I really thought that would be a link to this .
The Trump/Republican/Fox News PR operation is on full-on obfuscation mode by trying to turn our attention to the Seth Rich murder by trying to imply that he was murdered for leaking DNC information to WikiLeaks. The entire thing just happens to have come up just as the Trump/Russia/classified documents/Comey stuff is making the news. The only person they have who is trying to make a connection between Rich and WikiLeaks is a former DC policeman/Fox News contributor who claims he was investigating the murder for Rich’s parents, but admits that he was being paid by an unnamed third party (who turns out to be Ed Butowsky, a Fox financial advisor and Texas millionaire). On Monday, he was on the Fox News affiliate in Washington claiming the Rich/WikiLeaks connection. But now he’s claiming that he has no evidence of any such connection, and his comments about the connection are only what was already out in the press.
It took only hours for one of the biggest stories in conservative media this week, which some outlets had chosen to focus on over news that President Trump disclosed classified information to senior Russian officials, to fall apart.
I think our friends at FoxNews have pretty much given up on this fabricated bit of nonsense. Current large headline as I type this is:
CRACKS IN THE WALL
There is nothing about this on the front webpage, and it includes such gripping news items as "Man dressed as ‘Minecraft’ character robs convenience store in Pennsylvania "
JohnT
May 17, 2017, 8:01pm
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The family of Seth Rich is sending cease and desist letters to Fox and their affiliates, so, yeah.
jsc1953:
A friend of McMaster’s was on NPR this morning, giving a rather impassioned (and I felt, convincing) plea on his behalf. The friend said that McMaster knows he’s in an impossible situation, but he’s a good, thoughtful, sane and patriotic man doing the best he can – and that his presence in the White House may be the difference between muddling through, and TEOTWAWKI.
The friend gave this analogy: you go to dinner at the home of a good friend who’s a terrible cook, and who asks you “I hope you enjoyed dinner”. You respond: “I loved being here with you.” Technically true, while not exactly a response to the question. That was McMaster’s response to Trump’s blabbing about secret intelligence.
What is McMasters going to say when The Donald asks him, “Does this suit make me look fat?”
“You look beautiful. Oh, look at the time, gotta go.”
(I know my lines.)
“No, honey, it isn’t the suit that makes you look fat.”
Kobal2
May 17, 2017, 8:27pm
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The First Clusterfuck is a gift that keeps on giving. Or shooting themselves in the feet with wild abandon. Now it’s Trump Jr. who just all but admitted Daddy did , in fact, ask Comey to go easy on Flynn.
I like how he linked to a fake Twitter account for James Comey.
Little_Pig:
Stocks, dollar sink as investors rethink ‘Trump trade’.
Hmmmm. Now Wall Street is pissed off at the Boy King.
It’s the beginning of Trump Slump. Fasten your seatbelts, Wall Street has realized the Trump Train is going off the cliff.
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The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump
There is, as my colleague David Brooks wrote Tuesday, a basic childishness to the man who now occupies the presidency. That is the simplest way of understanding what has come tumbling into light in the last few days: The presidency now has kinglike qualities, and we have a child upon the throne.
It is a child who blurts out classified information in order to impress distinguished visitors. It is a child who asks the head of the F.B.I. why the rules cannot be suspended for his friend and ally. It is a child who does not understand the obvious consequences of his more vindictive actions — like firing the very same man whom you had asked to potentially obstruct justice on your say-so.
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Read the things that these people, members of his inner circle, his personally selected appointees, say daily through anonymous quotations to the press. (And I assure you they say worse off the record.) They have no respect for him, indeed they seem to palpitate with contempt for him, and to regard their mission as equivalent to being stewards for a syphilitic emperor.
It is not squishy New York Times conservatives who regard the president as a child, an intellectual void, a hopeless case, a threat to national security; it is people who are self-selected loyalists, who supported him in the campaign, who daily go to work for him. And all this, in the fourth month of his administration.
Syphilitic emperor…maybe Trump was wounded in his personal version of Vietnam?
Sorry, Mr. President, there’s no such thing as a Purple Dick.
Recap of the clusterfuck that has been the last ten days:
The Trump Presidency Falls Apart
Your link appears to circle back to this thread. Is this perhaps what you meant?
All the Comey-Russia brouhaha hasn’t prevented the Trump Administration from [del]bumping along[/del] functioning in its normal way:**Trump Administration Hires Official Whom Five Students Accused of Sexual Assault
A political appointee hired by the Trump administration for a significant State Department role was accused of multiple sexual assaults as a student several years ago at The Citadel military college.
Steven Munoz was hired by the Trump administration as assistant chief of visits, running an office of up to 10 staffers charged with the sensitive work of organizing visits of foreign heads of state to the U.S. That includes arranging meetings with the president.
At The Citadel, five male freshmen alleged that Munoz used his positions as an upperclassman, class president and head of the campus Republican Society to grope them. In one incident, a student reported waking up with Munoz on top of him, kissing him and grabbing his genitals. In another, on a trip to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., a student said that Munoz jumped on him in bed and he “felt jerking and bouncing on my back.”
An investigation by The Citadel later found that “certain assaults likely occurred.” A local prosecutor reviewed the case and declined to seek an indictment.
Munoz’s hiring raises questions about the Trump administration’s vetting of political appointees, which has been both slow and spotty, with multiple incidents of staff being fired only weeks into their jobs, including for disloyalty to Trump. The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment…
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I’m only slightly surprised that it was not someone like Sergei Roldugin or Boris Rotenburg.