The media allows the GOP to frame that all DEMs do is increase the deficit. You could not convince a Republican that the GOP is the party of deficits, greed, and pilfer of our treasury. All they know in their pitiful minds is the “economy” is doing great because THEY have a job with tiny raises but is reduced by higher insurance premiums.
Some of us have grandfathers who died of black lung and cancer related health issues caused by coal mining. People go down the mines because they don’t see any options. Because she grew up with coal burning my mother had a tendency to asthma and died because her lungs couldn’t fight an infection. Coal will get you 6 feet of Real Estate all right. On his day off from golfing Donald should try hanging out
in a nice mine shaft.
My grandfather was a coal miner, too, and – back in the 1950s when he passed away – the doctor said he was “chronologically one age, but physically much older.” He had to go into the coal mines at age 11, as the oldest son, to help support the family (which had come across from Germany in the late 1800s). Never forgot that.
Damn trump and the other GOP freaks WHO DO NOT CARE.
Trump’s Tinpot Dictatorship goes on nominating know-nothings like Ms. Kraninger for top government positions in exchange for political favors.
Kathleen Kraninger helped set up the deal (with bad actor private prison agencies like GEO group) in order to profit from separating 3,000 children from their parents. So now President Double Down is nominating her to run the Consumer Protection Bureau – of which she knows nothing. Of course she cannot answer questions in Congress – but will be confirmed to the CFPB this week if not stopped. Is she a Russian sympathizer,
just curious.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday he pardoned three former prisoners facing the threat of deportation to Cambodia, including one who grew up in Long Beach and now works as a youth justice community organizer – https://t.co/O4pTQDcVGt
The judge instructed them to continue to deliberate, stressing the importance of reaching a conclusion. Before the jury came back in, he told the lawyers that if the jury still couldn't reach consensus on certain counts, he'd consider asking if they had a veridct on others
It’s hard to breathe in the Pacific Northwest because of the fires. It’s also hard to breathe in coal country. Hope the jury verdict puts Manafort in the slammer or we won’t be able to breathe.
I predict that they will come back about noon pacific time, which is about 3pm eastern time. I hope I am not reading this incorrectly when they say they can’t reach a verdict “on a single count”, it they mean they can’t agree on ANY counts? Is this a hung jury? I hope not. I am worried…..
No, if he does a plea deal he will be out on his own recognizes. They only go to jail if they go against his plea deal. I think Papadoupolas needs to go to jail since he wants to renege on this plea deal. If he is not cooperating then he needs to go to jail.
This will stay on the news cycle no matter WHAT Orange-Twitler does. I hope they stop showing his stupid rally tonight or do a split screen but it’s muted. I wonder if they give him a heads up when bad news is coming so he schedules a rally. I thought he was on vacation golfing.
Breaking: Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors investigating payments he made to women for Mr. Trump.https://t.co/bq3miqHLWQ
34yo and NINE deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Honestly, this saddens me.
Pentagon identifies Army helicopter pilot killed in Iraq crash: CW3 Taylor J. Galvin, 34, from Spokane, Wash. Member of 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, had 9 deployments to Iraq & Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/2hXMxqSyd0
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Those who've faced criminal charges: * Trump's personal lawyer * Trump's campaign chairman * Trump's deputy campaign chairman * Trump's WH national security adviser * Two of Trump's foreign policy advisers@POTUS said yesterday Dems "don't mind crime." The irony was lost on him. https://t.co/5nk5WYnRdn
Don't forget to send word to trump that nobody will be watching him tonight in West Virginia, 'cause we're all gonna watch the Cohen and Manafort coverage on @MSNBC. [Wonder if Cohen will send a note to the judge that reads, "Can I go home at 5?"]
Whether the agreement today specifies cooperation or not, Cohen can (and very likely will) cooperate given jail on line. The big news is that @nytimes is reporting his plea is to payments to silence women, a campaign finance vio that implicates Trump. NOT just taxis and taxes.
I really like and care about these young people but this is an unforced and offensive error.
Putting Nancy Pelosi in the same category as Trump/Hatch is very offensive. Stop for a moment, look at the long list of her historic achievements based on leadership. NO COMPARISON. Continue to encourage young people to run but not at the expense of women who have broken barriers
I’m not offended by the word “old” on my own account, as I sit here totally and blissfully retired, but I am about discounting ALL older people as though they have nothing left to offer, including the great Nancy Pelosi. I still came across a bit haughty – while trying to also salute him for being involved.
As I tell my grandchildren, and, yes, I am that "old": "If you have to make somebody else look bad to make yourself look good, you're already not looking that good to me." Old isn't always a bad thing, and all old people aren't the same. Otherwise, keep going! You are great. 😎
Only our culture does not respect our wise elders. I would say that Pelosi is “wise” with lots of knowledge that he and many young people can learn if they want to make this their either long term or short term career. I have NO problem with “career” politicians as long as they don’t forget who they work for and why they are there–not to get rich.
So apparently this kid didn’t know or didn’t care about Nancy Pelosi’s accomplishments while in office. Nor does he know about Rubio and Ryan and Cruz. To have youth and fire is one thing, to be ignorant of history is quite another.
In. My opinion, age is not a barometer in which to judge leadership. Effectiveness is one way to judge. Besides we could go the other way and say that kids are inexperienced therefore not ready for leadership. Ageism is not a good road to travel on. #nuffsaidhttps://t.co/dmFAy5VgXb
Lawmakers introduced a measure to award Aretha Franklin a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal for "her contributions of outstanding artistic and historical significance." pic.twitter.com/Cu2aNG4gDX
🔥Right now, the personal attorney (Cohen) & the former campaign chairman (Manafort) of a sitting president* are in federal courtrooms, where Cohen will plead GUILTY to multiple felonies, and Manafort likely will be found GUILTY of multiple felonies‼️
nath! Good to see you. Isn’t it great? Not that it’s anything to put smiles on our faces, but great that it’s being exposed and there’s nothing trump can do about that.
The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. We will disclose it all to the public.
The developments of today will permit us to have the stay lifted in the civil case & should also permit us to proceed with an expedited deposition of Trump under oath about what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it. We will disclose it all to the public.
An important point in upcoming Michael Cohen plea arrangement is the allocation-this is where the court expects the accused to specifically explain what he did and the details of his crimes that reflect he understands the ramifications of his guilt. THIS COULD BE BIG.
THIS IS NEW: Ukraine prosecutor general says criminal probe opened into Yanukovych-era civil servants who allegedly paid Paul Manafort—i.e. Akhmetov, Lyovochkin, Klyuyev, Kolesnikov. Can't go after Manafort, he said, but can maybe go after his clients. https://t.co/NuvjKQwiBF
Though 3-5 years might sound low, but trust me when I tell you that three years is a long time in prison, just count back three years from today. And that’s how long three years is, and for someone that has never been in jail before, three years is even longer.
Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the U.S. against 3 Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations made in his dossier about the Trump campaign and its links with Moscow, the Guardian reports. The Russians own stakes in Moscow-based Alfa Bank. https://t.co/AQOsrJJIRO
Judge Ellis said he will ask each juror their feelings about reaching a verdict. If they all say they cannot, Ellis says he would likely declare a mistrial on 10 counts and have the verdict read on the remaining 8 counts.
Way too late …. as in WAY TOO LATE … but at least it’s being said …
“Republicans, you knew what Trump was like when you brought him into your house. You got all the signs, all the warnings, and yet you made him at home." @HardballChris on the failure of the Republican Party. Watch more: https://t.co/YUpTLrmpVcpic.twitter.com/32BtpR3Jbw
Huge F-U to the media who acts like they did their job! NOT! They slobbered all over him and showed all this horrible behavior for ratings. ALL Whores!
Yes. Really pissed me off when they’d drop everything to take an incoming call from Trump or cut to one of his campaign rallies and show it in full…when PRESIDENT Obama couldn’t get coverage for actual WORK he did.
He should be found guilty on all 18 Don. The judge did not help in this matter. He purposely made inappropriate comments, would not let the prosecution list the exhibits for each count, etc. I can imagine how frustrating it must have been to try to figure out what all the 18 counts were. I do not blame this jury I blame the judge. He needs to retire.
Hmmmmmm, there’s something about the number 8 this week. We are in the 8th month, Cohen pleads guilty on 8 counts, Manafort is found guilty on 8 counts….
BREAKING: As President Trump's former campaign chairman Manafort is found guilty in court on multiple counts, the president's former personal lawyer Cohen pleads guilty in different court to multiple counts in different case.
Absolutely … but also remember that Manafort is going to be tried on a bunch of other stuff as well. His life will be trips from jail to court room back to jail for the foreseeable future …
TRUMP BEHIND THE 8 BALL as his campaign manager found guilty by FED jury on 8 counts while his fixer pleads guilty to 8 counts in A NY courthouse #8isEnough
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea appears to implicate the President in a knowing violation of campaign finance laws, with the payment of hush money to advance the Trump campaign. This is the first guilty plea directly alleging potential criminal activity by the President.
It should be against the law for a President to pardon someone he told to commit a crime. The power to pardon was not for this purpose. I guess our founding fathers did not think the American people would elect/vote for a criminal. Anyone who voted for this man voted for a criminal. If these same people say that people crossing the border “committed a crime” when they have not been tried then they have to admit that Orange-Turd in the WH clearly committed a crime too.
@maddow Rachel, do you think the jury was unable to reach consensus on 10 of the 18 counts because they could not match the evidence to each of those counts?
Amidst all the noise, the pleas, the convictions, the split screens, etc, here's what matters — Michael Cohen stood in court and said that the President of the United States directed him to commit a crime https://t.co/LuMWacJ94S
Do people understand the significance of this? Agolf Twitler was just coming off of the Access Hollywood tape fiasco & had Cohen pay off a mistress which would have certainly caused damage to him just before 77,000 people voted for him in 3 states leading to his election win.
Heading to the Senate floor to speak on my amendment to block the President from punishing and intimidating his critics by arbitrarily revoking security clearances. Watch live: https://t.co/SXbdFodEz1
My wife Franni has been saying for months that Trump won’t pardon Manafort—because he doesn’t have to. Her theory is simple and chilling. Manafort knows that if he talks, the Russians will seek retribution. https://t.co/5moCr9Shgk
JUST IN: Stormy Daniels on Cohen plea deal: "Michael [Avenatti] and I are vindicated and we look forward to the apologies from the people who claimed we were wrong." https://t.co/QjJ8J1SKhn
Cohen committed crimes "In co-ordination with, and at the direction of" @realDonaldTrump . Thus, President appears to be co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor of a federal crime.
Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?
Turn on to MSNBC now and I see Omarousa ( if I spelt her name correct), this is why the News media are discredited, she is no friend of Democrats and the more Liberal groups cuddle to her the more credibility you loose cant forget her attitude during the Election, remember bow down to Trump how in the world do give her all this coverage even if she is taking Trump down now
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Good afternoon, df – and everyone!
it was never real. All posturing.
The media allows the GOP to frame that all DEMs do is increase the deficit. You could not convince a Republican that the GOP is the party of deficits, greed, and pilfer of our treasury. All they know in their pitiful minds is the “economy” is doing great because THEY have a job with tiny raises but is reduced by higher insurance premiums.
Morning DF! ❤ I feel Kashana’s pain! Morning NW, thank you again! Morning TOD! 🎆
Morning, Gazelle!
Back to 1950
Some of us have grandfathers who died of black lung and cancer related health issues caused by coal mining. People go down the mines because they don’t see any options. Because she grew up with coal burning my mother had a tendency to asthma and died because her lungs couldn’t fight an infection. Coal will get you 6 feet of Real Estate all right. On his day off from golfing Donald should try hanging out
in a nice mine shaft.
My grandfather was a coal miner, too, and – back in the 1950s when he passed away – the doctor said he was “chronologically one age, but physically much older.” He had to go into the coal mines at age 11, as the oldest son, to help support the family (which had come across from Germany in the late 1800s). Never forgot that.
Damn trump and the other GOP freaks WHO DO NOT CARE.
Trump’s Tinpot Dictatorship goes on nominating know-nothings like Ms. Kraninger for top government positions in exchange for political favors.
Kathleen Kraninger helped set up the deal (with bad actor private prison agencies like GEO group) in order to profit from separating 3,000 children from their parents. So now President Double Down is nominating her to run the Consumer Protection Bureau – of which she knows nothing. Of course she cannot answer questions in Congress – but will be confirmed to the CFPB this week if not stopped. Is she a Russian sympathizer,
just curious.
This is Truly a superior podcast…
When i feel sad…this lifts my spirit…smilin
Sweet!
h/t BJ
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/2018-midterms-trump-red-wave-gop-base-delusional-fake-news.html
I look at it this way. Those 35-40% of his base should all be considered Russian assets…and go from there.
OMG. Go, Pete!
Can someone please post this? We need to rise our voices before it’s too late
https://mobile.twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1031897776962064385
Here you go. Great thread…
The Manafort jury just sent another note:
I think this bodes well for some guilty verdicts.
I will wait for the court to announce the verdict(s) in the Manfort case …. too much speculation going on at this time
I am too tense to take all the speculation …. I guess I am a coward
It’s hard to breathe in the Pacific Northwest because of the fires. It’s also hard to breathe in coal country. Hope the jury verdict puts Manafort in the slammer or we won’t be able to breathe.
I have been thinking of you and your air. We in Montana also have very bad air. Hope you stay well.
I predict that they will come back about noon pacific time, which is about 3pm eastern time. I hope I am not reading this incorrectly when they say they can’t reach a verdict “on a single count”, it they mean they can’t agree on ANY counts? Is this a hung jury? I hope not. I am worried…..
Coming back this soon is crazy. How can they go through all that material and each count so quickly.
VERDICT for Manafort…….
on 17 of 18 counts…….not sure if they’ll be held for the 18th.
Mr. Hogg, I am with you all the way!
Good afternoon to all you defenders of truth and justice. 😉
Afternoon yardarm756
Hoping for a great afternoon of fixer-flips and 18 counts of guilty 🙂
I just sat up a little straighter in my chair. Ha! 🙂
Some of my OFA team have gotten involved with Indivisible, as I have. There are great activists in both.
I am tired of DEMs having to cleanup what the GOP tears down and F’s up.
Good afternoon/morning to all.
I, too, am weary of the Dems having to cleanup their messes. UGH!
Will he appear in an orange jumpsuit and be jailed pending his trial?
We’ll find out soon enough!
No, if he does a plea deal he will be out on his own recognizes. They only go to jail if they go against his plea deal. I think Papadoupolas needs to go to jail since he wants to renege on this plea deal. If he is not cooperating then he needs to go to jail.
How does that saying go? “Fool me once, shame on you….Fool me twice shame on me…..
You got it! Ugh.
This will stay on the news cycle no matter WHAT Orange-Twitler does. I hope they stop showing his stupid rally tonight or do a split screen but it’s muted. I wonder if they give him a heads up when bad news is coming so he schedules a rally. I thought he was on vacation golfing.
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Paging Avenatti!
Found!
34yo and NINE deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Honestly, this saddens me.
So sorry to hear that.
Ras!!!!!
Michael Cohen reaches plea deal with prosecutors in NY…..Trump twitter rant in 4.3.2.1…….and scene!
Hopefully, it’ll be “Curtains!” for trump – soon.
Wonder if trump will cancel his flight to West Virginia later today, because of “snow.”
Nope.
He will use that rally paid by our dollars to trash the Prosecutors.
Nah, he’ll go and whine about every bit of it. SAD.
I won’t be watching, for sure.
NEVER!!!!
Cohen flips, the Manafort jury is about to find him guilty, and I’m off for the next two days! What more can a hard working tax payer ask for?
I know….a Glass of Wine and some Cheese & Pop Corn 😉
Wine is okay, but brothers like sip on that Hen-dog
LOLz
Only the best people……..riiiigggghhhhht!
Cohen is being charged with bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign violations.
Campaign finance fraud.
Yep, that money paid to Stormy and other payments that were not reported during the campaign.
Cohen’s smiling.
Another warm year to show that Climate Change is real. Have you noticed that the water coming out of the “cold” faucet is very warm?
Cohen is going to be on the rotisserie for quite some time. His crimes are a mile wide and 10 miles deep.
I remember asking when is something going to happen, it seemed like things were dragging alone sooooo slow. And now, shit done got real, real fast.
Just one to keep this news about Michael Cohen & a possible Manafort Verdict…..celebratory.
So sorry, without meaning to….I somehow got this beautiful Aretha’s Performance….posted Twice 😦
We can listen to it twice, then! 🙂
I really like and care about these young people but this is an unforced and offensive error.
I’m not offended by the word “old” on my own account, as I sit here totally and blissfully retired, but I am about discounting ALL older people as though they have nothing left to offer, including the great Nancy Pelosi. I still came across a bit haughty – while trying to also salute him for being involved.
Right on.
I wound up getting a lot of pushback from Bernie Bros and AOC fans but I couldn’t let it go without saying something.
I’m glad you did. He’s still learning!
Only our culture does not respect our wise elders. I would say that Pelosi is “wise” with lots of knowledge that he and many young people can learn if they want to make this their either long term or short term career. I have NO problem with “career” politicians as long as they don’t forget who they work for and why they are there–not to get rich.
And this was to the chastiser telling us not to chastise…HA!
Good point – and you “won” that one, in my book!
So apparently this kid didn’t know or didn’t care about Nancy Pelosi’s accomplishments while in office. Nor does he know about Rubio and Ryan and Cruz. To have youth and fire is one thing, to be ignorant of history is quite another.
These were my comments
YEE HAW
This nails it.
Gee – The Three Musketeers don’t look as happy in those pics, as they used to look!
And I laugh.
Lets add: Don Jr., Roger Stone, and the big rotten fish the Orange Turd himself.
Some of the weirdest lookin’ people IN THE WORLD!
The Trump Criminal Enterprise has been exposed.
nath! Good to see you. Isn’t it great? Not that it’s anything to put smiles on our faces, but great that it’s being exposed and there’s nothing trump can do about that.
“Michael Michael & Manafort” sounds like a law firm.
A terrible law firm!
Ha! I like it. (Or a singing group in prison – I like that, too.)
OMG! Kaboom! Love this. 👍👏😍👍👏
❤
Good grief. Help us go through this terrible journey.
My man! (absent PBO, of course!)
That Orange Turd turned the WH into the sWamp House.
Mueller should have Flynn and Cohen to PUBLIC apologize to HRC
It’s going to be hard to say that “Cohen is a good guy” but then Orange Satan still says Russia did not attack our elections.
Though 3-5 years might sound low, but trust me when I tell you that three years is a long time in prison, just count back three years from today. And that’s how long three years is, and for someone that has never been in jail before, three years is even longer.
Another note to Judge Ellis, hopefully is they have reached consensus.
2nd Note today…..I smell a Verdict.
I blame the judge for the difficulty that the jury had with the other counts….he confused the jury…along with his damaging gcomments..
Hummmm, doesn’t sound good. I really think the Judge did an awful job if they could only reach a verdict on 8 counts.
Wow…..It’s a Day with Loads of News.
My goodness, everyone is shooting their load.
Way too late …. as in WAY TOO LATE … but at least it’s being said …
Give me a freaking break, Mathews and his ilk played footsies with Trump and the GOP forever.
Huge F-U to the media who acts like they did their job! NOT! They slobbered all over him and showed all this horrible behavior for ratings. ALL Whores!
Yes. Really pissed me off when they’d drop everything to take an incoming call from Trump or cut to one of his campaign rallies and show it in full…when PRESIDENT Obama couldn’t get coverage for actual WORK he did.
GUILITY of 5 tax charges!
KABOOM as they say …
Manafort found guilty on ALL 8 counts.
Manafort is looking at 50 years even at the low end of sentencing on all 8 counts.
WHACK ….
I said Manafort would be found guilty on 15 counts, I was wrong, so sue me LOL.
He should be found guilty on all 18 Don. The judge did not help in this matter. He purposely made inappropriate comments, would not let the prosecution list the exhibits for each count, etc. I can imagine how frustrating it must have been to try to figure out what all the 18 counts were. I do not blame this jury I blame the judge. He needs to retire.
i so agree with you…this is on the judge
My Giddy Story.
I just can’t stop Smiling. Manafort and Cohen. Then a Video tape later…..I can’t contain myself.
Methinks you enjoyed that last line a little too much, Bob. Ha! I don’t blame ya!
testing … my comments are not positing
Hmmmmmm, there’s something about the number 8 this week. We are in the 8th month, Cohen pleads guilty on 8 counts, Manafort is found guilty on 8 counts….
47 minus 2 is toast!
they can retry on the mistrial counts, correct?
Absolutely … but also remember that Manafort is going to be tried on a bunch of other stuff as well. His life will be trips from jail to court room back to jail for the foreseeable future …
1001% You are Correct.
It’s up to the Mueller Team.
😀
Yup …
This judge should retire. He should NEVER hear a case ever!
How will McConnell and Ryan spin this? Is Cohen Trolling Trump?
It should be against the law for a President to pardon someone he told to commit a crime. The power to pardon was not for this purpose. I guess our founding fathers did not think the American people would elect/vote for a criminal. Anyone who voted for this man voted for a criminal. If these same people say that people crossing the border “committed a crime” when they have not been tried then they have to admit that Orange-Turd in the WH clearly committed a crime too.
Likely scenario …. but, Manafort may decide he’d rather have Fed protection than rot in jail …
Also, I liked this comment 🙂
Me too.
I will always call Al Franken my Senator.
I totally agree about that “Russians will seek retribution” – thought about that earlier today. What else could it be!
one day, it will be members of the trump crime family that is found guilty;
… there is no redeeming quality in the majority of the trump crime family;
…. hopefully, they will be brought down in a consecutive order that matches their vindictiveness;
….. so many pompous and evil-hearted criminals in one family
This needs to be splashed across the newspapers and airwaves until he steps down. This is a crime, he is a criminal!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/08/21/keep-chatting-18/
^^^THIS!
We had a saying at the end of the workday, when I worked for the Navy:
8 for 8 and out the gate!
I hope they’re all behind the prison gates soon.
The Count on Sesame Street just declared the number 8 as today’s number! (Kidding!) 😂
lol
Turn on to MSNBC now and I see Omarousa ( if I spelt her name correct), this is why the News media are discredited, she is no friend of Democrats and the more Liberal groups cuddle to her the more credibility you loose cant forget her attitude during the Election, remember bow down to Trump how in the world do give her all this coverage even if she is taking Trump down now