ABC News is reporting that …
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say
I imagine that Trump and his family are seeking political asylum in Canada. No, no, not Canada. Uh, Germany? Nope, he’s pissed them off, too. France, uh huh – remember the handshake/stranglehold? Maybe Mexico? I’m sure they have a cage for the Trump kids in Mexico.
North Korea and Russia! There ya go.
I gotta admit that when I heard a sleazy lawyer pass judgment on a woman in the porn industry, I was amused. Rudy Giuliani looks down on Stormy Daniels for what she does with her body.
It turns out that Rudy is having an affair with a married woman while he, too, is married.
The mayor-turned-presidential lawyer, 74, and Maria Rosa Ryan, 53, began their affair before he and wife Judith Nathan separated last month — and Nathan filed for divorce five days after the pair was spotted getting cozy at a resort hotel in the Granite State.
Rudy, shuddup.
As we all are painfully aware, Trump wrecked the G7 summit by attacking our closest allies, and picked a fight with Canada over trade tariffs. On top of all that? Trump’s reasons to attack Canada is 100% based on lies. Steve Rattner was on MoJoe this morning and talked about the idiocy of Trump’s tariffs. Here are the facts:
We don’t have a trade deficit, we have a trade surplus with Canada. Also, Canada’s tariffs are the LOWEST in the developed world. Third, Canada’s tariff on dairy is a tiny piece of trade between the two countries. Lastly, since Trump put tariffs on Canadian lumber, price IN THE US have increased 27%.
You can watch it here. It’s very informative, even with Joe S. interrupting Rattner every 15 seconds which is his most irritating habit.
Trump is unhappy with Justin Trudeau and he’s gonna make Canada pay.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s assertion that Canada “will not be pushed around” will end up costing Canadians “a lot of money.”
Trump was upset because he felt that the G7 meeting was like recess in heaven – everybody was happy and playing nicely.
He also said that Trudeau “probably didn’t know” that there are like 20 tv sets aboard Air Force One. I dunno, I suspect that Trudeau probably knows how tv works and figures someone might tell Trump what he said. Or, you know, record it.
Trump also said this morning that he did not need a recording of his meeting with Kim because … you’re gonna love this.
When asked by a reporter if he had notes to verify details after the meeting in Singapore, Trump said he didn’t need to.
“I don’t have to verify because I have one of the great memories of all time,” Trump said.
Yeah, except about stuff that actually happened.
And yesterday. He has no memory of yesterday. Ever.
Friday, the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee proposed a rules change for the 2020 campaign. The new rule is directed straight at Bernie Sanders:
The new rule specifically requires that someone running for president must declare in writing his or herself as a member of the Democratic party and that they will run and serve as a Democrat. Easy, right? Not so fast. The two party system in the US is cemented in place by statute, creating an almost impenetrable wall to outsiders. Party primaries are paid for by the taxpayers, and getting on the ballot in all the states as an independent presidential candidate is virtually impossible. Because of this, the only realistic path to the presidency is as insurgency in one of the two entrenched political parties. You saw that in spades in 2016 where Trump used his television persona to hijack the GOP and Sanders’ grass roots campaign almost uprooted Hillary’s coronation.
This rule seeks to stifle competition for the nomination, all while DNC political operatives are loudly denying that fact, which is as obvious to normal people as a hillbilly at a Newport garden party. Even while these operatives are all sniffy that outsiders understand their actual intent, Sanders supporters aren’t happy. Mark Lonabaugh, a senior Sanders advisor, call the new resolution “stunning”.
Someday, establishment Dems will have to face the fact that they are way out of step with their constituents. The Sanders phenomenon should have shaken these pillars of the party to the core, but it didn’t. They are ignoring, at their own peril, the 13 million voters, many first time voters, who went for the tottering old candidate from Vermont instead of the tottering old candidate from New York, Chicago, Arkansas (pick your accent). He brought a message of social justice, equity, and fairness that the Dems abandoned in the 1990s. And it appears that, rather than learning from that experience, the DNC is trying to keep it from happening again by further rigging the rules in favor of the establishment.
Oh, and one last thing – While the DNC specifically designed a rule to keep out insurgents, there are no adopted rule changes to eliminate or significantly reduce the influence of superdelegates, and no rule that prevents a presidential candidate from controlling the national party until AFTER they are nominated. It appears the Democratic party is the LEAST democratic organization in US politics, and that should piss you off.
Apparently, boy despot Kim Jong Un is very concerned that outsiders learn more about him that he wants. For that reason, no sh*t, he brought his own portable toilet to “deny determined sewer divers insights into the supreme leader’s stools,” for DNA and health condition. Yeah that’s weird.