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Trump's inaugural committee raised -- and spent -- a record $107 million. I wonder if any of that was "thank you" money sent to Vladimir Putin for helping Trump win the election.
Trump inaugural committee hit with another subpoena
The action by the attorney general for Washington DC means three government agencies are known to be scrutinizing the finances of the committee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...bpoena-n977431
Michael Cohen did more today than just talk. He also provided evidence, including checks written by Trump to cover hush-money payments, copies of Trump's financial statements and proof of the threats Trump made so his college transcripts and draft records would be kept secret. Republicans tried to discredit Cohen as a liar but he's already facing at least three years in prison for lying. If he had lied today, his prison sentence would be greatly lengthened. He did not lie today. He told the truth. Here is an insightful essay and analysis by Joan Walsh, national-affairs correspondent for The Nation:
Michael Cohen destroyed not just Trump but also his House GOP defenders
A President who talks like a mob boss got protected by his GOP mob-boss wannabes. Cohen, a former Trump enforcer himself, made them all look ludicrous — and vulnerable.
https://www.thenation.com/article/mi...cow-wikileaks/
I see I'm not the only American dismayed by the large number of blindly loyal Trump supporters.
Cohen delivers warning to GOP lawmakers now attacking him: Don't 'blindly' follow Trump
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-...227-story.html
How can Republican Congressmen continue to support and defend Donald Trump? Cohen called them out for their blind loyalty -- but the lure of the orange-skinned Pied Piper is obviously too powerful for them to overcome. They don't even try. Now they're taking their efforts to discredit Michael Cohen one step further:
Two Republican lawmakers ask Justice Department to investigate Michael Cohen for perjury
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/28/pol...hen/index.html
A Republican Congressman showing a tiny bit of spine and standing up to Trump, albeit only slightly. Will wonders never cease!
Senior Republican Senator warns Trump to consider other border security options
Los Angeles Times, Feb 28 2019 1:00 PM
A senior Senate Republican warned President Trump on today to reconsider his emergency declaration for the southern border, hinting the GOP-controlled Senate could rebuke him and overturn it. In a floor speech, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander urged Trump to find other ways to get the money. "I support what the President wants to do on border security but I do not support the way he has been advised to do it," he said.
Alexander refused to say whether he would join three other Republican Senators who have said they will support the effort to rescind Trump’s emergency declaration. Democrats need just one more Senate Republican to join them, assuming all Democrats vote in favor. The resolution easily cleared the Democratic-controlled House on Tuesday evening by a vote of 245 to 182. Trump has said he will veto it if it reaches his desk and neither chamber is expected to have the votes to override him.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-...228-story.html
Felix Sater was born Felix Mikhailovich Sheferovsky in Moscow. He's a real estate developer, a former mobster and a former Trump Organization adviser -- and he worked with Michael Cohen on the proposed Trump Tower Moscow for a much longer time than Trump claimed. And did I mention he was born in Moscow? Sater will testify before the House Intelligence Committee March 14. Cohen will also testify again.
Michael Cohen will return to Congress March 6, Felix Sater to testify March 14
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/polit...tee/index.html
Cohen's testimony may be the tip of the iceberg
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...t-lead-vpx.cnn
CNN political analyst Julian Zellner asks -- and answers -- a question about Michael Cohen's testimony: "Will the hearings change public opinion? The Republicans on the Oversight Committee gave a pretty good indication of why President Trump's base is unlikely to move even a little. They essentially are in tune with Trump's statement from 2016: 'I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.' Throughout their questioning of Cohen, the Republicans showed absolutely no interest in probing the issues that were raised about the President. They spent the entire time attacking Cohen's behavior and making insinuations about the Democratic-led hearings themselves." It is obvious the majority of Republican Congresspeople are totally on board with Trump's "Make America Hate Again" program.
A crime was committed and Republicans shrug their shoulders
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/opini...zer/index.html
Last night, Hannity said Cohen did not notify Trump of the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels. Hannity was lying. That is not surprising. Trump, too, lied about those payments and Hannity is Trump's number-one cheerleader. Liars stick together. Democrats might subpoena Hannity to testify about those payments.
Top House Democrat: Hannity should testify under oath about hush-money scheme
Manu Raju, CNN, Mar 1 2019 6:25 PM ET
A member of House Democratic leadership says it may be time to hear from Fox News host Sean Hannity, under oath. Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline, who chairs the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, said Hannity's latest comments suggest he has information about hush money payments made by Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep the then-Presidential candidate's alleged extramarital affairs quiet in the days before the 2016 election. Trump later reimbursed Cohen for those payments.
"Sean Hannity volunteered first-hand knowledge about Michael Cohen's actions last night," Cicilline spokesman Francis Grubar told CNN. "If he was lying, it wouldn't be the first time. This is the same guy who claimed inside knowledge that Russia didn't hack the DNC until a federal judge ordered him to stop. Regardless, if he feels he has information that's relevant to this investigation, he should share it under oath before Congress."
On his television program Thursday night, Hannity told Trump that Cohen told him "at least a dozen times" that "he made the decision on the payments -- and he didn't tell you. He told me that personally." The comment prompted Cicilline -- a member of the influential House Judiciary Committee -- to tweet Thursday: "Sean Hannity is now volunteering himself as a witness. I look forward to his testimony."
Talking to Hannity on Thursday, Trump pinned the blame on his former attorney for the payment scheme, even though a recording obtained by CNN last year reveals Trump discussing the payments with Cohen.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/polit...ess/index.html
This story is proof that the majority of Republicans are unthinking, gullible, blindly loyal little rats who just can't help following the orange-skinned Pied Piper. At a January 2016 campaign rally in Iowa, Trump declared, "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters." Three years later, we see how frighteningly true that statement is.
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...unt/ar-BBUiCMM
Paul, Collins, Tillis and Murkowski are the only four Senate Republicans to say they will vote to block Trump's phony declaration of an emergency where no emergency exists. All the others will support Trump, thereby showing the world that they value the Republican party above the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law and our nation's system of checks and balances.
Rand Paul's vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration
CNN, Mar 3 2019 3:44 PM
The Senate likely now has enough votes to pass a measure blocking President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration after Senator Rand Paul signaled his support for the resolution of disapproval. "I can't vote to give extraconstitutional powers to the President," the Kentucky Republican said Saturday at a Warren County Republican Party fundraising dinner. "I can't vote to give the President the power to spend money that hasn't been appropriated by Congress. We may want more money for border security but Congress didn't authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it's a dangerous thing."
The resolution introduced in the House passed the chamber on Tuesday, with 13 Republicans voting with Democrats. If the resolution passes the Senate, it will be sent to the President's desk, where it will face a promised veto -- Trump's first in office. Trump had said in February that he will veto the resolution "100%." Congress would then need an overwhelming majority -- two-thirds of its members -- in both chambers to overrule Trump's veto, which is unlikely.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/03/polit...ion/index.html