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03-09-2018 , 02:09 PM

#86201

Matty Lice

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Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Opens Door to Further Trouble for Trump

The case of the adult film actress, Stephanie Clifford, who uses the stage-name Stormy Daniels, may not get past even the first considerable obstacles. But if her court case proceeds, Mr. Trump and his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, may have to testify in depositions, several lawyers said in interviews on Thursday. Ms. Clifford’s suit could possibly also provide evidence of campaign spending violations, which would bolster a pending Federal Election Commission complaint against Mr. Trump’s campaign.

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Ms. Clifford’s agreement with Mr. Cohen stipulated that they would resolve disputes in the confidential arbitration proceedings. Assuming she does not blink — and her lawyer has said she won’t — it will fall to a judge in Los Angeles, where the suit was filed, to decide whether to compel Ms. Clifford to return to arbitration or allow the case to go forward in court, where Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump could find themselves open to the discovery process, during which both sides share documents and information.

Trump may testify? Lmao if that happens. Trump speaking as David Dennison would be good TV.

03-09-2018 , 02:30 PM

#86202

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Coulda been president, maybe will be.

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/stat...74141465006082

03-09-2018 , 02:33 PM

#86203

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https://twitter.com/brianstelter/sta...63622083407872

Long tail.

03-09-2018 , 02:34 PM

#86204

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https://twitter.com/brianstelter/sta...16942868959232

03-09-2018 , 02:57 PM

#86205

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https://twitter.com/RabbiShmuley/sta...65491463720960

03-09-2018 , 03:03 PM

#86206

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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION -- “Refugee skeptic lands top State Department refugee job,” by Nahal Toosi: “A White House aide close to senior policy adviser Stephen Miller who has advocated strict limits on immigration into the U.S. has been selected for a top State Department post overseeing refugee admissions, according to current and former officials. Andrew Veprek’s appointment as a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) is alarming pro-immigration activists who fear that President Donald Trump is trying to effectively end the U.S. refugee resettlement program.” http://politi.co/2Dd5vD7

03-09-2018 , 03:08 PM

#86207

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More political termites.

03-09-2018 , 03:17 PM

#86208

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Desparate people are going to die in scores because people like awval thought it would be funny to have a reality TV clown for president.

03-09-2018 , 03:22 PM

#86209

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RYAN ZINKE SPENT $139K ON DOORS—HERE ARE ALL THE TRUMP OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF MISSPENDING TAXPAYER DOLLARS

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Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Last week Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson cancelled an order for a $31,000 dining set for his office.

Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior

In December, Zinke received criticism for a $6,250 helicopter ride he took from Virginia to Washington to ride horses with Vice President Mike Pence. Last November his department’s Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote in a letter to Zinke’s office that an investigation into his travel expenses had been held up because of “incomplete documentation” for several trips he took. The investigation is looking at trips like his $12,000 chartered flight from Las Vegas to near his hometown in Montana.

Tom Price, former Secretary of Health and Human Services

Scrutiny of Zinke’s flights followed former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price’s resignation in September 2017 after Politico revealed that he repeatedly used chartered private planes for trips that cost taxpayers more than $400,000. Officials are expected to fly on commercial airlines unless there is no alternative.

Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s chartered flights and first class travel have also come under the microscope. In February The Washington Post reported that Pruitt took a $1,641.43 first-class flight from Washington to New York last June after Trump announced America’s intention to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Pruitt also cost taxpayers $36,068.50 when he and a number of staffers rushed on a military jet to New York to catch a flight to Rome.

Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has also defended a flight that he and his wife Louise Linton took to Fort Knox before the solar eclipse last August. Yet the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General is reviewing the circumstances and reasons for the trip.

David Shulkin, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Last month Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was found in an inspector general’s report to have breached ethics rules by improperly accepting tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament in Britain. The department, it found, subsidized his wife Merle Bari’s $4,300 flight during the trip where Shulkin mixed official business and sightseeing at a cost of at least $122,334.

The administration’s spending of taxpayer money should come as no surprize as the “tone from the top” has been set by President Donald Trump’s frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, said Walter Shaub, former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics last week.

In all, Trump has spends roughly $3.6 million each time he shuttles back and forth between the resort in Florida, the White House, and his other properties. Since his inauguration Trump has taken 14 trips to Mar-a-Lago.

The best looters people.

03-09-2018 , 03:26 PM

#86210

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The way the door story is being reported (or the headlines at least) seems like they're trying to make it sound like he bought ornate $139K doors which from what I've read is not at all the case. These pieces of **** are doing a ton of stuff they should be attacked for, I'm not sure this door situation is one of them tbh.

03-09-2018 , 03:37 PM

#86211

JoltinJake

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So spending $139k of taxpayer money on three double doors is totally fine? C'mon man, they're ****ing doors. That's like three years of pay for many Americans.

03-09-2018 , 03:43 PM

#86212

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Trump is going to keep escalating until he stops seeing things he doesn’t want to see on Fox&Friends.

03-09-2018 , 03:44 PM

#86213

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The doors have to be soundproof to the FBI, while simultaneously having receivers in them that transmit encrypted and undetectable data to the Russians. Frankly, $139k is pennies relative to what those kind of doors should cost. You should be praising him.

03-09-2018 , 03:48 PM

#86214

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Originally Posted by JoltinJake

So spending $139k of taxpayer money on three double doors is totally fine? C'mon man, they're ****ing doors. That's like three years of pay for many Americans.

Sure it sounds high. I don't really know how high but I don't think it's because the doors are especially fancy, maybe I'm wrong. Would it surprise you to learn that the government does not do projects like this efficiently? Is that new or unique to this administration?

03-09-2018 , 03:55 PM

#86215

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Medicare has lower administrative costs (2%) then the private sector. 139k doors get bought when there is a culture of excess, that the multiple people in the chain who had to see this were not absolutely flabbergasted at it.

03-09-2018 , 03:59 PM

#86216

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Originally Posted by uke_master

03-09-2018 , 04:04 PM

#86217

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"Dennis Rodman praises Trump's plan to meet with Kim"

is an actual headline in the Washington Post today

Rodman is on the short list for next SOS.

03-09-2018 , 04:17 PM

#86218

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Rodman is on the short list for next SOS.

More of a sycophant than Rex, but definitely not pro-Russia enough. Putin would exercise his veto power.

03-09-2018 , 04:17 PM

#86219

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To be fair Zinke thought he was the Secretary of Interior Decorating.

03-09-2018 , 04:17 PM

#86220

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If Zinke wasted ~$138k of taxpayer money getting a regular door installed, why shouldn't he be attacked for that? It's kind of scandalous.

03-09-2018 , 04:21 PM

#86221

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DVaut would answer that with a text wall about how feeding the narrative that govt is wasteful is a bad long term idea. Also because $138k is chump change.

03-09-2018 , 04:28 PM

#86222

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

they're pro youtubers. a political commentary duo of 2 conservative fat black women. fox news shows love having them on to hear their unique viewpoints.

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you're in for a treat

I’m just going to guess that the fatter one is “Silk.”