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There is a person of interest in the Russia investigation in the Whiter House (WAPO)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-probe-reaches-current-white-house-official-people-familiar-with-the-case-say/2017/05/19/7685adba-3c99-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_fbiprobe-banner-315pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.f9e458cbb49a
Trump told the Russian ambassador Comey is a nutjob and they can do business now that he fired him (NYT)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?_r=0
The Mueller investigation is looking at a coverup in the White House (McClatchy)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article151565947.html
Tom67
(40 posts)This is so serious. I am worried for our country
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)Then he's on his own.
Tom67
(40 posts)watching all this crap unfold is bring me to my knees to pray
Not a Christian here, even though I dig the teachings of ole JC, but I've definitely been amping up my chanting and visualization!
yodermon
(6,143 posts)mopinko
(70,282 posts)no more than an hour. that was the time line when i turned on the teevee.
Hekate
(90,928 posts)If he does somehow get the news, he will stew in his own juices all the way there, and arrive ready to blow his stack.
Either way
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)What a lovely family break from it all. Speculation that Kushner is the unnamed person of interest being investigated too. That apple didn't fall far from the tree.
No excuse for a lawyer (including Pence and Sessions, both of whom had to pass the Ethics bar too and keep up their license w ethics credits annually). It's just unbelievable to me that Sessions is getting away w perjury, even with time to think about his answers and put them in writing, and virtually ignoring his recusal. Any ordinary lawyer would be disbarred, or at the very least disciplined.
Kushner went to Harvard Law School, though I'm not sure if he ever got licensed. This stuff is drilled into you. Not that you have to be a lawyer to figure out that you do not do the stupid things which DT'S keystone cops did.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)Love to be a fly on the wall , but sure as hell glad I'm not on that plane . The poor AF crew . At least McMaster is there,I think.
mopinko
(70,282 posts)lets hope there is one. comedy gold. black comedy, but still...
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)rzemanfl
(29,577 posts)you'd think you were on a different planet. WTF? is my paradigm these days.
murielm99
(30,779 posts)Three days with no power!
Some of the major newspapers are doing a good job, but that is not enough these days.
rzemanfl
(29,577 posts)n/t
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)I missed during that time was the Houston Astros making their way to the World Series so they could be swept.
Six weeks from now we could have a different President or be under Marshall Law!
rzemanfl
(29,577 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)underpants
(182,969 posts)Whiter House - not sure if that was on purpose but it's funny.
So McClatchy has jumped into the NYT WAPO scoop fight? Oh Lord Snowflake, look out.
chillfactor
(7,587 posts)it is difficult to keep up..
barbtries
(28,816 posts)i know. i'm going on vacation and unless the president resigns or dies or is taken out of the WH in handcuffs, i'm not paying attention. that's 5 whole days, do you think i can do it?
Amaryllis
(9,526 posts)the faster the news breaks.
barbtries
(28,816 posts)it was 3 days before i learned that Princess Di had died. i couldn't believe i was that out of touch. now with smart phones i don't like my chances. i've got WP and NYT popping up on my phone with the latest breaking all the time.
on the other hand, i listen to music more and watch movies more, JUST to get away from it. this past what 7-10 days have been extraordinary. i like it though because he'll be gone that much sooner.
lets see how much kittie litter the 1% can spread all over this steaming pile of crap! After all it is the weekend, I hear the coke bros are in town!
murielm99
(30,779 posts)barbtries
(28,816 posts)it is healthy to let it go for a while. even necessary imo
The Blue Flower
(5,448 posts)Who knew?
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,339 posts)Didn't you know it's late afternoon?
Didn't you know Trump is on an airplane?
Didn't you know we are snowballing at a rapid pace?
Weeeeeee!!!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It's their schedule for release.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)I'm 47 years old and at any other time in my life, ANY ONE of these stories would have dominated the news for days, if not weeks. Now we get 3 in one day and no one can keep up anymore.
It seems like the sane times were decades ago, not months.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)brush
(53,949 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)R B Garr
(17,000 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)they misspelled Menschie's
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)ecstatic
(32,760 posts)I almost wish the NYT, WP, etc. would coordinate between themselves on who will get credit for scoops so they can dole these stories out in a more manageable fashion. Serious shit is getting buried under all these headlines!
rurallib
(62,471 posts)Either way I spit Pepsi all over my keyboard
JHB
(37,163 posts)He's now several time zones ahead of the US. By the time we wake up, he'll have been running loose for hours.
dammit i refuse to stay up all night looking at the bbc...
so how many Bernnie Sanders would have been endorsed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREAKIN CANDIE SOLDIERS!!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Every day it's something new.
Like McCain said, Watergate took months, but this is going so fast that it seems like it's hours.
not fooled
(5,803 posts)What a way to win friends and influence people.
Seriously, as if the motivation among FBI personnel to avenge Comey wasn't high enough before...
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Jahhhhr-uhd
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)It would explain Jared's recent shit eating grin.
NNadir
(33,580 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)her doing the dirty work that he wouldn't be able to get caught doing.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)This time has been just like that. You cannot not pay attention for more than a minute or two or there is no telling that will happen!
calimary
(81,557 posts)I don't think I can add to that.
ginny skinny
(182 posts)"No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up."
flamingdem
(39,333 posts)Any ideaaaaa?