[Fire & Fury: 'Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President']

And another article:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-trumps-white-house-1071504

Edited to add a tweet w/ the photo.

 

[Looks Like Franken Is Done]

Steve Bannon must be howling with laughter. 

[K. T. McFarland's emails show team Trumps treason]

Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia

WASHINGTON — When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official during the presidential transition and then lied to his colleagues about the interactions.

But emails among top transition officials, provided or described to The New York Times, suggest that Mr. Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents filed on Friday, showed that Mr. Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.

While Mr. Trump has disparaged as a Democratic “hoax” any claims that he or his aides had unusual interactions with Russian officials, the records suggest that the Trump transition team was intensely focused on improving relations with Moscow and was willing to intervene to pursue that goal despite a request from the Obama administration that it not sow confusion about official American policy before Mr. Trump took office.

On Dec. 29, a transition adviser to Mr. Trump, K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama administration in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Mr. Trump’s victory. The sanctions could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,” she wrote in the emails obtained by The Times

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/russia-mcfarland-flynn-trump-emails.html?smid=tw-share

[Fucking All Franken?]

On 11/17/2017 at 1:43 PM, RockHardNYC said:

I suspect there is a good reason why Al Franken is supporting the call for an investigation into his conduct.

I agree with this and believe there is a reason Franken is handling things this way.  Add this to the Russian bots & Alt right wing pushing the story on twitter, and I smell a rat.

[The Good Doctor TV]

I just started the show by watching on demand.  I can't believe how fast it sucked me in. 

["We don't get a democracy because God handed it down from the sky, we get a democracy because we demand it and we defend it and we insist on it."]

This was a great show.  From what I have read, this is the tip of the iceberg with Panama and other Trump properties.

[Ex-Russian Ambassador: List Of Trump Officials I’ve Met Is ‘So Long']

Troll level 10.  Kislyak is great at what he does.

[Preview]

Is there a preview button to let you preview a new post before hitting "submit topic" when creating a new topic?

[Ivanka's time in the barrel? (Ivanka & the money-launderer)]

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that criminals (especially Russians) seem to find their way to Trump and his properties.

[Ivanka's time in the barrel? (Ivanka & the money-launderer)]

Richard Engel has a special that is airing tonight on MSNBC about this topic.

NBC News article: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/panama-tower-carries-trump-s-name-ties-organized-crime-n821706
 

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Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-panama/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Ivanka and the fugitive from Panama

Exclusive: How an alleged fraudster in Panama, working with Donald Trump's daughter, helped make Trump's first international hotel venture a success. The broker was in business with a money-launderer and two criminals from the former Soviet Union. Then he fled.

... snip

Three years after getting involved in the Trump Ocean Club, Nogueira was arrested by Panamanian authorities on charges of fraud and forgery, unrelated to the Trump project. Released on $1.4 million bail, he later fled the country.

He left behind a trail of people who claim he cheated them, including over apartments in the Trump project, resulting in at least four criminal cases that eight years later have still to be judged.

Nogueira, 43, denies the charges and told Reuters in an email: “I am no Angel but not Devil either.”

Ivanka Trump declined to comment on her dealings with Nogueira. A White House spokesman referred questions to the Trump Organization. Alan Garten, the organization’s chief legal officer, said: “No one at the Trump Organization, including the Trump family, has any recollection of ever meeting or speaking with this individual.”