US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'

They actually released a photo of Ivanovich:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/2/20/Boris_Badenov.png/revision/latest?cb=20180811204159

Trump is like if Fredo made his way to the top.

Trump to Roy Cohn: "I'm SMAHT, Roy!!"

Here's video of Trump talking about wind mills at the NRCC dinner tonight: "They say the noise causes cancer.” pic.twitter.com/tpsmZI8k7n

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) April 3, 2019

"Someone's going to leak this whole damn speech to the media," Trump tells NRCC in a speech that is being broadcast live by C-SPAN.

— John Fritze (@jfritze) April 3, 2019

the mental decay really seems to be setting in

An April Fool everyday...

he's definitely not worthy of any comparison to don quixote

Take out the "xote" tho and it's about right

p sure he was just going for a joke there, w/r/t noise and cancer thing

he doesn't know how jokes work

the whole oranges/origins thing was really demented

I find it pretty troubling on top of everything else

Wow -- Trump repeatedly mangles the word "origins," on three separate occasions saying "oranges" instead. 😳 pic.twitter.com/EZggYhIAO7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2019

why is chicago too cool to vote in november like the rest of us

i gotta say, when the chinese send their agents to mar-a-lago, they're not sending their best

xpost Yesterday was a run-off election. Now, why the actual election was in February ... I don't know.

Huh: https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/no-conspiracy-required-the-true-origins-of-chicagos-february-elections/7bc0c663-79a9-4273-afbe-ea53df07215b

We (Madison, I) had some really good local election results, but this is a bummer, no official word yet on whether or not a recount is happening:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-20190402-story.html

To repeat my usual refrain: She's less conservative than many of her colleagues but more partisan than nearly all of them. https://t.co/Ny6RNoxIfr

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 2, 2019

Today, the House formally/finally requested tax returns, the unredacted Mueller report, and 10-years worth fo records from Trump’s New York-based accounting firm. Not bad for a (looks at calendar) Wednesday.

Which means we should be seeing them in (checks calendar again) a million years.

this is it, this is the month trump will be deposed and normal life will resume again

What if I told you the former is far more likely than the latter?

uhhh when has life been normal -- January 1993?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vb8-gfcnL._SS500_.jpg

Interestingly there's been little to no bump in Trump's polls since the Barr summary was released.

Probably cos the cake is baked for most voters in that regard

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-the-mueller-probe-hasnt-been-a-game-changer-for-trump/

It may not get worse for him when the report starts appearing but it seems unlikely to get better

it would appear the boat has sprung a leak https://t.co/b5GfG2ZwDd

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 3, 2019

"You continue to mistake me for someone who gives much of a shit about politics!”

— Nate Silver to the Cabalist, March 21, 2013 https://t.co/eonRMVmbUc

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) April 3, 2019

O sicc burn

I remember going to the Verizon Center for a Rangers-Caps playoff game a few years ago and very demonstrably cheering for the Rangers and nobody even give me side-eye about it, was kind of pathetic.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 3, 2019

good evening

So there's a conspiracy theory that there's no conspiracy to supress the Mueller report. So why not let the people it was written to see have a look at the thing.
It's about halved in length from what was first related about actual length hasn't it. Nagler was told less than 1000 pages on his first enquiry. Now heating 400.

Now hearing.
Surprised one would round 400 up to 1000 if one was trying to diminish the report's importance.

🚨: I’ve obtained new footage of Mitch McConnell standing up for America. pic.twitter.com/PZTGBGOrjt

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 3, 2019

lmao, amazing

Break America's Gait, Again

I can understand having some redactions to the Mueller report. Signals intelligence provided some evidence, which provides adversaries clues to NSA capabilities.

But I see no reason for Justice to do the redactions. Have the NSA do a standard FOIA blackmark job.

good morning!

The house judiciary committee should get an unredscted one at least. They have security clearances.

is it just me or did the Republicans go from unanimous support for releasing the whole report to being dead set against it in the span of like, a week

I read a theory that mueller makes a case for obstruction addressed to Congress in the report. Barr misrepresented it by saying mueller left the determination to *him*. Obviously, in a literal sense it was up to the AG whether to prosecute, but mueller would not have recommended indicting a sittig president anyway. He laid out both sides of the case for congress to make a determination about impeachment.

Then why wouldn't Mueller correct the Barr driven narrative?

The entire Mueller team, if not Mueller himself, is now free to say whatever they want to whoever they want on the record, right? Classified stuff excepted?

Didn’t some people from the special counsel’s office just talk to the new york times saying the barr report was misleading?

Barr mentions there is a part of the report that lays out both sides of the case to prosecute obstruction. He just says that part was for him rather than congress to review. Which doesn’t really make sense. Impeachment is a congressional process and that is how “high crimes and misdemeanors” of presidents are adjudicated.

Even in the barr report it says there is a case against trump thats presented—and that theoretically could be prosecuted—just that mueller isn’t recommending it. Seems weird

Mueller's silence speaks volumes but liberals really really don't wanna hear it, man some of y'all are really grasping at straws here

as Alfred has repeatedly noted, the remedy is political not legal

Which is why Congress will get it/see it.

Unless Barr decides to redact everything that could impugn a oerson who isn’t going to be prosecuted....

Even in the barr report it says there is a case against trump thats presented—and that theoretically could be prosecuted—just that mueller isn’t recommending it. Seems weird

― Trϵϵship, Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:49 AM

There is no Barr Report! It's a letter.

The mueller team said they have created summaries that redact all national security things—but barr wasn’t satisifed with just redacting that

no offense, but this is the trap into which the media fell early last week (and, to my surprise, have mostly crawled out of).