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May 25, 2018

1/9/17 MITCH McCONNELL WALKING INTO TRUMP TOWER SAME DAY VEKSELBERG WAS THERE TO VISIT COHEN

https://twitter.com/MsMariaT/status/1000077466772230144



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(1/9/17) MITCH McCONNELL WALKING INTO TRUMP TOWER. THE SAME DAY THAT VEKSELBERG WAS THERE TO VISIT COHEN (@ 2:29:30) 🔥🔥🔥

https://www.c-span.org/video/?421399-1/pool-feed-trump-tower-lobby


C-span pool feed at Trump Tower days before the inauguration captures McConnell conspiring with Cohen and a Russian oligarch buddy of Putin.



May 15, 2018

48 Years Ago Tonight



The Jackson State killings occurred on Friday, May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, a group of students were confronted by city and state police. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve.[1] The event happened only 11 days after the Kent State shootings, in which National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio, which had first captured national attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings




Steve Vernon Weakly was hanging out with fraternity and sorority friends outside of the girls' dorms on the campus of Jackson State College when highway patrol and city police in riot gear marched up to the campus from the other end of the street. Weakley remembers the lobbed bottle that precipitated the gunfire.

"So, the bottle is in the air; it's as if it's suspended in the air like forever. It floated down and came in from behind [the police] and hit right in the middle of them and it burst," says Weakly. "It was as if they just went crazy from there... they started shooting the guns immediately – immediately – and it was like all hell broke loose," says Weakley. He was shot in the leg.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/kent-state-jackson-state-survivors-talk-student-activism-w519846

May 14, 2018

Qatari Investor Accused in Bribery Plot Appears W Michael Cohen in Picture Posted by Daniels Lawyer

Source: Mother Jones

Qatari Investor Accused in Bribery Plot Appears With Michael Cohen in Picture Posted by Stormy Daniel's Lawyer

He's shown meeting with Cohen at Trump Tower shortly after the election.

Dan Friedman

May. 13, 2018 6:02 PM


Members of the Trump transition team appear to have met on December 12, 2016 with a group from Qatar that included Ahmed al-Rumaihi, the former Qatari diplomat and current head of a division of Qatar's massive sovereign wealth fund who is accused in a recent lawsuit of scheming to bribe Trump administration officials.

Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniel, on Sunday shared an ambiguous tweet showing a group of unidentified men in a Trump Tower elevator with Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney.

The photos include a person who appears to be al-Rumaihi, who in late 2016 and 2017 was part of an aggressive Qatari effort to forge ties with members of the Trump administration. It has not previously been reported that Qataris, including al-Rumaihi, met with Cohen in December 2016. Avenatti later followed up with another tweet asking why Cohen was meeting with Al-Rumaihi and Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor.

. . .

Ice Cube, the rapper and actor, and his business partner Jeff Kwatinetz recently filed a $1.2 billion lawsuit that includes an allegation that Al-Rumaihi and other Qatari officials attempted use an investment in the men's BIG3 basketball league to gain access to Trump administration officials. "Mr Al-Rumaihi requested I set up a meeting between him, the Qatari government, and Stephen Bannon, and to tell Steve Bannon that Qatar would underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support," Kwatinetz said in the court filing. Kwatinetz says he rejected the offer, which he viewed as bribe.



Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/qatari-investor-accused-in-bribery-plot-appears-with-michael-cohen-in-picture-posted-by-stormy-daniels-lawyer/



Happy Mother Jones Day!



May 10, 2018

Gina Haspel is no Hugh Thompson.



During the My Lai massacre, Thompson and his Hiller OH-23 Raven crew, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn, stopped a number of killings by threatening and blocking officers and enlisted soldiers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. Additionally, Thompson and his crew saved a number of Vietnamese civilians by personally escorting them away from advancing United States Army ground units and assuring their evacuation by air. Thompson reported the atrocities by radio several times while at Sơn Mỹ. Although these reports reached Task Force Barker operational headquarters, nothing was done to stop the massacre. After evacuating a child to a Quảng Ngãi hospital, Thompson angrily reported to his superiors at Task Force Barker headquarters that a massacre was occurring at Sơn Mỹ. Immediately following Thompson's report, Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Barker ordered all ground units in Sơn Mỹ to cease search and destroy operations in the village.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson_Jr.





April 30, 2018

Kelly thinks he's saving U.S. from disaster, calls Trump 'idiot,' say White House staffers

Source: NBCNews


Some current and former officials said they expect Kelly to leave by July, and that Trump and Kelly seem to have tired of each other.

by Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube, Kristen Welker and Stephanie Ruhle / Apr.30.2018 / 3:14 PM ET

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly has eroded morale in the West Wing in recent months with comments to aides that include insulting the president's intelligence and casting himself as the savior of the country, according to eight current and former White House officials.

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government. He has referred to Trump as "an idiot" multiple times to underscore his point, according to four officials who say they've witnessed the comments.

Three White House spokespeople said they don't believe it's accurate that Kelly called the president an "idiot," adding that none of them has ever heard him do that or otherwise use that word.

Officials said Kelly's public image as a retired four-star general instilling discipline on a chaotic White House and an impulsive president belies what they describe as the undisciplined and indiscreet approach he's employed as chief of staff. The private manner aides describe may shed new light on why Kelly now finds himself — just nine months into the job — grappling with diminished influence and a drumbeat of questions about how long he'll remain at the White House.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/kelly-thinks-he-s-saving-u-s-disaster-calls-trump-n868961

April 23, 2018

James Shaw Jr. started a GoFundMe for the Waffle House shooting victims and families.

"My name is James Shaw Jr. I am creating this page to help the families of the victims from the Shooting that took place at Waffle House in Antioch, TN. Please take the time to donate as all of the proceeds will be given to the families. Thank you again for your generosity and blessings!"

https://www.gofundme.com/5g07bvs



He stopped the Waffle House gunman.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting-hero-tennessee/index.html



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