Section: TPM (USA)
More of Rudy’s Lawlessness Abroad
Last week I flagged this stunning and egregious story about Rudy Giuliani, the President’s private lawyer, going abroad to use to use the President’s power to enlist other governments to attack President Trump’s enemies. Giuliani has been globe-trotting like this for two years. In most case, we don’t really know what...
More on Russia’s Version of ‘The Jews Will Not Replace Us’
Below I mentioned this article penned by one of Vladimir Putin’s advisors claiming that the incoming Ukrainian President might cleanse eastern Ukraine of ethnic Russians and repopulate it with Jews. TPM Reporter Josh Kovensky speaks Russian (before coming to TPM he worked at the English language Kyiv Post in Ukraine) and he’s written...
‘The Jews Will Not Replace Us!’
An advisor to Vladimir Putin suggests that Ukraine’s new President may cleanse the eastern portion of the country of ethnic Russians and repopulate the country with Jews. President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy is Jewish by birth. From the Moscow Times … Glazyev’s blog post on an obscure nationalist website appeared on the day that...
Trump Campaign Senior Adviser Posts Fake Bombing Video To Slam Omar
A senior adviser to President Trump’s 2020 campaign posted a video of a 2015 Ukrainian missile firing, misidentifying it as rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza, in an attempt to attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has been critical of U.S. support of Israel. In the tweet, Pierson claims that “650 rockets” were fired into Israel, four...
This is An Insanely Big Deal
I need to return to the fact that the country’s biggest paper reported this week that the President’s personal lawyer is conducting unofficial diplomacy abroad, apparently mixed with his own private business and investments, in which he offers friendly treatment from the President of the United States in exchange for those governments...
Rudy Off the Books
Hmmm. Yeah, someone needs to sit down with Rudy and arrange a deposition. From TPM Reader JB … Just read your great editor’s brief on Barr’s lawlessness and Rudy’s efforts in Ukraine. I just wanted to point out that now that Rudy has acknowledged working on the Ukrainian prosecutor this Times article from last year on Ukrainian...
Fourteen Mueller Spinoff Cases Are Now In Bill Barr’s Hands
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation may be over, but the fourteen separate investigations that he spun off to U.S Attorney’s Offices around the country now have a new caretaker: Attorney General Bill Barr. Given Barr’s demonstrated willingness to protect the Trump White House from investigations the President finds...
Rudy > Solomon > Fox > Barr
Quick follow up on last night’s post about Rudy Giuliani and Bill Barr already working to target Trump’s 2020 political opponents with investigations. I’ve mentioned before that John Solomon for a couple decades has been the go-to guy for Republican operatives to peddle their oppo research. This has all been more out in the open...
Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar Dead At 87
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87. Lugar died at the Inova Fairfax Heart and...
A Running List Of The Probes That Pose The Greatest Threat To Trumpworld
It was never just about Russia. When Donald Trump entered the Oval Office in January 2017, he brought with him an ever-evolving cloud of scandal that has hung low over his entire administration. There are currently several ongoing congressional, city, state and federal investigations into Trump’s personal finances and sexual relationships,...
