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November 2, 2018
David Corn: Potus more worried about women&Children w-rocks than right wing extremists w-guns
DAVID CORN:
What we learned today: The president of the United States is more worried about women and children with rocks than right-wing racist and anti-Semitic extremists with guns.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1058103714899210240
November 2, 2018
Jacob Wohl used old pic of his girlfriend to try & frame Mueller
Jacob Wohl tweeted this photo of the ‘Mueller accuser’ (left), who failed to turn up to his press confidence. You can just stick it into Google Images to get her face, since that exact photo is old, already online and.. his girlfriend.
:large
https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1058286750378967040
https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1058109416170536960
November 1, 2018
TRUE: Nearly every individual asking to cross the U.S. border has a better value system than Trump
https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1058113320752943107
November 1, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has kept things pretty quiet in the run-up to the midterm elections. That’s likely to change after Tuesday.
Chris Geidner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
..............
While it’s true that none of the charges, thus far, have been against Trump campaign staff for allegations that they took illegal actions as part of their campaign efforts, some of the allegations made by Mueller or other federal prosecutors have referenced contact or attempts at contact between Russian officials or agents and members of the Trump campaign. And Mueller’s investigation has covered a lot of ground beyond what’s appeared in charges.
If the special counsel’s office turns after the midterms, as evidence suggests it could, to taking actions against members of Trump’s 2016 campaign and his inner circle, Mueller will once again find himself in the spotlight — and the target of the president’s wrath.
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LONG & INFORMATIVE, JUST GO:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/special-counsel-russia-investigation-returns
https://twitter.com/mike_giglio/status/1058061968853078016
Once The Midterms Are Over, Expect To Hear From Robert Mueller Again
Once The Midterms Are Over, Expect To Hear From Robert Mueller AgainSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s office has kept things pretty quiet in the run-up to the midterm elections. That’s likely to change after Tuesday.
Chris Geidner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
..............
While it’s true that none of the charges, thus far, have been against Trump campaign staff for allegations that they took illegal actions as part of their campaign efforts, some of the allegations made by Mueller or other federal prosecutors have referenced contact or attempts at contact between Russian officials or agents and members of the Trump campaign. And Mueller’s investigation has covered a lot of ground beyond what’s appeared in charges.
If the special counsel’s office turns after the midterms, as evidence suggests it could, to taking actions against members of Trump’s 2016 campaign and his inner circle, Mueller will once again find himself in the spotlight — and the target of the president’s wrath.
.....................
LONG & INFORMATIVE, JUST GO:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/special-counsel-russia-investigation-returns
https://twitter.com/mike_giglio/status/1058061968853078016
November 1, 2018
1:12 PM - Nov 1, 2018
Pence feeling miffed that his campaign event in GA is being ignored because of Oprah & Will Ferrell
“I heard Oprah was in town today. And I heard Will Ferrell was going door-to-door the other day. Well I’d like to remind Stacey and Oprah and Will Ferrell — I'm kind of a big deal, too,” Vice President Mike Pence said at a campaign event for gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp1:12 PM - Nov 1, 2018
Pence addressed this during an event in Georgia on Thursday.
“Stacey Abrams is being bankrolled by Hollywood liberals … I heard Oprah was in town today. And I heard Will Ferrell was going door-to-door the other day,” he told the crowd. Well I’d like to remind Stacey and Oprah and Will Ferrell — I’m kind of a big deal, too.”
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/mike-pence-oprah-stacey-abrams.html
“Stacey Abrams is being bankrolled by Hollywood liberals … I heard Oprah was in town today. And I heard Will Ferrell was going door-to-door the other day,” he told the crowd. Well I’d like to remind Stacey and Oprah and Will Ferrell — I’m kind of a big deal, too.”
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/mike-pence-oprah-stacey-abrams.html
November 1, 2018
The cop-killer in Trump's twitter video actually came back to the U.S. under George W. Bush
The cop-killer in Trump's twitter video actually came back to the U.S. under George W. Bush, according to The Daily Beast.
Trump also failed to mention that the killer used an AR-15, a weapon that Republicans, including Trump, don't want to outlaw.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1058090088201183233
https://twitter.com/dawnharden1/status/1058092826720980992
President Trump tweeted out a video on Wednesday designed to gin up fears of illegal immigration prior to the midterm elections. The spot, which drew comparisons to the infamous Willie Horton ad for its bigoted undertones, featured Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant who has been convicted and sentenced to death for murdering two deputies in Sacramento, California:
“Democrats Let him stay!” the ad declares.
And: “It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now!”
Except, that’s not the story.
Bracamontes was back in America again by 2002. He married a U.S. citizen and remained in the country even as the Bush administration deported people at a record rate, topped only by the Obama administration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/luis-bracamontes-cop-killer-in-trumps-twitter-video-actually-came-back-to-us-under-bush?ref=wrap
“Democrats Let him stay!” the ad declares.
And: “It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now!”
Except, that’s not the story.
Bracamontes was first deported to his native Mexico in 1997, during the Clinton administration, after he was busted selling drugs. But, according to U.S. Immigration officials, Bracamontes managed return to the United States by 2001, when he was deported a second time for being in the country illegally. That was during the first year of the Bush administration.
Bracamontes was back in America again by 2002. He married a U.S. citizen and remained in the country even as the Bush administration deported people at a record rate, topped only by the Obama administration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/luis-bracamontes-cop-killer-in-trumps-twitter-video-actually-came-back-to-us-under-bush?ref=wrap
November 1, 2018
Stone Cold Killers:
Children traveling in a migrant caravan toward the U.S. stopped at the Mexican town of Juchitan on Wednesday, where they got a rare opportunity for some play time.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1058068145288699904
November 1, 2018
https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1058015457838534656
Former FL GOP Chairman to Trump: "You are a despicable divider"
@AlCardenasFL_DC
You are a despicable divider; the worse social poison to afflict our country in decades. This ad, and your full approval of it, will condemn you and your bigoted legacy forever in the annals of America’s history books
https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1058015457838534656
November 1, 2018
more:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-caravan-children-getting-sick_us_5bda65fee4b0da7bfc16f83f?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
Trump's "Home of the Brave"
“While President Donald Trump recently tweeted that the migrant caravan of over 5,000 Central Americans is made up of some “very bad thugs and gang members,” a handful of immigration experts and advocates told HuffPost that’s not the case.
The reality, some experts said, is that the caravan is full of children who have embarked on a physically and mentally grueling trip to escape life-threatening situations in Central America. About half of the estimated 4,000 people in the caravan are children, ranging in age from 1-month-old babies to teenagers.
The more than two-week-long journey, which has reached southern Mexico, has at times involved walking for up to seven hours in 104-degree temperatures without access to clean water. The migrants are forced to sleep on the ground and don’t have enough blankets….
The trek has left children dehydrated, faint and sick, according to advocates and pediatricians. The group is so exhausted that they have paused for the past few days in Juchitan, a city in southern Mexico, to rest and in hopes that buses will take them to Mexico City.
“These are human beings,” said Alex Mensing, an organizer for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the immigration rights group that organized the caravan. “The children on the caravan don’t know what a border means.”
more:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/migrant-caravan-children-getting-sick_us_5bda65fee4b0da7bfc16f83f?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
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