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Manchurian Candidate
Sam Nunberg, who has become the Martha Mitchell of this scandal, spilled some truth: “Mueller thinks Trump is the Manchurian candidate.”
Makes sense.
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propublica:
‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Extra: The Trump Organization Ordered Golf Course Markers With the Presidential Seal. That May Be Illegal.
The president’s company has ordered a set of presidential seal replicas for its golf course tee markers, raising more ethics questions.
[…]
A law governs the manufacture or use of the seal, its likeness, “or any facsimile thereof” for anything other than official U.S. government business. It can be a criminal offense punishable by up to six months in prison.
The “law is an expression of the idea that the government and government authority should not be used for private purpose,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University specializing in government and legal ethics said. “It would be a misuse of government authority.”
the guardian: Former Trump aide says president ‘may have done something illegal’ Sam Nunberg says he would rip up a subpoena in Trump-Russia inquiry, but that Trump may have broken the law during the election […] Speaking first to the Washington Post and then on MSNBC, Nunberg vowed to defy Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and alleged collusion between Trump aides and Moscow. Mueller has indicted 13 Russians and four former Trump aides, three of whom have entered plea deals involving co-operation. Nunberg, however, said he would tear up his subpoena live on Bloomberg TV. He also told MSNBC host Katy Tur, the author of a bestselling book on the Trump campaign, that he thought the candidate “may have done something” illegal during the election. He added: “I don’t know that for sure.” Nunberg, a protege of veteran political operative Roger Stone, was Trump’s political adviser prior to the start of his White House run. He was fired in August 2015, over racially charged Facebook posts, after he and Stone lost a internal power struggle with then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Nunberg was sued by Trump on the eve of the 2016 Republican convention, for allegedly leaking information about Lewandowski’s relationship with close Trump aide and future White House communications director Hope Hicks. However, Nunberg has remained close to many in Trump’s orbit. Speaking to the Post, Nunberg dared Mueller to act if he refused to appear before a grand jury on Friday. “Let him arrest me,” he said. Speaking to MSNBC, Nunberg said: “I think it would be funny if they arrested me.” Nunberg told Tur he would not co-operate with Mueller, saying: “It’s a witch hunt and I’m not going to cooperate. “Why do I have to spend 80 hours going over my email? That I’ve had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone? Why does Bob Mueller need to see my emails when I send Roger and Steve clips and we talk about how much we hate people?” Nunberg… Read more »
I don’t think Katy Tur could quite believe what she was hearing.
I expected it to end up along these lines:
Katy, Katy, hey, you know what we should do? Katy, we should drive to the Grand Canyon. We should totally just get in a car and drive there. Screw everything and just drive.
The reason you don’t hire Foster Brooks.
(I have a set of coasters from an ASI show; one has the prez’l seal, so they had to pay a licensing agreement?)
Black coffee or someone talked him off of the ledge?
I loved how Sam-I-Am went from 50 to 80 hours during the interview.
If he said anything on air and he acted or claimed to be drunk at the time, does that have any impact on conflicting answers he may give when questioned?
I think he (and Roger Stone) are crazy like foxes. The media circus was on purpose?
cnn analysis by Collinson: Nunberg episode marks the dawn of Mueller’s March madness […] “This guy is all over the map,” former FBI special agent Josh Campbell said, dubbing the Nunberg show “the Great Unravelling.” “Up until this point Mueller’s team has been so tight, we haven’t seen the leaks so it has been very difficult to see what he’s looking for,” Campbell said. “I think it’s incredible, seeing today this episode unfold before our eyes because it gives us that insight into where the investigation is ultimately headed.” […] In another claim that would be highly significant if it turns out to be true, Nunberg claimed Trump knew about a meeting between his son Donald Trump Jr., campaign officials and a Russia delegation offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. “He talked about it a week before and I don’t know why he did this,” said Nunberg, in his second CNN interview, this time with Jake Tapper. “I don’t know why he went around trying to hide. He shouldn’t have,” Nunberg said. The President has denied he knew anything about the meeting. Nunberg also said he suspected that former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page had colluded with the Russians, and said he was a “moron” — though argued that he was too low-level to have much influence with Trump. While much of what Nunberg said was insulting toward Trump and his staff, he also insisted that the President did not conspire with the Russians during the election, offering a rather backhanded defense of his former boss. “Vladimir Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump,” Nunberg told CNN. “Donald Trump couldn’t keep his mouth shut if Putin colluded with him.” [….] Back in Washington, what passed for normality in the Trump era went on in the shadow of the Russia storm. Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is himself under a legal cloud, fighting several cases of alleged corruption. America’s allies piled desperate pressure on the White House to try to head of steel and aluminum tariffs promised by Trump that could spark a trade war. And… Read more »
Whether you like the man or not, President Obama’s orbit attracted bright people who pretty much stayed under the radar. Not perfect by any means but you wouldn’t object if they moved next door.
Today’s dust devil of detritus seems like a never ending grade-Z Comedy Central roast. Folks who inexplicably exist without any real rhyme or reason. Charles Addams would’ve had a field day drawing this group.
The President will be done in by his Russian money financed golf courses & the blurtings of his none too bright offspring.
Planet parade –stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a planet parade this week, particularly if they are prepared to rise just a little bit earlier than usual.
The parade begins about an hour before dawn Wednesday and Thursday when Saturn, Marsand Jupiter line up along the southeastern sky, Earthsky reports.
The best chance for viewing Wednesday morning will be in parts of the south and Rockies. The South and parts of the West will be the best spots for viewing Thursday morning.
For those who prefer to do their stargazing in the evenings, Venus and Mercury will be visible just after sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. To see the pair of bright planets aligned close together, look toward the west shortly after sundown before they quickly sink below the horizon, Earthsky notes.
From 2015, NYT — when trump fired nunberg. In his manic martha rant-style, nunberg blows trump cover story. trump and the ruskies were cooking-up the potus-run in 2014. trump the perfect patsy like the nork leader.
I have placed all my bets on Mueller, but he is up against russia and china…thanks to our manchurian candidate.
From Rolling Stone Sept. 2017. I get my network feed from El Paso and I have been a fan of Beto for some time. Along with Martin Heinrich, Beto is the western, blue face of the dem party.
SJWNY – I think you’ve put your finger on exactly what is most disturbing to me about this entire incident from start to finish.
Folks who inexplicably exist without any real rhyme or reason.
My outrage meter has been pegged for far too long to more than raise my eyebrows at what went on yesterday. What gets me every time we move through another of these insane days is that these people exist, and that they still wonder that some have decided not to give them a pass on their behavior, and even further that more people are putting a foot down to say enough.
in case you missed the latest john vs nra, here’s review and vid (for those who don’t like to read) from vanity: “The N.R.A.,” John Oliver said as he opened Last Week Tonight’s long segment Sunday night, is like “a group that feels about guns the way the rest of us feel about Nutella: a little is good, more is better, and you can tell me it’s bad for me all you like, but you will pry it from my cold, dead hands.” As the fallout from the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, continues, Oliver noted, more and more brands have been dropping their partnerships with the National Rifle Association—but one exception has been NRATV, a channel that remains available to stream on digital platforms including Roku and Apple TV. “With all of the discussion this week of boycotting NRATV, we thought it might be worth answering the question, ‘What the fuck is that?’“ Oliver said. “Because the truth is you may have actually seen tiny bits of its programming without even realizing it.” A few clips from NRATV have gone viral in recent years—including one in which Dana Loesch warns viewers, “They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. The only way we stop this—the only way save our country and our freedom—is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.” To Oliver, this hub is basically “Fox News on a much lower budget.” But as he noted, NRATV does offer a wide variety of programming, including no fewer than three “Antiques Roadshow knockoffs” in which the participants “get progressively more and more aroused by the guns they’re holding.” And not all of the content is aimed at gun bros, either; the N.R.A. is making “a big push for women,” Oliver said, with series like Love at First Shot, “a kind of QVC for firearms” intended to make women more comfortable with the idea of owning and firing guns. Another regular fixture of NRATV? Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of hunting-focused content—but perhaps… Read more »
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump has told advisers that he believes economic adviser Gary Cohn will leave his White House job if Trump decides to go forward with tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, people familiar with the matter say.
[….]
Trump said in a tweet Tuesday there may be more staff turnover, even as he denied his administration is chaotic.
“People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision,” Trump said in a Twitter posting. “I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!”
[…continues…]
So, will Kellyanne get anything more then a slap in the wrist???
Is violating the Hatch Act like doing something illegal in a football game, but you know the yardage lost from the penalty won’t hurt as much as if you hadn’t done it and your opponent scored???
i’m with renee on not thinking the worst yet. jace has family that may have called him away. there always are times too during serious illness when one wants to just stare out into space surrounded only by the sound of wind in the trees.
browsing for “wind in the trees” came upon clint eastwood singing “I talk to the trees” and then serendipitously (reminding me of jace and serendipity) stumbled upon tommy & dick smothers from an era a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Roger Stone is a bottom dweller among bottom dwellers
his past associates include Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon and a long partnership with manipedi
gary cohen out
add this to the charges, bobby III:
propublica:
‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Extra: The Trump Organization Ordered Golf Course Markers With the Presidential Seal. That May Be Illegal.
The president’s company has ordered a set of presidential seal replicas for its golf course tee markers, raising more ethics questions.
[…]
A law governs the manufacture or use of the seal, its likeness, “or any facsimile thereof” for anything other than official U.S. government business. It can be a criminal offense punishable by up to six months in prison.
The “law is an expression of the idea that the government and government authority should not be used for private purpose,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University specializing in government and legal ethics said. “It would be a misuse of government authority.”
craig, for those who were not around back in the dark ages (nowadays should be called the darker ages). from wiki:
Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. She became a controversial figure with her outspoken comments about the government at the time of the Watergate scandal.
Martha made time…. so to speak
the guardian: Former Trump aide says president ‘may have done something illegal’ Sam Nunberg says he would rip up a subpoena in Trump-Russia inquiry, but that Trump may have broken the law during the election […] Speaking first to the Washington Post and then on MSNBC, Nunberg vowed to defy Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and alleged collusion between Trump aides and Moscow. Mueller has indicted 13 Russians and four former Trump aides, three of whom have entered plea deals involving co-operation. Nunberg, however, said he would tear up his subpoena live on Bloomberg TV. He also told MSNBC host Katy Tur, the author of a bestselling book on the Trump campaign, that he thought the candidate “may have done something” illegal during the election. He added: “I don’t know that for sure.” Nunberg, a protege of veteran political operative Roger Stone, was Trump’s political adviser prior to the start of his White House run. He was fired in August 2015, over racially charged Facebook posts, after he and Stone lost a internal power struggle with then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Nunberg was sued by Trump on the eve of the 2016 Republican convention, for allegedly leaking information about Lewandowski’s relationship with close Trump aide and future White House communications director Hope Hicks. However, Nunberg has remained close to many in Trump’s orbit. Speaking to the Post, Nunberg dared Mueller to act if he refused to appear before a grand jury on Friday. “Let him arrest me,” he said. Speaking to MSNBC, Nunberg said: “I think it would be funny if they arrested me.” Nunberg told Tur he would not co-operate with Mueller, saying: “It’s a witch hunt and I’m not going to cooperate. “Why do I have to spend 80 hours going over my email? That I’ve had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone? Why does Bob Mueller need to see my emails when I send Roger and Steve clips and we talk about how much we hate people?” Nunberg… Read more »
I don’t think Katy Tur could quite believe what she was hearing.
I expected it to end up along these lines:
Katy, Katy, hey, you know what we should do? Katy, we should drive to the Grand Canyon. We should totally just get in a car and drive there. Screw everything and just drive.
The reason you don’t hire Foster Brooks.
(I have a set of coasters from an ASI show; one has the prez’l seal, so they had to pay a licensing agreement?)
Presidential Suite st Trump properties includes a complimentary issue of Forbes?
Is the teacher in Florida running the crazy, white podcast a Russian?
“nevermind”
cbs news:
Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg apparently changes tune on Mueller grand jury subpoena
oops, sorry, that wasn’t supposed to be rosanna dana dana. . Emily Littela said the immortal “nevermind”
Black coffee or someone talked him off of the ledge?
I loved how Sam-I-Am went from 50 to 80 hours during the interview.
If he said anything on air and he acted or claimed to be drunk at the time, does that have any impact on conflicting answers he may give when questioned?
I think he (and Roger Stone) are crazy like foxes. The media circus was on purpose?
cnn analysis by Collinson: Nunberg episode marks the dawn of Mueller’s March madness […] “This guy is all over the map,” former FBI special agent Josh Campbell said, dubbing the Nunberg show “the Great Unravelling.” “Up until this point Mueller’s team has been so tight, we haven’t seen the leaks so it has been very difficult to see what he’s looking for,” Campbell said. “I think it’s incredible, seeing today this episode unfold before our eyes because it gives us that insight into where the investigation is ultimately headed.” […] In another claim that would be highly significant if it turns out to be true, Nunberg claimed Trump knew about a meeting between his son Donald Trump Jr., campaign officials and a Russia delegation offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. “He talked about it a week before and I don’t know why he did this,” said Nunberg, in his second CNN interview, this time with Jake Tapper. “I don’t know why he went around trying to hide. He shouldn’t have,” Nunberg said. The President has denied he knew anything about the meeting. Nunberg also said he suspected that former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page had colluded with the Russians, and said he was a “moron” — though argued that he was too low-level to have much influence with Trump. While much of what Nunberg said was insulting toward Trump and his staff, he also insisted that the President did not conspire with the Russians during the election, offering a rather backhanded defense of his former boss. “Vladimir Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump,” Nunberg told CNN. “Donald Trump couldn’t keep his mouth shut if Putin colluded with him.” [….] Back in Washington, what passed for normality in the Trump era went on in the shadow of the Russia storm. Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is himself under a legal cloud, fighting several cases of alleged corruption. America’s allies piled desperate pressure on the White House to try to head of steel and aluminum tariffs promised by Trump that could spark a trade war. And… Read more »
the new Yorker:
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia
Nun-Burger
Whether you like the man or not, President Obama’s orbit attracted bright people who pretty much stayed under the radar. Not perfect by any means but you wouldn’t object if they moved next door.
Today’s dust devil of detritus seems like a never ending grade-Z Comedy Central roast. Folks who inexplicably exist without any real rhyme or reason. Charles Addams would’ve had a field day drawing this group.
The President will be done in by his Russian money financed golf courses & the blurtings of his none too bright offspring.
Sturgeone,
Your nun-burger made me think of Sam Nunn & competent Politicians. Ah, memories.
Good catch, Craig. Great line, Sturge.
A beautiful morning glory to the trail and this week’s celestial highlights.
Planet parade –stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a planet parade this week, particularly if they are prepared to rise just a little bit earlier than usual.
The parade begins about an hour before dawn Wednesday and Thursday when Saturn, Marsand Jupiter line up along the southeastern sky, Earthsky reports.
The best chance for viewing Wednesday morning will be in parts of the south and Rockies. The South and parts of the West will be the best spots for viewing Thursday morning.
For those who prefer to do their stargazing in the evenings, Venus and Mercury will be visible just after sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. To see the pair of bright planets aligned close together, look toward the west shortly after sundown before they quickly sink below the horizon, Earthsky notes.
From 2015, NYT — when trump fired nunberg. In his manic martha rant-style, nunberg blows trump cover story. trump and the ruskies were cooking-up the potus-run in 2014. trump the perfect patsy like the nork leader.
I have placed all my bets on Mueller, but he is up against russia and china…thanks to our manchurian candidate.
A young surfing, jackass. Beto to ride blue wave and potentially drown cruz.
From Rolling Stone Sept. 2017. I get my network feed from El Paso and I have been a fan of Beto for some time. Along with Martin Heinrich, Beto is the western, blue face of the dem party.
SJWNY – I think you’ve put your finger on exactly what is most disturbing to me about this entire incident from start to finish.
My outrage meter has been pegged for far too long to more than raise my eyebrows at what went on yesterday. What gets me every time we move through another of these insane days is that these people exist, and that they still wonder that some have decided not to give them a pass on their behavior, and even further that more people are putting a foot down to say enough.
Well I am officially worried about Jace. Not answering email, which is all I’ve got for contact. Did anyone ever have alternate contact info?
Sorry to hear that about Jace, Craig. Is he on facebook?
Craig, this is very morbid but if we have his community and name we can search the obits; he made several remarks about his health failing.
I’ll join the Jace chorus…hoping for an easy explanation and a fast return
in case you missed the latest john vs nra, here’s review and vid (for those who don’t like to read) from vanity: “The N.R.A.,” John Oliver said as he opened Last Week Tonight’s long segment Sunday night, is like “a group that feels about guns the way the rest of us feel about Nutella: a little is good, more is better, and you can tell me it’s bad for me all you like, but you will pry it from my cold, dead hands.” As the fallout from the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, continues, Oliver noted, more and more brands have been dropping their partnerships with the National Rifle Association—but one exception has been NRATV, a channel that remains available to stream on digital platforms including Roku and Apple TV. “With all of the discussion this week of boycotting NRATV, we thought it might be worth answering the question, ‘What the fuck is that?’“ Oliver said. “Because the truth is you may have actually seen tiny bits of its programming without even realizing it.” A few clips from NRATV have gone viral in recent years—including one in which Dana Loesch warns viewers, “They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler. The only way we stop this—the only way save our country and our freedom—is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.” To Oliver, this hub is basically “Fox News on a much lower budget.” But as he noted, NRATV does offer a wide variety of programming, including no fewer than three “Antiques Roadshow knockoffs” in which the participants “get progressively more and more aroused by the guns they’re holding.” And not all of the content is aimed at gun bros, either; the N.R.A. is making “a big push for women,” Oliver said, with series like Love at First Shot, “a kind of QVC for firearms” intended to make women more comfortable with the idea of owning and firing guns. Another regular fixture of NRATV? Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of hunting-focused content—but perhaps… Read more »
Craig, didn’t Jace move to a relatively small town in Washington state last summer? seems it was an island resort area?
looks like another one may jump ship soon
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump has told advisers that he believes economic adviser Gary Cohn will leave his White House job if Trump decides to go forward with tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, people familiar with the matter say.
[….]
Trump said in a tweet Tuesday there may be more staff turnover, even as he denied his administration is chaotic.
“People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision,” Trump said in a Twitter posting. “I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!”
[…continues…]
So, will Kellyanne get anything more then a slap in the wrist???
Is violating the Hatch Act like doing something illegal in a football game, but you know the yardage lost from the penalty won’t hurt as much as if you hadn’t done it and your opponent scored???
I am very sad about Jace. Sorry to say I have a bad feeling about this.
Yes PatD, think it was called Gig Harbor. With trepidation I took Flatus’ advice and checked local papers, nothing turned up.
Craig, maybe Jace has had some kind of relapse and is in the hospital… No need to think the worst yet,IMO.
For the dedicated star watchers, the month is May in California (You can go on your own other parts of the year): Head for the dark places. There are only 16 of them left and Borrego Springs is one.
Dark Skies, Desert Beasts: A Night Photography Workshop in Borrego Springs, California
Good.
Don’ nobody gimme no bad newz
Harborwoman lives in Gig Harbor. Maybe she can learn something.
Scratch that. Just checked with Jan and he isn’t one of her contacts.
i’m with renee on not thinking the worst yet. jace has family that may have called him away. there always are times too during serious illness when one wants to just stare out into space surrounded only by the sound of wind in the trees.
browsing for “wind in the trees” came upon clint eastwood singing “I talk to the trees” and then serendipitously (reminding me of jace and serendipity) stumbled upon tommy & dick smothers from an era a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
enjoy the respite
https://youtu.be/3P1qnd65IjM
“Is the teacher in Florida running the crazy, white podcast a Russian?“ -bid
Why don’t you ask her, personally, at your next meet-up?
CC- if you have his name, get the 411 and give him a call.
Roger Stone is a bottom dweller among bottom dwellers
his past associates include Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon and a long partnership with manipedi
gary cohen out
Mood music for SFB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvYo5pZEfE
Lena’s Stormy Weather…wonderful. Wonder if SFBs stormy weather will be as good?
Look who has joined ‘Time’s Up.’ Honeybunch sues trump.
Suing a sitting president. I hope Mueller is next.