February 17, 2017

Trumps Labor nominee oversaw sweetheart plea deal in billionaires underage sex case

Source: POLITICO

President Donald Trump's new nominee for secretary of labor, Alexander Acosta, could face a grilling in the Senate over claims that — while he was the top federal prosecutor in Miami — he cut a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 with a billionaire investor accused of having sex with dozens of underage girls.

As the U.S. attorney for Southern Florida, Acosta agreed not to file any federal charges against the wealthy financier, Jeffrey Epstein, if he pled guilty to state charges involving soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution.

Epstein ultimately received an 18-month sentence in county jail and served about 13 months — treatment that provoked outrage from alleged victims in the case.

Soon after the deal was cut in 2008, two women filed suit claiming that the decision to forgo federal prosecution violated a federal law — the Crime Victims Rights Act — because they and other teenagers Epstein paid for sex were never adequately consulted about the plea deal or given an opportunity to object to it.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/alexander-acosta-trump-jeffrey-epstein-plea-235096

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“I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

February 17, 2017

"The tone is such hatred. The tone is such hatred."

February 16, 2017

Jake Tapper: "How would you react if that were your boss?... a member of your family...?"

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/16/trump-press-conference-jake-tapper-unhinged.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump-press-conference-2-16-17/


He's CRACKED!

February 16, 2017

Watching PC. OMG, he's a fucking hateful nut.

so rude, so obnoxious so stupid, so fucking nuts.

February 15, 2017

In a shift, Republican platform doesn't call for arming Ukraine against Russia, spurring outrage

When looking at Trump/Russia connections this move is another item to remember.


LA Times July 21, 2016 - Tracy Wilkerson

For decades, Republican doctrine has viewed Russia as a power to mistrust. But in Donald Trump’s GOP, Moscow’s sins seem to matter less.

The platform written at the GOP convention in Cleveland this week eliminated references to arming Ukraine in its fight with Russia, which seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and has supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Many in the party’s foreign policy establishment are outraged.


more: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-na-pol-ukraine-gop-20160720-snap-story.html

February 15, 2017

WaPo 4:59 pm - More detailed than earlier TPM article (think they used this article to write theirs)

Pence did not learn that Flynn misled him on Russia until last week

"What I would tell you is that the vice president became aware of incomplete information that he had received on Feb. 9, last Thursday night, based on media accounts," Lotter said. "He did an inquiry based on those media accounts."

In a January television interview, Pence said that Flynn had told him the issue of sanctions did not come up in his conversations with the Russian ambassador.

The revelation adds a new layer to the confusion within the White House as it seeks to explain why it took more than two weeks for Flynn to resign his post, even though senior officials, including the president, were aware that he had not told Pence the truth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/14/trump-was-told-weeks-ago-that-flynn-misled-vice-president-about-russia-contacts-white-house-says/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.785da0da2796

Delete your history to see if you're out of articles.

February 14, 2017

Did anyone see Kellyanne on the Today Show?

OMG she looked rode hard and put away wet.

February 14, 2017

Flynn Resigns

CNN Breaking News

February 13, 2017

Oprah gives tape with Puzder abuse allegations to Senate

Source: POLITICO

Senators in both parties have viewed an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in which Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder's former wife leveled allegations of physical abuse against him, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The decades-old video, which is not easily found, has been provided by the Oprah Winfrey Network, those sources said. The video has been provided to senators in a Capitol Hill office building, according to people who have seen it. OWN did not immediately comment for this story.

The Campaign For Accountability, a left-leaning nonprofit, will appear Tuesday in court in St. Louis County to try to unseal divorce-related documents concerning the abuse charges that were sealed after Puzder's nomination.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/susan-collins-andrew-puzder-oprah-tape-allegations-234964

February 12, 2017

Our POTUS & FLOTUS Rockin' to The Blues in 2012

Beth Hart & Jeff Beck/Bonnie Raitt et al.