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Quelle surpris
If you do not adulate Pres Trump, you apparently are an enemy of the Country.
Jeffries tells Trump to 'keep his reckless mouth shut'
www.politico.com
... House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump could get "somebody killed" after the president accused Democrats of being the country's "greatest enemy" after Iran.
On Sunday, the president posted, "Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!" Trump also said Saturday that "Radical Left Democrats have hurt so many people with their vicious and uncaring ways" and that "Fascist Democrats will never protect America." ...
For starters...
Key Findings of the Mueller Report
www.acslaw.org
... The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
- - - The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
- - - Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
- - - A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.
Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016
- - - Russian interference in the 2016 election was "sweeping and systemic."[1]
- - - Major attack avenues included a social media "information warfare" campaign that "favored" candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3]
- - - Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]
The investigation "identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign" and established that the Trump Campaign "showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton"
- - - In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5] Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.
- - - Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."[6]
- - - Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate "forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton."[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8]
- - - The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
- - - The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump's August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.
- - - The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]
fwiw, the album of #17 is...
Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons
en.wikipedia.org
... Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons is a 1999 tribute album to pioneering country rock musician Gram Parsons, co-produced by his one-time singing partner, Emmylou Harris and featuring cover versions of songs written/co-written by or popularized by Parsons, performed by Harris, Beck, Wilco, The Pretenders, Cowboy Junkies, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Chris Hillman and many other artists.
The album was released from Almo Sounds and benefited Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's "Campaign for a Landmine Free World."
The album surveys Parsons's songwriting efforts from his time with International Submarine Band and the Flying Burrito Brothers to his solo career. ...
imo, one of the best cover albums of all-time.
Whiskeytown - A Song For you (1999)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
...
Oh my land is like a wild goose
Wanders all around everywhere
Trembles and it shakes til every tree is loose
It rolls the meadows and it rolls the nails
So take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to
It sails the rivers and it sails the tide
Some of my friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside
So take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there
I love you, darlin', now I'm leaving
I can see the sorrow in your eyes
Hope you know a lot more than you believe in
Hope the sun don't hurt you when you cry
...
The arstechnica.com article...
Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
arstechnica.com
I also having been seeing opinions along the lines of...
Morgan Stanley Issues Stark Warning on Fed Rate Outlook
www.thestreet.com
...
Key Points
- - - Morgan Stanley warns that central bank hawkishness, not weakness, now poses a risk to markets.
- - - The Fed is prioritizing inflation over growth, delaying expected rate cuts pending resolution of the Iran war.
- - - Market uncertainty persists; future rate changes depend on inflation and developments in the Middle East.
...
@#3 ... He was a coward. ...
Was he?
Or might he have been looking more to the future?
I wish I knew.
One thing I do note, however...
Fmr AG Garland's reluctance to bring charges against Pres Trump for Pres Trump's actions may have been done to show that fmr Pres Biden did not view the DoJ at the time as his (fmr Pres Biden's) personal lawyer force, as Pres Trump seems to view AG Bondi's DoJ.
So, maybe, fmr AG Garland was not a coward, but a courageous precedent-setter?