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Botany's JournalTrump Tweet; Grammar and punctuation are over rated.
Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russia are not looked at, (Random commas are awesome.) but my non-dealings are? D. Trump
I tried to clean the tweet up but still it reads like gibberish.
Why is Hillary Clinton’s Family along with the Democrats' dealings with Russia are not being
looked at but things I never did are now coming under inspection?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875438639823675392
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, "I don't recall."
ABC: Timeline of Jeff Sessions' connections with the Russian ambassador
Mid-July, 2016, on the sidelines of the RNC: Sessions spoke at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, held during the Republican National Convention. After his speech, Sessions spoke to a small group of ambassadors after giving a speech and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was among them.
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Jan. 10, 2017: At the Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, the topic of Russia came up when Sessions was questioned by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. Here is the relevant part of that exchange:
Franken: "If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"
Sessions: "Senator Franken, I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have -- did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-jeff-sessions-connections-russian-ambassador/story?id=45855918
Mama bear and cubs cut off access to Draculas castle
https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/06/10/mama-bear-and-cubs-cut-off-access-to-draculas-castle.htmlBUCHAREST, ROMANIA—Danger lurks at Dracula’s castle.
Romanian authorities have closed a 13th-century fortress connected to Vlad the Impaler after a mother bear and her cubs were found roaming in the area.
The citadel, atop a mountain in central Romania, can be reached only by climbing 1,480 steps. It was shut in late May “for the safety of visitors,” its website said Saturday.
Local prefect Emilian Dragnea says the environment ministry had agreed to capture the four bears and relocate them elsewhere. Authorities blame people for leaving food in the area.
The citadel was repaired by 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel Dracula.
"Why do you believe you were fired?", asked Sen. Feinstein
Comey said, "I guess I don't know for sure. I believe -- I think the president, at his word, that
I was fired because of the Russia investigation."
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/james-comey-i-was-fired-over-russia
NY Times, Paul Krugman: Wrecking the Ship of State
"As the legal scholar Jeffrey Toobin says, if this isn’t obstruction of justice, what is?"
After Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, many people on the right and even in the center tried to make the case that he wouldn’t really be that bad. Every time he showed a hint of self-restraint — even if it amounted to nothing more than reading his lines without ad-libbing and laying off Twitter for a day or two — pundits rushed to declare that he had just “become president.”
But can we now admit that he really is as bad as — or worse than — his harshest critics predicted he would be? And it’s not just his contempt for the rule of law, which came through so clearly in the James Comey testimony: As the legal scholar Jeffrey Toobin says, if this isn’t obstruction of justice, what is? There’s also the way Trump’s character, his combination of petty vindictiveness with sheer laziness, leaves him clearly not up to doing the job.
And that’s a huge problem. Think, for a minute, of just how much damage this man has done on multiple fronts in just five months.
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That risk is, however, all too real — and one suspects that the big money, which tends to equate wealth with virtue, will be the last to realize just how big that risk really is. The American presidency is, in many ways, sort of an elected monarchy, in which a temperamentally and intellectually unqualified leader can do immense damage.
That’s what’s happening now. And we’re barely one-tenth of the way through Trump’s first term. The worst, almost surely, is yet to come.
AM madness w/Trump Tweet
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/872427222392504320*********
https://twitter.com/DavidPepper/status/872427985252515844
BTW does Trump even know the campaign is over?
I have posted this before but in the light of the Russia hacking our election NSA .....
..... it needs to be seen again.
USA Today Russians suspected of hacking Wisconsin Dems
GREEN BAY — County websites of the Democratic Party in the area have been under attack, at least one apparently by Russian hackers, an officer of the party said.
What appears to have been Russian hackers compromised the website of the 8th Congressional District Democratic Party as well as the sites of seven county Democratic party organizations, said Mary Ginnebaugh, who chairs the congressional district as well as the Brown County Democratic parties.
Russian hackers have been accused on the national level with interfering with the U.S. presidential election by getting into the Democratic National Committee’s website as well as that of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington.
While no one can prove beyond doubt that Russians also were involved in the local hack job, two hackers left “calling cards” with Russian email addresses on the local websites in an apparent gesture of contempt or braggadocio, Ginnebaugh said. Green Bay police were notified and have forwarded information to the FBI, she said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/24/russians-suspected-hacking-wisconsin-dems/97023222/
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