Today CNN ran a big story that quite literally provided nothing of any substance whatsoever. But it will likely be the most read story on their site, given the subject manner and the deceptive "headline" suggesting that they have something important to share.
I seriously wonder how these media outlets will fill that void, once the Mueller report has been completed, special counsel is dismissed, and we move on to tangible real issues in the world.
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BREAKING: Inside Trump-Russia 2.0: Dossier-Tied Group Sending DC Journos Daily ‘Collusion’ Briefings
Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.
The effort has successfully placed a series of questionable stories alleging secret back channels and meetings between Trump associates and Russian spies, while influencing related investigations and reports from Congress.
The operation’s nerve center is a Washington-based nonprofit called The Democracy Integrity Project, or TDIP. Among other activities, it pumps out daily “research” briefings to prominent Washington journalists, as well as congressional staffers, to keep the Russia “collusion” narrative alive.
TDIP is led by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator, Clinton administration volunteer and top staffer to California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It employs the key opposition-research figures behind the salacious and unverified dossier: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Its financial backers include the actor/director Rob Reiner and billionaire activist George Soros.
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/03/11/trump-russia_20_dossier-tied_firm_sending_dc_journalists_daily_collusion_briefings.html
McShitstain Associate Provided Dossier to Obama National Security Council
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/20/john-mccain-associate-provided-dossier-to-obama-national-security-council/
President Trump's proposal to cut $1.4 trillion from Medicaid over 10 years not only is unethical in its heartless attack on the nation's poorest and most vulnerable - it's also bad policy that will cost taxpayers far more than it saves in the long run.
The proposal, unveiled in Trump's 2020 budget, was a shocker that nonetheless surprised no one. As Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) put it during a congressional hearing on March 12, this administration "has taken a hatchet to every part of our health care system."
From Trump's relentless - and failed - attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act to his nonsensical cuts to the National Institute of Health's budget, he has demonstrated a level of disregard for average Americans that's surpassed only by his apparent ignorance of how our health care system really works.
The proposed Medicaid cuts - paired with the additional billions Trump would slash from Medicare - are the perfect example of the president's backward thinking on health care. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are woefully short-sighted for a very simple reason. Slashing spending on medical care, especially preventive care, has the unintended consequence of actually increasing health-care costs in the long term.
According to the CDC, chronic diseases that are avoidable through preventive care services account for 75 percent of the nation's health-care spending and lower economic output in the U.S. by $260 billion dollars a year. Investing in treating chronic and other diseases with preventive care - examples include wellness visits, screening tests such as mammograms, and interventions such as immunization and well-child visits - pay dividends by keeping people out of the emergency room and hospital, where their care is most expensive.
When preventive services are reduced, the total cost of care actually goes up. Chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease go unmanaged, resulting in suffering, illness, and premature death, and preventable ER visits and hospitalizations increase.
Unbeknownst to Trump and most Republicans, Medicaid has actually proven to be a potent weapon against long-term government costs. As the Kaiser Family Foundation recently found in a comprehensive review of the literature, "Medicaid eligibility during childhood is associated with reduced teen mortality, improved long-run educational attainment, reduced disability, and lower rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits in later life." Benefits also include second-order fiscal effects such as increased tax collections due to higher earnings in adulthood.
The counterintuitive idea of spending today to save tomorrow is likely behind Trump's ideas about on health care. If he wants to find innovative ways to reduce the nation's spending on health care, he would do well to look at programs established by the Affordable Care Act to do just that. Thousands of these public-private partnership programs are in place today across the country, demonstrating that greater investments in preventive care to keep people healthy and alive longer than our current approach.
Unfortunately, Trump's budget proposal has nothing to do with helping Americans live longer and healthier lives. If enacted, his budget would instead reduce the programs that help keep our elderly and poor healthy, by enforcing facile and nearsighted "fiscal responsibility." As a result, many more of them may die sooner than they ought to, and without accruing the benefits of a program that contributes untold billions to the nation's long-term good.
Jacob Reider, MD, served under the Obama administration as deputy director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He is currently CEO of Alliance for Better Health, a company focused on keeping Medicaid beneficiaries healthy.
More Russia links.
Michael Cohen warrants show how the FBI can unlock your phone and track your movements Michael Cohen warrants show how the FBI can unlock your phone and track your movements, Tuesday's documents also contain more evidence that Trump associates, in this case Cohen, appeared to have at least indirect connections to powerful Russians.
No collusion????
They show that Cohen was paid more than $500,000 through his company as a business consultant from January to August 2017 by Columbus Nova LLC., an investment management firm that is linked to Russian national Viktor Vekselberg.
Vekselberg is an oligarch -- with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin -- who is under US sanctions regarding election interference.
Columbus Nova said in a statement that neither Vekselberg nor anyone outside the firm had been involved in the decision to hire Cohen or to provide funding for his work.
Cohen, who will go to jail in May after he admitted lying to Congress and for tax and fraud offenses, was not charged with unlawfully acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist. But he is far from the only Trump associate to have suggestions of links that can be traced back to prominent Russians. Many of those Trump allies have been caught by Mueller trying to hide such relationships.
The question of whether foreign influence and quid pro quos were in play during the Trump campaign for the presidency, and early in his administration, gets to the heart of what Mueller is charged with investigating.
The CNN report CH didn't link.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/donald-trump-russia-investigation-michael-cohen/index.html
Methods used by investigators to track Cohen, including state-of-the-art techniques targeting Apple devices, and the revelation of their sweep through the lawyer's emails and telephone communications may fuel Trump's fury about what he sees as the special counsel's "witch hunt."
They also suggest that Mueller and his counterparts in New York may know a lot about the communications of people around Trump during parts of the 2016 campaign and early in the presidency.
The documents show that Mueller had shown probable cause that Cohen had committed a crime to obtain warrants for two email accounts as far back as the summer of 2017, nine months before FBI agents acting on behalf of New York prosecutors raided Cohen's office and residences.
Trump's siege mentality is unlikely to be helped by the simultaneous publication Tuesday of a double page spread in his hometown newspaper, The New York Times, revealing his complicated financial relationship with Deutsche Bank.
Although the article did not show any illegality, it is the kind of unflattering deep dive critique of his personal and business practices that Trump abhors.
Given the avalanche of revelations, it's not surprising that the President is sometimes prone to isolated outbursts of fury directed at Mueller.
"THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!" Trump tweeted out of the blue on Saturday.
Tuesday's revelations also provided the context against which the President stood in the White House Rose Garden and claimed the real "collusion" in US politics was between social media companies opposed to conservatives.
Trump praised Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro -- a leader with autocratic tendencies in his own image -- of buying into his "fake news" narrative.
"It seems to be if they're conservative, if they're Republicans, if they're in a certain group, there's discrimination, and big discrimination," Trump added.
Claims that the President is being muffled on social media hardly seem credible given that he has 59 million Twitter followers and can set the political agenda by banging out a few characters.
It's also notable that Mueller has indicted three Russian entities and 13 Russian nationals in connection with Moscow's operation to use social media to interfere in the 2016 election, sow political discord and elect Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/donald-trump-russia-investigation-michael-cohen/index.html
https://youtu.be/gLK22-4oLYo
He again attacked an American hero who was not a draft dodger son of a bitch.
McCain reasoned that “even a remote risk that the President of the United States might be vulnerable to Russian extortion had to be investigated.”
You seem to (think) this is not the right thing to do. If it had been accurate enough to prove collusion or objection of justice, it would have been proof of an attack on our democracy and the vote, our most recent right!
This week Donald Trump has condemned:
- John McCain
- General Motors
- New York
- Stephen Colbert
- France
- Hillary Clinton
- Immigrants
- The FBI
- California
- China
- Jimmy Fallon
- Google
- Facebook
This week Donald Trump has not condemned:
- White supremacist shooters "fine people"
And not a smidgen of evidence Hillary did anything wrong. And don't even think about looking be at my scandals, not a scandal if you don't investigate. And God damn America.
Bill Clinton Draft Dodger
JOHN Kerry Turn Coat
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