Yamiche Alcindor
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Yamiche Alcindor Retweeted The White House
Note: Sarah Sanders told Fox News that the president would find the $5 billion for the wall somewhere other than this upcoming spending bill so that’s President Trump backing down from what he told Sen Schumer and Rep Pelosi.

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1075072879199444992

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LOL at the guy holding a "PUTIN'S PUPPET?" sign behind Flynn as he entered court today

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1075072001482649605

In an interview with the Washington Post, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) says that he wants to get several years’ worth of Trump’s taxes to have a truly comprehensive picture of his finances.

Specifically, Pascrell says that he’d “like to go back 15 to 20 years, and I don’t say that haphazardly, because we want to know how involved he was” in certain shady business deals.

According to the Post, Democrats plan on using “a little-known 1924 provision in the Internal Revenue Code” that requires the treasury secretary to deliver the tax returns of any individual if requested by the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Trump administration would likely challenge this in court and demand that Congress deliver a legal justification for what would essentially be a subpoena of the president’s taxes.

However, Pascrell says that Democrats have their bases covered there as well, as they plan to cite “potential conflicts of interest” posed by the president’s foreign business dealings, as well as concerns that transactions that foreign governments have with his businesses could violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/house-democrats-plan-obtain-15-20-years-trumps-tax-returns-next-year/

Sarah Sanders: The FBI ‘broke every standard protocol that they have’ when they ‘ambushed’ Michael Flynn



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/sarah-sanders-fbi-broke-every-standard-protocol-ambushed-michael-flynn/

“Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn,” Trump tweeted. “Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!”

Former U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman and other legal experts were astonished by the president’s tweet, and they tried to decipher what the president actually meant with the statement.

“No doubt he has been told that Flynn did not provide evidence to the special counsel of a conspiracy with Russia to interfere with the election,” Goldman tweeted. “Big question: who told him?”

Lawfare managing editor Quinta Jurecic said the president had again apparently violated the law against witness tampering with his tweet, after a similar one aimed at associate Roger Stone.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trumps-good-luck-tweet-flynn-shows-someone-feeding-secrets-mueller-probe-legal-expert/

Kyle Griffin
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17 known Trump World probes

Election attack
WikiLeaks
Mid East influence
Manafort
TT Moscow
Other contacts w/Russia
Obstruction
Campaign conspiracy, Trump Org.
Inaugural $
PAC $
Foreign lobbying
Butina
Khusyaynova
Turkish influence
Tax case
Fdn
Emoluments

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1074751132260544514

How Donald Trump Got Caught in a Legal Vise

The breadth of investigations is so sweeping that they may hang over the president and his entourage long after Robert Mueller’s probe is finished.

By Timothy L. O'Brien
December 17, 2018, 7:00 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-17/donald-trump-s-legal-vise-how-the-probes-have-proliferated

As President Donald Trump and his lawyers turn toward the new year, they’ll have to contend with a legal narrative that’s taken fuller shape through a flurry of court filings and news reports that began landing about three weeks ago and extended through Friday afternoon: Members of Trump’s presidential campaign – and possibly “Individual 1” himself – may have orchestrated a number of criminal conspiracies that took root before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, continued after Trump won the election, and have tainted the White House’s policies and torn at its operations ever since.

The breadth of investigations is so sweeping – as many on social media and reporters with the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News have already noted – that few of the worlds Trump inhabits have escaped prosecutors’ attention. The Trump Organization, the Trump Foundation, the Trump family, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, the Trump inauguration, and the Trump White House are all being probed for wrongdoing.

The Trump team’s possible collusion with Russia to sabotage and tilt the 2016 election, a probe spearheaded by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, pulls many strands of the investigations together. Trumplandia’s intersection with Russia may have started with business propositions more than a decade ago (such as the Trump SoHo hotel and condominium), and included more recent undertakings like a project in Moscow, before evolving into a political partnership during the 2016 campaign after Trump’s presidential prospects brightened.

But there are many other threads, some related to Russia and some not, that investigators are pulling on. The Trump inauguration raised $107 million, and $40 million of that amount remains unaccounted for; Ivanka Trump, according to a joint report from ProPublica and WNYC, refereed payments to Trump’s Washington hotel during the inauguration. The Wall Street Journal said last week that federal investigators are examining whether inauguration donors gave money in exchange for policy favors.