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

Michael Avenatti, who provided the emails to ABC News, alleges that the use of Cohen’s Trump.org email further supports his position that Trump was aware of the payment to Daniels whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford.

"We're one step closer to demonstrating that the assertion by Cohen and the White House that President Trump knew nothing about this is ridiculous," Avenatti told ABC News’ Tom Llamas on Friday.

Cohen dismissed these allegations.

“Mr. Avenatti has clearly allowed his 15 minutes of fame to affect his ludicrous conclusions. The earth-shattering uncovered email between myself and the bank corroborates all my previous statements; which is I transferred money from one account at that bank into my LLC and then wired said funds to Ms. Clifford’s attorney in Beverly Hills, California. How Mr. Avenatti or the media at large believes this to be ‘breaking news’ is a mystery to me,” Cohen told ABC News.

When asked where the $130,000 sent to Daniels’ attorney came from, Cohen told ABC News “the funds were taken from my home equity line and transferred internally to my LLC account in the same bank.”

"I think this document seriously calls into question the prior representation of Mr. Cohen and the White House relating to the source of the monies paid to Ms. Clifford in an effort to silence her," Avenatti told NBC News, which first reported the use of the email. "We smell smoke."

When asked about this statement, Cohen responded: " “He should either evacuate the room he’s standing in or immediately seek the attention of an ENT doctor.”

I think the legal argument for Stormy is how can someone be a party to an agreement that they know nothing about?

this guy cohen's a real philanthropist huh?

reminds me of when Eddie Murphy "gave a lift" to that hooker. just doing a solid.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/one-night-with-stormy-daniels-the-hero-america-needs-w517692

"It was just weird to me, because I remember being on set years ago and we would hear him calling all the time – it was like a joke," Paige says. "She would put him on speakerphone and walk away and he'd still be talking." At the time, no one thought much about it, she says, because there wasn't much to it.

shockingly, it looks like mueller did not accept trump's deal to interview in exchange for closing the investigation within 60 days

President Trump is in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the impeachment process about joining the White House to help deal with the special counsel inquiry, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The lawyer, Emmet T. Flood, met with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office this past week to discuss the possibility, according to the people. No final decision has been made, according to two of the people.

Should Mr. Flood come on board, the two people said, his main duties would be a day-to-day role helping the president navigate his dealings with the Justice Department.

Two people close to the president said that the overture to Mr. Flood did not indicate any new concerns about the inquiry. Still, it appears, at the least, to be an acknowledgment that the investigation is unlikely to end anytime soon.

looks like steve is making friends overseas

Marine Le Pen applauds Steve Bannon after his speech in front of the National Front’s party congress in Lille (screenshot) pic.twitter.com/pSugaQnh4b

— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) March 10, 2018

bannon dressing up for the classy audience

lol what a shithead

they certainly deserve each other

I know a former journalism prof who looked like Le Pen

Bannon jumping in Jerry Lewis' gallo-grave as unappreciated, multi-shirted crank

funny clothes/liver but this is what he was saying

Bannon just told the crowd to let people call them racists. "Wear it as a badge of honor...because every day we get stronger, and they get weaker."

— Sarah Parnass (@WordsOfSarah) March 10, 2018

https://apnews.com/350053edb0a34f3482f2b2f6022284be/The-Latest:-Trump-says-2020-slogan-is-'Keep-America-great!

President Donald Trump says he’s decided on a slogan for his 2020 re-election campaign.

Trump says if he runs again — which is “almost positive” — that he can’t use his “Make America Great Again” tag line. That’s because he’ll already have spent years in office.

Trump says his new slogan will be “Keep America great!” with an exclamation point.

lol

dang mission accomplished already

I doubted his abilities but I guess that's egg on my face.

KAG!!!!!!!

#catswithfurballsforTrump

Bannon confuses me. He talks to the FN in favor of French identitiarianism...which has what to do with American identitarianism?

The best I can tell is that he wants to de-globalize the world so that he & his cronies can loot the USA without global eyes paying attention.

https://i.imgur.com/9sL7j0G.png

Apparently the president is off script and went after "sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd" and called him "a son of a bitch."

I think I may be stepping on DC's point, but we shouldn't rule out the possibility that this enormous racist doesn't like non-white people and sees their persecution as a positive goal independent of other concerns.

Some mild but potentially telling hilarity -- Trump venting this morning re: that Emmet Flood story, calling it false, etc; Haberman openly mocking the responses on Twitter, noting it's been widely confirmed, then adding this could just simply mean Flood turned him down. And if so and even he thinks it's a bad idea to get involved, then...

'make america greater', shurely - 'keep america great' suggests stasis dunnit?

he also suggested that the administration might just coast for the next two years because they've done so much winning already, so

"Let's not make America too great" has a nice ring to it.

Apparently the president is off script and went after "sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd" and called him "a son of a bitch."

surely he's just trying to start a fiddling contest

the NYT danced around what he called Maxine Waters; I can't find anything but "a very low IQ individual"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/politics/trump-waters-low-iq-individual/index.html

Disappointed that the Astros met w/Trump today.

did he deport any of them?

i am so glad that trump doesn't seem to care about baseball whatsoever

would be nice of Carlos Beltran and Carlos Correa hand delivered a personal 'fuck you' from the people of Puerto Rico

is the thought that Trump might have said something more racially disparaging and the press isn't widely reporting it? all I heard was "low IQ individual" as well, which is not much less offensive granted

nothing but respect for my MVP pic.twitter.com/3JyaaOA6nD

— Hannah Keyser (@HannahRKeyser) March 12, 2018

i can't recall the NYT's Aunt Tillie verbiage, it's hard to interpret their squeamishness

xp

you don't often get the actual ideology of "objective, neutral" reporters so directly. they worship power, that's it https://t.co/SzdysWNpQO

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) March 12, 2018

I am just amazed at how well Daniels and her lawyer have finessed all this.

NEW: Stormy Daniels says she will pay back 30,000 to be able to talk about President Trump, and disclose any text messages, photos or video she may have. https://t.co/CpEpdHVsbk

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 12, 2018

she's savvy like J

ean Harlow

This is the America we deserve.

so it appears CNN is running with "DeVos looked like a dumbass on 60 Minutes". there was a teaser anyway.

this part was especially damning

60 minutes: have you seen the really bad schools? maybe try to figure out what they're doing?
rich unqualified asshole: i have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.
60 minutes: maybe you should!
rich unqualified asshole: maybe i should! yes.

just don't be smug about betsy devos and her vast inheritance

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/is-liberal-smugness-to-blame-for-our-political-climate.html

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-the-stormy-story-more-damaging-than-we-thought
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/swatgate-did-melania-trump-just-slap-the-president-hand-away/htCMxShs6xV3Mv1EOrwI8N/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/8/1747433/-New-details-about-Trump-s-visit-to-a-raunchy-Vegas-club-provide-hints-the-pee-pee-tape-might-be-real

http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/18/colbert-trump-forbes-spanking/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/8/1747433/-New-details-about-Trump-s-visit-to-a-raunchy-Vegas-club-provide-hints-the-pee-pee-tape-might-be-real

my biggest question surrounding this is how at least 3 people at daily kos (assuming the writer, editor, and illustrator are three different people) all agreed to use the words "pee pee"

but yeah, it'll be interesting to see how much people on the right care about this. if they care enough to actually not vote for him, i mean. after the access hollywood experience i no longer trust myself to know how conservatives feel about this stuff.

it'll be interesting to see how much people on the right care about this.

somewhere between "don't care at all" and "hell yeah, raw dogging porn stars is awesome, I wish I had his life"

yeah it's not interesting at all

no offense, Karl! We know how they (won't) respond.

There was the instance in September when Trump told a crowd in Florida, “Melania really wanted to be with us,” as the first lady stood at his side.

lol, how did I forget about this

President Trump has spoken twice in recent days with longtime CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow about succeeding Gary Cohn as the White House’s top economic adviser, according to three people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 12, 2018

That's exactly what this White House needs - more frothing-at-the-mouth cokeheads.