Section: Daily Kos (USA)
Donald Trump’s dinner with Vladimir Putin is a middle finger to America
Just how willing is Donald Trump to show his disdain for America? So willing that he got up from his dinner, moved over to sit in private with Vladimir Putin, and joined the Russian leader to chat for an hour with only a Kremlin-provided interpreter as a witness. Did they talk about Syria? Crimea? Sanctions? Clearing up some building permits for...
News roundup: Trump campaign attempted collusion with Russian government
Yesterday evening, it was revealed that not only did Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort not only took a meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian attorney who claimed to have secret information damaging to Hillary Clinton, but that the three of them had been explicitly told, in advance, that the meeting was...
Paul Manafort’s ironclad alibi for his meeting with Donald Trump Jr.: He didn’t read the email
He didn’t read the email. Seriously. That’s his excuse. A source close to Manafort told POLITICO on Tuesday that the campaign manager hadn’t read all the way to the bottom of the email exchanges on his phone and that he didn’t even know who he was meeting with when he attended the 20 to 30-minute session. Kushner’s...
Trump Jr. says campaign didn’t follow up on collusion efforts with Russia—but is that true?
The Trump campaign’s story—or rather, Donald Trump Jr.’s story, since Jared Kushner and ex-campaign-chief Paul Manafort appear to be deep in hiding—is that Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer to discuss information damaging to Hillary Clinton. We now know that the campaign knew both that the...
Ted Cruz, from Mars, says Obama ‘facilitated Russian aggression’ and he’s ‘glad’ Trump isn’t
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz full on jumped the shark Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill, trying to sell reporters what sounded like a Kremlin-approved list of talking points to deflect from the scandal now engulfing the very highest levels of the Trump administration. Cruz dismissed Washington’s Russia “obsession” as the “Democratic...
Trump finds replacement for his abysmal press shop: The Kremlin
Not to worry, America! While Donald Trump’s communications team is busy airing every petty grievance of our man-child in chief, we’re back to getting a steady flow of information from America’s most trusted name in news: The Kremlin. That’s right—after the highly anticipated first meeting between the Don and his best bro...
White House preparing for Putin meeting by giving Trump ‘tweet-length sentences’ to remember
On Friday, Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will conduct their first face-to-face meeting. Around the world, the expectations appear to be that we are all boned. “I worry a little about this meeting because Putin is going to walk into the room very well prepared, and I’m not certain Trump will come into that room prepared,”...
G20 worries: Trump and Putin may get on too well, while rest of world gets on without America
The biggest concern the White House staff has about the upcoming G20 summit isn’t what Europe might do, or what China might do, or even what North Korea might do in response to any finger-shaking by world leaders. The White House is more concerned about the actions of Donald Trump. Specifically, they don’t know if Trump will be able...
Michael Cohen pushed out of Trump’s inner circle, into center of FBI investigation
While Donald Trump seems to be constantly increasing his legal team under Marc Kasowitz, there is one name that rarely features in his recent legal announcements—longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen. In fact, Cohen seems to have been given a quiet heave-ho from Trump’s inner circle. After years of loyal service to Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen,...
Trump blames Obama for Otto Warmbeir’s death,forgets Americans taken hostage since Trump took office
In brief comments following a joint appearance with the president of Ukraine, Donald Trump expressed his outrage at the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, an Ohio college student who was held hostage in North Korea for nearly 18 months before being returned to the United States while in a coma. “It’s a total disgrace what happened to...
