Thursday, February 13, 2020

News Dump | Astros: We feel bad for cheating but we won and cheating had nothing to do with it so get over it and f!ck you!"

Coronavirus live updates: China’s Hubei reports 14,840 new cases, 242 additional deaths
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/coronavirus-latest-updates-china-hubei.html

French ski resort closes mid-season as it sees ‘no snow’ for second year running - Mildest winter in a century continues a worrying trend
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-ski-resort-closed-snow-mourtis-pyrenees-weather-winter-a9331926.html

Mnuchin Defends Refusal to Hand Over Trump’s Tax Returns After Releasing Hunter Biden’s Financial Info. Well, Dems need to ask for Ivanka and Jared's taxes. All the right wingers concerned about a VP's son that isn't even in office anymore, while 2 senior Whitehouse officials made 135 million last year. Move along citizen, nothing to see. Not to mention they did not pass muster for security clearances, but Daddy stepped in to get those for them, too. Yet not a peep from Cult45 about Javanka's sketchy dealings as presidential* "advisers."
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mnuchin-defends-refusal-to-hand-over-trumps-tax-returns-after-releasing-hunter-bidens-financial-info/

'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Further Than Previously Known - "Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/12/surprised-no-disgusted-yes-study-shows-deepwater-horizon-oil-spread-much-further

Virginia House passes bill to give electoral votes to popular vote winner
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/politics/va-house-electoral-college-popular-vote/index.html

Republican White House fired dozens of NSA experts
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-12/white-house-quietly-trims-dozens-of-national-security-experts

Puerto Rico govt loses $2.6M in phishing scam
https://apnews.com/e03bea7e491b9c95350887880376562f

Mitch McConnell Will Confirm Every Judge To Completely Transform The Courts Before Election 2020 - These changes will last a lifetime. BERNIE SANDERS IS WHY. AND HE'S HELLBENT ON GETTING TRUMP RE-ELECTED.
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/02/mitch-mcconnell-will-confirm-every-judge-to-completely-transform-the-courts-before-election-2020/

DOJ Grant To sex-trafficking operations 'Hookers For Jesus' Triggers Whistleblower Complaint
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whistleblower-doj-hookers-for-jesus-grant_n_5e41e93fc5b6b7088706188c

Mnuchin Admits Trump's Budget Cuts Social Security Even as President Claims He Is 'Not Touching' the Program
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/13/mnuchin-admits-trumps-budget-cuts-social-security-even-president-claims-he-not

Trump’s words used by kids to bully classmates at school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/school-bullying-trump-words/

Playing on Kansas City Radio: Russian Propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/russian-propaganda-radio.html

Radio Sputnik, a propaganda arm of the Russian government, has began broadcasting on three Kansas City-area radio stations during prime drive time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/russian-propaganda-radio.html

Federal prosecutors fear pursuing new cases involving Trump because might weaponize the Justice Department against them
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weaponize-doj-prosecutors-wary-new-cases-nyt-2020-2

Jim Jordan Leaves Hearing on Sexual Harassment by Federal Judges
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jim-jordan-leaves-hearing-on-sexual-harassment-by-federal-judges/

Senate will vote to limit Trump’s authority on Iran
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-will-vote-to-limit-trumps-authority-on-iran

Putin introduces new constitutional changes to permanently ban same-sex marriages and nuclear disarmament
https://apnews.com/f91af396eda47ca47684f7f46ef22028

Limbaugh Spews Homophobic Drivel About Buttigieg After Receiving Medal Of Freedom
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/limbaugh-spews-homophobic-drivel-about-buttigieg-after-receiving-medal-of-freedom

US stops treating India, China as developing countries for trade benefits
https://theprint.in/world/us-stops-treating-india-china-as-developing-countries-for-trade-benefits/362920/

Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/13/antarctic-temperature-rises-above-20c-first-time-record

Police in South Carolina still looking for 6-year-old girl // Bernie voted against Amber Alerts for her for political gain
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-south-carolina-still-looking-missing-6-year-old-girl-n1135991

North Korea 'executes official who broke coronavirus quarantine' after he's 'seen at public baths'
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-north-korea-executes-coronavirus-21488604


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Good morning everybody, f!ck the Astros. Will be rooting against my favourite starting Greinke for refusing to exit team.

I’ve never liked the Dodgers. The Astros made me like the Dodgers. Damn.

Here's the thing I have trouble squaring: If Houston Astros owner Jim Crane says the players are not at fault for the sign-stealing scheme and should be absolved, why did they spend the entire morning apologizing and asking for absolution? The disconnect doesn't make any sense.
https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1227985948748713984?s=21

Daniel Descalso, on the Astros presser/apology today: “It’s hard to judge the sincerity. I don’t know them and don’t know what’s going on in their head but it felt a little scripted.”
https://twitter.com/ESPNChiCubs/status/1227989065447825408

Manaea was unswayed by Jim Crane’s contention that the cheating did not affect games. “Then what’s the point of doing it then? Why are you all cheating if you don’t think it’s going to affect the game? You’re not doing it to try to lose or stay the same.”
https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/1227990655005159424

Even without a buzzer or a trash can, I'd imagine the Astros had a pretty good idea what questions were going to be asked ahead of time today and still swung and missed.
https://twitter.com/tomgulittinhl/status/1227971183859159041?s=21

Crane specifies that they are only apologizing for breaking the rules -- not cheating the game. #Astros
https://twitter.com/bykristieackert/status/1227970401164238849?s=21

- Him Crane: "Our opinion is that this didn't impact the game."
- 55 seconds later
- Jim Crane: "I didn't say it didn't impact the game."
https://twitter.com/cbssports/status/1227970396793774082?s=21

Jim Crane, who ordered and co-orchestrated cheating: "I don't think I should be held accountable."
https://twitter.com/billshaikin/status/1227967760082169856?s=21

Absolutely unreal how bad their PR team is, you had all this time and this is the statement you came up with? Beyond parody.

"Crane told his managers not to hire blacks because “once you hire blacks, you can never fire them” and that he did not want his managers to hire women of childbearing age because of low productivity."
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sports/baseball/jim-crane-approved-as-astros-owner-despite-past-concerns.html

I know he's the current manager, but I feel bad that Dusty had to speak. Dusty seemed more apologetic than anyone else and he wasn't even on the team. He's the only one that actually feels sorry that he is part of an organization with this dark cloud of cheating around it that he had nothing to do with. Everyone else who actually was involved is not sorry, they are just annoyed that they got caught.

Jim Crane: “Our opinion is that this didn’t impact the game”
Media: “Hey Jim, can you clarify what you meant when you said this didn’t impact the game?”
Jim Crane: “I never said it didn’t impact the game.”
https://twitter.com/cbssports/status/1227970396793774082?s=21

"These are a great group of guys that didn't receive proper guidance from their leaders". What are they? Fucking 8 year olds? They needed daddy to tell them cheating was bad? F!ck outta here with that sh!t. They made racist gestures at Darvish while cheating against him to win the World Series. Who the f!ck sees them as a great group of guys. You are professional players and should know that cheating to win is wrong. You knew that when you played baseball at age 8 and you should f!cking know it as a professional athlete.

Verlander: I just wish I would've said more during the season. (He was too busy that year accusing Cleveland of stealing signs.....)
Reporter: What DID you say?
Verlander: Thats between me and my teammates.
Reporter: You made a start at Minute Maid that season, were you aware of the rumors back then? And did you suspect anything?
Verlander: Um, well you know I just can't recall that far back.

These past couple years have really tanked my opinion of Verlander.

Gerrit Cole said he had no awareness of the cheating scheme MLB said the Astros continued into the 2018 regular season.
https://twitter.com/lindseyadler/status/1228018354646134785

Sean Doolittle suggests that one day of the Astros apologizing isn't going to fix this or satisfy players around the league, himself included. The frustration won't stop here.
https://twitter.com/dougherty_jesse/status/1228019576836894721

Jim Crane said he does not feel it necessary to reach out to the Dodgers.
https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1227967843540619275?s=09

Scherzer on the Astros: “They crossed the moral line and cheated, but they got to answer for it. It’s not really for us to speak for them, they need to speak for themselves, to talk to the fans of baseball and explain what happened."
https://twitter.com/Britt_Ghiroli/status/1228010713391751168?s=20

The 2014 Little League World Series champs were striped of their title, god forbid we treat some grown adults the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqualification_of_Jackie_Robinson_West_Little_League_from_the_2014_Little_League_World_Series

I hope deeply that these guys all mysteriously become .221 hitters lol.

- "This team has won a hundred games three years in a row, hopefully four, no team has ever done that"
- Yeah, do you think your three years of cheating might have added to those wins?

"We don’t think it impacted the game. We had a good team, we won the World Series. We’ll leave it at that." - Could he have possibly dreamt up a worse answer than that?

What a burial these journalists are handing out

Let us know what pitches are coming and let’s just see how much it “doesn’t impact the game” 😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/11WillieCalhoun/status/1227970588079079425

Absolutely nothing sincere about it. They aren't sorry at all. After the way they handled the Taubman incident (mocking a domestic violence activist and cheering domestic violence), it isn't surprising that they screwing this up too

A’s manager Bob Melvin, getting yet another round of Astros questions, says Oakland HAD called league about possible cheating BEFORE Fiers allegations. “Everyone was fed up with it,” he says of numerous Houston opponents.
https://twitter.com/susanslusser/status/1227648676664758273?s=21

Carlos Correa just denied the buzzers. Only person in the Astros organization to publicly say they didn’t exist. Everyone else has just said the league didn’t find them.
https://twitter.com/jared_carrabis/status/1227976867053002752?s=21

Yuli Gurriel: "No one put a gun to our head. It would be a lie to say that one or two people are responsible. We are all responsible." Springer: "We are ALL responsible. Carlos and Alex were great to us." Bregman: "No one put us up to this. We did."
https://twitter.com/marlyriveraespn/status/1227976498314870784?s=21

Recap... Roses are red; Violets are blue; I cheated, got a ring; Thanks for coming, #2
https://twitter.com/CJNitkowski/status/1227968117520945153

Holy Sh!t: Dallas Keuchel said he felt it was important to express contrition for Astros sign-stealing scandal, but did add “We’re always going to be World Series champs because we were talented and to me, we earned the right to be World Series champs."
https://twitter.com/jrfegan/status/1228034768891076609?s=21

"I feel bad for cheating but we still won so fuck you."

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#Dodgers Dave Roberts said he did not watch #Astros press conference today: "Our stance has been what happened happened. There's nothing we can do to change it. ... For us, our story is moving forward. ... A lot of good things are going to happen in '20. That's our stance."
https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1228027007063117825

Greenwald calls for his ideological rivals to be imprisoned. I'm very glad he's being spared this treatment he is eager to inflict on others.
https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1227952027487154178

Trump’s rhetoric has changed the way hundreds of kids are bullied in classrooms | wo kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy that President Trump would send him back to Mexico, and teenagers in Maine sneered "Ban Muslims" at a classmate wearing a hijab. In Tennessee, a group of middle-schoolers linked arms, imitating the president's proposed border wall as they refused to let nonwhite students pass. In Ohio, another group of middle-schoolers surrounded a mixed-race sixth-grader and, as she confided to her mother, told the girl: "This is Trump country." Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them. Trump’s words, those chanted by his followers at campaign rallies and even his last name have been wielded by students and school staff members to harass children more than 300 times since the start of 2016, a Washington Post review of 28,000 news stories found. At least three-quarters of the attacks were directed at kids who are Hispanic, black or Muslim, according to the analysis. Students have also been victimized because they support the president — more than 45 times during the same period. | “It’s gotten way worse since Trump got elected,” said Ashanty Bonilla, 17, a Mexican American high school junior in Idaho who faced so much ridicule from classmates last year that she transferred. “They hear it. They think it’s okay. The president says it. . . . Why can’t they?” 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/school-bullying-trump-words/?tid=ss_tw
https://www.deseret.com/2016/11/9/20600141/trump-presidency-worrisome-to-immigrants-refugees
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2019/08/14/immigrant-students-learn-hard-lessons-about-racism-historically-white-high-school-maine/FdnY3NDbw2OoTF8sT5SGtL/story.html
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/schools/2019/03/08/williamson-county-schools-racist-incidents-slavery-homework/3067113002/
https://fox8.com/2019/04/03/jackson-township-police-investigate-racially-charged-threat-allegedly-made-against-middle-school-girl/

Trump administration officials investigating the government’s response to Russia’s election interference in 2016 appear to be hunting for a basis to accuse Obama-era intelligence officials of hiding evidence or manipulating analysis about Moscow’s covert operation, according to people familiar with aspects of the inquiry. | Questions asked by Mr. Durham, who was assigned by Attorney General William P. Barr to scrutinize the early actions of law enforcement and intelligence officials struggling to understand the scope of Russia’s scheme, suggest that Mr. Durham may have come to view with suspicion several clashes between analysts at different intelligence agencies over who could see each other’s highly sensitive secrets, the people said. Mr. Durham appears to be pursuing a theory that the C.I.A., under its former director John O. Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result — and was nefariously trying to keep other agencies from seeing the full picture lest they interfere with that goal, the people said. But officials from the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency have told Mr. Durham and his investigators that such an interpretation is wrong and based on a misunderstanding of how the intelligence community functions, the people said. National security officials are typically cautious about sharing their most delicate information, like source identities, even with other agencies inside the executive branch. | The Durham investigation has rattled current and former intelligence officers. Little precedent exists for a criminal prosecutor to review the analytic judgment-making process of intelligence agencies, said Michael Morrell, a former acting C.I.A. director who left the government in 2013. “This whole thing is so abnormal,” Mr. Morrell said. Prosecutors are ill equipped to assess how analysts work, he added. “The bar for making a legal judgment is really high. The bar for an analytic decision is much lower,” Mr. Morrell said. “So he is going to get the wrong answer if he tries to figure out if they had enough information to make this judgment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/durham-cia-russia.html

Senate passes War Powers Act limiting Trump's authority to launch military operations against Iran. Not veto proof.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-iran-war-powers-resolution-n1136591

"South Carolinians don't want socialism. We want to know how you are going to get things done and how you are going to pay for them." -- South Carolina DEM Rep. Joe Cunningham
https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1228058746749935623

What Barr means to say: “I want the appearances of doing my job as an AG “ so he’s telling Trump to cut it, otherwise he can’t do his real job, which is to be Trump’s personal attorney/protector.
https://twitter.com/amysyang1/status/1228070375092670464
https://apnews.com/1af22f727511099b03998f9e072a69c1

Trump just put a 29-year-old fired for his alleged financial crimes in charge of all personnel decisions
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-put-john-mcentee-fired-alleged-financial-crimes-personnel-office-2020-2

NYC Bar Association Condemns Barr for ‘Acting in Concert’ with Trump to Protect Roger Stone
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/nyc-bar-association-condemns-barr-for-acting-in-concert-with-trump-to-protect-roger-stone/

Trump rehires Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer to White House roles | Priebus and Spicer will each join the Commission on White House Fellowships, according to a White House announcement Tuesday. As a part of the commission, the pair will interview and recommend to their former boss national finalists for appointments.
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/13/president-trump-rehires-reince-priebus-and-sean-spicer-to-white-house-roles/

Hope Hicks, who obstructred Congress multiple times and lied under oath multiple times, also rehired as senior advisor
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/hope-hicks-white-house-return.html

They have continued to elude any sorts of consequences for years and will continue to do so. They are getting away with their crimes and there is no one there to stop them.

Republicans call for eliminating student loan forgiveness program
https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Trump-calls-for-eliminating-student-loan-forgiveness-program-567775171.html

Prior to meeting with Andrew Cuomo Thursday, Donald Trump said the New York governor must drop the state’s myriad lawsuits against the federal government and Trump personally–one of which is aimed at exposing the president’s tax returns. Just weeks removed from his impeachment on charges of abuse of power, legal and political experts were quick to point out that Trump’s tweet for New York’s top executive appeared to be yet another example of the president misusing the power of his office.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/another-quid-pro-quo-trump-accused-of-trying-to-strong-arm-ny-governor-into-dropping-lawsuits/

Trump appears to link national security decisions to demand that New York drop investigations
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/trump-new-york-investigations-114991

Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly is No. 1 in US in Senate fundraising
https://ktar.com/story/2974157/arizona-democrat-mark-kelly-is-no-1-in-us-in-senate-fundraising/

Trump administration taking $3.8 billion more from military for Mexico border wall
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-wall/trump-administration-taking-3-8-billion-more-from-military-for-mexico-border-wall-idUSKBN2072M9

If it's any consolation, Trump's tweets make it impossible for him to do his job, too.
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1228079580617019393

So the @IowaGOP is arguing that because the word "abortion" doesn't appear in the constitution, women have no right to one. So does that mean because the word "balls" doesn't appear in the constitution we can cut all theirs off?
https://twitter.com/lyzl/status/1228074189145477120

Michael Bromwich: "The department had to understand that filing a supplemental memo would undermine the line prosecutors and make the department look terrible. Yet they were willing to do that, apparently because that's what the president wanted."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/12/trump-openly-corrupts-doj-former-insider-sounds-alarm/

Trump is considering barring all officials from listening to his phone calls with foreign leaders, which could be 'catastrophic' for national security
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weighs-barring-officials-from-listening-to-foreign-leader-calls-2020-2

Royals All-Star Whit Merrifield on the Astros: “I have no interest in hearing about them.... I have no respect for those guys anymore.”
https://twitter.com/LWorthySports/status/1228072503819399168

If the Astros want to “move on” from this mess .... maybe actually own up to it and be accountable, or just keep “BS”ing ... which is what they will do and this will linger and tear them apart 🤷🏼‍♂️ @MLB
https://twitter.com/kelleytime27/status/1228064265418006537?s=21

In bombshell, UK megabank Barclays reveals its CEO is being probed over links to financier and convicted sex offender Jeff Epstein who committed suicide in jail last year
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/barclay-ceo-jes-staley-is-being-probed-over-links-to-jeffrey-epstein.html

Earth just had hottest January since records began, data shows.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/13/january-hottest-earth-record-climate-crisis

AOC on likelihood of M4A getting passed: “The worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option. Is that a nightmare? I don’t think so,” she said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roadblock-bernie-sanders-congress-medicare-for-all_n_5e45ac30c5b6e095c6bcceb0?6yc

Reminder: Culinary Union issues with Sanders go back to 2016 when Sanders staffers impersonated Union members
https://twitter.com/Culinary226/status/692789673064861696

Buttigieg isn’t my candidate. But anti-gay slurs against him still hurt me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/13/buttigieg-isnt-my-candidate-anti-gay-slurs-against-him-still-hurt-me/

More details: @Culinary226 ’s spokeswoman tells me they have received “hundreds” of attacks, in the form of mentions, DM’s, calls and emails, including threats to their personal safety. She says she and Geoconda Arguello-Kline have been doxxed, their personal addresses shared.
https://twitter.com/meganmesserly/status/1228067779506360320

Carville: "Last night on CNN, Bernie called me a political hack. That's exactly who the fuck I am! I am a political hack! I am not an idealogue. I am not a purist. He thinks it's a pejorative. I kinda like it! At least I'm not a communist."
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/13/james-carville-fires-back-after-bernie-sanders-cal/

“Dishonest signal stealing might be defined as obtaining information by artificial aids. The honest methods are those requiring cleverness of eye, mind, and hand, without outside assistance."

Mitch McConnell said that the GOP-led Senate would confirm a nominee to any vacancy that occurred this election year, despite his move to hold open the seat in 2016 when Barack Obama was president.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1228096916107468800

Former solicitor general under Clinton:
1) To understand the Stone sentencing travesty, it is important to compare the thoughtful, persuasive 26-page memorandum submitted by career prosecutors on Feb 10 with the shameful, limp, & disingenuous 4-page substitute filed the next day by a political appointee
https://twitter.com/walterdellinger/status/1228096393681616896

2) Good faith disagreements between line prosecutors and their superiors are not uncommon. Superiors are entitled to win. But this is not a good faith disagreement. Just read the two memos.
https://twitter.com/walterdellinger/status/1228096395267100672

Come on:
Just now in interview with @NewsHour, Sen. @BernieSanders floated the idea that those online who are reportedly harassing Culinary Union members for not supporting Sanders are not actually Sanders supporters. “Sometimes people attack people in somebody else’s name,” Sanders said.
https://twitter.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1228097380773437440

“Anybody making personal attacks against anybody else in my name is not part of our movement. We don’t want them,” Sanders added.
https://twitter.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1228097381532655616

If the other candidates are thinking about NOT going nuclear on him in the next debate, maybe they should hear the story of what happened when another populist demagogue took over the GOP and they just rolled over for him
https://twitter.com/proreviewer1/status/1228100141564841984

It was Ryan effing Grim.
https://twitter.com/Jpete008/status/1228102054779899904

Video shows astronaut Christina Koch's emotional reunion with her dog after spending nearly a year in space.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1228099029336231938

Crane says that he doesn't think the sign-stealing impacted the game. "We won the World Series and we'll leave it at that." Why would the players have done it, if it had no impact? And if it had no impact, what are they apologizing for?
https://twitter.com/buster_espn/status/1227969735071064064?s=21

When I was young and about to lose in Ken Griffey Junior Baseball on N64, I would quickly turn the system off so I could replay the game. It is my opinion that this did not really affect the outcome of the game. I was already very good at the game.
https://twitter.com/tykelly11/status/1228098100905967616?s=21

.@Bakari_Sellers says @realDonaldTrump is making a big play for black voters by making immigrants a target. “He’s telling us, “You got all these Mexicans who are jumping over the border and coming here to take YOUR jobs.” @UChiPolitics
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1228118429812580352

During the impeachment inquiry, Trump denied sending Giuliani to Ukraine to get dirt on the Bidens. Today, one week after Trump's acquittal, he openly admitted that he sent Giuliani to Ukraine said he doesn't regret doing it.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/politics/trump-rudy-giuliani-ukraine-interview/index.html

The former U.S. attorney whose office oversaw the Roger Stone prosecution resigned from the Trump admin., 2 days after Trump abruptly withdrew her nomination for a top job at the Treasury Dept.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-us-attorney-who-oversaw-roger-stone-case-resigns-n1136411?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np

This is illegal and unconstitutional and also, weirdly, an incredibly frank admission by the WH of how much Pentagon money is wasted: The Pentagon on Thursday slashed billions of dollars in funding for 17 Navy and Air Force aircraft and other military programs to free up money for the construction of Trump’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall...
https://apnews.com/eebff5c39b2e211592ed39da77d39d43

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