October 30, 2019

Vindman tried to correct transcript, WH wasn't having it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/politics/alexander-vindman-trump-ukraine.html

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The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.


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October 30, 2019

Hey Donnie....

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October 26, 2019

Only 10 students invited to Trump's speech at historically black college

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/25/politics/donald-trump-hbcu-speech/index.html


More than 200 people attended President Donald Trump's speech at Benedict College, but only about 10 actual students were invited to the event -- his first appearance at a historically black college, and an effort to reach out beyond his usual base of support.

Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Stephen Benjamin told CNN that out of the more than 200 invitees to the President's speech, only about 10 were actual students from the college. The others, Benjamin said, wer "brought in" from somewhere else. More than 2,100 attend the school, according to its website.

Benedict College spokeswoman Kymm Hunter later told reporters that only seven students ultimately attended the speech.

October 21, 2019

Bye, Tulsi. tucker carlson is a fan. That's all I needed to hear.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-conservative-media-and-the-far-right-love-tulsi-gabbard-for-president

Old article, but I was trying to remember something I'd seen on TV about a RW pundit admiring her. This was it.
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October 17, 2019

Yep, He said that.

“They’ve got a lot of sand over there,” Trump said. “There’s a lot of sand that they can play with"

October 17, 2019

Fourth person indicted in Giuliani mess. Wait, who was the 3rd?

My apologies, but I appear to be late to the party. I only know about Flo and Eddie. I had no Idea there was even a 3rd, let alone a 4th.

October 13, 2019

Trump's envoy to testify that 'no quid pro quo' came from Trump

The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony.

Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment. “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth,” said the person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.


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OK, what does that even mean?

October 12, 2019

I want to see her walk away in slow motion from a building that just exploded.

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October 11, 2019

Shep Smith to Fox: "Bye, Felicia."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/media/shepard-smith-leaving-fox-news/index.html

October 11, 2019

Commerce department wrote NOAA statement refuting Alabama Weather Service (RE: Hurricane Dorian)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/10/10/top-commerce-department-aides-orchestrated-noaas-hurricane-dorian-statement-house-science-committee-chair-says/

A letter sent Thursday from the chair of the House Science Committee to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reveals that it was the Commerce Department, not the leadership of its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that drafted a controversial NOAA statement on Sept. 6 that backed President Trump’s false statement about the path of Hurricane Dorian. That statement contradicted NOAA’s own meteorologists at a weather forecast office in Birmingham, Ala.

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Aside from Jacobs himself, who holds a PhD in meteorology, none of the individuals involved in its drafting is a scientist. NOAA’s scientific integrity policy prohibits political interference with the conduct and communication of the agency’s scientific findings.

Jacobs had fought issuing the statement and also tried to block the paragraph that admonished the National Weather Service office in Birmingham that tweeted that Alabama would “NOT see any impacts” from Hurricane Dorian. However, Jacobs lost both those arguments, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Post.

The Science Committee letter was a follow-up to a letter sent on Sept. 11 to Ross requesting answers to questions and documents pertaining to Trump’s tweet and the events that followed. The Sept. 11 letter requested a response from the Commerce Department by Sept. 20, but Thursday’s letter noted that the Committee “has yet to receive any responsive materials” and asked for them “as soon as possible” — no later than Oct. 18.