Events in the last week have made it clear that undeniable proof is about to surface that Putin’s Puppet did criminally conspire with a hostile power, Russia, to subvert the 2016 Presidential election to install himself in the White House.  Trying to get out ahead of that and brainwash his sheeple in advance, he, his, staff, Rudy 9/11, and the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, have all started parroting the same lame lie  There was no collusion, but if there was, collusion is not illegal.

President Donald Trump’s defense in the Russia investigation has been a study in goal-post moving — constantly watering down previous denials and raising the standard for what would constitute actual wrongdoing. But rarely has it been so concentrated in one morning.

Trump’s lawyer/spokesman Rudolph Giuliani appeared on Fox News’s and CNN’s morning shows on Monday to downplay the idea that colluding with the Russians would have even been illegal and to argue against strawmen.

The most notable portion of the interviews was when Giuliani rekindled the idea that collusion isn’t even a crime.

Trump’s defenders have occasionally noted that the word doesn’t appear in the criminal code – which is a misnomer – but Giuliani took it a step further: He basically suggested Trump would have had to pay for Russia to interfere on his behalf.

"I don’t even know if that’s a crime – colluding with Russians," Giuliani said on CNN. "Hacking is the crime. The president didn’t hack. He didn’t pay for the hacking."…  [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Houston Chronicle>

If Putin were to hand Trump a  money bill for hacking, I imagine Trump would treat Putin the same way he treats everyone else, who works for Trump on credit.  He would send Putin away with empty hands and empty promises.  Handing Putin NATO is OK though.

Lawrence O’Donnell covered this story very well.

I agree.  Trump has no evidence based legal defense.  It’s desperation time.

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98 DAYS!!

Few people are still serving in the Congress of the US House of Representatives with 27 years in office.  Only one African American Representative, John Lewis [D-GA], has been there longer, and on Sunday, Maxine Waters [D-CA].  In that time she has grown a pair of huge brass balls, something every Democrat needs. On Sunday, she proved again that she is truly an American hero.  She tore Donnie Diaper Dump a new asshole!

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) vowed on Sunday that all of President Donald Trump’s secrets would be exposed before he left office

During an interview on MSNBC, host David Gura asked Waters to respond to Trump’s threat to shut down the government if he does not get funding to build a border wall.

“You know, this president is a bully and he will try to intimidate all of us,” Waters insisted. “He is not going to shut down anything. As a matter of fact, people will remember that he said he was going to build this wall and he was going to make Mexico pay for the wall. They said they weren’t going to pay for anything. Now he wants the American citizens to pay for this.”

Waters noted that Trump has taken credit for positive economic numbers, but she said that the president is weighed down by his other scandals.

“There is so much going on with this president and his allies and with Giuliani and all of this,” she explained. “With the judge having decided that they can go forward with the emoluments claim with what is happening on the border.”

“When you couple that with the fact that his son has lied, he has lied about that meeting that took place at the tower, at the Trump Tower, all of that is going to help, you know, obscure the message that he is trying to bring on the economy,” Waters said. “This president is wreaking havoc on this country. And so while there is some improvement in the economy, we have all of this other mess that we have to take a look at and what is, you know, in the forefront of what is being talked about in the media.”…

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars>

This video is not the one in the article.  That one cannot be embedded.  But this one covers the same event.

Kudos Maxine!  We need hundreds more just like you!

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99 DAYS!!

Here is the one hundred twenty-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honorees are Republican former NOLA police officers, John Galman and Spencer Sutton.   They are so honored for the racist Republican way they beat the crap out of a Latino using the excuse that they didn’t like his camouflage clothing.

It’s frustratingly rare that law enforcement officers are held accountable for wrongdoing, especially when people of color are the victims of violence at the hands of white cops. Perhaps that’s what makes this story so surprising: less than 24 hours after George Gomez was beaten to a pulp near his New Orleans home, the cops responsible found themselves in handcuffs—and out of a job.

Gomez, 36, tells The Advocate’s Ramon Antonio Vargas that he encountered John Galman, 26, and Spencer Sutton, 24, at the Mid-City Yacht Club early Tuesday morning. Turns out the off-duty cops didn’t care for Gomez’s sartorial choices.

Gomez said […] one said he didn’t like the military camouflage shirt and pants being worn by Gomez, who is Hispanic.

"He asked me if I was American. I told him yes, and he got mad because he said I was fake," said Gomez, who described himself as a U.S. native who was raised in Honduras before returning to live in New Orleans.

Gomez, who speaks Spanish as well as English with an accent, also described being asked if he served in the military.

Gomez said he did serve, including with the Louisiana National Guard, but the man who took issue with his clothing wasn’t satisfied with any of his answers.

 

Gomez claims he then walked to his home nearby, and got in his truck, only to encounter Galman and Sutton, who blocked his vehicle and confronted him. Gomez says that neither man identified themselves as police officers… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Daily Kos>

I don’t have much to add.  However, when I read the article on Kos, I was wearing a camouflage T identical to the one Gomez was wearing, and that felt very weird.

Those two should be prosecuted for a hate crime and and permanently banned from police work everywhere.

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Here is the one hundred twenty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is former Republican, Faux Noise perversion and harassment perpetrator, Kimberly Guilfoyle.   She is so honored for the Republican way she is dating Putin’s Pervert, Jr. and propagating dick pics around her workplace.

Sources tell HuffPost that Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., engaged in emotionally abusive behavior and showed colleagues personal photos of male genitalia.

When it was revealed last week that longtime Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be leaving the network, some Fox News and White House insiders were surprised that she was choosing to move on from the cable news channel and head to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC. For nearly two years — even once rumors eventually kicked up that she might join the Trump administration — Guilfoyle said that, as a single mother, she had to think of her son’s financial future and couldn’t afford to leave the high-paying gig, multiple sources told HuffPost.

Guilfoyle’s departure was initially billed as her decision. However, as HuffPost first reported last week, multiple sources said she did not leave the network voluntarily. They said Guilfoyle was informed her time at Fox News was up following a human resources investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior including sexual misconduct, and that her lawyers had been involved since the spring. Sources also said that despite being told she would have to leave by July, Guilfoyle repeatedly attempted to delay her exit and tried to have her allies appeal to Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, to let her stay at the network…

Inserted from <Huffington Post>

Click through for much, much more.

The notion that anyone, male or female, could act in a manner too obscene for the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, boggles the mind, and that warranted her parade.

However, there is one, for whom she is not too obscene.  I expect her to kick Jr. to the curb and join the White House staff in short order.

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