President Trump released an executive order on Tuesday stating Attorney General William Barr and, by extension, special counsel John Durham are authorized to present classified information to a grand jury in the inquiry into the Trump-Russia investigators.
Trump gave Barr wide-ranging powers to conduct the investigation into the origins and conduct of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane inquiry in 2019, and Barr picked Durham to run the investigation last spring, first from his position as a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, and now as special counsel after quietly enhancing his role in October.
“The Attorney General is authorized to use classified information as he deems necessary in connection with his review, including in a grand jury or other proceeding,” Trump said in a memorandum signed Friday and made public today, reinforcing investigative powers granted to Barr and Durham in May 2019.
He added: “The authority in this memorandum shall terminate upon the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s investigation, unless expressly extended by the President. In addition, the authority of the Attorney General under the May 23, 2019, memorandum is hereby extended to terminate only upon the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s investigation.”
This could get awful messy, especially considering how many former members of the Obama administration will be part of the Biden administration. It would certainly appear to be something that Biden would like to put to rest, but would shutting down this probe do more harm that good?
I guess that depends on what Biden knows, and if he (and his administration) expect that there will be real investigative fallout from the final reports. If it is likely that well known Obama administration people might be in legal peril, then it might be worth the political cost to shut it down by any means possible.
After all, even a Special Counsel answers to someone, and that someone will be the new Attorney General, who could decide to end it. It would be a political nightmare, but depending on what a special counsel might find, it might be the lesser of two evils.
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On January 20th of 2022, The Deep Throat conspiracy to overturn the 2016 election, created by the President who was born in Kenya.
Only newsmax will expose the conspiracy, but the evil main intelligence agencies will threaten newsmax, and they will say we were infected by the Democratic hoax and we were wrong.
The evil communist aka Democratic party will take away your guns and destroy the United States of America!
He won't have to shut it down. They'll keep delaying everything until it's long forgotten.
The lame duck President is hoping that John Durham will designate a new special counsel to investigate President elect Joe Biden and his son Tucker Biden.
It would be in response to the Muller investigation. His motivation is apparent, he believes Scott Johnson, who believes that the minute he rode down the escalator the deep state conspiracy has been trying to destroy the Orange Monster!
Considering dems were talking impeachment 20 minutes after his inauguration, he is right.
Chinese elite arrogantly proclaims they've been using Wall Street and Biden to influence the US
Why Trump Must Never Hold Power Again
Michael Gerson:
“Looking on the bright side of a humiliating national disaster, the manner of President Trump’s departure from power has clarified why he must never hold power again.
“On one side are the lunatics — among them Giuliani, Powell and Flynn — who want Trump to violate laws and assume authoritarian powers. On the other side are sycophants who supported Trump’s spurious legal challenges to the election result but apparently draw the line at treason. By most accounts, Trump’s sympathies lie with the lunatics.”
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How many of you ChTroothers
are sycophants?
How many are lunatics?
The lame duck President is hoping that John Durham will designate a new special counsel to investigate President elect Joe Biden and his son Tucker Biden.
Durham doesn't have the authority to do that, Lydia-beater.
What Happened to Maria Bartiromo?
The Los Angeles Times has a good look into Maria Bartiromo’s descent into the fever swamps of President Trump’s election conspiracies.
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White House Staffers Receive Conflicting Memos
“Conflicting internal memos created confusion inside the White House on Wednesday about when staffers in the Executive Office of the President should begin preparing to leave work ahead of the transition next month,” Politico reports.
“In an email Wednesday morning from the White House Management Office, EOP staffers were instructed to ‘please disregard’ an earlier memo that had been sent Tuesday informing them that they ‘will start departing’ on the week of Jan. 4.”
LOL
Would be dictator Trump didn't like that.
Will Anyone Put a Stop to Trump’s Antics?
Jonathan Bernstein:
“Those Senate Republicans are the ones who could put a stop to it all. They could threaten to remove Trump if he persists. (Yes, there’s not enough time for the House to do a regular impeachment process and for the Senate to hold a full trial, but neither are required by the constitution — if the votes were there, both chambers could get it done in a week.) Such a threat might be enough to ensure they wouldn’t actually have to go through with it. Or they could follow up on what Thune said Monday and make a more public condemnation of the president. Even if that didn’t stop him, it might reduce the damage.
“But it’s also not likely to happen, since attacking Trump would risk their own popularity and future re-elections.”
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Trump’s Intense Hunt for Voter Fraud Turns Up Little
“After an intense hunt by President Trump’s allies to surface voting irregularities in this year’s election, law enforcement agencies in six key swing states targeted by the president have found just a modest number of complaints that have merited investigation,” the Washington Post reports.
“So far, only a handful of cases have resulted in actual criminal charges alleging wrongdoing — some of them against Republican voters aiming to help Trump.”
LOL
A President Unhappy, Unleashed and Unpredictable
12:00 pm EST
“With four weeks left in President Trump’s term, he is at perhaps his most unleashed — and, as events of the last few days have demonstrated, at the most unpredictable point in his presidency,” the New York Times reports.
“He remains the most powerful person in the world, yet he is focused on the one area in which he is powerless to get what he wants: a way to avoid leaving office as a loser.”
“He spends his days flailing for any hope, if not of actually reversing the outcome of the election then at least of building a coherent case that he was robbed of a second term.”
LOSER~!
Alky, the $2,000 amount came from Pres. Trump.
Bitch Nancy had it at nada, then $600
, barely enough to buy a good pair of earrings.
"Durham doesn't have the authority to do that, Lydia-beater."
Boom.
Really, Roger that for your epic meltdown yesterday.
😆Love of My Life🤣
Ignore
I NEVER THOUGHT EVEN TRUMP COULD ACT LIKE THIS BIG AN IDIOT.
I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 dollars to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple," President. Trump
Why is little pedo stomping his feet. jumping up and again yelling to attempt to get our attention.
Roger when you admitted to yelling at and swearing at Lyndia, did you feel better?
Lawmaker Asks for Probe Into Kushner Shell Company
12:36 pm
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) is asking the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to investigate the Trump campaign’s shell company, Business Insider reports.
From the letter: “If Mr. Kushner’s American Made Media Consultants did in fact spend $617 million as reported, he and his associates – which include additional Trump family members as well as the Vice President’s nephew – could face penalties amounting to more than one billion dollars.”
Roger when you admitted to yelling at and swearing at Lyndia, did you feel better?
probably not as good as he felt when he landed that first punch.
and then the next, and the next, and the next...
Ignore
But you can't ignore this:
AOC and Pelosi push to take up President Trump on his offer for $2,000 stimulus checks
Yahoo Money
December 23, 2020, 11:56 AM
After President Trump signaled he may not sign the $900 billion stimulus deal and demanded larger stimulus checks, key Democrats are getting ready to put his idea up for a vote on Thursday.
“Mr. President, sign the bill to keep government open! Urge McConnell and McCarthy to agree with the Democratic unanimous consent request for $2,000 direct payments!” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a tweet on Wednesday morning. “This can be done by noon on Christmas Eve!”
Pelosi was quick to respond to the president’s demand, saying “at last, the President has agreed to $2,000” on Tuesday evening. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined in, too, saying they already had the provision the president demands in a bill, co-written by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and it’s “ready to go.”
“Glad to see the President is willing to support our legislation,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet on Tuesday evening. “We can pass $2k checks this week if the Senate GOP agrees to stand down.”
In a video posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday, President Trump criticized the stimulus checks under the current legislation and asked Congress to amend the bill to “increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple.” The direct payments are up to $600 per individual and $600 per child under the bill.
The final $900 billion stimulus deal passed both chambers of Congress on Monday night with overwhelming support, with the Senate voting 92-to-6 to pass it and the House voting 359-to-53. Around $166 billion of the package will be used for the second round of direct payments.
President Trump surprised Congressional negotiators after the bill passed by specifying a desired amount on stimulus checks.
“In the bipartisan negotiations, Leader Schumer and I repeatedly asked Republicans what would be the highest number the President would accept for direct payments, and they responded with Sphinx-like silence,” Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday. “In the negotiations, they would never go above $600 and in some cases, proposed $500.”
The president didn’t say whether he’ll veto the bill, which would then require a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress for the bill to become law. Complicating matters is that the bill is attached to another piece of legislation to keep the government funded. If Trump doesn’t sign the conjoined pair, the government faces a potential shutdown on Dec. 28.
Another possibility is if the president doesn't get the printed bill by end of Wednesday, he can “pocket veto” the bill by simply not signing the legislation within 10 days. Congress cannot override that type of veto. But if Congress remains in session during that 10-day period and Trump doesn't sign the legislation, the bill becomes law without the president’s signature. The last pocket veto occurred in December 2000, during President Clinton’s final weeks in office.
“Trump can pocket veto the omnibus either as the 116th Congress ends or the day before,” Mark Harkins, a former congressional staffer and senior fellow at Georgetown’s Government Affairs Institute, told Yahoo Money. “If the day before, someone in the Senate can filibuster and run the clock out until 12:00 noon on Jan. 3.”
If a deal isn’t signed by the president in the coming days, up to 12 million Americans will lose unemployment benefits coverage when two programs enacted under the CARES Act expire on December 26. The federal eviction moratorium, paid sick leave, aid to state and local governments, among other relief, also will lapse.
“Chaos is bad for the country and it will inflict a lot of damage on people and probably make many of them very mad,” Aaron Fritschner, communications director for Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), told Yahoo Money.
this fucking guy...
ALBANY — Counties that have for years been planning for a mass vaccination are seeing that training and preparation — much of it funded by millions of dollars in federal grants — pushed aside as the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has retained control of the state's coronavirus vaccination program, including having hospitals rather than local health departments administer the doses.
Interviews with multiple county officials over the past week confirm that many are unclear why the governor's administration has not activated the county-by-county system, a plan that included recent practice sessions in which members of the public received regular flu vaccines at drive-thru sites.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-s-mass-vaccination-plans-are-shelved-as-15824607.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Spotlight
oh, it's clear. you just can't say it. the guy's a fucking ASSHOLE and a tyrant.
Trump played right into Peolosi's and AOC's and the Democrats' hands.
Thanks, Donald!
Kemp Not Worried About Trump-Backed Challenge
1:02 pm
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) told Fox & Friends he was unconcerned about the potential political fallout from President Trump’s attacks on him for refusing to help overturn the results of the presidential election.
Said Kemp: “As far as me getting primaried, I could care less about that right now. The biggest thing we all need to do, regardless of what you think about what’s going on in Georgia, we’ve got to support David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.”
I BET TRUMP IS RAGING THAT FOX & FRIENDS HAD KEMP ON.
Giuliani Told to Preserve All Records -- Or Else
1:11 pm
A defamation law firm representing Dominion Voting Systems has sent letters to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Rudy Giuliani instructing them to preserve all records related to the company at the center of Trump’s conspiracy theories and warning Giuliani that legal action is “imminent,” CNN reports.
Poor Rudy. Poor Trump. Such LOSERS!
Hitleresque behavior?
One of the familiar genres of White House reporting during the Trump era has been the theme that President Trump is degenerating into madness, or at least some deeper state of madness. I have treated these reports with persistent skepticism. By all outward signs, Trump’s grip on reality has waxed and waned in regular intervals, and the man who publicly insisted in 2011 that Barack Obama had faked his birth certificate did not seem substantially more hinged than the one who claimed Joe Biden had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son’s business. The people around Trump who believed he was growing more deranged were perhaps mistaking their own diminishing ability to cope with his delirium with a change in the patient’s underlying condition.
And yet here, in the true final stages of the Trump presidency, we at last have evidence of genuine change. Trump’s mental decline may not be actually accelerating, but he is turning against his supporters in a
The New York Times first reported this weekend that Trump held a long, contentious meeting on Friday pitting crazy against crazier. He has continued over the following days to turn away from his more clear-eyed supporters and gravitate to the ones who entertain his delusions that he can still overturn the election.
An entire layer of toadies who cynically enabled Trump’s misconduct throughout his presidency, but have since calculated that his options are exhausted, have lost favor in the president’s eyes. Axios and the Washington Post have reported that Trump has denounced, or begun to view warily, such former loyalists as Mitch McConnell, Bill Barr, Mark Meadows, and even Mike Pence. Into their places have stepped figures like Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, QAnon-enthusiast Marjorie Taylor Greene, and former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne.
Roger admitting he verbally degraded and demeaned Lyndia.
Did yelling at her and swearing at Lyndia make you feel like a "man" Roger.
You committed Domestic Violence.
The Hitler analogies are easy to overplay — Trump is not a genocidal warmonger, which is by far Hitler’s most salient trait — but the whiff of the Führerbunker is difficult to miss when you encounter such passages as this, from Axios: “Trump, in his final days, is turning bitterly on virtually every person around him, griping about anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election.” In lieu of Russian tanks, the unstoppable force everybody else around the mad leader can see coming is Joe Biden’s clear Electoral College victory.
So the likes of Barr and McConnell are all slowly edging away while Trump rages at their betrayal and seeks out followers delusional enough to indulge his fantasies. Trump sent out a bizarre attack on McConnell for refusing to support his hopeless attempt to decertify Biden’s election. Even supine Mike Pence is now “not fighting hard enough for him,” reports Axios.
Barr’s escape — complete with a last-ditch attempt to wash off the Trump stink by publicly decrying his boss’s demands that he appoint prosecutors to investigate Hunter Biden and the election-fraud conspiracy — is especially rich. Barr was animated by the conviction that the norms were being shattered by Trump’s opponents, not by Trump. He once testified before Congress that Trump couldn’t have obstructed the Russia probe because he genuinely believed he was innocent. Since Trump also maintains that, but for a Hugo Chávez–designed computer algorithm, he won the election by a landslide and can actually overturn the results, you wonder how much legal weight Barr currently places on what Trump believes. Is insanity an all-purpose defense against obstruction of justice?
One irony of Trump’s final, degenerative stage is that, while he has dispensed with even the pretense of attending to his formal responsibilities, his obsession with overturning the election result has given him a laserlike focus rarely detected before. The Post reports that his Friday meeting was longer than four hours. In his entire term until now, has Trump ever stayed engaged in a meeting on a single topic for that long?
Chait you wife beating hack
James, they can't even spell her name correctly.
Lydia not Lynedia
I never hit her ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Ok Lydia.
Feel better wife Abuser?
I had you peg correctly, a broke and Broken piece of human trash.
She lived in fear in her own home.
That is until she had you removed, got a restraining order.
I believe you, Roger.
How Does This End?
1:38 pm
Playbook:
“No one knows. Some say President Trump is in burn-it-down mode and is more than willing to veto the Covid relief/funding package, ending his presidency in a lengthy shutdown, with bluster and crisis. Others say he’s not explicitly threatening a veto, and everyone should calm down.
“Who cares what these people say, at this point. We’re not convinced anyone has any idea what the president is doing or what goal he’s driving toward.
“He’s in the midst of blowing up a package his White House said he’d sign over provisions the administration proposed… Maybe he comes out today en route to Florida and says he was just kidding — but maybe not, and he’s not running a corner store, he’s running the world’s most important country in the middle of a pandemic, so we can’t work with maybes.”
Ignore.
Roger, you put her in fear. You abused her. You admitted you yelled at her and directed demeaning and degrading words at her.
You violated California Domestic Violence laws, what price did you pay?
James just supported and condoned Rogers abuse of Lydia.
Ignore
James, you turned a blind eye and ignored Lydia cries for help.
No real man stands by and watches Domestic Violence and Abuse.
You are an enabler.
I never knew of any cries from anyone, liar.
Ignore.
You are by and large ignored, pederast
Spam your stupid tripe somewhere else
I will continue posting truth here.
I know it gets read.
You copy and paste because you are stupid incapable of original thought
EOS
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Dec 22
THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS IN THE SWING STATES LATE IN THE EVENING. IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION!!! #TrumpLies
🇻🇳JamesNewLeaf December 23, 2020 at 12:51 PM
I never knew of any cries from anyone,🇻🇳
Of course you didn't James, He is your close friend, yet you saw and heard nothing.
You are a stooge.
I knew nothing about any of the negative things you have been saying about him until it started appearing here.
You lie all the time.
That's why he and I IGNORE you.
Roger and I post substantial information here, something other than the weary BLAH that goes on here.
Hah, you post nothing but echo chamber bullshit that no one reads, don’t fool your stupid ass. You aren’t bright and are incapable of any form of critical thought
DO NOT READ THIS!!!!
Trump Vetos Defense Bill
“President Trump on Wednesday made good on his promise to veto the annual military policy bill, setting up what could be the first veto override of his presidency after both chambers overwhelmingly approved the legislation,” the New York Times reports.
“In refusing to sign the legislation, Mr. Trump cited a series of provisions, including one that would allow the military to strip the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.”
Washington Post:
“The House and Senate each passed the bill earlier this month with strong veto-proof majorities, rejecting Trump’s insistence that it be changed to meet his oftentimes shifting demands. Both chambers are expected to sustain the two-thirds majorities needed to override the president’s veto.”
OR THIS!!!
Trump Leaves Washington In Limbo
Politico:
“On Tuesday night, Trump blindsided all of Washington — including his own staff — with a series of 11th-hour demands to amend coronavirus relief and government funding legislation that his own administration had helped carefully craft and supported. Overnight and into Wednesday, senior Republicans, Hill aides and even White House officials scrambled to figure out what Trump actually wanted, just as lawmakers — and Trump — prepare to leave town for the holidays.
“There’s no clear answer, though. No one on either side of Pennsylvania Avenue appears to know what Trump’s plan is — or even if there is one. Hill offices had not received any guidance as of Wednesday afternoon, while House Republicans scheduled a call at 3 p.m. to strategize.”
Said one Republican on Capitol Hill: “A complete cluster***k.”
OR THIS!!!
Where’s Jared?
Jared Kushner has developed a reputation in Trumpland for being conspicuously absent when things turn rocky, the Daily Beast reports.
Said a senior Trump aide: “This is just what Jared does.”
OR THIS!!!
Eric Trump Aide Helped Build Campaign Shell Company
“The Trump campaign shell company that helped hide $617 million in 2020 presidential campaign spending was almost exclusively a Trump family production, run in part by a top deputy to Eric Trump,” Business Insider reports.
“That Eric Trump deputy, attorney Alex Cannon, worked closely to run American Made Media Consultants with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and former campaign manager Brad Parscale. Together, they built a campaign shell company so powerful and opaque that key Trump campaign aides feared what they might uncover if they learned too much about its operations.
“In one instance, the Trump campaign paid an extra 2 percent fee on all ads aired from a firm tied to its chief strategist, Jason Miller, Trump advisors told Insider."
Why are you reading all this? I told you not to!
I hit Anonymous by mistake. :-)
Everyone knew and skipped it, pedo
knew and skipped it, pedo
Don't you know a big fat white ass in DC that needs constant kissing??????
So now your morbidly obese arse will claim to be in DC?
Fuck you’re a pitiful troll, fatty
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