This is Dotard’s “Doc” & his office being raided. And, after his glowing review of Dotard’s health during campaign, & he thought he’d get job of WH Dr.? You gotta LOL @ the sheer delusion. Gotta keep my humor otherwise I’m in PSTD moment. 😯
TRUMPER CHALLENGE: If you believe Trump is innocent, encourage @realDonaldTrump to sit down with Mueller, tell the truth and bring the investigation to a close.
According to @MemPeaceJustice, more than 4,000 black men, women and children were hung/lynched between 1877 and 1950. @kanyewest + @rkelly are using their heinous murders in tweets and press statements. Using our ancestors’ pain as punchlines. pic.twitter.com/DHlwIF5kLc
Of course Putin hacked it. Micro-targeting social media only gives IDIOT45GOP plausible win, but doesn't guarantee outcome to get sanctions lifted for the $500BIL Exxon deal & Saudi nuclear plant franchise construction contract. Hacking the machines DOES. #ForensicCodeAudit
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Robert Mueller threatened the possibility of using a subpoena to get answers from Donald Trump if Trump would not submit for an interview voluntarily.
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about news from the Washington Post that Robert Mueller suggested the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump to appear before a grand jury, and points out that Mueller wouldn’t have presented that option without first having cleared with with Rod Rosenstein.
Rachel Maddow shares video of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s dismissive treatment of a threat by Republicans in Congress to impeach him, and notes that the case those members of Congress are making hinges on the dubious merits of Carter Page.
Rachel Maddow takes another look at the questions the New York Times published on Monday that reportedly reflect what Robert Mueller wants to know from Donald Trump, and considers who would benefit from the insights available from the leak of those questions.
#TodayInHistory: Day 1 of the Children's Crusade. In 1963, 1000s of Birmingham students, trained in civil disobedience, walked out of school & marched demanding an end to segregation. On Day 2 Bull Connor let loose attack dogs & fire hoses against them. https://t.co/6nuZkFXkBhpic.twitter.com/6oaTdi0l9G
Damn! the sight of these children having to bare a burden at such a young age is both inspiring and sad. Just look at those faces, children, kids, marching for justice, this is what our children had to endure. Not playing hide and go seek, or tag, or any other games that children play. But marching against an unjust system that does not value them. How do you not look at these faces and it not touch you on an emotional level?
so excited to be performing for such an amazing cause today 💞💞@michelleobama is doing great work recognizing students for graduating from high school and committing to further their education through @BetterMakeRoom and im honored to be involved 🌟 pic.twitter.com/56RThxgcYG
So it turns out that @docusearch has been impersonating people in an effort to illegally obtain their bank acct information, including bank balances. This is criminal conduct and also subjects them to huge civil liability. If you have info, please share.
And here we are. No wonder they despise public education.
What we didn't know about Trump in 2016 • Health • What he paid in taxes • Income, net worth • Charitable donations • Campaign under FBI investigation • Campaign ties to Russian actors • Cohen paid Stormy Daniels $130K • Positions on policy issues https://t.co/l6PWHRbAVU
Thread. You have to be willfully ignorant NOT to see this as clear as day.
Rusal's head is Oleg Deripaska, a likely Trump co-conspirator. Late last year it was reported he'd step down and cash out, right when Rusal sanctions were announced. Now we hear Trump will give Rusal a pass and Deripaska won't step down. How damn transparent can these people be? https://t.co/4bbzWR1iI0
For decades the Right has waged a war against education. The consequences have hurt not only the system and educators, but the very people they've duped. 1/
As I wrote in the @nytimes, Mueller’s questions to Trump indicate that he is in serious legal jeopardy, particularly as to obstruction of justice. https://t.co/5biJ7Qc60s
As Right Turn has discussed from time to time, the story line that President Trump has the option whether to sit down with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is simply wrong. Mueller has the option to ask the grand jury to issue a subpoena to compel Trump’s testimony under oath and without his lawyer present. (Witnesses can go outside to consult with a lawyer, but witnesses ordinarily do not get to bring their attorney into the grand jury room.) Perhaps now Trump, his lawyers and the TV talking heads will approach Trump’s testimony more realistically: It isn’t up to him to decide to cooperate — unless he wants to take the unprecedented step of thwarting an investigation into his own wrongdoing by invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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Why would Trump’s team leak the questions? It seems that Trump’s lawyers thought the list would show that Mueller was being overbearing or ranging too far. (“The president and several advisers now plan to point to the list as evidence that Mueller has strayed beyond his mandate and is overreaching, they said. … ‘Mueller is in Kenny Starr territory now,’ said another Trump adviser, referring to how the controversial independent counsel investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s real estate deals in Arkansas ended up examining the president’s lies about his sexual relationship with a White House intern.”) The fact remains that Starr was empowered, as Mueller is now, to investigate crimes revealed in the course of the investigation.
If members of Trump’s team thought they’d show that Mueller really was on a witch hunt, they blew it. The list of questions establishes concrete lines of inquiry appropriate to determining whether obstruction of justice and/or improper coordination with Russia occurred. This is not a free-ranging inquiry into Trump’s business deals.
John got nominated for a Tony this morning for a song he apparently wrote for spongebob squarepants. Why does he not tell me when he writes spongebob songs?? What else is he lying about?? Are there other songs out there??
“They will doubt you today and they will doubt you for the rest of your life. When you hit those roadblocks you have to ask for help. No one gets through college on their own. Never be isolated. Everyone struggles. You.Are.Not.Alone.” -First Lady #CollegeSigningDay#ClassOf2018
Of course, any questions Mueller has, he already has not only the answers to, but the map down into the criminal RussianGOP rabbit warren, and has set up the biggest #PerjuryTrap in history.
At this point in time Trump has no choice but to keep doubling down on his insistence that the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt. There is no scenario in which Trump finishes his term out as President. Figuratively speaking, Mueller has Trump by the short hairs.
May 1, 2018, 3:00 AM CDT Updated on May 1, 2018, 2:42 PM CDT
Mick Mulvaney says he’s legally barred from shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a regulator he once called a “sick” joke.
But the agency’s acting director could move dozens of employees to the basement of its Washington headquarters. And he might try to relocate other staff members to Dallas.
Such options are being proposed by his top aides as Mulvaney seeks to cut spending at the Republican-loathed watchdog by tens of millions of dollars, according to an internal cost-savings analysis that was obtained by Bloomberg News. Another budget-trimming idea: making employees share desks.
African Americans are often made to feel as though we are uninvited guests in our own country. We are excluded from environments great and small, at times by force and often because of irrational fears and unconscious biases. This being the United States, those individual bigotries have support from an enabling culture and policies that codify them. This exclusion is the very root of racial discrimination, and of the social penalties that whiteness exacts upon blackness.
I remember one time I took my wife to a doctor’s appointment, I had dropped her off at the front entrance of the doctor’s office. I parked the car and went inside to use the restroom, as I was walking back outside to go to my car I noticed this older white woman standing between me and my car. When she noticed me walking towards her the look of terror crossed her face as she clinched her purse tightly. Me being who I am, I smiled at her, almost trying to reassure her with a smile that I was of no harm to her. Because sometimes as a Black male you must smile to reassure people, just so someone like that woman at the doctor’s office don’t start running and screaming thinking that you might try to do something to her. Anyway, when I got in my car, I turned on the radio. Soon afterwards I got angry, I got angry because why did I have to go out of my way to reassure this total stranger that I was of no harm to her. I could have just as easily ignored the look of fear in her eyes and said to myself, that’s her problem. But no, I went the other way, and why did I think to assuage her fear? More importantly, why did I think it necessary to assuage her fear? At that moment, why did I give a fuck about how she felt? I had done nothing wrong, I was minding my business. When will this country notice the humanity of African Americans, when will it go out of its way to reassure the African American?
I bet you one or both of those brothers in that starbucks smiled, or humbled themselves in some kind of way. And what did they get from smiling and prostrating? They got arrested.
I can relate Don. When my daughter used to come down to Jamaica to visit me, we got nothing but smiles from the tourists because she is supposedly exotic looking. You know beautiful island girl. But when she and I walk down the streets in NYC so called white areas women clutch their purses closer, or if we go into the better stores we get followed around. Now I just sit and read a book in Macy’s or Bergdorf Goodman whiile my daughter shops. I am so sick and tired of this.She takes it in stride while I get pissed. Now I hardly want to leave the house.
P.R.E.A.C.H. I reached the Queen Petty, no effs left to give phase of my life as an AA woman on Nov 9, 2016. I travel enough for work and now from time to time, particularly in public elevators in office buildings if they’re not too crowded, will make a BIG production of grabbing my purse, moving it to the other side of my body and looking terrified when a white person (male or female) gets on the elevator with me. Sometimes it goes over their head, other times I’ll get a barely perceptible nod, “ok I’m having an ah-ha moment” from them after I get the shocked/surprised/confused reaction, which is priceless.
When a person is driven to a point where they are asking themself whether they belong in their own country, in which so much blood has been shed for survival and sustainability; your opponents win. JustSaying.
William Leathers was just 12 years old when he met legendary jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. That year, William had become the youngest trumpeter accepted into the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. After hearing William play, Marsalis went up to William’s teacher and said, “This kid belongs at Juilliard.”
Five years later, William has received that coveted invitation to study at one of the world’s most renowned—and selective—music programs (Marsalis himself is a member of the jazz faculty at the school). But the Canadian teen has one major hurdle: the cost of attendance.
William is just one of three undergraduate trumpeters to be offered a spot at the prestigious New York City school, CBC.ca reports, but because he is an international student, his family will need to fork over $364,000 in Canadian dollars to cover his tuition and housing for four years (that’s almost $71,000 U.S. dollars per year).
21 out of the top 25 districts which will be hit by China shutting down buying U.S. soybeans have Republican MoC’s. Imagine that. https://t.co/fxv8UDU0mj
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on @freedomcaucus members considering his impeachment: "They can't even resist leaking their own drafts." He also says, "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.”
"It is difficult, for me, to express the feeling of finding the columns that mark your origins—seeing the names of the victims and imagining the terror and fear that must have coursed through those communities." @jbouie on experiencing @MemPeaceJusticehttps://t.co/5sq6PrsKIc
— The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (@MemPeaceJustice) May 2, 2018
Those three places are on my no shop list too df. the Hobby Lobby headquarters are in my city, and I know too much about the family also. I am so sick of all the “Christian” posturing and attempting to control what other people do. Not at all surprised at the Green family’s actions.
Great job making sure the public knows I am clearly a liar. I also appreciate you laying out evidence which will lead to an indictment against me and many of my friends. Oh and I am sure to lose the civil case too! Solid work. https://t.co/bRfLyToYde
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Now THAT’S a Nobel Prize recipient.
AMEN!
That was such an honor when he received the Nobel Prize!
They recognized his greatness immediately!
President Obama speaks about an amazing moment in history:
This is FABULOUS.
Cos a laugh is necessary! https://youtu.be/Y8qwEfD6mGU
This is Dotard’s “Doc” & his office being raided. And, after his glowing review of Dotard’s health during campaign, & he thought he’d get job of WH Dr.? You gotta LOL @ the sheer delusion. Gotta keep my humor otherwise I’m in PSTD moment. 😯
Goodnight TOD ….
Good morning, Nerdy and TODville.
Mueller floated possibility of issuing subpoena to Trump: WaPo
Carol Leonnig, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Robert Mueller threatened the possibility of using a subpoena to get answers from Donald Trump if Trump would not submit for an interview voluntarily.
Vance: Mueller subpoena talk unlikely without Rosenstein blessing
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about news from the Washington Post that Robert Mueller suggested the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Donald Trump to appear before a grand jury, and points out that Mueller wouldn’t have presented that option without first having cleared with with Rod Rosenstein.
Rosenstein unintimidated by threats from Congress to remove him
Rachel Maddow shares video of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s dismissive treatment of a threat by Republicans in Congress to impeach him, and notes that the case those members of Congress are making hinges on the dubious merits of Carter Page.
Messages for Manafort, ex-Trump lawyer seen in Trump questions
Rachel Maddow takes another look at the questions the New York Times published on Monday that reportedly reflect what Robert Mueller wants to know from Donald Trump, and considers who would benefit from the insights available from the leak of those questions.
Damn! the sight of these children having to bare a burden at such a young age is both inspiring and sad. Just look at those faces, children, kids, marching for justice, this is what our children had to endure. Not playing hide and go seek, or tag, or any other games that children play. But marching against an unjust system that does not value them. How do you not look at these faces and it not touch you on an emotional level?
Yes Don…How can you…We have the Strength of Kings and Queens in our wings!
Pain in my heart…but we must keep moving Forward>>
Our children, our pride, our legacy, our pain and sorrow, our precious ones who soar.
YES….
Morning everyone.
You can also watch here:
Soon: Michelle Obama hosts 2018 signing day at Temple University – http://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-1
And here we are. No wonder they despise public education.
Thread. You have to be willfully ignorant NOT to see this as clear as day.
THREAD
Seriously one of the best threads I have ever read. Please read and share
Champagne is waiting
Ty Cobb is OUT.
So, Mr. 911 must be thrilled, he gets more air time to spout BS.
Trump has pressured Ukraine….just like they did with Qatar…
It’s not up to Trump whether to talk to Mueller
By Jennifer Rubin
May 2 at 9:45 AM
Our Forever First Lady. Love her.
Truest comment ever. Love her. Miss her. Our Forever FLOTUS
😉
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
At this point in time Trump has no choice but to keep doubling down on his insistence that the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt. There is no scenario in which Trump finishes his term out as President. Figuratively speaking, Mueller has Trump by the short hairs.
This muthaphucka HERE!
Mulvaney’s CFPB Considers Moving Staff to the Basement, or Dallas
May 1, 2018, 3:00 AM CDT Updated on May 1, 2018, 2:42 PM CDT
African Americans are often made to feel as though we are uninvited guests in our own country. We are excluded from environments great and small, at times by force and often because of irrational fears and unconscious biases. This being the United States, those individual bigotries have support from an enabling culture and policies that codify them. This exclusion is the very root of racial discrimination, and of the social penalties that whiteness exacts upon blackness.
I remember one time I took my wife to a doctor’s appointment, I had dropped her off at the front entrance of the doctor’s office. I parked the car and went inside to use the restroom, as I was walking back outside to go to my car I noticed this older white woman standing between me and my car. When she noticed me walking towards her the look of terror crossed her face as she clinched her purse tightly. Me being who I am, I smiled at her, almost trying to reassure her with a smile that I was of no harm to her. Because sometimes as a Black male you must smile to reassure people, just so someone like that woman at the doctor’s office don’t start running and screaming thinking that you might try to do something to her. Anyway, when I got in my car, I turned on the radio. Soon afterwards I got angry, I got angry because why did I have to go out of my way to reassure this total stranger that I was of no harm to her. I could have just as easily ignored the look of fear in her eyes and said to myself, that’s her problem. But no, I went the other way, and why did I think to assuage her fear? More importantly, why did I think it necessary to assuage her fear? At that moment, why did I give a fuck about how she felt? I had done nothing wrong, I was minding my business. When will this country notice the humanity of African Americans, when will it go out of its way to reassure the African American?
And these are the tiny battles you’re faced with if you’re an African American, caring about people that don’t care about you.
Fucking smiling and shit like that, just to show people you aren’t dangerous.
I bet you one or both of those brothers in that starbucks smiled, or humbled themselves in some kind of way. And what did they get from smiling and prostrating? They got arrested.
I can relate Don. When my daughter used to come down to Jamaica to visit me, we got nothing but smiles from the tourists because she is supposedly exotic looking. You know beautiful island girl. But when she and I walk down the streets in NYC so called white areas women clutch their purses closer, or if we go into the better stores we get followed around. Now I just sit and read a book in Macy’s or Bergdorf Goodman whiile my daughter shops. I am so sick and tired of this.She takes it in stride while I get pissed. Now I hardly want to leave the house.
I feel you Don.
I feel you.
i feel you Don…I do….it hurts
P.R.E.A.C.H. I reached the Queen Petty, no effs left to give phase of my life as an AA woman on Nov 9, 2016. I travel enough for work and now from time to time, particularly in public elevators in office buildings if they’re not too crowded, will make a BIG production of grabbing my purse, moving it to the other side of my body and looking terrified when a white person (male or female) gets on the elevator with me. Sometimes it goes over their head, other times I’ll get a barely perceptible nod, “ok I’m having an ah-ha moment” from them after I get the shocked/surprised/confused reaction, which is priceless.
When a person is driven to a point where they are asking themself whether they belong in their own country, in which so much blood has been shed for survival and sustainability; your opponents win. JustSaying.
Hello, TODbots. Good Afternoon.
Remember…they called him ‘ Presidential Timber.’
The curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL!
FLOTUS looks good.She is still looking younger.
She is de-aging.
Talented Teen Trumpeter Just Got Into Juilliard, but His Family Needs Help Covering the $71,000 Price Tag
Anne Branigin
Today 9:50am
SHYT.JUST.GOT.REAL!
Ty Cobb says there is still a path for Trump to sitdown with Mueller.
Less than an hour later, he’s off the Trump legal team.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 2, 2018
I love my forever First Lady’s bangs and I love the jean jacket over jean shirt over T-shirt look. She is so classy, sigh……
ICYMI …
Michelle Obama, Our Forever Flotusssssss….LOOKS Marrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrveloussssssss
Shelia…..I agree.
So …. China is boycotting US soybean? I wonder who will be impacted by this😟?
One guess:)
Annnnnddddd … they fully deserve it. 😅. I know I know … I am being petty.
Two smart beauties, right there! And I love the First Lady’s bangs!
So I see that Hobby Lobby smuggled artifacts out of Iraq. We sent them back. Seriously, why would ANYONE in their right mind ever shop there?
I know I don’t!
Me either. I won’t shop at Home Depot or eat at Chik Filet, either
Luckily, there are other places – Ha!
Me either & never been to a Hobby Lobby.
Those three places are on my no shop list too df. the Hobby Lobby headquarters are in my city, and I know too much about the family also. I am so sick of all the “Christian” posturing and attempting to control what other people do. Not at all surprised at the Green family’s actions.
I love John Dingell!
Would love to have him for dinner:) What a hoot!
Invite me!
Of course!! 😘
My mouth went 😯 And, in his tinny heart, he truly believes he’s a goddam lawyer! 😂 Oh yeah, praise be! Carry on gubnah!
I almost fell out of my chair @ that! Money laundering anyone? Also FEC? Also …list is getting mighty long. Carry on Mr. 911.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/05/03/collegesigningday-our-forever-first-lady/