinion pieces on topics like Russia, Moore & taxes might be exaggerated, they’re still more factually-based than the echo.

For more political updates from this week, check out this article about the Evangelical church’s response to Roy Moore or this one about the GOP’s tax plan!