Video of Trump being booed at #NationalChampionship game. For those saying that’s not “booing,” I can assure you that tens of thousands of people cheering doesn’t sound like a low, consistent rumble drowning out chants of “USA.” pic.twitter.com/Kg25lN1xAu
— Allen Clifton (@Allen_Clifton) January 9, 2018
When a Republican President is booed in the a Deep South, that’s not a sign of popularity.
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate (SFPD)
An undocumented immigrant from Mexico who Donald Trump trashed in an August 2016 campaign speech has been found not guilty of murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of Kathryn Steinle.
The man on trial, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was found guilty only of possession of a firearm by a felon.
The jury also found him not guilty of assault with a firearm.
The backlash to his release into the community crescendoed when Donald J. Trump invoked Ms. Steinle’s killing as he campaigned for president. Mr. Trump rallied national support for his hard-line immigration agenda, which ultimately helped to catapult him into office.
In a major speech on immigration in August 2016, Mr. Trump argued that “countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our laws.”
Mr. Trump then named several young people who he said had become victims of policies he considered failures. Among those he named was Ms. Steinle, who Mr. Trump said had been “gunned down in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, by an illegal immigrant, deported five previous times.”
“And they knew he was no good,” Mr. Trump said of the man who had shot her.
Except The Donald was wrong.
Again.
And again.
The GOP must get on board with stopping Donald Trump. The man is selling out this country piece by piece.
He must be impeached. As soon as possible.
From his Twitter rants today.
Trump’s latest Tweets
Why does Trump want to be Kim Jong-un’s friend?
why does he trust Putin over American intelligence?
Why is he still obsessed with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? Why does he feel so inadequate?
Why is he still in office?
New Jersey First Lady Mary Pat Christie. (NJ.GOV)
Mary Pat Christie, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s wife, was nabbed during a “statewide crackdown on distracted driving,” according to NJ.COM:
A statewide crackdown on distracted driving ordered by Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney general earlier this year led to a surprising catch in New Jersey’s first lady, Mary Pat Christie, NJ Advance Media has learned.
To her credit, unlike others with influence in Trenton, the first lady did not play the “Do you know who I am?” card after being pulled over, dash cam video of the traffic stop shows.
As it turns out, how the first lady wound up getting that ticket is perhaps more interesting than why.
After New Jersey traffic fatalities jumped 8 percent in 2016, state Attorney General Christopher Porrino requested and received $1.2 million in federal grant money to launch a campaign against texting and other distracted driving that was behind the rise.
NJ Advance Media reports Mary Pat Christie was stopped while driving with a cellphone in her hand on April 10 in Bernardsville by a police officer assigned to the grant-funded program that targeted texting and other distracted driving.
She didn’t identify herself as Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s wife. But she did tell the officer she wasn’t making a call. The officer told her she could not have the phone in her hand while driving.
The officer told her she was getting a ticket because he was on the distracting driving grant detail.
She pleaded guilty and paid a $250 fine.
The warning signs were there in Charlottesville. The Virginia State Police gave warnings to local officials, including a warning that there might be a car attack.
According to the preliminary report, Charlottesville officials did not implement many recommendations after the Virginia Fusion Center concluded “that participants were planning to be aggressive/violent,” and despite state analysts’ “concerns of mass casualty event, including (a) car attack.”
Counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed when a car, allegedly driven by white nationalist James Alex Fields, plowed into people opposing the “Unite The Right” march. Fields is charged with second-degree-murder, hit and run, and several counts of malicious wounding.
A woman was killed.
Why was this ideologically-driven attack called terrorism?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller
CNN reports, “A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.”
It’s happening.
And Donald Trump can tweet all he wants. But the charges are coming Monday.
More from CNN:
On Friday, top lawyers who are helping to lead the Mueller probe, including veteran prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, were seen entering the court room at the DC federal court where the grand jury meets to hear testimony in the Russia investigation.
Reporters present saw a flurry of activity at the grand jury room, but officials made no announcements.
Shortly after President Donald Trump abruptly fired then-FBI Director James Comey, Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel. Mueller took the reins of a federal investigation that Comey first opened in July 2016 in the middle of the presidential campaign.
Justice is coming for Donald Trump. And it will be blind.
He may think himself capable of shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York and getting away with it.
So far as we know, that’s fiction.
Maybe a dream Trump yearns for.
But these “high crimes and misdemeanors?” Well, we’re about to see exactly what is there.
At last.
A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency.
The associate, Felix Sater, wrote a series of emails to Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which he boasted about his ties to Mr. Putin and predicted that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would highlight Mr. Trump’s savvy negotiating skills and be a political boon to his candidacy.
“Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Mr. Sater wrote in an email. “I will get all of Putins [sic] team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
“Our boy?” Is Donald Trump really some group’s “boy?” And what do they want from him in return?
What does Vladimir Putin want in return?
Read Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker.
IF you have not heard of Andy Borowitz, he’s the best satirist, in my estimation, since the legendary Art Buchwald.
Buchwald had Nixon, and more.
Borowitz now has Trump, the Alt-Right, and more.
Borowitz “reports” that Donald Trump is unhappy with the sun and the coverage the sun has received over Monday’s Great American Eclipse.
“The sun thinks the world revolves around it,” Trump said. “Sad.”
Trump said the sun was a “big problem” that his predecessor, Barack Obama, did nothing to solve, but that that situation was about to change.
“It will be handled—we handle everything,” Trump said, adding that a preëmptive military strike on the sun was “very much on the table.”
Anthony Scaramucci
Yes, it happened.
Turning Left readers are always very well informed, so this is not a breaking story.
Anthony Scaramucci was fired by President Donald Trump.
Rolling Stone ranks his 10 days in the White House, from “biblical murder analogies to denials of auto-fellatio, the Mooch’s brief tenure will be, at the very least, memorable.”
There was a false report today that Scaramucci’s wife was leaving him, filed for divorce, because he posted nude photos of her and loved politics more than she.
What’s real?
Anthony Scaramucci lasted 10 days in the White House.
Here are notable firings and resignations from the Trump Administration, from our friends at LATimes.com:
That’s a list to rival, well, any previous administration.
Candidate Donald Trump, The Don, Donnie “Make-America-Great-Again” T., boasted that he knew the best people. He would hire only the best people.
But he’s treating the West Wing like an episode of that little-watched The Apprentice, even calling the Cabinet Room as the “boardroom.”
“We’ll see you in the boardroom,” President Trump tells reporters ahead of Cabinet meeting https://t.co/GB6xsijuGK
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) July 31, 2017
Donald Trump, the most insecure man in America, governing, if you can call it that, out of spite for President Obama.
Who is next to go?
Bingo, anyone?
Who will be next to go in the Trump Administration.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has eyes for you.
A friend suggested this to me, and it creeped me out royally.
Try this.
Above, a picture of Sarah Huckabee Sanders not answering questons. Sarah is the principal deputy press secretary in the Trump White House.
Whatever that is.
The Trump White House, I mean.
What a mess.
But, seriously, try this.
Cover one of Sarah’s eyes in the photo above. Start with the right eye — as you are looking at the photo.
Weird, right?
Now, cover the left eye.
<waiting…>
Did you jump in your seat at what you saw?
As my friend says, “One of her eyes looks like she wants to murder you, and the other eye looks like she can’t believe she has to deal with this bullshit every day.”
Had me rolling with laughter.
And then I stopped.
And covered the left eye again.
And quivered where I sat.
