https://www.vox.com/2019/5/30/18645526/trump-russia-elected-help-twitter
“I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected,” the president tweeted.
Later, he reversed himself
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-says-he-doesnt-believe-russia-interfered-to-get-him-elected-minutes-after-saying-it-did-a1e515840b8e/
“Russia did not help get me elected,” Trump said, in a rambling interview on the south lawn of the White House. “You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn’t help me at all. Russia if anything helped other side.”
More: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-campaign-russia-helped-election-typo
Trump Camp Spins Admission That Russia Helped Get Him Elected: It Was A ‘Typo’
Second, Trump and his people just can't get their story straight about Mueller. When they thought they could say his report (or Barr's distorted version of it) vindicated him, they were happy to praise it. When Mueller spoke, their first reaction was, it did Trump no harm because he only restated what was in the report. When they realized that EVEN ON FOX NEWS it wasn't playing that way, it was back to "Mueller is a hyper-partisan Trump hater." Besides, they said, "case closed." Trump's frantic, crazy attacks on Mueller prove that they realize the Russia scandal has been given new life
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-mueller-true-never-trumper
President Trump took a strikingly more aggressive tone against special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, claiming Mueller only got the special counsel gig because of his relationship with former FBI Director James Comey. Trump also claimed that he had a “business dispute” with Mueller and the special counsel wanted to replace Comey as FBI director after Trump fired him. “I think he’s totally conflicted because, as you know, he wanted to be the FBI director and I said ‘no,'” Trump said. . .
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861455/-Sorry-Trump-Mueller-never-even-wanted-to-be-your-FBI-director
Sorry, Trump, Mueller never even wanted to be your FBI director
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861497/-Here-s-why-Trump-is-starting-to-desperately-trash-Robert-Mueller
Here's why Trump is desperately trashing Robert Mueller
President Trump took a strikingly more aggressive tone against special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, claiming Mueller only got the special counsel gig because of his relationship with former FBI Director James Comey. Trump also claimed that he had a “business dispute” with Mueller and the special counsel wanted to replace Comey as FBI director after Trump fired him. “I think he’s totally conflicted because, as you know, he wanted to be the FBI director and I said ‘no,'” Trump said. . .
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861455/-Sorry-Trump-Mueller-never-even-wanted-to-be-your-FBI-director
Sorry, Trump, Mueller never even wanted to be your FBI director
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861497/-Here-s-why-Trump-is-starting-to-desperately-trash-Robert-Mueller
Here's why Trump is desperately trashing Robert Mueller
President Trump’s close advisers are increasingly pining for Robert Mueller to be dragged before Congress and subjected to conservative lawmakers’ questions about the conduct and outcome of his investigation. Their embrace of such a hearing is a sharp reversal from where sentiment in the White House has been for weeks following the release of special counsel’s report. Trump himself has come out against Mueller testifying before Congress, and key Republicans on Capitol Hill have followed suit by stating that the issue is effectively “closed.” But those positions have softened, if not changed, significantly after Mueller’s public statement on Wednesday, in which he stated that he would have exonerated Trump if he could have and said that he was prohibited by Department of Justice guidelines from bringing charges against a sitting president. . . .
Third, some wild and totally made-up claims about impeachment. Think he's not worried?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-impeachment-dirty-filthy-disgusting
Trump: Impeachment Is A ‘Dirty, Filthy, Disgusting Word’
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/30/18645590/trump-impeachment-mueller-confusion
Trump thinks the courts might save him from impeachment. It doesn’t work like that.
Fourth, Trump denies any connection with the classless effort to obscure the name of the USS John McCain so it wouldn't offend his weak sensitivities. The Navy denied it. Then Trump . . . confirmed it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861421/-White-House-USS-McCain-cover-up-story-gets-even-more-embarrassing-for-Trump-if-that-s-possible
White House USS McCain cover-up story gets even more embarrassing for Trump, if that's possible
Here's the email: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/05/for-the-record-heres-the-email-telling-the-navy-to-hide-the-uss-john-mccain/
Plus, even MORE McCain bashing: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-mccain-ship
[NB: The man is dead, you clown. Let it go.]
Fifth, Rudy Giuliani goes into Fox World to spin yet another laughable Ukrainian conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-steps-up-biden-attacks-with-new-ukraine-conspiracy-theory
Giuliani went on to allege that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was “extorted” by Biden, claiming Biden held the loan guarantees unless the president fired a top prosecutor who was investigating a company Biden's son worked for. . . “That’s the crime, Joe. Extorted!” Giuliani shouted. “And by the way, when he took the money for the Ukraine, we call that, under all laws, bribery!” [read on]
Well, enough humor. It's not really very funny, is it? You know what else isn't funny? North Korea
Third, some wild and totally made-up claims about impeachment. Think he's not worried?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-impeachment-dirty-filthy-disgusting
Trump: Impeachment Is A ‘Dirty, Filthy, Disgusting Word’
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/30/18645590/trump-impeachment-mueller-confusion
Trump thinks the courts might save him from impeachment. It doesn’t work like that.
Fourth, Trump denies any connection with the classless effort to obscure the name of the USS John McCain so it wouldn't offend his weak sensitivities. The Navy denied it. Then Trump . . . confirmed it
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861421/-White-House-USS-McCain-cover-up-story-gets-even-more-embarrassing-for-Trump-if-that-s-possible
White House USS McCain cover-up story gets even more embarrassing for Trump, if that's possible
Here's the email: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/05/for-the-record-heres-the-email-telling-the-navy-to-hide-the-uss-john-mccain/
Plus, even MORE McCain bashing: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-mccain-ship
[NB: The man is dead, you clown. Let it go.]
Fifth, Rudy Giuliani goes into Fox World to spin yet another laughable Ukrainian conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-steps-up-biden-attacks-with-new-ukraine-conspiracy-theory
Giuliani went on to allege that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was “extorted” by Biden, claiming Biden held the loan guarantees unless the president fired a top prosecutor who was investigating a company Biden's son worked for. . . “That’s the crime, Joe. Extorted!” Giuliani shouted. “And by the way, when he took the money for the Ukraine, we call that, under all laws, bribery!” [read on]
Well, enough humor. It's not really very funny, is it? You know what else isn't funny? North Korea
https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-korea-executes-its-special-envoy-to-us-officials-involved-in-trump-kim-summit-report
North Korea has reportedly executed its special envoy to the U.S. and four other Foreign Ministry officials after the February U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi didn’t work out. . . .
In other investigation news. . .
Bad news for Roger Stone
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/30/a-major-development-in-roger-stones-case-may-explain-why-robert-mueller-finally-resigned_partner/
The Cesspool
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/30/trump-campaign-and-mar-a-lago-subpoenaed-in-fbis-chinese-money-funneling-probe_partner/
Trump campaign and Mar-a-Lago subpoenaed in FBI’s Chinese money-funneling probe
In other news . .
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The one conclusion that everyone (except Trump apparently) agrees about is that Russia tried to sabotage our election. They're still doing it, and they will try again in 2020. But Mitch McConnell continues to block legislation to prevent it. There's only one possible reason why
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/30/despite-muellers-warning-mcconnell-blocks-bipartisan-election-security-bills/
The one conclusion that everyone (except Trump apparently) agrees about is that Russia tried to sabotage our election. They're still doing it, and they will try again in 2020. But Mitch McConnell continues to block legislation to prevent it. There's only one possible reason why
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/30/despite-muellers-warning-mcconnell-blocks-bipartisan-election-security-bills/
More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861470/-Mitch-McConnell-is-inviting-Putin-to-hack-our-next-election-too
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/muellers-comments-remind-us-that-russia-tried-to-interfere-in-our-elections.html
The case against impeachment (for now)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/impeach-trump-not-yet/590578/
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/30/impeachment-would-freeze-the-democratic-race/
A two-fer: anti-trade AND anti-immigrant
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/30/18646618/tariff-mexico-asylum-trump-usmca
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-mexico-tariffs-illegal-immigration-what.html
It's official: the Trump admin has complete contempt for the Hatch Act (even though it's the law)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/kellyanne-conway-reflects-ethics-law-blah-blah-blah
A showdown between Trump and Pelosi over trade
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/30/1861512/-Trump-forces-confrontation-with-Nancy-Pelosi-by-putting-his-trade-bill-in-the-express-lane
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/30/trump-will-trigger-process-to-force-vote-on-trade-deal/
Now we have PROOF that the census citizenship question was part of the GOP voter suppression and gerrymandering plan
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/05/emails-reveal-citizenship-question-was-designed-to-increase-republican-gerrymandering/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/census-citizenship-redistricting-study-case-bombshel
Why does Trump keep talking about IQ? Does he know his IQ?
The Go-Fund-Me project to crowdsource funding to built the Wall™ has devolved into a mess of self-serving agendas. And it will end up building. . . a couple of thousand feet, if that
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/we-build-the-wall-militia-sunland-park
Good boy, good boy . . . now, down. sit. roll over!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shakes-fox-news-reporter-kevin-corkes-hand-thanks-him-for-asking-question-he-likes
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/we-build-the-wall-militia-sunland-park
Good boy, good boy . . . now, down. sit. roll over!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shakes-fox-news-reporter-kevin-corkes-hand-thanks-him-for-asking-question-he-likes
Trump Shakes Fox News Reporter’s Hand, Thanks Him for Asking Question He Likes
Bonus item: Trevor Noah on impeachment
https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-shows-trevor-noah-to-democrats-slow-down-on-impeachment
Bonus item: Trevor Noah on impeachment
https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-shows-trevor-noah-to-democrats-slow-down-on-impeachment
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