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It might come to Trump declassifying documents that the DoJ and FBI will not supply. I think the magnitude of corruption in the Obama administration might be holding him back too.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-trump-foundation/trump-foundation-say-new-york-lawsuit-tainted-by-political-bias-idUSKCN1LG22G?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

No agenda? NPR is not liberal enough? Can't have the truth exposed about school shootings, can we?

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2018/08/31/facebook-flags-censors-npr-report-on-false-government-school-shooting-statistics/

Striving too hard here. The term was being used in entirely different contexts. DeSantis was warning people not to vote for his black opponent and Obama was talking in general about the tendency of the people in power to try to "tilt things in their direction". Hard to see how these two usages are in any way analogous.

How many people here are able2know this?

Did DeSantis say that or the MSM say that? I will believe that is what he meant only if he tells us that is what he meant.

A better question would be here at A2k who wants to know this? The answer is very few. The majority recoil from the truth.

You may be surprised to know that I'm a democratic socialist and love studying current events. America is in the worst crisis ever and most people are sleeping through it.
Domestic "elite" terrorism has always caused more harm to America than foreign.

What we are seeing are people denying obvious crime because it advances their agenda. Any semblance of equal justice is gone. This kind of the" ends justify the means" is destroying values faster than Killary goes through a liter of vodka.

The fact that things should not be done this way means nothing. That means the Constitution is nothing to Trump's detractors. That is a fact. They are destroying the laws right at the source with this investigation.

From 2014

This is our fault, it is what happens when we elect people in both parties who have cluster b disorders and then they work together for their own goals and not the peoples.

Brilliant???

Knife attacks are up
Acid attacks are up
He wants to ban cars in parts of the city
Crime is up in general

How is that "brilliant"?

He is an apologist for all things Islam. Brilliant to him is blaming the raped girls families for what happened to them at the hands of Muslims practicing the superiority that Islam says they have.

He will not talk to me. I wonder why? I know what he is going to say before he says it.

Lobbyist Pleads Guilty to Steering Foreign Funds to Trump Inaugural

Sam Patten, a lobbyist and former associate of Paul Manafort, leaving court in Washington on Friday.CreditCreditWin Mcnamee/Getty Images
By Kenneth P. Vogel, Eileen Sullivan and Adam Goldman
Aug. 31, 2018

WASHINGTON — An American lobbyist who worked with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs pleaded guilty on Friday to failing to register as an agent of a foreign power and disclosed to prosecutors that he helped a Russian political operative and a Ukranian businessman illegally purchase four tickets to President Trump’s inauguration.

Prosecutors disclosed that the inauguration tickets were worth $50,000 and were purchased with funds that flowed through a Cypriot bank account. Prosecutors did not name the foreigners involved. However, the tickets were purchased for Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a Russian political operative believed to have ties to a Russian intelligence agency, and a Ukranian oligarch.

The lobbyist, Sam Patten, also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as part of his plea agreement. He could provide prosecutors insight into a range of activity and individuals relevant to the special counsel investigation, as well as connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia.

Prosecutors said they would not bring additional charges against Mr. Patten for giving false statements to and obstructing the Senate Intelligence Committee. The committee, which questioned Mr. Patten on Jan. 18, is among the congressional panels that are conducting investigations into Russia’s election interference.

Foreigners are not allowed to contribute any money to the organization that runs presidential inaugurations. According to federal documents, Mr. Patten misled the Intelligence Committee several times and intentionally withheld documents that could have revealed the foreign purchase of the tickets.

Details disclosed in the plea agreement were the latest reminder of the far-reaching effects of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Mr. Trump has called the special counsel investigation a “witch hunt” and “rigged.” And allies of Mr. Trump have complained that Mr. Mueller’s mandate — to investigate Russia’s election interference as well as any related crimes that are unearthed in the process — is too broad. In January, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, unsuccessfully sued the special counsel, asking the court to narrow Mr. Mueller’s scope.

Mr. Patten has worked in the same world as Mr. Manafort, who was recently convicted of financial fraud and is scheduled to go on trial in September over different charges.

As recently as this year, Mr. Patten worked as a foreign agent for the Opposition Bloc, a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party, according to a court document filed on Friday. Mr. Manafort worked for the Opposition Bloc in 2014.

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Mr. Manafort has also been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for his work on behalf of pro-Russia Ukrainian interests, including the Opposition Bloc.

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For decades, prosecutors have rarely brought charges for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. But that changed, even before the appointment of the special counsel, as the Justice Department worked to meet the counterintelligence threats from foreign adversaries.

Mr. Mueller has pursued other investigations into lawyers and lobbyists who did work in Ukraine, and he has handed some of those cases off to federal prosecutors in other jurisdictions. A lawyer working for the special counsel was present in the courtroom on Friday when Mr. Patten entered his guilty plea.

Mr. Patten’s lawyer declined to comment after Friday’s hearing. Mr. Patten faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He was released after the hearing.

Mr. Patten’s work for the Opposition Bloc was done in conjunction with Mr. Kilimnik, who served as Mr. Manafort’s longtime deputy on the ground in Kiev. Mr. Mueller and his team have accused Mr. Kilimnik of having ties to Russian intelligence. Mr. Kilimnik was indicted in June on charges of obstruction of justice related to witness tampering in the foreign lobbying case against Mr. Manafort.

Mr. Kilimnik was not named in Friday’s charging papers, but is identified as “Foreigner A,” described as a Russian national who formed a company in the United States with Mr. Patten. That company, identified as “Company A” in the court document, is Begemot Ventures International, a company created by the two men in February 2015, according to corporate records filed in Washington.

According to the charging document, “Company A” was paid more than $1 million through an offshore Cypriot bank account to advise the Opposition Bloc and its members, including a “prominent Ukraine oligarch,” who is not named. Mr. Patten assisted the party and the oligarch by lobbying the United States government and providing public relations assistance in an effort to “influence United States policy,” which should have triggered a FARA registration, prosecutors said.

Mr. Patten has worked around Republican politics for years, and he came to specialize in representing foreign interests and political campaigns, particularly in former Soviet states. On his website, he describes himself as an international consultant.

Mr. Patten also had a yearslong business relationship with Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm that worked on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. Starting in 2014, the firm used Mr. Patten as a consultant for election campaigns and other projects in Africa, Europe and the United States, according to a person with direct knowledge of his activities. During the same year, Cambridge Analytica sought to drum up business in Russia.

Cambridge Analytica closed down in May after revelations that it had improperly harvested personal data from tens of millions of Facebook users without their permission. The company has since come under scrutiny by the Justice Department, though it is unclear whether that investigation is connected to Mr. Mueller’s inquiry.

In 2014, the same year Mr. Patten worked as a consult for Cambridge Analytica, he also worked for one of the candidates running for mayor of Kiev. Later, he and Mr. Kilimnik shifted their attention to the Opposition Bloc, which emerged from the ashes of the administration of President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who fled Ukraine in February 2014 amid mass street protests of his government’s corruption and pivot toward Moscow.

Though Mr. Patten and Mr. Manafort both worked on behalf of the Opposition Bloc, people familiar with the political party said the men were not close, and their primary connection was through Mr. Kilimnik.

What did they do to that guy? Kill his children or just threaten to? Can't touch Trump. And it only make sense people looking for power would want to be there even if Killary won.

Nobody wants to touch Trump, not even his wife.

Melania Trump Avoiding Touching Her Husband
NATALIE GONTCHAROVA
LAST UPDATED APRIL 26, 2018, 3:02 PM

On Thursday, April 26, first lady Melania Trump turned 48. In an unhinged-even-for-him appearance on Fox & Friends on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said that he's been too busy to get her a birthday gift.

"Well, I better not get into that 'cause I may get in trouble. Maybe I didn't get her so much," he said in the phone interview. He then added that he got her "a beautiful card and some beautiful flowers," but said: "You know, I'm very busy to be running out looking for presents, okay?"

Like most wealthy people (not to mention presidents), Trump of course has access to staff who can take care of choosing, buying, and delivering gifts for him. But gifts aside, the first couple's relationship does seem a little...strained. In Michael Wolff's tell-all book Fire and Fury, he reported that the Trumps sleep in separate bedrooms. Then there are the claims of Donald being "chronically unfaithful," backed up by his allegedly sleeping with Stormy Daniels while Melania was pregnant.

Their public body language is perhaps the biggest giveaway. On multiple documented occasions, Melania has pulled away from her husband, swatted away his hand, or appeared uncomfortably tense in his presence. We can only speculate on their inner worlds, but since they're the most public of public figures, we will.

When asked whether the Trumps seem like a couple in love, body language expert Patti Wood, author of Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma, told Refinery29, "I think the fact that he's often pictured without a smile when he's with her, or walking ahead of her, and she's so tense — that's not what we typically think of when we think of a happy, relaxed, at-ease-with-each-other couple freely giving back and forth affection."

Wood noted that Melania's body language suggests she's not comfortable in public with her husband of 13 years, not uncomfortable being in the public eye in general. During the rare times we catch a glimpse of her without him, she seems more relaxed — like when she was laughing with former President Barack Obama at Barbara Bush's funeral recently.

Nobody? You sound childish.

Anyone watch Killary when Bill was screwing anything with a hole? Desperate crybabies. And it is from April. They gave up on her a while ago.

Oh yeah, she's hot. 10 to 1 she's drunk.

My kind of woman...