Corn: Russia Scandal ‘The Most Consequential Political Scandal in American History’
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On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief, author, and MSNBC analyst David Corn stated that the Russia scandal is “the most consequential political scandal in American history.”
Corn said, “I have to say that all of this just reaffirms what should be the big point, that we shouldn’t lose as we dissect the daily revelations, and that is this is the most consequential political scandal in American history. It affected the outcome of an election. Watergate didn’t really do that. The Teapot Dome really didn’t do that. Iran-Contra didn’t do that. So, this is highly consequential, and in this scandal we already know that the president lied. He lied about the hush money payments, that the prosecutors say clouded the election, and he also lied about secret contacts with Russia that his office had, so that he could make money. So, again and again, he has denied this whole Russian angle. He’s tried to diminish it, but this is incredibly significant, influential, it has reshaped the future of this country.”
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John Dean: Congress Will Have Little Choice ‘Other Than to Start Impeachment Proceedings’ After Cohen Filing
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Friday on CNN’s “OutFront,” former Nixon White House counsel John Dean said the Michael Cohen sentencing memo means eventually Congress will “start impeachment proceedings” against President Donald Trump.
Dean said, “I don’t know that this will forever disappear into some dark hole of unprosecutable presidents. I think it will resurface in the Congress. I think what this totality of today’s filings show that the House is going to have little choice the way this is going other than to start impeachment proceedings.”
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MEXICO THANKS TRUMP FOR HIS PRETEND WALL AND NO E-VERIFY!
Andrew McCarthy: Feds Will Try to Indict Trump on Campaign Finance Charges
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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy believes that prosecutors will attempt to indict President Donald Trump on campaign finance charges, judging from the sentencing memo in the Michael Cohen case on Friday.
McCarthy, a conservative legal analyst who worked as a prosecutor in the same Southern District of New York jurisdiction that is currently prosecuting Cohen, argued in a column on Fox News that the prosecutors would not have drawn attention to Cohen’s relatively minor campaign finance violations if they did not intend on charging Trump over payments of hush money to two women before he became president:
The major takeaway from the 40-page sentencing memorandum filed by federal prosecutors Friday for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is this: The president is very likely to be indicted on a charge of violating federal campaign finance laws.It has been obvious for some time that President Trump is the principal subject of the investigation still being conducted by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.…When Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.Prosecutors would not have done this if the president was not on their radar screen. Indeed, if the president was not implicated, I suspect they would not have prosecuted Cohen for campaign finance violations at all.
McCarthy acknowledges the strong case Trump has in his defense, but says that prosecutors may be focusing on him anyway.
On Friday, Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who was also once the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and now serves as one of Trump’s lawyers, dismissed the legal danger to the president.
He pointed to Cohen’s conviction for lying to the FBI, which would make his testimony on other matters unreliable. “You have to believe Cohen. Who believes Cohen?” he reportedly said.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Watch: Jared Kushner Awarded Mexico’s Highest Honor.... thanks to Trump for the pretend wall???
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Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday morning awarded senior White House advisor Jared Kushner Mexico’s highest honor for foreigners — the Order of the Aztec Eagle — at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jared Kushner receives Mexico's highest honor for foreigners hill.cm/qmFml99
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said Kushner was given the award for his contribution to the negotiation of United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMC) — the pending free trade pact between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Kushner “played a fundamental role during the whole process, displaying decisive support for the trade talks … thus achieving satisfactory results,” the Mexican Foreign Relations Department said in a statement.
Some prominent Mexicans fumed over Kushner receiving the Order of the Aztec Eagle. Historian Enrique Krauze blasted the Mexican government’s decision to award the honor as a “supreme humiliation and cowardice.”
In a brief speech, Kushner lauded the U.S.-Mexico relationship and praised Nieto for “always put[ting] Mexican interests first even when it wasn’t popular.”
The top White House aide then praised President Trump for his ability to “accomplish a lot of great things.”
“While there has been a lot of tough talk, I have seen the genuine respect and care that President Trump has for Mexico and the Mexican people and I do believe we have been able to put that in the right light,” he added.
Kushner also joked that helping to revamped NAFTA was the equipment to earning his “PhD in trade.“
“I believe we are at a historic place in the relationship between our two countries,” said Kushner.
Breitbart News’ Michelle Moons contributed to this report.
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied
taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal
defense for JoaquÃn “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
Mexican
Presidents Deny They Took Bribes from El Chapo
14 Nov 201898
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied
taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal
defense for JoaquÃn “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
The drug lord is facing several
money laundering and drug trafficking charges at a federal trial in New York.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman spoke of bribes
“including the very top, the current president of Mexico and the former.”
Soon after the statements became
public, Mexico’s government issued a statement denying the allegations. Eduardo
Sanchez, the spokesman for current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said
the statements were false and “defamatory.”
El
gobierno de @EPN persiguió, capturó y extraditó al
criminal JoaquÃn Guzmán Loera. Las afirmaciones atribuidas a su abogado son
completamente falsas y difamatorias
Former Mexican President Felipe
Calderon took to social media to personally deny the allegations, claiming that
neither El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel paid him bribes.
Son
absolutamente falsas y temerarias las afirmaciones que se dice realizó el
abogado de JoaquÃn “el Chapo” Guzmán. Ni él, ni el cártel de Sinaloa ni ningún
otro realizó pagos a mi persona.
Under Guzman’s leadership, the
Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world
with influence in every major U.S. city.
The allegations against Pena Nieto
are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel
operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation
was carried out by Mexican award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team. The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate”
for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The
allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an
award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can
follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing
director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him
on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
At a demonstration Wednesday in Mexico
City against Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government
gloated triumphantly after a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's
immigration law. But it's no victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders
ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists
crowed with glee and the Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's
government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's
injunction Wednesday "a step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign
Minister Patricia Espinosa declared: "The government of Mexico would like
to express its recognition for the determination demonstrated by the federal
government of the United States and the actions of the civil organizations that
organized lawsuits against the SB 1070 law."
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The Mexican Army made two seizures in Ensenada on August 17 (1,036 pounds of meth, heroin, and fentanyl) and August 18 (1,653 pounds of meth, fentanyl, and marijuana).
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Confirmed: Trump’s Housekeeper At His New Jersey Golf Course Is An Illegal
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/06/confirmed-trumps-housekeeper-new-jersey-golf-course-illegal/
The man is an open-borders cuck. End of story.
Well, that or he’s a hypocrite who’d betray one of his core nationalist principles to save a buck. I’m sure this, the 8,000th story about Trump placing his personal interests above all else, will be the one that sinks him, though.
Confirmed: Trump's housekeeper at his New Jersey golf course is an illegal
According to the Times, not only is the current housekeeper here illegally, the person she replaced is too.
The two women said they worked for years as part of a group of housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping employees at the [Bedminster] golf club that included a number of undocumented workers, though they could not say precisely how many. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump or Trump Organization executives knew of their immigration status. But at least two supervisors at the club were aware of it, the women said, and took steps to help workers evade detection and keep their jobs.
“There are many people without papers,” said Ms. Diaz, who said she witnessed several people being hired whom she knew to be undocumented…
“We are tired of the abuse, the insults, the way he talks about [illegals] when he knows that we are here helping him make money,” [Victorina Morales] said. “We sweat it out to attend to his every need and have to put up with his humiliation.”
It’s a brilliant new strategy for detecting illegals hiding among America’s workers: Denigrate them to the point where they can’t resist leaping out of “the shadows” to cry, “F*** this guy.”
The obvious defense, per the excerpt above, will be that the supervisors at Bedminster may have known what was going on but Trump himself did not, as our president would surely never knowingly bend rules in search of profit. The Times has circumstantial evidence to the contrary, though. For one thing, the golf course doesn’t use E-Verify (New Jersey law doesn’t require it) even though Trump made a point of noting on the trail in 2016 that his new hotel in Washington used it. Why he didn’t insist that it be implemented at all of his properties I leave to your own speculation.
Further, when the Times itself ran Morales’s ID numbers through a federal database it received no match, something that surely would have been noticed by hiring supervisors at the course. Last year, when Morales was forced to get new fake ID cards, it was allegedly a manager(!) who put her in touch with a maintenance worker who knew where to go to get them. There were also new rules instituted on the premises when Trump jumped into the presidential race in 2015, with Morales told not to clean Trump’s residence anymore (although she still does occasionally), a measure that seems designed in hindsight to create some form of plausible deniability. E.g., “Yes, illegals were working there, but Trump couldn’t have known because he never had direct contact with them.”
A question: Would supervisors have dared to retain a work force of illegal immigrants without Trump’s permission, knowing what might happen to their own jobs if they went behind his back to assemble one and were later found out? The risk of political embarrassment here was high. Why not start phasing out the illegal workers in 2015 and replace them with Americans before the boss discovered the truth? Unless, that is, the boss wanted them working there because the labor was cheap and he figured his fans would forgive him anything if the truth came out. Another obvious question, posed by Morales herself: “I ask myself, is it possible that this señor thinks we have papers? He knows we don’t speak English… Why wouldn’t he figure it out?” She and other illegals did have direct contact with Trump himself, she claims, and he was kind and generous to them personally. Did he really think the Latino workers around him who couldn’t converse in English were all American citizens or legal guest workers?
If that’s the new standard, that employers are off the hook in hiring illegals so long as they’re willfully blind to the hallmarks of illegal status that are right in front of them, what percentage of American employers should now be held blameless for hiring “the undocumented”? Ninety percent?
Normally Trump’s way out of a jam like this would be to play the game he played during the game when asked about donating to Democratic politicians. He’s just following the rules that the globalist elite have created for their own enrichment. If corrupt establishmentarians want to let rich people buy lawmakers, he’ll take advantage. If corrupt establishmentarians want to look the other way while untold millions of foreigners sneak across the border to work menial jobs, he’ll take advantage. Immigration isn’t an ordinary issue for him, though. It’s his signature issue, his populist-nationalist bread and butter. It should be harder for him to get cover from his base on this — in theory. In practice, he’s defended his habit of hiring seasonal foreign workers over Americans at Mar-a-Lago multiple times and it’s widely known that he settled a lawsuit a few years ago that accused him of hiring illegal Polish laborers on a construction project in the early 80s. Hasn’t hurt him a bit. This NYT story will be old news by morning.
TRUMP WAS NEVER GOING TO BUILD THE WALL….after all he hires ILLEGALS to tend to SWAMP PALACE at Mar-a-lago!
CUT LA RAZA’S WELFARE AND FIND THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE WALL AGAINST THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monica-showalter-cut-billions-in.html
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
EL TRUMPO SAYS HELL NO! TO PAYING LIVING WAGES TO LEGALS AT SWAMP PALACE MAR-A-LAGO!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-trump-assault-on-american-workers.html
No one should take Trump’s performances on border security, jobs for legals or his pretend wall seriously. No more seriously than the rest of his twitter drivel.
Tucker Carlson Says Trump Has Failed to Keep His Promises
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in an interview Thursday that President Donald Trump has succeeded as a conversation starter but has failed to keep his most important campaign promises.
“His chief promises were that he would build the wall, de-fund Planned Parenthood, and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn’t done any of those things,” Carlson told Urs Gehriger of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche.
“I’ve come to believe that Trump’s role is not as a conventional president who promises to get certain things achieved to the Congress and then does,” said Carlson, whose new book Ship of Fools is a New York Times bestseller.
“I don’t think he’s capable. I don’t think he’s capable of sustained focus,” he added. “I don’t think he understands the system. I don’t think the Congress is on his side. I don’t think his own agencies support him. He’s not going to do that.”
On the other hand, Mr. Trump has succeeded in changing the national conversation and forcing Americans to reexamine issues of key importance, such as immigration.
“I think Trump’s role is to begin the conversation about what actually matters,” Carlson said. “We were not having any conversation about immigration before Trump arrived in Washington. People were bothered about it in different places in the country. It’s a huge country, but that was not a staple of political debate at all.”
“Trump asked basic questions like ‘Why don’t our borders work?’ ‘Why should we sign a trade agreement and let the other side cheat?’ Or my favorite of all, ‘What’s the point of NATO?’,” Carlson said. “The point of NATO was to keep the Soviets from invading western Europe but they haven’t existed in 27 years, so what is the point?”
“These are obvious questions that no one could answer,” he said.
Despite his natural suspicion of irresponsible elites, Carlson said he is not a populist, because populism is a reaction to a failed political system.
“Populism is what you get when your leaders fail. In a democracy, the population says this is terrible and they elect someone like Trump,” he said.
This, in turn, is the fruit of a misshapen, education-based meritocracy, where “a small number of colleges has produced a ruling class that doesn’t have the self-awareness that you need to be wise.”
A self-confessed product of this elite system, Carlson says that he began to realize how far the country had gone after the 2008 financial crisis, which was barely felt in affluent Washington D.C.
“If you leave Washington and drive to say Pittsburgh, which is a manufacturing town about three and a half hours to the west, you drive through a series of little towns that are devastated. There are no car dealerships, there are no restaurants. There’s nothing. They have not recovered,” he said.
Rural America, he thought at the time, “is really falling apart” and yet nobody in Washington seemed to understand that. In the end, “the elite in our country is physically separated in a way that’s very unhealthy for a democracy, very unhealthy.”
Trump, on the other hand, “could smell that there was this large group of voters who had no one representing them and he brought them to the Republican side, but the realignment is still ongoing,” Carlson said.
A month ago, Carlson’s home was assailed by Antifa “protesters,” during which his wife hid in the pantry and called the police.
“This has a chilling effect on people’s ability to speak and to think freely,” Carlson said. “That’s the point. It’s totalitarian in its intent. We should fight it.”
“Our public conversation has been hijacked by extremists like this,” he said.
Report: Trump Says He Doesn't Care About the National Debt Because the Crisis Will Hit After He's Gone
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/12/06/report-trump-says-he-doesnt-care-about-the-national-debt-because-the-crisis-will-hit-after-hes-gone-n2537038
Guy Benson
In politics, a "Kinsleyan gaffe" is defined as the misfortune of a politician inadvertently telling the truth. A new piece in the Daily Beast reports that President Trump myopically rebuffed early recommendations that his administration take policy steps to curb the country's unsustainably swelling national debt, privately telling aides that the eventual fiscal crash would happen on someone else's watch. If accurate -- and it's certainly plausible, given his campaign rhetoric -- this calculation combines irresponsible, short-sighted, buck-passing cynicism with frank honesty:
The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office. “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt…Several people close to the president, both within and outside his administration, confirmed that the national debt has never bothered him in a truly meaningful way, despite his public lip service. “I never once heard him talk about the debt,” one former senior White House official attested.
As I wrote in this space not too long ago, neither of our political parties is truly serious about addressing this brewing crisis, or arresting our downward spiral. Republicans were full of sensible, forward-looking ideas and policies when those policies had no chance of implementation, but when they gained full power in Washington, the difficult, painful and necessary project of entitlement reform fell by the wayside. (I should note that the unsuccessful Obamacare repeal effort would have reformed one major program, and will remind readers that tax reform is emphatically not the causeof our fiscal difficulties). The president is simply not interested in leading on this issue, and he's reportedly told his subordinates precisely why that's the case. Liberals will undoubtedly decry this revelation as further evidence of Trump's recklessness and selfishness, but let's be serious: If the quote attributed to the president is accurate, he was simply stating outright what many, many politicians have privately concluded for years, all while feigning concern about the debt for public consumption.
The Obama administration, under which the national debt exploded to an unprecedented degree, vastly expanded an already-failing entitlement -- and now President Obama has endorsed the massive expansion of another already-insolventprogram, which is already the top driver of our long-term debt. The math is empirical and could not be clearer, yet any and all efforts to tackle the predictable crisis have been reflexively rejected. I'll never forget the following exchange between Obama's Treasury Secretary and then-House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Ryan, one of a handful of politicians who actually seems to understand the urgency of the long-term debt challenge, confronted Timothy Geithner with the same sort of chart that apparently left Trump unmoved. Geithner outright admitted that Team Obama had no alternative solution, simply reaffirming that they opposed Ryan's reforms. Toggle ahead to the very end of this clip:
Dem Sen. Hirono: ‘Trump Looks for People Who Are Going to Protect,’ ‘Cover’ for Him
William Barr and Heather Nauert are Trump's top choices for attorney general and UN ambassador, sources say.
Sen. @maziehirono: “I do not know that being loyal to the President is the uppermost qualification. It is for the President, but it isn’t for me.” cnn.it/2RMczPm
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Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) reacted to the report President Donald Trump has his eyes on former Attorney General William Barr to serve again as attorney general and State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to serve as United Nations ambassador to replace outgoing Nikki Haley.
Hirono questioned Barr as Jeff Sessions’ replacement, arguing that Trump is looking for people who will “protect him” and “cover for him” because Barr has defended former FBI Director James Comey’s firing and been critical of FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
On Nauert’s nomination, Hirono said she would have “difficulty” supporting her due to her lack of experience.
“I do not know that being loyal to the president is the uppermost qualification. It is for the president, but it isn’t for me,” Hirono said.
She added Trump “very clearly” struggles to find experienced and qualified people for jobs within the administration.
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SWAMP KEEPER TRUMP’S SECRET SAUDI MISSION:
“You saved my a rse again and again… So, I’ll save yours like Bush and Obama did!
WHO IS FINANCING ALL THE TRUMP AND SON-IN-LAW’S REFINANCING SCAMS???
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
"I doubt that Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message he's sending. Wealthy Saudis, including members of the extended royal family, have been his patrons for years, buying his distressed properties when he needed money. In the early 1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht so that the then-struggling businessman could come up with cash to stave off personal bankruptcy, and later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel, one of Trump's many business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of his landmark Trump Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001."
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
I recommend that Ignatius read Raymond Ibrahim's outstanding book Sword and Scimitar, which contains accounts of dynastic succession in the Muslim monarchies of the Middle East, where standard operating procedure for a new monarch on the death of his father was to strangle all his brothers. Yes, it's awful. But it has been happening for a very long time. And it's not going to change quickly, no matter how outraged we pretend to be. MONICA SHOWALTER
Wyden: Trump Is Already Interfering in Mueller Investigation
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During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) touted legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller and said that President Trump has already interfered in Mueller’s investigation.
Transcript (via FedNews) as Follows:
“Hello. I’m Ron Wyden, United States Senator from Oregon. This week, America looked back at the remarkable life of President George Herbert Walker Bush.He cared deeply about our country, and his career in public service began long before he sat in the Oval Office. He was a decorated Navy pilot. He served two terms in Congress. He was a diplomat, a leader in the intelligence community, and Ronald Reagan’s Vice President.As President, he signed legislation that protected Americans with disabilities, and he strengthened clean-air rules and raised national education standards. He also set the country on the path to a balanced budget. It was all done in bipartisan cooperation with Democrats in the Congress.That’s what Americans want their elected officials to do — set aside partisan divisions and do what’s right for our communities and our country.That brings me to one of the key issues that Americans are focused on today.There is bipartisan support for legislation protecting the Mueller investigation into Russia and Donald Trump. Information that’s just recently come to light shows why that’s so needed.Donald Trump has claimed for years that he had no business ties with Russia. It is now clear that that’s been false.Deep into 2016 — after Donald Trump had secured the Republican nomination — longtime Trump ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen was negotiating a deal with Russian officials to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump family members knew about it. There was even a proposal to give a $50 million penthouse as a ‘gift’ to Vladimir Putin.So here’s why this is so important. From the beginning, I have said a top priority for this investigation is to follow the money. Following the money has uncovered massive corruption and revealed a growing web of lies told by the President, his aides, and his closest associates. The pattern of Trump flattering Putin and misleading the public while seeking to profit from Russian money is impossible to just ignore.And meanwhile, it’s not a matter of IF he will interfere with the Mueller investigation — the interference is already happening. The president attacks Mueller on a daily basis. He dangles potential pardons like carrots to influence potential witnesses. He installed an acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, whose prior prejudicial comments suggest that he is hostile to the investigation, that includes even musing about ways of killing it behind the scenes.So here’s the bottom line. The Mueller investigation is rooting out crime and corruption that Trump and his associates are desperate to cover up. That’s why the president is lashing out.There is bipartisan legislation at the ready that would defend Bob Mueller against Trump’s attacks on his work, but Leader McConnell has blocked it at every turn. That cannot go on any longer. The Congress must make clear that nobody in America — not even the President — is above the law. That is one of the founding principles of our nation.It is time for Republicans in Congress to put country over party and work with Democrats to protect the Bob Mueller investigation. Thank you very much.”
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