Rep. Devin Nunes in testy presser - Tells media "What if we investigate YOU!"

I don't have a link yet, watched on CNN.


Rep. Devin Nunes (R) California, House Intel Chair gave a very testy news presser today. Tried mightily to avoid talking about Jeff Sessions at all, tried to call it a "disagreement" between some Senators and Jeff Sessions and basically they should get together and hug it out.

He started out fairly even but kind of lost it progressively. I don't think he slept much last night. When asked about the order to preserve documents related to Russia, he pointedly told the press "I suggest you go camp outside their houses and hound them with those questions!"

And then questioned about whether it was appropriate for Beauregard, as a campaign official in a public office to be in contact with the Russians he really flared up.

"I'm sure some of YOU are in contact with the Russian Embassy, be careful what you wish for! Do you want us to conduct an ivestigation into YOU because you were in contact with the Russian Embassy?"


These people are terrified; a bunch of cornered vipers.

DFT at CPAC: "It's like - How many elections do we have to have?"

Corey Baker gofundme UPDATE plus resources for recovering funds

There have been a few threads on this subject, but I wanted to provide ideas and resources to those who may have given to the Corey Baker GoFundMe (or any suspect campaign) that was solicited here and now appears to have been been intentionally deceptive in nature.

Even if you did not give, you may still be able to help the many kind DU'ers who did give, see their funds returned. DU is a very kind community predisposed to extending our hands to those in need. While of course caution is always prudent, this solicitation was posted under an account that has been active at DU since 2004, and played on the trust we have for one another.

When making a report to gofundme, it may be helpful to include the words "intentionally deceived" or some variation thereof when describing what you feel was done. This is a part of their language in describing what circumstances allow for a refund of money given. You do not need to be a contributor to make a report on a campaign.

Here is a direct link to file a report on the Corey Baker gofundme account: https://www.gofundme.com/contact?t=donation_page_report&url=27-year-old-injured-in-car-accident

Here is a link to file a claim with gofundme for the return of your funds from any gofundme campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=contact/form&pid=3349
You will need the URL of the campaign you contributed to. I have included the Corey Baker URL here for anyone who should need it. https://www.gofundme.com/27-year-old-injured-in-car-accident

ALSO: If you give to a charitable fund with a bank card or credit card, and you soon after find the charity to be fraudulent, call the number on the back of your card. Many times customer service will be able to reverse the charges for you without any cost to you.

Some DU'ers have already succeeded in having their funds returned, so this is good news. Although I did not give, it matters to me that the good, kind people who did give see their money returned. It matters to me that something like this does not erode the community and trust we have for one another, so that DU'ers in genuine crisis are still able to get the help they need here.


This post is not intended in any way to pass judgement on the as-of-yet still active account of Corey_Baker08. It is meant only to assist the many good DU'ers who were misled and exploited into giving money under a false pretense with an emotional and manipulative chicane.

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UPDATE: I was contacted tonight at 7pm by the Richmond Indiana Police Department, and informed that they will be taking this matter up.

The Facebook account connected to the gofundme in question listed Richmond Police officer Mark Sutton as a friend, which should prove of some value to them.

Bigotry against Muslims is bigotry. Your statement and supporting statements are bigoted.

For some reason, you seem to feel there should be some kind of exception for this form of bigotry, but there isn't. It is what it is, and what it is bigotry.

Christians aren't engaging in violent activity in the name of their religion? What a fucking joke that is.



-July 27, 1996: A bomb set by Eric Robert Rudolph, who is affiliated with the "Christian Identity" fundamentalist movement, kills one person at the Atlanta Olympics.

-October 8, 1996: Three "Phineas Priests" — racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity terrorists who feel they've been called by God to undertake violent attacks — are charged in connection with two bank robberies and bombings at the two banks, a Spokane newspaper and a Planned Parenthood office.

-January 16, 1997: Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph plants two anti-personnel bombs, the second clearly designed to kill arriving law enforcement and rescue workers, outside an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Ga. Seven more are injured.

-February 23, 1997: Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph plants a bomb, injuring 5 people at an Atlanta gay bar.

-January 29, 1998: Another bomb set by Rudolph kills a man and terribly maims a nurse at a Birmingham abortion clinic.

-October 23, 1998: With his wife and children nearby, an abortion provider in Amherst, New York is shot and killed by Christian terrorist James Kopp

-July 1, 1999: Brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams, who also have connections to the "Christian Identity" movement, kill a gay couple in their bed in Redding, California.

-July 2-July 5 1999: Christian terrorist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith kills black basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, a Korean grad student and wounds nine minority victims in a three-day shooting spree.

-August 10, 1999: Christian terrorist Buford Furrow kills a Filipino immigrant after firing 70 shots inside a Jewish community center near Los Angeles.

-September 1, 1999: Anti-abortion Christian extremist Clayton Lee Wagner is arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio after being stopped driving a stolen camper and informing police he was headed to Seattle to murder an abortion provider. He escaped in February 2001 and mailed more than 550 hoax anthrax letters to abortion clinics and posted an Internet threat warning abortion clinic workers that "if you work for the murderous abortionist, I'm going to kill you." He was caught and is currently in prison.

-March 1, 2001: Federal and local law enforcement agents raid the Corbett, Ore., home of Christian extremist Fritz Springmeier, seizing weapons, racist literature and marijuana-growing equipment. They also find a binder notebook entitled “Army of God, Yahweh’s Warriors” containing what officials call a list of targets that include a local federal building and the FBI’s Oregon offices. Springmeier is charged with setting off a diversionary bomb at an adult video store in Damascus, Ore., in 1997 as part of a bank robbery carried out by accomplice Forrest Bateman.

-April 19, 2001: Christian white supremacists Leo Felton and girlfriend Erica Chase are arrested following an attempt to pass counterfeit bills. Investigators learn Felton heads up a tiny group called Aryan Unit One, and that the couple, who had already obtained a timing device, planned to blow up black and Jewish landmarks and possibly assassinate black and Jewish leaders. They are convicted of conspiracy, weapons violations and obstruction, bank robbery and other charges.

-October 14, 2001: October 14, 2001 Christian terrorist Steve Anderson, upon being pulled over in a routine traffic stop, pulls out a semi-automatic weapon and sprayed the police officer's car with bullets before fleeing into the woods in his truck. Officials later find six pipe bombs in Anderson's abandoned truck and 27 bombs and destructive devices in his home. He was found, arrested and sentenced to 15 years.

-July 19, 2002: Christian terrorist and North Carolina KKK leader Charles Robert Barefoot Jr. is arrested for plotting to blow up the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the county jail and the sheriff. Officers find more than two dozen weapons in Barefoot's home and bombs and bomb components in the home of Barefoot's son, Daniel Barefoot, who is charged the same day with arson of a school bus and an empty barn.

-Feb 13, 2003: Anti-Semitic Christian terrorist David Wayne Hull, is arrested for attempting to buy hand grenades to blow up abortion clinics. The FBI says Hull also illegally instructed followers on how to build pipe bombs.

-April 1, 2004: Oklahoma Neo-Nazi and Christian terrorist Sean Gillespie videotapes himself firebombing the Temple B'nai Israel as part of a video he hopes will inspire others to commit similar attack. In it he states he will carry out 14 violent attacks, in reference to "the 14 words" cited by many white supremacists.

-October 13, 2004: Discharged National Guardsman turned Christian terrorist Ivan Duane Braden is arrested after telling counselors about his plans to blow up a synagogue and a National Guard armory in Tennessee. Braden told the FBI he planned to go into a synagogue wearing a trench coat stuffed with explosives and get "as close to children and the rabbi as possible."

-October 24, 2004: Anti-Semite and Christian terrorist Demetrius Crocker is arrested upon attempting to purchase ingredients for deadly sarin nerve gas and C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover agent.

-May 20, 2005: Neo-Nazi and Christian identity World Church of the Creator terrorists Craig Orler and Gabriel Carafa are arrested when they ask a police informant to build them a bomb. They are charged with the illegal sale of 11 guns to police informants.

-June 10, 2005: Christian KKK terrorist Daniel J. Schertz is indicted in Chattanooga, Tenn., on federal weapons charges for allegedly making seven pipe bombs and selling them to an undercover informant with the idea that they would be used to murder Mexican and Haitian immigrant workers.

-October 28, 2008: Christian white supremacists Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, are arrested in Tennessee for plotting to assassinate Barack Obama and murder more than 100 black people. Officials say Schlesselman and Cowart planned to kill 88 people, then behead another 14.

-April 4, 2009: Christian white supremacist Richard Andrew Poplawski is arrested after killing 3 police officers and severely wounding a fourth. He informs investigators that he fired extra bullets into the bodies of two of the officers “just to make sure they were dead.”

-May 31, 2009. Christian terrorist Scott Roeder kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, in the Wichita, Kansas Lutheran church where Tiller serves as an usher.

-June 10, 2009. Christian and white supremacist James von Brunn kills a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. from point-blank range.

-September 26-October 3, 2011. Christian white supremacists David Joseph Pedersen and Holly Ann Grigsby kill Pedersen's father and stepmother in Washington, a man they believe is Jewish in Oregon, and a black man in California.

- Wisconsin in 2012 , six people killed at a Sikh temple by Christian terrorist Wade Page

-April 13, 2014. Christian terrorist and white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller kills three people in the area of a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas.

-July 24, 2015: Radical Christian and anti-feminist terrorist John Russell Houser kills two women at a screening of the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana.

-Nov. 27, 2015: Cristian terrorist Robert Lewis Dear shoots and kills three people, including a police officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.

-January 30, 2017: Christian white nationalist kills 6 in a Quebec Canada mosque.

-January of 2017: Christian white supremacists threaten 48 different Jewish centers with bombings.

I'm very sure there are more but truly, I am sick of typing. Sources include SPLC, CNN, Wkipedia and RawStory.

Milo disinvited to CPAC; time to go after his sweetheart book deal with Simon & Schuster

Leaked Tape: Trump invited club guests to 'come along' during cabinet interviews

Leaked tape reveals Trump invited club guests to 'come along' during cabinet interviews



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320220-leaked-tape-reveals-trump-invited-club-guests-to-watch-his

Newly leaked audio from a November party at President Trump's Bedminster, N.J., golf club reveals then president-elect Trump touting to guests his scheduled interviews on premises with potential cabinet members and White House staff.

“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump says in the tape, obtained by Politico and published Saturday. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."

Trump Unchained: Was his performance a direct result of the weakening of Priebus and Kellyanne?

Trump never seemed too impressed with Priebus to begin with, and several of his inside circle were against bringing the GOP chairman on at the White House, believing that he lacked loyalty to Trump. Priebus is under attack from many sides, even Breitbart recently sported the headline As Flynn Resigns, Priebus Future In Doubt and friends of Trump have given interviews calling Preibus "weak" and "in over his head."

Kellyanne Conway has been greatly weakened, her future called into question and the subject of many rumors in a fall from grace that arguably began in earnest with her announcement that Trump subscribes to a universe governed by "alt-facts." Shortly after her now famous "Bowling Green" gaffe she landed in Dutch with even the House Ethics committee for hawking first daughter-wife Ivanka's Chinese-made wares from inside the White House.

Having considered this for a while today, I think that the moderating influences, the ones who set him on a teleprompter and were even able to take away his Twitter at key times have been steadily weakened since Trump's arrival at 1600. The devil on his shoulder is stoking the flames of chaos, and consolidating his own power within the White House by appealing to the darkest angels of Trump's nature.

Trump has decided that all this "professional" bullshit isn't any fun, and it certainly isn't getting him the love and admiration he wants. His approval ratings are in free-fall. The respect and love he thought would automatically come with "winning" and being a president didn't materialize.

Unhappy and longing for the old days, he's decided not only to schedule himself a rally, but to go back to the openly belligerent, no-holds barred hand-to-hand combat and bellicose hostility of the campaign trail. There is no one there with sufficient strength to moderate him now, to tell him what a bad idea it was, to keep his rage, frustration and ineptitude from blossoming in full public view.

That, I think, is how we ended up with the chaotic and unhinged performance we saw today.

So now we have the real skinny on what "FAKE NEWS" means to Trump

It's all about "the tone." If he thinks the "tone" is against him - it's "fake news"

I'll link to transcript here as soon as it becomes available.

This is a shocking and sad display of madness, of his yearning for fascism, of his ignorance of basic facts, of his inability to view any single issue outside of the lens of his own narcissism, of his utter and complete corruption and inadequacy to his task.

WE ARE SO FUCKED.

Verified FBI Twitter acct. Tweets on release of FBI investigation into Trump Mgmt

Company from 1972 to 1974.

https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault/status/831941156736884737



Trump Management Company

This release consists of FBI materials on an investigation conducted between 1972 and 1974 into allegations that the Trump Management Company had discriminated against applicants for apartment rentals on account of their race.


Link to the PDF available on the FBI website: https://vault.fbi.gov/trump-management-company/Trump%20Management%20Company%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view

US Special Operations Command: "The US government is in "unbelievable turmoil"