Michael Cohen closes a plea deal -- and it's a disaster for Trump
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/11/29/cohens-testimony-implicates-trump-and-his-spawn/
Cohen continued to pursue a Trump Tower Moscow deal for far longer than he testified he did, and briefed “family” on it, which presumably includes Don Jr (who therefore lied to Congress about it) . . . The plans continued after the campaign got information about emails and were specifically structured around Trump getting the nomination; they ended when the DNC hack was reported . . . Cohen was in direct communication with Dmitry Peskov’s office; and Putin’s office contacted Felix Sater.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/michael-cohen-plea-draws-mueller-closer-trump
Cohen also worked with the office of Dmitry Peskov, President Putin’s spokesman and top deputy, to try to hammer out the details of the project. . . .
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-investigation-1028881
Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant and a former broker for the Trump Organization, pitched a real estate deal in Russia to Cohen in 2015, arguing that it would help get Trump elected president, according to emails the Trump Organization provided last year to the House Intelligence Committee. “Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in an email to Cohen dated Nov. 3, 2015. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” While Trump signed a “letter of intent” to pursue the project, Cohen told Congress that it never went anywhere and that he discussed it with Trump only three times. . . . Contrary to Cohen’s claim that the Trump Organization had abandoned the potential deal by January 2016, Cohen and Sater were still talking about getting Russian government approval for the project “as late as approximately June 2016.” Cohen discussed the project with Trump more than the three times he’d claimed and also briefed Trump family members on the project. On May 4, 2016, weeks before Trump clinched the Republican nomination, Sater asked Cohen when Trump would be able to come to Russia . . .Trump has said repeatedly that he has no business ties to Russia. “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/trump-tower-moscow-deal-denials-business-with-russia.html
Trump Denied Having Any Business Dealings With Russia a Bunch of Times
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/cnn-felix-saters-emails-tie-trump-tower
Felix Sater's Emails Tie Trump Tower Moscow To Russian Election Interference
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/a-direct-connection-between-trump-and-putin/
“The new guilty plea firmly—and dramatically—shifts the narrative and timeline of the Russia investigation, establishing that while pursuing the White House, Donald Trump was also pursuing personal business deals with a foreign adversary that, according to Mueller’s earlier indictments, engaged in a multifaceted, complex, expensive, and long-running criminal conspiracy to help deliver Trump to the presidency.” “The guilty plea—which, like every step of the Mueller investigation took even close watchers by surprise with its timing and rich level of detail—draws a direct connection between Donald Trump’s business deals and Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-planned-to-give-putin-the-penthouse-in-trump-tower-moscow-9f135e87f356/
President Donald Trump’s company planned to give Russian President Vladimir Putin the penthouse in its proposed Trump Tower Moscow development . . . Cohen and former Trump Organization broker Felix Sater planned to give Putin himself the top spot in their planned development. Some of the people Cohen negotiated the Moscow deal with were also involved in or knew of Russia’s 2016 effort to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, two FBI agents told BuzzFeed News earlier this year. “In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin,” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.” . . .
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/former-trump-aide-michael-cohen-admits-lying-congress/577003/
Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York where he focused on organized crime, said he believes that the plea agreement is “a prelude to forthcoming indictments and other investigative steps. Before using information from a cooperating witness, prosecutors generally like to ‘lock in’ the witness through a guilty plea,” Goldman said. “So I would expect more to come arising out of, at least in part, Michael Cohen’s cooperation.” It isn’t just Trump who may be in legal danger now that Cohen is cooperating—it’s also his family members . . .
More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/29/18117945/michael-cohen-mueller-trump-russia-plea
6 takeaways from Michael Cohen’s new plea deal with Mueller
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trumps-moscow-deal-died-on-same-day-as-hacking-story/
Michael Cohen’s plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller indicates the the last known discussion about the Trump Tower Moscow deal was “on or about June 14” . . . “Why is that date significant? It happens to be the day The Washington Post broke a big story that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18118275/michael-cohen-plea-deal-donald-trump-jr-testimony
Michael Cohen’s plea agreement is bad news for Donald Trump Jr.
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/cohen-has-the-goods-on-trump/
Cohen ‘Has the Goods’ On Trump
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-russia-investigation-robert-mueller-michael-cohen-trump-tower-moscow-russia-2016-election-227e4d3d2d07/
Cohen’s guilty plea could be the ‘beginning of the end of the Trump presidency’
Was this the perjury trap everyone feared for Trump?
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-many-quid-pro-quos-are-there.html
“The fear in Trumpworld is that Mueller may have laid a perjury trap for the president, the former staffer said. Mueller waited until after Trump submitted written answers under oath to the special counsel’s office—some of which reportedly included responses to questions about Trump Tower Moscow—before revealing the evidence prosecutors had gathered to secure Cohen’s plea.” Said the source: “Trump was totally caught off guard . . . .”
Trump lashes out, and tries to change the subject
Cohen continued to pursue a Trump Tower Moscow deal for far longer than he testified he did, and briefed “family” on it, which presumably includes Don Jr (who therefore lied to Congress about it) . . . The plans continued after the campaign got information about emails and were specifically structured around Trump getting the nomination; they ended when the DNC hack was reported . . . Cohen was in direct communication with Dmitry Peskov’s office; and Putin’s office contacted Felix Sater.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/michael-cohen-plea-draws-mueller-closer-trump
Cohen also worked with the office of Dmitry Peskov, President Putin’s spokesman and top deputy, to try to hammer out the details of the project. . . .
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-investigation-1028881
Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant and a former broker for the Trump Organization, pitched a real estate deal in Russia to Cohen in 2015, arguing that it would help get Trump elected president, according to emails the Trump Organization provided last year to the House Intelligence Committee. “Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in an email to Cohen dated Nov. 3, 2015. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” While Trump signed a “letter of intent” to pursue the project, Cohen told Congress that it never went anywhere and that he discussed it with Trump only three times. . . . Contrary to Cohen’s claim that the Trump Organization had abandoned the potential deal by January 2016, Cohen and Sater were still talking about getting Russian government approval for the project “as late as approximately June 2016.” Cohen discussed the project with Trump more than the three times he’d claimed and also briefed Trump family members on the project. On May 4, 2016, weeks before Trump clinched the Republican nomination, Sater asked Cohen when Trump would be able to come to Russia . . .Trump has said repeatedly that he has no business ties to Russia. “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/trump-tower-moscow-deal-denials-business-with-russia.html
Trump Denied Having Any Business Dealings With Russia a Bunch of Times
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/cnn-felix-saters-emails-tie-trump-tower
Felix Sater's Emails Tie Trump Tower Moscow To Russian Election Interference
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/a-direct-connection-between-trump-and-putin/
“The new guilty plea firmly—and dramatically—shifts the narrative and timeline of the Russia investigation, establishing that while pursuing the White House, Donald Trump was also pursuing personal business deals with a foreign adversary that, according to Mueller’s earlier indictments, engaged in a multifaceted, complex, expensive, and long-running criminal conspiracy to help deliver Trump to the presidency.” “The guilty plea—which, like every step of the Mueller investigation took even close watchers by surprise with its timing and rich level of detail—draws a direct connection between Donald Trump’s business deals and Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-planned-to-give-putin-the-penthouse-in-trump-tower-moscow-9f135e87f356/
President Donald Trump’s company planned to give Russian President Vladimir Putin the penthouse in its proposed Trump Tower Moscow development . . . Cohen and former Trump Organization broker Felix Sater planned to give Putin himself the top spot in their planned development. Some of the people Cohen negotiated the Moscow deal with were also involved in or knew of Russia’s 2016 effort to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, two FBI agents told BuzzFeed News earlier this year. “In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin,” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.” . . .
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/former-trump-aide-michael-cohen-admits-lying-congress/577003/
Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York where he focused on organized crime, said he believes that the plea agreement is “a prelude to forthcoming indictments and other investigative steps. Before using information from a cooperating witness, prosecutors generally like to ‘lock in’ the witness through a guilty plea,” Goldman said. “So I would expect more to come arising out of, at least in part, Michael Cohen’s cooperation.” It isn’t just Trump who may be in legal danger now that Cohen is cooperating—it’s also his family members . . .
More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/29/18117945/michael-cohen-mueller-trump-russia-plea
6 takeaways from Michael Cohen’s new plea deal with Mueller
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trumps-moscow-deal-died-on-same-day-as-hacking-story/
Michael Cohen’s plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller indicates the the last known discussion about the Trump Tower Moscow deal was “on or about June 14” . . . “Why is that date significant? It happens to be the day The Washington Post broke a big story that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18118275/michael-cohen-plea-deal-donald-trump-jr-testimony
Michael Cohen’s plea agreement is bad news for Donald Trump Jr.
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/cohen-has-the-goods-on-trump/
Cohen ‘Has the Goods’ On Trump
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-russia-investigation-robert-mueller-michael-cohen-trump-tower-moscow-russia-2016-election-227e4d3d2d07/
Cohen’s guilty plea could be the ‘beginning of the end of the Trump presidency’
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-many-quid-pro-quos-are-there.html
“The fear in Trumpworld is that Mueller may have laid a perjury trap for the president, the former staffer said. Mueller waited until after Trump submitted written answers under oath to the special counsel’s office—some of which reportedly included responses to questions about Trump Tower Moscow—before revealing the evidence prosecutors had gathered to secure Cohen’s plea.” Said the source: “Trump was totally caught off guard . . . .”
Trump lashes out, and tries to change the subject
https://www.politico.com/video/2018/11/29/trump-michael-cohen-is-a-weak-person-and-not-a-very-smart-person-067530
Trump: Michael Cohen is "a weak person and not a very smart person"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-tries-to-distance-trump-from-trump-tower-moscow-this-was-cohens-deal
"This was Cohen's deal"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/i-wasnt-trying-to-hide-anything-trump-defensive-on-potential-moscow-project
President Donald Trump on Thursday argued that he “wasn’t trying to hide anything” while exploring a real estate deal in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign — the same deal about which his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. Trump repeatedly claimed as a candidate and as President that he has no business ties to Russia. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” Trump said during the campaign.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/trump-im-allowed-run-business-and-campaign
We know when he says things like, "Just because I was running for president doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to do business," he's wrong. HE knows he's wrong. That is why he lied about it, insisting repeatedly throughout the campaign that he had no business ties to Russia. We know when he says things like, "We had a position to do the deal, possibly, I decided not to do it," he's lying. He stated no fewer than FIVE TIMES in less than 2 minutes' time that HE decided not to do the Moscow deal. . . . And he wants you to be SURE to note that "There would be nothing wrong if I DID do it," meaning the deal in Moscow.
More: https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/i-could-actually-run-my-business-and.html
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trump-said-to-be-spooked-and-distracted/
President Trump was “spooked” and “completely distracted” on his flight to Agentina as aides tried to prepare him for the G20 summit . . . A source added that the President was “in a terrible mood” on the flight.
Trump's kids are in the crosshairs
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/mueller-turns-focus-to-trumps-children/
Suddenly Trump's G-20 meeting with Putin gets cancelled. Coincidence?
Trump Cancels Meeting With Putin at G-20 Amid New Mueller Revelations and Ukraine Crisis
Congressional leaders of both parties want to know who lied to their committees
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/senate-confirms-farr-judicial-nominee-1027236
Senate Scours Testimony for Misleading Statements
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/quote-of-the-day-2106/
“We believe other witnesses were untruthful before our committee. We want to share those transcripts with Mr. Mueller.”
— Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
More: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/warner-cohen-senate-intel-committee-1027763
In other Russia news . . .
The C words
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/collusion-is-back/
Collusion Is Back . . . “After a slowdown before the midterm elections, the Trump-Russia saga has reached a new crescendo, with Democrats pointing to what they call new evidence of collaboration between the 2016 Trump campaign and Moscow — even as President Trump added legal weight to his denials,” Politico reports. “A dizzying flurry of headlines, leaks and legal action over the past several days have shined new light on contacts between Trump associates and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who in 2016 released Hillary Clinton campaign emails that U.S. officials say were stolen by Russian operatives.” “Democrats say they strengthen the case — widely dismissed by Republicans — that the Trump campaign was aware of or even helped to coordinate the email dumps.”
[NB: And the other C word: conspiracy.]
More: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/russia-mueller-2016-election-roger-stone-trump-clinton-wikileaks.html
Mueller’s Newest Filings Point to Trump’s Associates Breaking Election Law
Waiting for the phrase "unindicted co-conspirator"
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/mueller-closes-in-on-trump/
“In two major developments this week, President Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name: Individual 1”
More: https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-many-quid-pro-quos-are-there.html
Obstruction
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trump-continues-his-intervention-in-the-mueller-probe/
So now we know Paul Manafort lied to Mueller -- but here's the interesting question: how did Mueller know he was lying?
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/re-us-v-manafort-now-what
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/russia-mueller-2016-election-paul-manafort-trump-rudy-giuliani.html
Jerome Corsi is at the heart of it all
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/corsi-admits-he-tried-to-get-hacked-emails/
“In a blockbuster interview, key Mueller witness and Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi admits to MSNBC that he lied to Congress, that he tried to get stolen Clinton emails back to the Trump campaign in 2016, that he ‘absolutely’ intended to help the Trump campaign by doing so, that he told Roger Stone about John Podesta’s emails and that his lawyers are still communicating with Trump’s legal team ‘as if’ there is a joint legal defense.”
More: https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/everything-adds-up/
“The thing about stories built on actual facts, as Mueller’s will be, is that they tend to be powerful and command attention because they add up. People like solid crime stories. And so even now, even amid all the current racket, at least one such story is emerging loud and clear: the bridge that connects the Trump campaign to the trove of Democratic emails stolen by the Russians and publicized by WikiLeaks to sabotage the Clinton campaign.” “Two of the biggest sources for this story are Stone and Corsi themselves. The more they try to portray their WikiLeaks ties as innocent — Corsi even gave a blabby interview to the less-than-friendly outlet of MSNBC on Wednesday — the more they poke holes in their own flimsy cover stories and incriminate the president. Not for nothing did Trump promote WikiLeaks’ email cache at least 164 times in the last month of the 2016 campaign. Everything adds up. . . . . It also adds up that Trump remains in the panic that has consumed him since he returned from his calamitous trip to rainy Paris nearly three weeks ago. He just keeps tweeting maniacally about his innocence and Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ even as heads to the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, Mueller’s tale of his collusion with Russia gains traction by the moment.”
Trump's nonsensical claims about how much the Mueller investigation is costing. Two days ago it was $30 million. Now suddenly it is $40 million
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/11/29/we-dont-need-fact-checkers-for-these-trump-lies/
More: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-misguided-crusade-against-the-cost-the-mueller-investigation
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/mueller-probe-hasnt-cost-taxpayers-anything/
Mueller Probe Hasn’t Cost Taxpayers Anything
The things Trump thinks you can get thrown in jail for
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/trump-rosenstein-belongs-in-jail-1026104
Trump: Rosenstein belongs in jail because 'he never should have picked a special counsel'
Trump tax lawyer's office raided by FBI
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18118393/ed-burke-fbi-raid-trump-lawyer
Oh, by the way: https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/they-knew-he-was-snake-before-they-let.html
A friend of Donald Trump’s recently approached him to suggest that he will eventually have to release his tax returns, as every presidential nominee has for decades... “What will you do if the returns come out as part of an October surprise?” Trump was asked. Trump pondered the question and replied, “I’ll say they aren’t mine.”
James Comey wants his congressional testimony to be in public. The Republicans don't
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/comey-sues-to-block-house-subpoena-seeking-his-closed-door-testimony
The C words
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/collusion-is-back/
Collusion Is Back . . . “After a slowdown before the midterm elections, the Trump-Russia saga has reached a new crescendo, with Democrats pointing to what they call new evidence of collaboration between the 2016 Trump campaign and Moscow — even as President Trump added legal weight to his denials,” Politico reports. “A dizzying flurry of headlines, leaks and legal action over the past several days have shined new light on contacts between Trump associates and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who in 2016 released Hillary Clinton campaign emails that U.S. officials say were stolen by Russian operatives.” “Democrats say they strengthen the case — widely dismissed by Republicans — that the Trump campaign was aware of or even helped to coordinate the email dumps.”
[NB: And the other C word: conspiracy.]
More: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/russia-mueller-2016-election-roger-stone-trump-clinton-wikileaks.html
Mueller’s Newest Filings Point to Trump’s Associates Breaking Election Law
Waiting for the phrase "unindicted co-conspirator"
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/mueller-closes-in-on-trump/
“In two major developments this week, President Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name: Individual 1”
More: https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-many-quid-pro-quos-are-there.html
Obstruction
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trump-continues-his-intervention-in-the-mueller-probe/
So now we know Paul Manafort lied to Mueller -- but here's the interesting question: how did Mueller know he was lying?
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/re-us-v-manafort-now-what
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/russia-mueller-2016-election-paul-manafort-trump-rudy-giuliani.html
Jerome Corsi is at the heart of it all
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/corsi-admits-he-tried-to-get-hacked-emails/
“In a blockbuster interview, key Mueller witness and Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi admits to MSNBC that he lied to Congress, that he tried to get stolen Clinton emails back to the Trump campaign in 2016, that he ‘absolutely’ intended to help the Trump campaign by doing so, that he told Roger Stone about John Podesta’s emails and that his lawyers are still communicating with Trump’s legal team ‘as if’ there is a joint legal defense.”
More: https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/everything-adds-up/
“The thing about stories built on actual facts, as Mueller’s will be, is that they tend to be powerful and command attention because they add up. People like solid crime stories. And so even now, even amid all the current racket, at least one such story is emerging loud and clear: the bridge that connects the Trump campaign to the trove of Democratic emails stolen by the Russians and publicized by WikiLeaks to sabotage the Clinton campaign.” “Two of the biggest sources for this story are Stone and Corsi themselves. The more they try to portray their WikiLeaks ties as innocent — Corsi even gave a blabby interview to the less-than-friendly outlet of MSNBC on Wednesday — the more they poke holes in their own flimsy cover stories and incriminate the president. Not for nothing did Trump promote WikiLeaks’ email cache at least 164 times in the last month of the 2016 campaign. Everything adds up. . . . . It also adds up that Trump remains in the panic that has consumed him since he returned from his calamitous trip to rainy Paris nearly three weeks ago. He just keeps tweeting maniacally about his innocence and Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ even as heads to the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, Mueller’s tale of his collusion with Russia gains traction by the moment.”
Trump's nonsensical claims about how much the Mueller investigation is costing. Two days ago it was $30 million. Now suddenly it is $40 million
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/11/29/we-dont-need-fact-checkers-for-these-trump-lies/
More: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-misguided-crusade-against-the-cost-the-mueller-investigation
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/mueller-probe-hasnt-cost-taxpayers-anything/
Mueller Probe Hasn’t Cost Taxpayers Anything
The things Trump thinks you can get thrown in jail for
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/trump-rosenstein-belongs-in-jail-1026104
Trump: Rosenstein belongs in jail because 'he never should have picked a special counsel'
Trump tax lawyer's office raided by FBI
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18118393/ed-burke-fbi-raid-trump-lawyer
Oh, by the way: https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/they-knew-he-was-snake-before-they-let.html
A friend of Donald Trump’s recently approached him to suggest that he will eventually have to release his tax returns, as every presidential nominee has for decades... “What will you do if the returns come out as part of an October surprise?” Trump was asked. Trump pondered the question and replied, “I’ll say they aren’t mine.”
James Comey wants his congressional testimony to be in public. The Republicans don't
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/comey-sues-to-block-house-subpoena-seeking-his-closed-door-testimony
In other news . .
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Trump thinks the U.S. can get rich from tariffs. He's a moron
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/29/18117792/trump-china-tariffs-xi-g20-trade-war
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-stumbles-over-his-confusion-about-his-own-trade-policy
Trump railed against GM's decision to move jobs overseas -- but the incentives were in the GOP tax plan he signed
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/so-trump-didnt-understand-tax-incentives
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-didnt-know-gop-tax-bill-incentivizes-business-to-offshore-jobs-367fe5bea9dd/
Trump thinks the U.S. can get rich from tariffs. He's a moron
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/29/18117792/trump-china-tariffs-xi-g20-trade-war
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-stumbles-over-his-confusion-about-his-own-trade-policy
Trump railed against GM's decision to move jobs overseas -- but the incentives were in the GOP tax plan he signed
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/so-trump-didnt-understand-tax-incentives
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-didnt-know-gop-tax-bill-incentivizes-business-to-offshore-jobs-367fe5bea9dd/
Trump really does want a "Space Force"
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/space-force-military-branch-999528
Vote suppressing judicial nominee loses key GOP support
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tim-scott-announces-opposition-to-trump-judicial-nominee-thomas-farr
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/senate-confirms-farr-judicial-nominee-1027236
Jeff Flake is blocking other nominees over the refusal to have a senate vote on protecting Mueller
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-judiciary-committee-cancels-votes-on-judges-as-flake-refuses-to-back-down
The number of uninsured children starts to rise again -- and the Repubs are still out to destroy Obamacare
https://thinkprogress.org/us-rate-of-uninsured-children-increases-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade-f802fdd064bb/
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/republicans-are-once-again-trying-to-destroy-obamacare/
Get used to it, Don
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/schumer-trump-government-shutdown-1031319
Schumer blames Trump for impasse as shutdown looms
Nancy Pelosi is tough -- and that's what we need right now
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/nancy-pelosi-speaker-race-house-democrats-1026069
By the way: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1815861
Pelosi won more votes, but NYT says Ryan win 'overwhelming' while hers saw 'significant defections'
A new Dem spokesperson? https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18117949/cheri-bustos-dccc-chair-house-democrats
Cheri Bustos (D-IL)
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/republicans-are-once-again-trying-to-destroy-obamacare/
Get used to it, Don
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/schumer-trump-government-shutdown-1031319
Schumer blames Trump for impasse as shutdown looms
Nancy Pelosi is tough -- and that's what we need right now
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/nancy-pelosi-speaker-race-house-democrats-1026069
By the way: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1815861
Pelosi won more votes, but NYT says Ryan win 'overwhelming' while hers saw 'significant defections'
A new Dem spokesperson? https://www.vox.com/2018/11/29/18117949/cheri-bustos-dccc-chair-house-democrats
Cheri Bustos (D-IL)
Bonus item: No comment
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trump-appeals-more-to-men-who-are-sexually-insecure/
https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/29/trump-appeals-more-to-men-who-are-sexually-insecure/
Trump Appeals More to Men Who Are Sexually Insecure
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