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January 8, 2018

Trump, Wheres my Roy Cohn? aka Trump, I need a mafia lawyer.

Can you imagine the shit storm we would have had if President Clinton or Obama
had said he needed a mob lawyer to be his A.G.?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

Roy Cohn was a really vile piece of shit and he was Trump's buddy too.

“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” the president demanded in March, calling on his former personal lawyer who once served as Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s chief counsel into the 1950s-era communist investigations, according to The New York Times.

http://www.newsweek.com/who-roy-cohn-president-asks-his-former-mentor-and-fixer-handle-russia-probe-771901

liberal media =

January 7, 2018

Please help me in saying hi and good morning to Joy Reid. Joy or her people read DU (I think)

Joy you are doing important work. BTW thanx for the Don Fredo clip yesterday.

January 6, 2018

Say Hi to Joy Reid thread

Joy #donFredo#I'msmart




thanx Joy!
January 6, 2018

Don "Fredo" Trump a meme is born #DonFredo



DUer Bleacher Creature already has posted this video on a G.D. thread.

Now why did I give Bleacher Creature credit? I'm smart. (and stable too)
January 6, 2018

Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/949618475877765120

I know this has already been posted on DU but good God in butter the man is
a raving loon.

January 5, 2018

Trump boasted that he and Kushner engineered a coup: We've put our man on top!

God damn it. So the republicans, the media, and Trump’s base are good with that?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210060759

A mentally ill con man is POTUS because of treason, a coup, and Russia where is
the outrage?

January 4, 2018

Is it time to bring this up again is Donald Trump illiterate?




*******
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-president-vs-steve-bannon/549617/

Wednesday morning, The Guardian and NBC News published reports based on a book by Michael Wolff, and New York published a juicy, page-turner of an excerpt from the volume. They all add up to a damning image of the Trump administration and especially its leader. The president is depicted as out of touch, borderline illiterate, disrespected by his own closest advisers, sloppy with information, and horrified at winning the election. As I wrote, the most damaging revelations are those that come from Bannon—a Frankenstein’s monster that Trump created, elevating him as an insider and failing to see the danger that posed to himself.
January 4, 2018

FYI Sally Yates Bio from Wiki / Boo Boo The Fool she is not

Trump is not qualified to mow her lawn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Yates


Yates was born in Atlanta to J. Kelley Quillian, an attorney and judge who served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and Xara Terrell Quillian. Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar; however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates's grandfather.

Yates attended the University of Georgia, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. In 1986, she earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, Yates served as the executive editor of the Georgia Law Review.

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In 1986, Yates was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia. From 1986 to 1989, Yates was an associate at the law firm King & Spalding in Atlanta, specializing in commercial litigation. In 1989, she was hired as Assistant U.S. Attorney by Bob Barr for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Early in her career at the Department of Justice, Yates prosecuted a variety of types of cases including white-collar fraud and political corruption. In 1994, she became Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. She was the lead prosecutor in the case of Eric Rudolph, who committed the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, a terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others. She rose to First Assistant U.S. Attorney in 2002 and to Acting U.S. Attorney in 2004. In the U.S. Attorney's office she held leadership positions under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

President Barack Obama nominated Yates to be U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia. She was confirmed by the Senate on March 10, 2010. Yates was the first woman to hold that position in the Northern District of Georgia. During her time as a U.S. Attorney, Yates was appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as Vice Chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee.

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In January 2016, Yates received Emory University School of Law's Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) Inspiration Award. Following Yates's dismissal as Acting Attorney General, Representative Jackie Speier nominated her for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, and Georgia State Senator Elena Parent introduced a resolution commending Yates. In April 2017, Yates received the Mary Church Terrell Freedom and Justice Award during the Detroit NAACP's 62nd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner.

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