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Trump Bodyguard Raided Trump Doctor’s Office

May 1, 2018 at 12:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump’s longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump’s New York doctor without notice and took all the president’s medical records,” NBC News reports.

“The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a ‘raid,’ took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.”

During the presidential campaign, Bornstein wrote a letter declaring “unequivocally” that Trump would be the healthiest president in history.

Trump Has Now Told Over 3,000 Lies

May 1, 2018 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “In the 466 days since he took the oath of office, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims… That’s an average of nearly 6.5 claims a day.”

“When we first started this project for the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. Slo wly, the average number of claims has been creeping up.Indeed, since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day.”

Does Mueller Already Know the Answer to This Question?

May 1, 2018 at 11:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The New York Times obtained a copy of the questions special counsel Robert Mueller submitted to President Trump’s lawyers and among them was this subtle bombshell: “What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?”, Axios points out.

“The old saw is that good lawyers don’t ask questions they don’t know the answers to. The phrasing — outreach to Russia rather than outreach from — suggests Mueller may have reason to believe the Trump campaign requested Russian assistance in the campaign.”

Washington Post: The 7 most-intriguing questions Mueller wants to ask Trump.


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Questions Show Mueller’s Probe Is Far-Reaching

May 1, 2018 at 11:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

First Read: “Yes, the reported list of questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Donald Trump, according to The New York Times, appears to be just starter questions. And yes, the list comes from Trump’s orbit… But taken together, the questions underscore the magnitude of the Russia probe — a story that’s been reported in bits and pieces over the last 17 months.

“The Russia story has always been complicated. But these questions — taken together — combine all of the different strands of the potential story. And they’re a reminder that the obstruction angle — regarding Comey and Flynn — might be the smallest part of this investigation.”

“Oh, and one other thing: If Mueller is asking these questions, the possibility exists that he already knows the answers.”

Clinton’s High Profile Only Hurts Democrats

May 1, 2018 at 11:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Michelle Cottle: “Yes, what happened to Clinton was awful. She did not merely lose the presidency, she lost it to an opponent singularly unqualified to hold the office. Worse still, multiple external factors likely contributed to her loss, including Russian meddling and former FBI Director James Comey’s October surprise and, yes, the media’s absurd obsession with ‘Servergate.'”

“But whatever the root causes, the result is what it is: She lost. And while her frustration, disappointment, and rage make perfect sense, Clinton needs to give the public kvetching and finger-pointing a rest—if not for the sake of her or her party, then for the nation as a whole.”

We Already Have Evidence of Trump Campaign Collusion

May 1, 2018 at 11:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “I would argue that the publicly available information pertaining to that episode amounts to proof of Trump campaign collusion with Russia. You have a Russian agent dangling Russian assistance in the election… and the offer of help being accepted… It doesn’t even matter to what degree or even whether the offer was actually followed through. If you take a meeting to plan a crime, and the crime later happens and you benefit, you are an accessory to the crime whether or not you participated after the meeting.”

“But even if you don’t consider the Trump Tower meeting to be absolute proof of collusion, it is certainly evidence of collusion. It was, after all, a meeting held for the express purpose of furthering cooperation — or, as it were, collusion — between the Trump campaign and Russia. And there is no reason to believe that the publicly available evidence of this meeting — which Trump and his family have lied about, repeatedly — contains the entire extent of the information about it.”

Kelly Denies Calling Trump an ‘Idiot’

May 1, 2018 at 6:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly denied he said President Trump is an ‘idiot,’ calling an NBC News story that said he had done so “total BS,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Kelly: “I spend more time with the President than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. He always knows where I stand and he and I both know this story is total BS. I am committed to the President, his agenda, and our country. This is another pathetic attempt to smear people close to President Trump and distract from the administration’s many successes.”

Is Trump Sending Cohen a Message?

May 1, 2018 at 6:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A National Enquirer cover story targeting Michael Cohen could be a strong sign President Trump is upset with his personal lawyer and turning against the man known for years as his “fixer,” CNN reports.

“According to the source, Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who is a longtime friend of Trump’s, would not have allowed the publication of the story — which featured a headline including the phrase ‘Trump’s Fixer’s Secrets & Lies’ — without the President’s blessing.”

When asked whether he thought a message was being sent by the story’s publication, Cohen told CNN: “What do you think.”

Cohen Hit with New Taxi Taxes

May 1, 2018 at 6:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies,” Bloomberg reports.

“Added to his previous tab, that brings the total to $282,000 owed to New York state by 16 taxi medallion-holding companies owned by Cohen or members of his family, including Mad Dog Cab Corp., Smoochie Cab Corp., Golden Child Cab Corp. and N.Y. Futon Taxi Corp.”

Mueller Has Dozens of Questions for Trump

April 30, 2018 at 8:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Special counsel Robert Mueller “has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself,” according to a list of the questions obtained by the New York Times.

“The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president’s thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers. They deal chiefly with the president’s high-profile firings of the FBI director and his first national security adviser, his treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.”

“But they also touch on the president’s businesses; any discussions with his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a Moscow real estate deal; whether the president knew of any attempt by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to set up a back channel to Russia during the transition; any contacts he had with Roger Stone, a longtime adviser who claimed to have inside information about Democratic email hackings; and what happened during Mr. Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.”

[alert type=”general” dismiss=”no”]These are questions read by Mueller’s team to Trump’s lawyers who then compiled a list.[/alert]

Blankenship Slams ‘Cocaine Mitch’

April 30, 2018 at 7:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

West Virginia Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is intensifying his offensive against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him “Cocaine Mitch” in a new TV ad released just over a week until the Republican primary.

“Blankenship… offers no context for the jab. But he may be referring to a 2014 report in the liberal Nation magazine that drugs were once found aboard a shipping vessel owned by the family of McConnell’s wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.”

EPA Whistleblower Says Pruitt Lied to Congress

April 30, 2018 at 7:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A whistleblower from the Environmental Protection Agency says that Administrator Scott Pruitt was “bald-faced lying” when he told members of Congress that no EPA employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions, ABC News reports.

Former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski said he was “100 percent” forced out after raising concerns about Pruitt’s spending on first-class travel.

House Conservatives Mull Impeaching Rosenstein

April 30, 2018 at 7:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special-counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election,” the Washington Post reports.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) acknowledged the draft in an interview, calling the one-page document “a last resort option.”

Pence’s Doctor Alerted White House About Ronny Jackson

April 30, 2018 at 7:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Vice President Mike Pence’s physician privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Trump’s doctor may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient — Pence’s wife, Karen — and intimidated the vice president’s doctor during angry confrontations over the episode,” CNN reports.

“The previously unreported incident is the first sign that serious concerns about Ronny Jackson’s conduct had reached the highest levels of the White House as far back as September — months before White House aides furiously defended Jackson’s professionalism, insisted he had been thoroughly vetted and argued allegations of misconduct amounted to unsubstantiated rumors.”

Impeachment Looms Large In GOP Midterm Plans

April 30, 2018 at 7:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump “wants to step up efforts to protect Republican control of the House in hopes of avoiding an impeachment debate and congressional investigations if Democrats seize the chamber,” The Hill reports.

Said one GOP source: “It is super important to the White House and really the whole White House is very focused on it.”

“Another party strategist said the order from the president to the Republican National Committee has been clear: Protect the House at all costs.”

Woman Says Greitens ‘Coaxed’ Her As ‘Wounded Animal’

April 30, 2018 at 6:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A woman with whom Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) acknowledged having a consensual affair told prosecutors that Greitens coaxed her into unwanted sexual activity as she was crying “like a wounded little animal on the ground, according to a legislative report that accuses the governor of mischaracterizing the woman’s testimony, the AP reports.

“The brief, graphic report from a special House investigatory committee is intended as a rebuttal to Greitens, who had asserted that the video interview of the woman ‘undermined the narrative’ of an earlier House report detailing the woman’s allegations that Greitens had been physically aggressive toward her.”

St. Louis Post Dispatch: “The report also included allegations the future chief executive, who ran on a family values platform, had spanked, slapped and shoved the woman during a series of sexual encounters that at times left her frightened and crying.”

Trump’s Approval Hits 11-Month High

April 30, 2018 at 6:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Gallup poll finds President Trump’s job approval rating rose to its highest level in almost a year, 42%.

The gap between disapproval and approval of the president also narrowed to the smallest in nearly a year.

Democratic PAC Makes Bid to Boost Blankenship

April 30, 2018 at 5:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A Democratic super PAC is boosting its spending against Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) in an effort to prop up Don Blankenship’s (R) campaign for the GOP nomination to take on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the Washington Examiner reports.

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