The central allegation was that Trump put a hold on congressionally authorized military aid to induce a foreign country to aid him politically. Mulvaney just confirmed it. If anyone doesn't recognize the importance of that revelation, it's on them.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1184878185160335360
Mulvaney admits to criminal intent live, in living color and before the nation and world and dares anyone to do anything about it: "To be clear. What you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happened, as well."
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1184883067221172226
After Trump has repeatedly argued there was *no* quid pro quo with Ukraine, his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney publicly acknowledges there was a quid pro quo: "We do that all the time. Get over it."
https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1184882795967057920
Didn’t take long to transition from “no quid pro quo” to “quid pro quo is how this works”.
Also it is "ordinary course of business" to use the prospect of a White House meeting as leverage to get a foreign leader to issue a certain kind of statement, NOT to blackmail or extort or ask foreigners to fabricate criminal charges against anybody on US soil.
From one of the AGs suing @realdonaldtrump over emoluments clause. They have to be thrilled: one Trump defense has been they don’t seek out this business. But now, Trump is demanding it.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1184894154352054273
G-7 summit will be illegally held at Trump resort in Miami, Trump will make millions of dollars from this and opens the door to blackmail: "Hosting the G7 Summit at Doral implicates both the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, because it would entail both foreign and U.S. government spending to benefit the President, the latter potentially including both federal and state expenditures. More importantly, the Doral decision reflects perhaps the first publicly known instance in which foreign governments would be required to pay President Trump's private businesses in order to conduct business with the United States," Nadler said. Lawsuit. Injunction. THIS MUST BE STOPPED.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/10/17/trump-has-awarded-next-years-g-7-summit-of-world-leaders-to-his-miami-area-resort-the-white-house-said/
Ohio’s Republican government admitted that nearly 20 percent of voters targeted in the state’s looming purge of “inactive” were actually active voters.
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/16/ohio-purge-of-targeted-40000-active-voters-including-head-of-voting-rights-group/
Mulvaney says the haven't cancelled Erdogan's visit to the White House. He's basically inviting a world leader into the Oval Office mid genocide.
YEP: "We lost one of our best. A son of sharecroppers, who went on to represent one of our greatest cities; a fighter for justice, who always led with love—Rep. Elijah Cummings was everything right about America. He is already missed, but his legacy will be with us forever."
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1184807685243527168
So funny watching some on here jump on the #Meltdown bandwagon for some likes when your asses wanted Pelosi to step down as Speaker.
https://twitter.com/josecanyousee/status/1184693936079564801?s=21
The images of Pelosi and Trump that cemented her as a symbol of a woman in command | In a tweet Wednesday, Trump, as he often does, leaned on stereotypes about gender to insult a woman he feels threatened by. He tweeted this photo of his contentious meeting with Pelosi, captioned “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!” Her response was to make it her cover photo on Twitter. Where Trump saw weakness, Pelosi and her team saw strength. And we can see why. She already stood out in a bright blue jacket amid a room full of graying white men in shades of dark blue and gray. She’s the only one standing. And to top it all off, she’s pointing at them — at the president, specifically. It’s not enough for her to be the only woman at a powerful table, Dittmar said. She’s also portraying a gesture of aggressiveness to the most powerful man in the wold and his allies; men who are all listening to her, looking either demure or demoralized. The photo symbolized that she is in control. And she recognized it the moment Trump tried to weaponize it against her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/17/images-pelosi-trump-that-cemented-her-symbol-woman-command/
Sondland Decides To Not Lie For Trump/Republicans: Trump directed me to work with Giuliani to push Ukraine on investigations
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-directed-work-giuliani-push-ukraine-investigations-sondland/story?id=66341931
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/gordon-sondland-to-break-from-trump-in-impeachment-testimony-000288
Sondland: I did not understand, until much later, that Mr. Giuliani’s agenda might have also included an effort to prompt the Ukrainians to investigate Vice President Biden or his son or to involve Ukrainians, directly or indirectly, in the President’s 2020 reelection campaign. | As I stated earlier, I understood from President Trump, at the May 23, 2019 White House debriefing, that he wanted the Inaugural Delegation to talk with Mr. Giuliani concerning our efforts to arrange a White House meeting for President Zelensky. Taking direction from the President, as I must, I spoke with Mr. Giuliani for that limited purpose. In these short conversations, Mr. Giuliani emphasized that the President wanted a public statement from President Zelensky committing Ukraine to look into anticorruption issues. Mr. Giuliani specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two anticorruption investigatory topics of importance for the President.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016d-d9ee-db16-a1ed-fdef60680001
Sondland, a wealthy businessman who donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural to get his position, was literally the only person in the text messages who tried to maintain that the deal wasn't a quid pro quo, while desperately trying to get the other ambassadors to stop talking about the quid pro quo in text and call him instead. Now he admits he was only doing so under direct orders from Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/04/gordon-sondland-ukraine-texts-ambassador/
The U.S. and Turkey agreed to a temporary cease-fire in Syria that could be extended if Kurdish fighters formerly allied with America leave the border region, Vice President Mike Pence announced after a hastily arranged visit to Ankara. The “immediate” cease-fire will last 120 hours, Pence said during a press conference in Ankara following more than five hours of talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pence said the Syria-based YPG, which consists mostly of ethnic Kurd fighters previously aligned with the U.S., has provided assurances that they’ll make a “safe and orderly withdrawal.” “We think the agreement today first ends the violence, which is what President Trump sent us here to do,” Pence said. He declined to describe any concessions made by Turkey, and Erdogan did not appear or address reporters following the meetings. As part of the agreement, Pence said no additional U.S. sanctions would be imposed on Turkey. He added that the U.S. will withdraw existing sanctions if a permanent cease-fire takes effect after the 120-hour period. But Pence said a failure to reach an accord on Thursday would have resulted in new penalties.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/turkey-agrees-to-120-hour-cease-fire-in-syria-pence-says
(1) turkey wants to push the kurds out of that part of syria.
(2) trump gives ‘em the OK to invade.
(3) pence brokers a “deal” in which the kurds... must get out of that part of syria.
(4) the US agrees to un-sanction turkey.
that’s a “deal” like being mugged is a deal.
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1184891391337488384
The Trump Administration says it did not support the Turkish offensive. But it effectively green lighted it. And now it has agreed with the Turkish land grab and is asking the Kurds to pull back 20 miles. In roughly 120 hours Erdogan & Putin meet in Sochi.
https://twitter.com/BillNeelyNBC/status/1184892416073048064
Venezuelan government, one of the worst human rights abusers on the planet, obtains seat on UN Human Rights Council
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1184859338185293825
Remember the Trump finances disclosed during Michael Cohen's congressional hearings? Trump claimed a huge "Brand Value" jump in 2013, incidentally, the year after Trump Towers Istanbul opened.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1184894145145561090
E-cigarette giant Juul suspends sales of all fruity flavors ahead of looming US ban
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/e-cigarette-giant-juul-suspends-sales-of-fruity-flavors-ahead-of-looming-ban.html
Trump's Syria peace plan: Get the Kurds to surrender to Turkey
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-syria-peace-plan-get-the-kurds-to-surrender-to-turkey
'Speaker Pelosi' Trends As Americans Praise Her for Using Trump's 'Unhinged Meltdown' Image As Her Twitter Cover Photo
http://www.newsweek.com/speaker-pelosi-trends-americans-praise-her-using-trumps-unhinged-meltdown-image-her-twitter-1465832
McConnell Refuses To Allow A Senate Vote On House Resolution Condemning Trump's Syrian Withdrawal That Almost All House Republicans Voted Yeah To Pass
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/466261-mcconnell-says-he-wants-something-stronger-than-house-syria-resolution
Never forget that Mitch McConnell once filibustered his own bill because he didn't expect Obama Harry Reid to support it.
https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing-filibuster-bill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2012/12/06/dem-unity-forces-mcconnell-to-filibuster-his-own-proposal/
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/7imeo9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mitch-mcconnell-s-self-filibuster
He also passed a bill over Obama's veto then blamed the negative consequences of the bill on Obama for "not warning us enough"?
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/29/politics/obama-911-veto-congressional-concerns/index.html
Erdogan Threw Trump’s Bizarre ‘Tough Guy’ Letter in the Trash
https://www.thedailybeast.com/erdogan-threw-trumps-bizarre-tough-guy-letter-in-the-trash-says-report
US troops bombed their own anti-ISIS headquarters as Turkey-backed fighters closed in during Trump's hasty retreat
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-bombed-its-anti-isis-headquarters-as-turkish-troops-advanced-2019-10
A Lakers Fan Raised Almost $43k to Hand Out “Stand with Hong Kong” T-Shirts at the Season Opener
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hong-kong-lakers/
The largest dark web child pornography site in the world has been taken down after IRS followed Bitcoin transactions
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/10/16/irs-followed-bitcoin-transactions-resulting-in-takedown-of-the-largest-child-exploitation-site-on-the-web/
In this 2009 clip @BernieSanders sounds an awful lot like @PeteButtigieg : "No one is talking about a government run healthcare system. We're talking about a public option that will compete and give people a CHOICE of whether they want a public plan OR a private plan.
https://twitter.com/m_mendozaferrer/status/1184653635185184768
The Squad: Pelosi is too old! The establishment is too old! We need old people out and get YOUNGER voices! Also the Squad: Ya we're gonna endorse the 78 year old who just had a heart attack.
https://twitter.com/thepatrickryan_/status/1184511686469795841?s=21
(she's really fucking braindead) On Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tulsi Gabbard uses a Project Veritas video to bolster her campaign
https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1184626850942857217
Boris Johnson denies asking Trump to arrange 'ambush' with grieving parents and US woman involved in their son's death
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-trump-harry-dunn-romeo-anne-sacoolas-meeting-white-house-diplomat-a9159766.html
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
‘Your name is literally your dad’s full name’: Donald Trump Jr. attacked for attacking Hunter Biden over nepotism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/17/donald-trump-jr-nepotism-sean-hannity-hunter-biden
Trump Phone Call to Duterte Left White House Staff ‘Genuinely Horrified’ | Trump congratulated the Philippine President for an “unbelievable job on the drug problem,” a bloody drug war that has killed over 20,000 people
https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/3kxj49/trump-duterte-phone-call-drug-war-human-rights
Trump is saying Turkey ships a lot of steel to the United States. It doesn’t
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/trump-defends-sanctions-says-turkey-sells-us-a-lot-of-steel-it-doesnt.html
Trump did not oppose the deal that Syrian Kurdish-led forces struck with Russia and the Syrian government to protect them against Turkey’s offensive, the force’s commander said Thursday, as his fighters battled a new push by Ankara-backed forces to seize a strategic border town. The commander’s comments underscored Trump’s willingness to see a crucial U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State switch allegiance to Moscow and Damascus. Trump said Wednesday he welcomed the move by the two militaries to fill the void created when he ordered the pullout of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria.
https://apnews.com/c27ec5d2fa3b4954a65bc359f497a22a
Oversight Subcommittees Refer NRA Leadership’s Alleged Financial Fraud for Investigation
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-subcommittees-refer-nra-leadership-s-alleged-financial-fraud-for
Mitch McConnell warns Republicans in private meeting that Trump's impeachment trial could start as soon as November
https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-impeachment-trial-could-start-next-month-2019-10
A family business of West Virginia’s billionaire Republican governor Jim Justice has maxed out a taxpayer-funded subsidy program meant to help farmers through the U.S. trade war with China. Records reviewed by The Associated Press show Justice Farms of North Carolina, which is owned by the family of Gov. Jim Justice, hit the program cap of $125,000 earlier this year and was the biggest recipient of soybean subsidies in West Virginia. Justice, the richest person in the state, owns a complex business empire of coal and agricultural entities that are perennially mired in litigation, often over unpaid bills. The farming company is no different. It is named in a long-running lawsuit that alleges the Justice businesses transferred assets between them in an effort to avoid paying a debt.
https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Billionaire-West-Virginia-governors-family-farms-get-subsidy-563293172.html
If Fernando Rodney gets in a game for the Nationals in the World Series he will have pitched in the AL Wild Card Game, NL Wild Card Game, ALDS, NLDS, ALCS, NLCS and World Series for both an AL and NL team. Rodney has also pitched in All-Star Games for both leagues and WBC.
https://twitter.com/ajacksonevans/status/1184519466631061504
(And he's also pitched for both the teams that have never been to the World Series)
It's so hot in Qatar, they air-condition the sidewalks. Each seat in the soccer stadium has an a/c vent. But they use natural gas to run the a/c—they're making the heat worse as they try to cool off.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/climate-change-qatar-air-conditioning-outdoors/
For the first time in a decade, a Florida Senate committee scheduled a meeting Monday to discuss the impact of climate change on the peninsula state. What did senators learn? “We lost a decade,’’ said Sen. Tom Lee, the Thonotosassa Republican who chairs the Committee on Infrastructure and Security.
He began the 90-minute hearing with three words that have not come from the lips of a Republican state senator in years: “Sea level rise.” “There hasn’t been a lot of conversation about this. I understand that, and I understand why,’’ he continued, leaving unsaid that the words “climate change” were banned from the lexicon for much of the eight-year tenure of former Gov. Rick Scott, and the state’s response to it was not considered a priority. | The committee heard from Florida experts on sea level rise, infrastructure resiliency, transportation and how South Florida governments have worked together despite the state’s intransigence. “We have detected that sea level rise is accelerating” faster than what they had predicted in the past,’’ said Gary Mitchum, professor of marine science at the University of South Florida. By 2050, the oceans will be two feet higher along Florida’s shores. Before that happens, however, “it’s going to get worse as the climate continues to warm.’’ Sunny-day flooding will be a constant foe, putting a demand on roads, sewers, tunnels and buildings in ways that defy current plans, he said. Among the plans still behind the curve: the Florida Department of Transportation, which has not planned for a two-foot rise in sea level, said Will Watts, chief engineer of FDOT.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article236215368.html
Boris Johnson agrees Brexit deal with EU
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brexit-deal-boris-johnson-news-today-latest-eu-a9159606.html
Elijah Cummings 'signed subpoenas from his hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elijah-cummings-trump-impeachment-death-subpoena-house-investigation-baltimore-a9160436.html
He literally fought for America to his dying breath. It's time for the rest of Congress to show the strength that this man carried with him even as the world grew dark around him.
Fresh Off Denouncing Bidens’ ‘Corruption,’ Trump Chooses Own Resort to Host Government Meeting of Global Leaders
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-chooses-own-resort-g7-doral-900496/
Pence announces Syria ceasefire that appears to give Turkey everything it wants
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/syria-ceasefire-pence/index.html
House Democrats call five more Trump officials to testify in impeachment inquiry
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/house-democrats-call-five-more-trump-officials-testify-impeachment-inquiry-n1068261
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a longtime opponent of “endless wars,” happily blocked a resolution condemning Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria.
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/17/20919332/rand-paul-donald-trump-syria-resolution-senate-lindsey-graham-chuck-schumer
Republicans block Senate vote on resolution condemning Trump’s decision on Syria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-block-senate-vote-on-resolution-condemning-trumps-decision-on-syria/2019/10/17/5ad3f9ca-f103-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html
Mick Mulvaney said today that the White House contacted DOJ "almost immediately" after Trump's July 25 call with the Ukrainian president to have them look at the transcript. DOJ spox says they were first "made aware of the transcript in mid-August."
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1184905622359334912
Sr US military source who spent years designing the US anti-ISIS strategy: “There is no way the Kurds can leave that security zone. There are 1000s of Kurds who live in what the Turks want as a buffer zone. That’s where these fighters’ families live.” 1000s of Kurdish civilians.
https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1184913331213221889
Romney on the Senate floor: "This is a matter of American honor and promise ... The decision to abandon the Kurds violates one of our most sacred duties. It strikes at American honor. What we have done to the Kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of American history."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1184922058561449984
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1184918102766686210
Cuccinelli and Albence Agree to Testify Next Week on Inhumane Policy of Deporting Critically Ill Children | “This debacle is another installment in the Trump Administration’s long-running mistreatment of immigrants and abuse of our laws,” said Chairman Raskin. “Despite the proclaimed reversal of this cruel policy, the process remains shrouded in secrecy, and affected families still do not know if their requests will be adjudicated fairly. We have a duty to find out who was responsible for this decision and how requests will be handled for these children and their families going forward.”
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cuccinelli-and-albence-agree-to-testify-next-week-on-inhumane-policy-of
Adam Silver on Daryl Morey: "We were being asked to fire him by the Chinese government. … We said there’s no chance that’s happening. There’s no chance we’ll even discipline him." (via @TIME)
https://twitter.com/bleacherreport/status/1184914522009669634?s=21
Mobile bank Chime goes dark for millions of customers as it seeks $5 billion valuation
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/digital-bank-chime-goes-dark-for-millions-of-customers.html
The White House admits to a Ukraine quid pro quo. Just not that one. - Mick Mulvaney says the US held aid to Ukraine over a 2016 DNC server conspiracy theory.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/17/20919430/mulvaney-trump-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-conspiracies
Mulvaney has issued a statement essentially blaming the media for reporting what he said.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1184952891846602755
Mick Mulvaney today.
At 12:30 pm: "Did he also mention to me the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about it.
At 6 pm: “There never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the DNC server.”
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1184952434696884234
YEP: Sounds like a great argument for a Federal Reserve stablecoin, why trust Facebook with this power?
https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1184952754701295617
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