Trump Signs Bigly Arms Deal After Ivanka Accepts $100 Million Donation From Saudis

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Did you hear the news?

A gloating Trump announced a $110 billion dollar arms deal during the first step of his "Magical Mystery Tour."

"Jobs. Jobs. Jobs," Don the Con told the press. It was also the biggest arms deal in American history.

But hold on a moment. Let's take closer look. Writer Jen Hayden did an article about this so-called great deal Donny brokered...

"The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. 

He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call. 

Pressured to finalize a massive $100-plus billion arms deal in the two weeks leading up to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Kushner hoped to maneuver a discount on Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system during the Saudis' visit to the White House on May 1 - a request that Hewson said she would look into at the time."

Prior to making this historic sale a curious thing happened. The Saudis agreed to donate $100 million to the recently announced women's fund inspired by Jared Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump.

Gee, I guess it was just a coincidence that Kushner's wife  came long in her official capacity as an 'Assistant to the President of the United States.'

It sure seems like a lot of money to fund a vague cause - helping women entrepreneurs. Is there so many in the Middle East that the Saudis want to support them?

Or, are the Saudis suddenly all for women's rights? Did something change? I don't think so.

Our Constitution does have a Foreign Emoluments Clause that bans anyone holding "any office of Profit or Trust" from making shady deals like this.

But that doesn't bother the Trump clan. They're making money on the taxpayers dime while conducting business for the country (Good optics).

Even more vomit worthy; When Don the Con comes home he'll probably do a little victory jig (Jobs.Jobs.Jobs.) in the Rose Garden with his clueless Republican stooges. 

We all know ethics and rules are mere afterthoughts in TrumpLand. Sad.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Staying Alive: It's A Good Idea To Be A Strong Swimmer In Washington DC

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It started out as an occasional drip.

But the dripping wouldn't stop. 

After 100 days, the drips gave way to a flood. And the skies over Washington DC became dark and menacing.

No one knows when the flood will stop. Friends and foes of America's first illegitimate president are looking for high ground. Anywhere that might be safe.

Congress is reluctantly building boats for refuge in the face of the crisis of confidence that Trump has plagued the nation with. Wetsuits are a hot item for Trump minions in the government lately.

Lightning keeps striking the White House. There's no end in sight. Trump's lie's and treasonous activities are causing thunder to clap in the Halls of Congress, sending its inhabitants scurrying for survival.

The chances that the sun will ever come out under the Trump administration are next to none. The swamp in Washington is so flooded now that Congressmen are warned not to come to work without a floatie around their waist and on each arm.

The water levels are rising everyday with each new revelation of corruption concerning Trump's campaign team, and his attempts to obstruct justice.

The waters of discontent are getting more turbulent making it difficult for Republicans who support Trump to stay afloat.

Somewhere there's music playing in a Republican coffee klatch. Can you hear it? 

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive - 

(My Apologies to the Bee Gees)
No doubt about it. It's a good time to be a strong swimmer in Washington DC.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Wanted: A Qualified Candidate To Lead The FBI Whose Not Afraid Of Trump

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It's almost impossible.

How is the White House going to provide a credible nominee for FBI Director? Trump's credibility is in question among most Americans. 

Several people who considered taking the job changed their minds. I suspect in all three cases it was a matter of job security - or insecurity with being Trump's lapdog. 

Texas Senator John Cornyn, the current Senate Majority Whip and former attorney general of Texas who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee decided to stay where he was at.

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought up Judge Merrick Garlands name, the one-time nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court made it known he was happy with where he was.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC, thought about applying for the job but quickly changed his mind.


One of the most intriguing names on the short list is Andrew McCabe, Comey's deputy and temporary replacement. He probably knows more about potential ties between Trump and organized crime in the former Soviet Union.

Why hasn't this fact been brought up by the press? Simply put, McCabe's prior history is part of the hidden backstory between the FBI and Trump.

Other names still floating around are:

Mike Rogers, R-Mich.; former Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher; the Mayor of Colorado Springs, John Luttig; the director for the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch; Paul Abbate, Associate Judge for the New York Court of Appeals Mike Garcia; and Larry Thompson, former deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush and frontrunner Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.

I can't imagine anyone with a good job would want to take the chance of being suddenly fired by an angry and arrogant Trump. His Apprentice days have morphed into his presidency.

There would also be a stigma attached to the new director appointed by Trump. Did he swear an oath of loyalty to him?
He/she will be looked at very critically by senators on both sides of the aisle.

Expect drama in the confirmation process for whoever is selected.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

The Fix Is On - Georgia Special Election Runoff Will Be Suspect

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Did you know that Trump has appointed a commission to look into voter fraud?

Isn't that interesting?

I'd like to see that committee look into Georgia's special election runoff tomorrow between Democratic newcomer, Jon Ossoff (49 percent), and former Republican Secretary of State Karen Handel (19.8 percent).

This special election should not have been necessary because Ossoff - who maintained totals above 50 percent throughout the race was robbed. 

After releasing a report on Georgia's sixth congressional district election on April 19th, the advocacy group Voter GA pointed out what happened:

Are you ready for this?

Fulton County officials admitted that a "rare error" was made that "might have cost Ossoff the race."

That error allowed Karen Handel the former Republican Secretary of State to challenge Ossoff in a one-on-one election.

Can you believe that? But wait. There's more.

Georgia is one of five states that has major problems with unverifiable election results. All of these states use touch screen machines (DREs) and have no paper trail.

The DREs should have been consigned to the junkyard a decade ago according to computer experts throughout the country. 

The rest of the states caught on to the many problems with DREs and have moved on to safer voting systems.

Why are these states - New Jersey, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina and Georgia stuck in the caveman days of computers?

It doesn't stop there.

In 15 states, including the swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia there are counties that, like Georgia, who use touch screen machines with no paper ballots.

If these counties were to be targeted by hackers in an election, the shifting of a few votes per precinct could change the results of a race. 

A perfect example of that was Trump's win in Wisconsin, where he won by less than 23,000 votes. Wisconsin has 3,700 precincts. It would only take a difference of seven votes per precinct to change the state's outcome results.

Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron acknowledged in testimony on the troubled first round of the election, that the system is “inflexible.” 

Barron's testimony, along with the advice of both local and national computer experts, show the results of the first round of the election on April 18th was legitimately suspect and that no election running on this type of computer system can be verified as accurate.

The outcome of tomorrow's special election is crucial to both parties. It's also crucial to democracy that it be a fair election.

Perhaps the question we ought to be asking is, why are these states and counties lagging so far behind in election technology? 

Meanwhile, I'm taking bet's Trump's new commission on voter fraud skips the Georgia election while in pursuit of illegal aliens voting a dozen times each in the last election.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's Deadly Ignorance and Ego Is Spreading Chaos Throughout America

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Here's an easy question: 

"Has there ever been a president who has caused more chaos in government and the nation than Trump has in his first 118 days?"

That didn't take long, did it?

No.

I wonder why no one asked Chump about his knowledge of the Constitution during the election process? None of his opponents seemed to realize he was totally clueless on the most important document in American history.

He's demonstrated that with his repeated attempts of trying to institute a Muslim immigration ban. The courts are currently looking at his latest argument to lift the ban.

It appears nothing has really changed from the other two ban wordings which were found to be unconstitutional. Odds are, Dump will got shot down again.

His response has been to attack, and to threaten, our judiciary system. He has no interest in laws that stop him from going forward with his hateful agenda.

Don the Con is really busy violating numerous ethical laws. The sheer volume has been staggering. The biggest example of that is he still runs his company - despite claiming otherwise.

The emoluments clause in the Constitution was written for scumbags like Donny Little Hands. His family and the Kushner's are perfect examples of why the emolument clause was put into our Constitution. 

Lump's managerial style is to bully people. He's done it all his life and gotten away with it. He did it again when he fired FBI Director James Comey for not swearing loyalty to him.

Now it's up to the American people to not only stand up against his fascist attacks on our democracy, but to vote him out of office in 2020.

The process can start in 2018 when House Republicans get ousted by their constituents and the Democrats gain control. 

That is, of course, if he doesn't get impeached and indicted for treason before all of that.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Does America Feel Great Again...Yet? Let's See After Trump's Magical Mystery Tour

I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I'm crying

I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob
- I Am A Walrus by The Beatles

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Donny's Magical Mystery Tour is on.

Our first illegitimate president is busy meeting with world leaders abroad, and here.  

How about that "successful meeting" between Trump and the Russian thugs in the Oval Office the other day? Little Donny couldn't restrain himself from boasting.

It's in his DNA, and that's why the FBI, CIA, and the NSA are concerned Donny's a security risk. His advisor, Gen. H.R. McMaster, laughingly reported that Trump wasn't even advised on the sensitive issue he shared with the Ruskies.

And that's supposed to be good, how? There's an intelligence mole who was helping the U.S. out there somewhere cursing Trump's name right now.

The Israeli intelligence community aren't thrilled that Donny Little Hands couldn't keep his trap shut about such sensitive information, and for ratting them out to their good buddies in the Kremlin.

I'm sure Donny has impressed not only Israel, but the rest of the world, with his quick wit and loose lips. Can't you just feel America becoming great again?

Gives me the goosebumps. 

The idea that North Korea has a man-baby in charge like us is chilling. I can just see Donnie's stubby fingers fumbling with the nuke codes.

Meanwhile The Magical Mystery Tour will continue to enhance America's standing among world governments. But all trips must come to an end.

If there's no multi-nation nuclear war as a result of Donny's doings, things will have to be sorted out.

American's from TrumpLand may end up being banned from traveling to other countries without extreme vetting, and a promise to spend lots of money (See Trump's son-in-law Jared's Golden Visa scam for inspiration).

I gotta tell ya...it doesn't seem like America's Great Again (whatever the hell that means), but hey! Maybe it's just me.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Priebus Struggles To Keep Trump From Being Conned By His Own Minions

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If it wasn't for Reince Priebus changing Donny's diapers before he got a chance to share the contents in erratic tweets to America, there would be even more shit-storms than there are right now.

Aides to Trump regularly print out fake news and Internet hoaxes and place them on his desk in the hopes that he will read them, according to an article in Politico.

If it wasn't for Chief-Of-Staff  Priebus 's memo telling aides to quit doing that it could have turned into a constitutional crisis; the world would have known Chump was crazy for sure.

One recent incident involved Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland printing out a fake Time magazine cover purportedly from the 1970s that predicted a coming Ice Age. 

As Time itself has documented, the cover was doctored as part of a hoax intended to spread misinformation about climate change.

When Hump laid eyes on that article however, he flipped out and claimed the media were hypocrites.

But Priebus was on poop patrol and with the help of other staff members managed to discover it was a hoax, getting to Rump before he could make an ass of himself and tweet about it.

Our president has never been potty-trained and enjoys smearing his shit around in all possible media venues. He delights in causing chaos, clapping his little hands like a satisfied baby.  

Apparently, according to White House insiders who spoke to Politico, his aides often manipulate him to further their own agendas.

Don the Con manipulated? That does it. He's showing signs of dementia. The 4th grade grammar and throwing hissy fits daily play into that possibility.

But being conned by his own minions? Who knew he was so easy? 

The Russians apparently!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Abbott and Costello's Comedy Routine 'Who's On First' Gets Updated With Trump Version 'Who Knew What, And When'

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To gain insight into what's happening in The White House today, I highly recommend watching this short video .

It shows the legendary comedians, Abbott and Costello, performing one of their most famous routines: "Who's On First?"

Trump's recent firing of F.B.I. Director Comey has turned into a dark comedy routine where everyone from V.P. Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, to Sarah Huckabee Sanders explain why Trump fired Comey.

The real laugher however, was when Trump went on 60 Minutes and was interviewed by Lester Holt right after the firing.

Contradicting his propaganda stooges, Trump said he had already decided to fire Comey a long time ago. In show business they call that a Punch Line.

A fitting description in this case.

That is just one example why Trump should have stayed in show business. At least he got nice laughs. People weren't making fun of him. They enjoyed watching him harass, make fun of, and fire other people.

Firing people these days is a tough call for Trump. He can't just snap his tiny fingers like when he starred on The Apprentice. The Comey firing has turned into a shit storm.

Millions of people are not laughing nicely at his antics like bullying Congress, our judicial system, minorities, and anyone in the way of his power grabs.

Comedians have made Trump a laughingstock in America (and abroad). That makes him sad. And mad.

Trump's 21st Century version of Abbott and Costello's "Who's On First" should be called, "Who Knew What, and When," in a nod to Howard Baker's famous comment during the WaterGate investigation, "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Must See Dutch TV Documentary: Part 1 - The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: The Russians

(Donald Trump, Bayrock Group chairman Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater)

                       

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I'm embarrassed for for every political and investigative reporter in America.

I'm embarrassed for all the documentary filmmakers in America. 

But the thing I'm most embarrassed about is that our country didn't have the guts to come out with a documentary of our own on America's first illegitimate president.  

We owe the Dutch bigly on this one. 

My sincere thanks go to the producers at Zembla, a Dutch online publication that put together a series on Trump that no American should miss.

The First installment of series is titled: The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part 1: The Russians.

View Here Also Has Part Two

Author and political columnist, Steven Rosenfeld, wrote an article for Alternet recently that I hope goes viral in America. 

Brief summary:

"It starts with Trump's luxury tower in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Soho, where his partner in building that high rise was Bayrock LLC, whose primary investor was a Russian mining oligarch and another major investor was a convicted Russian mobster named Felix Sater.

"Why did 60 Minutes pass on the Bayrock story in 2016? 

Why did ABC News' Brian Ross pass on the Trump Soho [Tower] story in 2015?

Why has no major network done any kind of documentary on what the Dutch just did?" asks James Henry, a corporate lawyer-turned-financial investigative reporter who writes for DCReport.org. Henry is one of several investigative reporters whose work on Trump's shady business empire is profiled in the film.

The documentary shows how Trump not only helped hide the identity of his mobster business partner, prompting an ongoing lawsuit accusing Trump of criminal racketeering, but also how Trump used that internal company crisis to demand more money. It goes on to show how Russian oligarchs saw Trump's properties as a way to get their money out of Russia, and describes the international financial networks that are akin to a pyramid scheme for money laundering. It also notes how the law firm of Trump's political adviser, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, helped set up a money-laundering account in the Netherlands used by Bayrock. 

While American journalists are following Trump's tweets and tantrums, they (the Dutch) followed the money into a world where the lines between outright profiteering and organized crime are blurred."

Don't be shy. Share with your friends. The more people know about Trump's past, the better chance he's going to land in hot water. He can't keep on firing FBI directors.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's Lies Are Coming So Fast They're Tripping Up His Lackeys

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Our Liar-In-Chief doesn't care if he's fact-checked about things he says because no one has held him accountable... yet.

That may change some day.

Chump's propaganda team have been so confused lately that they look like three blind mice scurrying for cover during press briefings on the Comey firing.

Sarah, Kellyanne, and Spicy have told varying tales about what led up to FBI director Comey's firing. No two were alike.

Trump topped that by giving yet another version of what happened to Lester Holt in a 60 Minute interview. His version of firing Comey was so full of lies it would take a surgeon to discover them all.

Stump claimed Comey told him he wasn't under investigation three times in the termination letter delivered by his personal bodyguard.

Simply not true. Especially Hump's claim that Comey asked him to meet over dinner to discuss keeping his job. That according to James Clapper, former director of national intelligence.

Clapper told NBC's Andrea Mitchell, that Comey told him on the night of the dinner the president had invited him — and he was uneasy about it.

Clapper also said it would have been inappropriate and out of character for Comey to have asked for job security, or to have told the president anything about a pending criminal investigation.

What happened was Comey wouldn't swear loyalty to The Donald that night. Little did he know his days were numbered after that meeting.

A current FBI official and others close to Comey confirmed that the director did not request the one-on-one dinner, which happened at the White House a few days after Trump was sworn in.

The White House claims that Comey was unpopular and causing problems with his co-workers was another blatant lie destroyed by current-acting FBI Director, Andrew McCabe.

McCabe said that Comey was "universally liked" and respected;

"Director Comey enjoyed broad support within the FBI and still does to this day," McCabe said, saying he holds Comey in the "absolute highest regard."

So now the world knows Lump lied about something big once again. Facts trumped his awkward lie. Chump's response?

He's considering not having anymore White House press briefings. 

That would fit nicely into his philosophy of no transparency. Maybe that was part of the plan. That is if there was a plan. It could have just been the result of another one of his temper tantrums.

As Dump violates ethical standards on a daily basis, the press is going to have to rely on White House whistleblowers willing to leak his latest lies.

Let's face it however, if Bump's own three stooges can't keep track of his daily flip-flopping and lies, how the heck is the press going to? 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Senate Intelligence Committee Looking At Trump, Top Aides Finances, Russian Mob Connections

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The Senate Intelligence Committee is taking the most direct path to expose collusion between Russia, Trump, and his top aides.

They are following the money. 

Who bought what, when? Was there a money laundering scheme going on?

How Donny Little Hands managed to get elected with his proven past associations with Russian mafia figures (they lived in Trump Tower for years before finally getting busted) I'll never know.

Who vetted Trump when he ran? Obviously no one. 

So far Rump has managed to get away with not revealing his taxes. Hopefully this Senate committee will have the power to examine them and his financial dealings with Russia. 

Americans are becoming use to watching Don the Con and his family take advantage of their positions to promote their products.

The Kushner's use of "Golden Visas" for wealthy Chinese is only one example.

The scary part is Rump is systematically firing any government opposition to his (and his family's) agendas.

His recent firing of FBI director James Comey was a desperate attempt to derail the FBI's investigation on him and his top aides.

Trump Told He Would Not Be Greeted Warmly at FBI:Officials

You can bet Comey's replacement will have to be ready to kiss Trump's ass from day one. To do otherwise would assure he would have a short career.

However, it's looking like there's a chance to expose Dump's corruption via the Senate Intelligence Committee which has managed to take a bipartisan line thus far (with the exception of a few Republicans). 

When the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Trump's financial connections to Russia and the Russian Mafia is released don't be surprised if Chump squalls like a scalded cat. 

Hopefully, it will put an end to his toxic regime before it totally pollutes our democracy.

Time for me to walk on down the road...