Karen McDougal is suing AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer, for a “multifaceted effort to silence her” after an affair w/ Donald Trump, per her lawyer.
President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, judge rules.
In 2011, Stormy Daniels told a polygraph examiner that she had unprotected sex with Donald Trump in 2006. The exam concluded she was being truthful, according to copy of report obtained by NBC News.
Meanwhile … Associated Press: Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix has said in comments that were secretly recorded and broadcast Tuesday by Britain’s Channel 4 news that his company played a major role in securing Donald Trump’s narrow victory in the 2016 presidential election. “We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy,” says Nix, whose company is being investigated by British officials for its handling of personal data gathered on Facebook.
And … Top litigator Theodore Olson turns down offer from Trump legal team.
Craig… I know a couple weeks ago I said on this blog that I didn’t care about the porn star stuff. But now with so much coming out… I’ve changed my mind… I agree with you… pile it on!
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RR, I’ve always thought it was an easier sell to the public than the Russia stuff, just like Paula and Monica.
I remember telling my conservatives friends back in the day of Paula Jones vs Bill Clinton, that if someone could sue a sitting president over sexual harassment it could someday happen to a Republican president too. They didn’t believe it would happen because… after all… they were the party of tradition and family values.
So if Slick Willy had to take his comeuppance… Trumpty Dumpty has to take his… suck it up cupcakes.
I have my own Twitter troll now. Yay! I am in the little time now.
One of the hard things to do is to keep track of which legal area things are in. The Stormy case is contemporary to the campaign. So it is a campaign issue. There are other sexual assault cases, not related to the Russian collusion issue. There are campaign issues, Russian involvement in the election process, HRC hacking and delivery of emails, obstruction by firing Comey and McCabe, Flynn/Pence/Sessions all involved in the Russian part but not to stable, money laundering, tax fraud and probably several other areas. I cannot even guess at which states are preparing cases against SFB, SFB spawn, SFB mob and SFB cult followers.
What this means is SFB needs all sorts of legal support. No one attorney is capable of dealing with so many issues. So the limp orange cheeto goes for television lawyers. Smart move. I cannot imagine trying to keep up with so many lawsuits at so many levels. There are enough areas in court or under investigation to drive anyone with brains to drink. But, if you are of the smarts the “I’m like smart” guy has you are probably not capable of understanding the quantity of time in a small room is at stake.
Why it matters more than just as smut about a married guy…the payments as they pertain to campaign finances. Put-ey surely has something much worse on Trumpsky than Berlisconiesque “bunga-bunga” parties.
There is a great Pence-Russia timeline on billmoyers.com
I’m not sure what to make of this. @StormyDaniels just tweeted:
“Technically I didn’t sleep with the POTUS 12 years ago. There was no sleeping (hehe) and he was just a goofy reality TV star. But I digress…People DO care that he lied about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it up, etc. And PS…I am NOT going anywhere. xoxoxo”
BiD – I like to speculate about what the KGB/FSB/SVR/GRU/Puttie has on SFB. It has to be good and because young ‘uns read here occasionally I will not put it in electrons. I do think it is something that even most porn producers don’t touch” I do doubt it has anything to do with a horse, but do not rule out a sheep or cow.
Lay me down with sheeps a’plenty —Elton John
McDougal case seems stronger than Stormy’s. She was not paid for silence. She was paid to tell her story, but the publication killed it in a side deal with Trumpco.
Beginning to look like Weinstein a boy scout compared to Trump. Mueller needs to go there. This is what Putin has on him.
Parkland students at Harvard right now. “USA over the NRA.” The country is in good hands.
That was an amazing conversation to hear.
Felt weird about Go Fund Me privacy & didn’t use my full name. It sounded like you have no privacy with that platform.
What about the guy they stopped at Dulles. Maybe minors involved.
I don’t think porn or prostitutes would surprise anyone, but the cover up…
@SenJohnMcCain
“An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election.”
https://t.co/lcQTBi7CA1
Trumpsky is speaking to Gooperz right now. Very proud of exporting 10 million ? barrels of oil. Nothing to be proud of and maybe his number is inflated. Can’t watch that after brilliant kids who saw more action last month than Cadet BS did at military school.
Gee, Craig, how can McCain say that? All SFB was doing was laying palm fronds on Stalin’s grave.
Oops, I forgot. He doesn’t have a grave; he’s entombed along with Lenin and that other guy on Red Square.
Flatus – A place for SFB in his own wall. Excellent idea.
Ms. Blue, make it so!
sarkozy held
The crux of the matter is whether Sarkozy’s winning 2007 presidential campaign received financing from Libya under the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, whose son Saif al-Islam first made the allegation in 2011.
In September 2017, French anticorruption authorities published a report signaling a curiously high flow of cash among staff on the 2007 Sarkozy campaign. The campaign’s treasurer explained the euro bills as the fruit of anonymous donations, but statements obtained from other witnesses, including the staffer charged with opening campaign mail, are said to contradict that account.
Sarkozy has already been ordered to stand trial over alleged illegal financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign. In that case, the prosecution claims Sarkozy spent nearly double the €22.5-million legal limit for a French presidential bid, alleging his campaign falsified billing from a PR firm called Bygmalion. Sarkozy is appealing the decision to send him to trial.
Oooooh, a Fox analyst calling it a propaganda machine for Trumpsky & leaving. Yes!
Why aren’t people mentioning the today’s school shooting — not enough gore?
Idk, but all the news here is about the bombings in Austin & the probable copycat bomber at tonight’s explosion.
X Enjoys a Daydream
Maybe trump is constructing his escape hatch, by cozying up to His Roiling Majesty, King jung un. The bloody dictator might figure that he’ll gain status in the world by keeping the wanted dead or alive ex-president of the US as a house pet. Shades of Kit Marlowe’s Tamburlaine.
time:
The Austin Serial Bombing Suspect Is Dead, Police Chief Says
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he Austin police chief says the serial bombing suspect set off bomb with SWAT team closing in and is dead.
The Austin American-Statesman is citing a high-ranking law enforcement official who says the suspect in this month’s bombing in the Texas capital blew killed himself with an explosive device as the authorities closed in on him.
The Associated Press wasn’t immediately able to confirm the report.
The newspaper cites the official as saying that law enforcement identified the suspect in the past 24 hours based largely on information, including security video, gleaned after the suspect allegedly sent an explosive device from an Austin-area FedEx store.
Austin has been targeted by four package bombings since March 2 that killed two people and wounded four others. A fifth parcel bomb detonated at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio early Tuesday.
Howie at faux news this a.m.: As the Mueller probe heats up, are the media pushing impeachment?
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Any discussion of impeachment—and the previous examples involving Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Bill Clinton—starts with the recognition that “high crimes and misdemeanors” is whatever a majority of the House says it is. But the founders intended it as a rare constitutional remedy.
In his Times review of two impeachment books, Andrew Sullivan, the conservative writer and former blogger who came to take a positive view of Barack Obama and despises Trump, acknowledges as much.
Sullivan writes: “What about passively cooperating with a foreign power to subvert an American election and then, after clear proof of such interference, refusing to counter that foreign power’s intent to disrupt the next election too? If a president unwittingly benefited from a foreign foe’s meddling (‘no collusion!’), and he’s merely guilty of failing to do enough to counter that power’s continuing assault on the American democratic process, he’s in the clear. But if he is actively neglecting a defense of this country’s electoral integrity because he believes the Kremlin helped him win an election in the past, and will almost certainly help him and his party in the near future, then impeachment is a no-brainer. If he knew of the meddling at the time and encouraged it, ditto …
“The trouble here is that we have, so far, no proof of anything but a willingness to collude with a foreign power’s interference; and no clear evidence at all of the president’s personal involvement with foreign actors.”
The British-born journalist concludes that “you can impeach a president, but you can’t, alas, impeach the people. They voted for the kind of monarchy the American republic was designed, above all else, to resist.”
That is the bottom line, no matter how much Sullivan and others may disapprove of the outcome. Trump won the Electoral College and undoubtedly would have won without Moscow’s efforts. The notion of impeachment may be good for clicks and ratings, but for now it’s wishful thinking by the anti-Trump crowd.
abogado guacamole?
wapo: Lawyers for Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen erupt at each other: ‘You’re gonna go down in flames’
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At one point Avenatti, who has mounted a media blitz in recent days, held up an unflattering picture of Cohen and demanded Schwartz explain why he wouldn’t come onto the network.
“You’re a very passionate guy on behalf of your client, Michael Cohen,” Avenatti told Schwartz. “If Michael Cohen is such a stand-up guy, where is he? Where is this guy? Why won’t he come and sit in this chair?”
“Believe me, he can’t wait to come here and sit with you and talk about this case,” Schwartz responded.
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“Why not just let her talk?” Avenatti interjected, wagging his finger at Schwartz. “Why is it so important to your friend and the president of the United States to keep this woman under wraps, to keep her under the thumb, to shut her up?”
By way of analogy, Avenatti compared dispute over the agreement to buying a house for $130,000, then being told that only one of the bedrooms was available.
“If it’s gonna take him that long to explain it to the judge he’s in big trouble,” Schwartz said. “You’re gonna go down in flames on this case.”
“I hope you have a good malpractice policy,” he added later, “because when she owes $20 million she should go after you to collect the money.”
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john brennan on morning joe worth a listen
patd… thanks so much for linking that interview with John Brennan. It was definitely worth the listen. IMO, this is exactly what this country needs…. men of Mr. Brennan’s stature to speak up and out against the biggest threat to us…. Donald J. Trump.
newsweek:
Why Has Fox News Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Left the ‘Propaganda Machine’?
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters has resigned from his long-held role as a Fox News analyst, telling colleagues he is done being a “propaganda machine” for President Donald Trump.
In an email obtained by BuzzFeed, Peters told colleagues he was “ashamed” of his association with Fox after it “degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.”
The retired lieutenant colonel accused Fox of “wittingly harming our system of government for profit” and “assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers.”
“Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer,” he said in an email. “I swore to ‘support and defend the Constitution,’ and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform.”
“When prime-time hosts—who have never served our country in any capacity—dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served), and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller—all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of ‘deep-state’ machinations—I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove.”
Peters, who was a fiery critic of former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and was suspended by Fox in 2015 for calling the 44th U.S. leader a “total pussy,” also hit out at the network for “advancing” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agenda.
“As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin’s agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign,” Peters wrote in his email.
“Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the ‘nothing-burger’ has been covered with Russian dressing all along,” he added.
The longtime analyst added that “as an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true,” referring to the series of memos written by British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele containing allegations of misconduct and collusion between the Trump campaign team and Russia before and during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“That’s how the Russians do things,” Peters wrote. “The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.”
Despite his criticisms against Fox News, Peters added that he still “deeply” respects “the hard news reporters at Fox, who continue to do their best as talented professionals in a poisoned environment,” calling them “some of the best men and women in the business.”
In a statement Fox News said: “Ralph Peters is entitled to his opinion despite the fact that he’s choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention. We are extremely proud of our top-rated primetime hosts and all of our opinion programming.”
deserves repeating
The retired lieutenant colonel accused Fox of “wittingly harming our system of government for profit” and “assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers.”
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“….prime-time hosts—who have never served our country in any capacity—dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served), and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller—…”
Sounds to me that this sworn soldier named Ralph Peters used his military skills as a whore in Fox’s putridly pathetic house.
flatus, looking forward to chapter 2 in which is discussed the times he went to management, whatever promises they made, certain clauses in his contract…etc
Oh no snowing in DC – hope everyone has milk, bread and eggs for the famous storm-time french toast.
Our whole country needs to be disinfected
Sometimes I think Allen Dulles is the “other guy”
http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/dulles-brothers/
Everyone does it and that means we should be even more vigilant.
Mitch McConnell must have benefited greatly from the new tax bill and the job for his very rich wife.
Dulles (the airport), George Nader, the Seychelles, Erik Prince, Blackwater, back channel to Put-ey; privatize war, big money, power grab. Who gets a cut? How many in Congress or their immediate family members? Bobby, Roll ‘em all up.
wapo: A GOP senator’s remarkable admission about Trump and Mueller
Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) was pressed by the Washington Examiner on why Republicans are hesitant to protect Mueller, and this is what happened:
This is a candid glimpse from a leading GOP lawmaker into what’s really driving the Republican straddle on Mueller
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And the Prince Foundation and its hateful agenda which hides being the Bible. Jesus wept.
Corey / What is it with Michigan? Fix that stuff.
I give Avenatti cudos for his confidence. On CNN (or was it MSNBC?) he was touting his stratospheric experience with world class lawyers and put himself in that category. He said he plays chess in litigation and in this case is plying 3 dimensional chess while SFB & Cohen’s lawyers are playing tic-tac-toe … badly. I can’t opine on the aptness of his comments, but I hope he’s got it nailed.
The weakness I see in the Daniels’ dec action is that she was represented by a lawyer at the time. That tends to negate any claim of duress when entering into a contract. Not sure what all of the grounds for avoiding the contract have been pled, but if duress is one of them, that one probably is weak. It’s not fatal depending upon the circumstances, but it’s weak nonetheless.
The other lawsuits are interesting, but IA’m way too busy until Easter to spend any time researching them If they haven’t be thrown out by then I’ll take a peek and see if there’s anything particularly notable about them.
the CBS interview is Sunday – prepare for the Twit typhoon
Almost a foot and still counting.
craig, how is the weather there affecting prep for the march? any announcements of relocating venue or rescheduling any preplanned events? hope the kids that haven’t already arrived will be safe in their travel to d.c.
I’m pretty sure that whatever disgusting sexual habits Trump might have, they aren’t why he is playing footsie with Putin. More than likely it is something that would prove financial crimes on a global level that would land his rear end in jail for a long long time.
why the 2nd question in that lie detector test about “unprotected sex”? was there a STD problem that developed or an abortion or ….?….
Craig, you guys are responsible for those pigeons on your window sills. Bring them inside–now
Mississippi governor appoints Cindy Hyde-Smith to the Senate — and draws a backlash from the White House
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appointed state Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday — a decision that has already drawn concerns from fellow Republicans, including some inside the White House.
“Things are new, things are good, and things are about to happen, I can assure you,” Hyde-Smith said after Bryant introduced her at an event in Mississippi. The governor said the decision was “mine and mine alone.” He called on Mississippians to rally around his choice.
Hyde-Smith will succeed Republican Thad Cochran, 80, who has battled health problems and will step down from his Senate seat April 1.
In her remarks, Hyde-Smith said she “looked forward to working with President Trump,” and nodded to his signature campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Later, she said she will run in the Nov. 6 special election to fill the final two years of Sen. Cochran’s term.
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A former Democrat who served in the state legislature before being elected to head the agriculture and commerce panel in 2011, Hyde-Smith will be the first woman to represent Mississippi in the Senate. When she is sworn in, the number of women in the upper chamber of Congress will grow to 23, a new high.
Bryant has argued that Hyde-Smith is a strong retail campaigner, and popular among many in Mississippi. But she was not the top choice of GOP officials in Washington. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had urged Bryant to appoint himself. He declined, ruling himself out earlier this month.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith
If you use Disqus to comment you should know that it was sold to a data mining company. Time to stop using it.
“I’m pretty sure that whatever disgusting sexual habits Trump might have, they aren’t why he is playing footsie with Putin. More than likely it is something that would prove financial crimes on a global level that would land his rear end in jail for a long long time.“ -jamie
-agreed. We’ve known him to be a lech for decades.
New quote from Zuckerberg on privacy and ethical use of data: “…uh, hummuna hummuna…”.
He was right to call FB users “dumb fucks”, though. Don’t be offended- it’s most of my friends and family, too 🙁
Bink, I didn’t pick that characterization up from MSNBC’s reporting. Was it a special message on your members’ link?
Back in the mid-aughts, if memory serves, foreign investment was fleeing what initially seemed to be a gold rush in what was supposed to be a new, democratic, more capitalist Russia, due to intimidation by Russian organized crime and efforts to control business by Russian government entities. Russian journalists were dropping dead on sidewalks and Russian billionaires were fleeing the country before they could be imprisoned or professionally destroyed. Amid all of that, the Trumps found a way to do more business there than anyone else of whom I can think, besides Johnny Weir.
You got me, Flatus- heavy FB user, here- I can’t get enough of seeing what people ate for dinner, how “blessed” they are, and them fighting with their grandparents over politics.
And I was just pulling your leg; but, you’re really in the fold
Pardon my knee-jerk reaction.
BTW
Why is he the “Austin bombing suspect” instead of “radical Christian terrorist”? So, how many terrorist acts are we up to committed by white American citizens on American soil, this year, so far?
patD – It looks like snow will be gone soon enough. Mid-40s from tomorrow through the weekend. Nature is cooperating with the March.
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