https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607638733/doctor-trump-dictated-letter-attesting-to-his-extraordinary-health02

Quote :

"As NPR's Jessica Taylor reported at the time: "The full letter is written in true Trumpian fashion, full of hyperbole and boasting of greatness. Bornstein calls Trump's blood pressure 'astonishingly excellent.' " However, Bornstein now tells CNN that Trump was the one who wrote it after all. "He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter," Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday. "I just made it up as I went along.""

[Edited on May 2, 2018 at 11:18 AM. Reason : ]

5/2/2018 11:17:32 AM

Lmao this doctor rattled off a patient's medications to the press and is now admitting to letting a patient dictate his own letter of health.

5/2/2018 11:27:08 AM

Remember when WikiLeaks trolled about Clinton having Parkinson’s. Lol.

[Edited on May 2, 2018 at 11:34 AM. Reason : The runup to the 2016 election was an absolutely fucking joke of nonsense]

5/2/2018 11:33:59 AM

^^ I look at that guy and only see a walking scrip pad for the rich. That's probably all his practice is.

5/3/2018 8:34:31 AM

Don’t worry evangelicals, POTUS declared today’s a National Day of Prayer and Gorsuch.

Mulligans all around!

[Edited on May 3, 2018 at 9:15 AM. Reason : I see Sarah sanders is out there lying again today. But we can’t joke about that.]

5/3/2018 9:12:42 AM

Giuliani is saying Trump reimbursed Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush money. While we all knew this was probably the case, the argument is still that campaign funds weren't used. Does this even matter then?

5/3/2018 9:26:12 AM

"I know nothing about this payment to Stormy Daniels"

"This payment was made through a retainer to Cohen"

I'm paraphrasing, but that is just an awesome walk back right there. At some point, his own supporters are going to call him out. I just don't see this going any other way.

Or they'll just keep excusing him because MAGA

5/3/2018 12:50:04 PM

Judging by the comments from his supporters on facebook, they excuse this by just saying "Who care? Nobody cares! It's not important. He's doing a great job as President!"

[Edited on May 3, 2018 at 1:15 PM. Reason : ]

5/3/2018 1:15:05 PM

Cohen is so fucked.

5/3/2018 1:38:28 PM

^^^They are excited to live the American dream when they, too, can bang porn stars and not get in trouble for it.

Same reason they loved them some Roy Moore.

5/3/2018 1:44:27 PM

the "who cares, nobody cares, it doesn't matter" argument is strangely also what the far left is making in their continued weird defense of trump

5/3/2018 1:58:59 PM

^Just curious, who on the far left is defending Trump?

5/3/2018 2:15:54 PM

no one is. dtownral is just on a crusade.

ppl on the left generally consider it a distraction from more important issues. it should be reported on, but it shouldn’t take up more than half of the news cycle.

5/3/2018 2:27:03 PM

Quote :

"At some point, his own supporters are going to call him out."

lol

5/3/2018 2:33:03 PM

WH press briefing live now, click to watch:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1027432484083368&id=235852889908002

A total clusterfuck of lies, "I don't know"s, and "we give the best information"s, ad nauseum.

5/3/2018 2:50:43 PM

Quote :

"rjrumfel All American 20587 Posts user info edit post ^Just curious, who on the far left is defending Trump? 5/3/2018 2:15:54 PM adultswim Suspended 7597 Posts user info edit post no one is. dtownral is just on a crusade. ppl on the left generally consider it a distraction from more important issues. it should be reported on, but it shouldn’t take up more than half of the news cycle."

all the far left morons who think wikileaks does no wrong, russia didn't interfere in the election, and don't think the stormy daniels case is news are all protecting trump (they all went full earl)

5/3/2018 3:16:17 PM

i don't know any prominent leftists who think any of that

5/3/2018 3:30:37 PM

join twitter and introduce yourself to the @Ellahbie types, there are lots of you people

5/3/2018 3:48:26 PM

so far left = far right as far as thinking around trump goes?

what a bizarre world.

5/3/2018 5:24:49 PM

nah, dtownral is just a disingenuous troll, or is dumb enough to believe random unverified people on twitter constitute the left

5/3/2018 6:05:14 PM

I suspect the HA Goodman’s and Cassandra Fairbanks’ LF the world weren’t actually leftists but more opportunists.

In any case, NBC corrected their story about the wiretaps of Cohen. Mistake that was retracted, which is what legitimate real news does.

5/3/2018 7:47:06 PM

lol you think?

https://twitter.com/HAGOODMANAUTHOR

5/3/2018 8:31:11 PM

Ellahbie has a huge leftist following, are they all fake trolls?

5/4/2018 5:35:10 AM

Quote :

"Trump says Giuliani needs to 'get facts straight' on Stormy ...Trump said that Rudy Giuliani, who upended the previous White House defense this week by saying the president knew about his personal lawyer Michael Cohen's payment to Daniels, was "a great guy but he just started a day ago" and said the former mayor of New York City was still "learning the subject matter." The president added that "virtually everything" reported about the payments — which are the subject of swirling legal action and frenzied cable newsbreaks — was wrong. But he declined to elaborate..."

5/4/2018 11:47:33 AM

yo dawg i heard you like lies

5/4/2018 11:52:10 AM

WSJ is reporting Cohen had almost $800k in loans he was using to payoff Trump-related scandals



Between this and the Trump U fraud it's kind of amazing to think about how much corruption/unscrupulous deals Trump was involved in

5/5/2018 1:46:55 AM

Y'all know about her: https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind?

She runs this page: https://theweeklylist.org

Week 77 of Trump's presidency -- this week -- has the longest list of not-normal things, with 170 items:

https://theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/week-77

Great site... all the bullshit of the admin and Trump in one place, as weekly itemized lists, with a link for each list item.

5/6/2018 8:23:54 AM

^^ Is it amazing? He’s been mobbed up forever. Everyone knew this in the New York area. He’s been a grifting conman skirting the edges of the law for decades too. It’s natural he would be exposed if he ever became powerful. He was just lucky he became a celebrity after all his failed business ventures.

[Edited on May 6, 2018 at 8:25 AM. Reason : X]

5/6/2018 8:24:35 AM

As much as I would rather not espouse an unsubstantiated rumor, from an Occam's Razor standpoint, it makes much more sense that the David Dennison referenced in Shera Bechard's non disclosure agreement is Donald Trump and not Elliott Broidy.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/theory-playboy-model-had-affair-with-trump-not-broidy.html

tl;dr:

1) Donald Trump is known to have slept with Playboy playmates, and Elliott Broidy is known to have bribed government officials in return for influence.

2) The Shera Bechard non disclosure agreement involved Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson; both attorneys were involved with Donald Trump's previous non disclosure agreements.

3) Elliott Broidy (via Keith Davidson) would have had very little reason to inform Michael Cohen of his affair with Shera Bechard.

4) Elliott Broidy, a relatively obscure individual, paid a much larger settlement than Donald Trump had paid, even as a major presidential candidate.

5) Despite having paid $1.6 million to keep the alleged affair under wraps, Elliott Broidy immediately admitted to the affair when questioned about it by the press.


I probably missed some points, but it seems like a fairly compelling argument. That being said, none of it even grazes the absurd sketchiness of both Elliott Broidy and Michael Cohen being deputy finance chairmen of the Republican National Committee.

[Edited on May 9, 2018 at 1:56 PM. Reason : ]

5/9/2018 1:55:38 PM

^ definitely seems like they were out there for a coverup.

Still interesting it was avenatti that broke this news— that’s quite a connection/whistleblower to have this info, when it was originally reported essential consultants was just setup to pay off stormy.

5/9/2018 3:54:08 PM

How is there not enough evidence to get this guy out of office yet? Or are people too afraid of Mike Pence being president to try?

5/9/2018 4:12:02 PM

If Dems were in power they would have subpoenaed trump by now and he would have perjured himself.

GOP is waiting for a 3rd party mueller to give them an excuse to tighten the screws on trump— which I think enough of them will join the democrats to do, because trump is hurting all their re-election chances now.

5/9/2018 4:21:13 PM

On NPR this morning analysts were saying Trump connections have been vital so far in Republican primaries but hurting in polls for the general.

5/9/2018 4:45:43 PM

this is kinda wild

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/377751074628988929?s=21

5/11/2018 12:13:54 AM

Quote :

"How is there not enough evidence to get this guy out of office yet?"

because there isn't?

5/11/2018 12:33:18 AM

Quote :

"How is there not enough evidence to get this guy out of office yet? Or are people too afraid of Mike Pence being president to try?"

How do you envision that process working?

5/11/2018 7:49:10 AM

Quote :

"How is there not enough evidence to get this guy out of office yet? Or are people too afraid of Mike Pence being president to try?"

no evidence until mueller finishes his investigation

5/11/2018 8:24:19 AM

^^ subpoena -> perjury -> impeach
Hopefully he steps down then

5/11/2018 9:36:28 AM

Not sure where this should go but .... huh?

https://twitter.com/klasfeldreports/status/994956154991206401?s=21

This is bizarre beyond belief.

[Edited on May 11, 2018 at 11:37 AM. Reason : Actually it directly relates to adultswims post. This is getting weird.]

5/11/2018 11:35:41 AM

he doesn't want their conversation, where they coordinated sitting on the information so they could release it if schneiderman became too much of a threat in order to obstruct any investigations, to be made public

5/11/2018 11:46:07 AM

It was while Trump U was being investigated. Unbelievable...

5/11/2018 11:56:13 AM

So I guess Cohen was also paying bounties for political dirt and this is Gleason's hamfisted attempt to cover up his self-interested legal advice?

5/11/2018 12:22:35 PM

FBI Warned Of Russian Intelligence Links To Oligarch In Cohen Payment Allegation
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610381368/fbi-warned-of-russian-intelligence-links-to-oligarch-in-cohen-payment-allegation?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Quote :

"The FBI warned four years ago that a foundation controlled by the Russian oligarch who allegedly reimbursed Donald Trump's personal lawyer might have been acting on behalf of Russia's intelligence services. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Lucia Ziobro wrote an unusual column in the Boston Business Journal in April of 2014 to warn that a foundation controlled by Russian energy baron Viktor Vekselberg might be part of a Moscow spying campaign that sought to siphon up American science and technology. "The foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation's sensitive or classified research, development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial applications," Ziobro wrote. "This analysis is supported by reports coming out of Russia itself." Fast forward to this week: Vekselberg's name has been in U.S. headlines because of allegations about his involvement with payments to Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen."

5/11/2018 12:35:32 PM

Quote :

"Gleason to @ChrisMegerian- I told Cohen about the allegations so he could "use that information against his adversary" (Schneiderman) latimes.com/politics/la-na…"

Imagine knowing this in 2013 and using it as blackmail and not going to the police.

Trump and his gang are nearly as despicable as the NYAG.

5/11/2018 2:23:41 PM

Quote :

"subpoena -> perjury -> impeach "

You're going to need a very favorable mid-year election cycle for that last part

And Trump ain't stepping down by his own decision.

5/11/2018 2:57:16 PM

^Or for congressional republicans to remember how 3 years ago most of them claimed he wasn't a real republican and stop protecting him.

5/11/2018 3:36:04 PM

if we are pitching things that won't happen, then maybe Trump realizes what a joke he is and apologizes and steps down

5/11/2018 3:43:08 PM

no shit

5/11/2018 3:46:44 PM

Trump and the Clintons were friends, right? Perhaps Trump was added in as a ringer for the R-party so that the Clintons' (and Trump's) interests would be intact regardless of the outcome. hedging the bets, per se.

5/11/2018 4:03:23 PM

So... apparently CSPAN caught on camera Cohen meeting with the Qatari businessmen who's been accused of bribery and who's claimed he successfully bribed the Trump admin.

This is the same qatari that the Steele Dossier says brokered a 20% sale of Rosfnet (oil company based in Russia) affected by the tariffs, and has agreed to give Trump a cut of this deal

Another interesting twist that hasn't been fully explored is that pulling out of the Iran deal has a bearing on all of these activities, high oil prices now are great for oil producers (like Rosfnet), especially since Iran had to import most of their oil during the sanctions.

Looking back over Trump's twitter history, it's starting to become clear the reason Trump was so angry about the Iran deal and Russian Sanctions was that it was compromising his attempts at doing business with the Russians. It might even be the case that the reason Kushner helped the MBS seize power and shoot some missiles at Qatar was because a deal went sour with Qatar (who up to that point was throwing money at Trump and his team).

Seems like the media is not caught up yet with how brazen this corruption is that Avenatti is uncovering, and they seem to be dancing around reporting how all these acts tie together, to the point of impacting our foreign policy and national security.


More details here:
https://thinkprogress.org/michael-avenattis-mothers-day-bombshell-explained-5492cd792fcf/The Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund (along with Glencore) purchased an 11 billion dollar stake (19.5%) in Rosneft, the Russian Oil Company.
Rosneft, headed by Russian Igor Sechin, figured predominately in the Steele Dossier. According to Steele’s sources, Sechin was eager to have sanctions lifted, and offered Carter Page/Trump associates the brokerage of up to 19% in Rosneft. The sale of Rosneft was announced by Putin on State Television on 12/6/16, just 6 days before the above elevator pictures.
Jared Kushner’s father, Charles, attempted to secure funding from Qatar, both before and after the election, in hopes of digging 666 5th Avenue out of looming financial problems. The deal with Qatar never materialized.
In June of 2017, and shortly after the Kushner/Qatar deal failed, Saudi Arabia and the UAE abruptly organized a blockade of Qatar citing Qatar’s support of terrorism. The blockade included diplomatic and economic sanctions along with travel bans.
President Trump was very supportive of this blockade. Mattis and Tillerson called for calmness, probably because the US had 10,000 troops in Qatar at Al-Udeid Air Base. But Trump boasted about the blockade….and even appeared to take credit for it. Jared Kushner was also said to have backed this blockade.
Also of interest, In March of 2018, it was reported that Qatar had accumulated information on Kushner, but were declining to share it with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The smoking gun for cohen would be whether any of the Qatari money is used by the company he setup to funnel money for Trump.


[Edited on May 14, 2018 at 12:29 AM. Reason : ]

5/14/2018 12:02:27 AM