US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

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Let's ask Mr. McNamara.

Meantime

NEW from @NBCNews: Robert Mueller is assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out hacking of Democrats’ emails -
@KenDilanianNBC reporting now on @msnbc:https://t.co/0AJORDTuRQ

— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) March 1, 2018

He better be careful, I heard they have smart nukes that can avoid detection.

Would rather see more charges against Americans or anyone who stands a real chance of being arrested.

I think the charges against Russians are functioning politically to legitimize prosecutions of Americans (surely there are more on the way) and beat back WH witch hunt nonsense

yeah but also these dudes messed with the elections and have plans for further fuckery

we must punish them

Yeah I guess they think charging actual Russians shows thoroughness and bolsters credibility. It demonstrates that there is some real shit going on, not just a lame-ass Dem fairy tale.

All that said, it would feel emotionally much better if DT went down over the obstruction, not the (rather more hazy and abstract) "collusion."

let the man do his job

Obstruction has quite strong evidence already, just based on what has been reported and is in the public record. It will no doubt be addressed in due time. Indictments of close advisors and aides who are implicated in the obstruction will probably come first. Mueller is busy building a pyramid and the indictments so far are the base and another course or two. The pinnacle is still a ways off.

collusion way sexier imo

Gonna be some awesome tweetin' soon, especially if it's too rainy for golf over the weekend.

Mr. Biegun, born 1963, graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied Political Science and Russian Language [...] and is a member of the boards of the US-Russia Foundation for Economic Development and the Rule of Law, the Moscow School of Politics, Freedom House, the US-Russia Business Council, the US-ASEAN Business Council and FordSollers, Ford Motor Company’s joint venture operating in the Russia Federation.

Russia Russia Russia.

After a crazy 24 hours, sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling.

wasn't this lede written in March 2017?

biegun is a condoleezza rice protege, i'm told

horserace-bred journalists having a hard time adopting an intelligible frame for a year and a half of incompetent blundering and constant lack of direction

i am not a lawyer so: to what extent can this recent kushner new be construed as ~actually criminal~ vs merely corrupt? like, is there anything actionable?

Praying the normal Republican with the Russia connections gets it over Bolton.

xpost Just more ethical violations and conflicts of interest, you know, the new normal. Nothing will happen, vote in November.

Bolton will never get a job in the Trump administration. Trump's hatred of mustaches is right up there with his hatred of stairs and rare steak.

lmao pic.twitter.com/JNM1QySJoz

— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 1, 2018

Russia Russia Russia.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:45 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Wondering if Bolton has thought “I know I really want more war but how badly? Do I want it ‘shave my mustache’ bad?”

Why in the world would anyone expect Trump to know the first thing about video games?

Here we go—all 55 counties in WV have cancelled school. The strike is headed for day 7 #55strong #55united pic.twitter.com/Cxiuq5NL90

— Scott Heins (@scottheins) March 1, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgMAs44fgU

Don't forget Ivanka?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/01/politics/ivanka-trump-fbi-investigation/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

That darned mafia!

Rick Gates tells judge he's canceling Boston trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia https://t.co/bcSe0AecYH

— Evan Pérez (@evanperez) March 1, 2018

President CommentsSection/EndBarstool at it again (wrt video games causing violence, harsh laws best way to tackle drug problem). He really has no informed opinion about anything huh.

really sucks that any opinion this moron spouts is giving any sort of credence

given

"I liked the first season better."

Bannon: There was less White House "chaos" when Priebus was there https://t.co/dQB1utstID pic.twitter.com/KQV5gE3pBY

— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2018

good catch from a friend of mine, hadn't seen this posted yet:

Strange things are happening at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Panama.

Armed guards and riot police. Shredded files and members of the Trump building security arrested. All while the building’s majority owner tries to sever ties with the Trump brand.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-panama-hotel-investigation-5a49443c387f/

I read this three times and now I'm seeing stars https://t.co/CCt1oyZEhU pic.twitter.com/vt424YkPUt

— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 2, 2018

Wow.

More twists:

WASHINGTON — The top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association claimed late Thursday that President Trump had retreated from his surprising support a day earlier for gun control measures after a meeting with N.R.A. officials and Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office.

The lobbyist, Chris Cox, posted on Twitter just after 9 p.m. that he met with Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence, saying that “we all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people. POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control. #NRA #MAGA.”

Mr. Trump tweeted about an hour later, “Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, declined to provide details about the previously unannounced meeting. A spokeswoman for the N.R.A.’s lobbying arm, which Mr. Cox leads, did not respond to requests for further comment.

But the twin tweets suggest that it may have taken the gun rights group a little over a day to persuade the president to back away from his apparent embrace of Democratic gun control measures during a remarkable, televised meeting on Wednesday with members of Congress.

Shocking

Breaking news: the insentient cassette tape currently sitting in as our president contains a new message after someone recorded over the previously-recorded message. More at 11.

Taped over the piss tape with another piss tape.

I know better than to do this but President Piss Tape Loop appeals.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5451711/Hope-Hicks-10-million-payday-publishers-scramble-sign-her.html

the power of propaganda: trump goes after the NFL and beer and republicans still back him

when you desperately need mother pic.twitter.com/Ytn8EqyRsc

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) March 2, 2018

So he has Melania sitting beside him and he puts his hand on Pence's knee. OK.

"I'm sorry to have to break this but I've met someone else..."

So he has Melania sitting beside him and he puts his hand on Pence's knee. OK.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Friday, March 2, 2018

Wouldn't you?

When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down 00 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018

We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018

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why is steel more important than any other industry?

Someone's copy editing those tweets