Trump Arrest From Russia With Love

Steve Bannon was arrested on a boat, and the U.S. Postal Service was involved

Donald Trump's former advisor Stephen Bannon was today charged with fraud and other crimes.
Bannon was arrested. On a boat. The USPS was involved.
From NBC New York:

A law enforcement source tells NBC New York that Bannon was arrested this morning without incident while aboard a boat off the coast of Westbrook, Connecticut. Bannon is not the owner of the boat.

NBC News and CBS News have both confirmed that Steve Bannon was arrested by agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which is the criminal investigating arm of the Postal Service.

And can we all take a moment to relish the sweet irony that Bannon was taken into custody by US Postal Service Agents. Through rain, sleet, snow, and worse they deliver medication, paychecks, absentee ballots … and JUSTICE! https://t.co/XLnPRC92QW

— Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) August 20, 2020

Yep. Agents of the USPS arrested Bannon.
Bannon is expected to be arraigned today before a US magistrate.

NBC News confirms: Steve Bannon was arrested by agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which is the criminal investigating arm of the Postal Service. @MSNBC

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 20, 2020

From CBS' Pat Milton: Steve Bannon was taken into custody today by US Postal Service agents. He's expected to be arraigned today before a US magistrate. @SDNYnews alleges he had a role in defrauding donors as part of an online crowdfunding campaign known as "We Build the Wall"

— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) August 20, 2020

More on the charges against Bannon in our previous post.

Steve Bannon charged with fraud by NY prosecutor

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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Goes Out With A Whimper

Former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III failed in his bid to reclaim his old Senate seat after losing to former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Alabama GOP runoff on Tuesday. 

 Tuberville was leading Sessions 63 percent to 37 percent with 35 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press. 

The former football coach will go on to face Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in November. Jones is considered the most vulnerable Democrat facing reelection in 2020 in a race The Cook Political Report rates as "Leaning Republican." 

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The open bigotry coming from Donald Trump is worse than it has ever been, but that's not the main concern of Republicans right now. 

According to senior Republican officials in Washington, D.C., the main concern of Republicans seeking election this year is that Trump doesn't have a coherent campaign message that they can all run on in November. 

They had one in 2016, but this year there is no common enemy other than their own party. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening. 



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/worried-republicans-told-by-white-house-theyll-have-to-live-with-trumps-focus-on-race-wapos-costa/ 

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Twitch Suspends Trump’s Account For ‘Hateful Conduct’

(Bloomberg) -- Twitch and Reddit Inc. banned content linked to resident Donald Trump for violating their rules against encouraging hate.

Twitch, Amazon.com Inc.’s live streaming site, temporarily banned Trump’s account for reposting a 2016 speech in which he characterized Mexicans as rapists and a more recent speech in which he conjured up the image of an evil-doer breaking into a house.

Reddit, a community-based social website, said it banned 2,000 discussion pages, including r/The_Donald for being one of the two biggest violators of rules against promoting hate based on identity.

“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch,” the company said in an emailed statement. “In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.”

Trump has been much criticized for his infamous reference to Mexicans when he kicked off his presidential campaign five years ago.

The second violation, cited by Twitch, referred to a portion of Trump’s recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he outlined a scenario of “a very tough hombre” breaking into a sleeping woman’s house at night. “By the way, you have many cases like that, many, many, many,” Trump said, according a Twitch transcript of the speech.

A Twitch spokeswoman said the suspension would be temporary but declined to elaborate. Best known as a popular portal for video gamers to stream themselves, Twitch also hosts live video on a wide range of other topics. When Trump’s team started his account on the site last year, Twitch informed the team that the company wouldn’t make exceptions to its content policy for political or newsworthy content, the spokeswoman said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/twitch-suspends-president-trump-s-account-for-hateful-conduct

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Trump’s Tulsa Rally FAILED Before It Even Began

Donald Trump’s people were forced to cancel the second half of Trump’s Tulsa speech - the outdoor portion - because there weren’t any people there to hear it. This is a major blow to Trump and his ego, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.



After all res. Trump's hype for his Oklahoma rally, Managing Editor Jonathan Larsen has details on what actually happened, with more from the NY Times: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/tulsa-trump-rally.html

 

Jerry Nadler says he expects Berman will testify before Congress and is 'not interested' in Bolton appearing

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jerry-nadler-says-he-expects-berman-will-testify-before-congress-and-is-not-interested-in-bolton-appearing/ar-BB15N46V

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Bill Barr accidentally throws Trump under the bus in Fox News interview

BREAKING: Attorney general Bill Barr just accidentally threw Trump under the bus in a Fox News interview. 

To demand Barr be removed as AG for enabling Trump’s crimes, sign here 👉 https://odaction.com/btc-barrremoved/

Woman dumps ice on protesters from her apartment balcony - gets promptly evicted

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Richard Burr STEPS DOWN After FBI Raids His House

Republican Senator Richard Burr received visitors from the FBI on Wednesday evening. These agents were sent to Burr's home to serve a search warrant and ended up seizing a cell phone from the Republican lawmaker. 

This is part of the ongoing DOJ probe into possible insider trading, but Burr is not the only one who needs to be looking over his shoulder right now, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains. 

*NOTE: This video was recorded BEFORE Richard Burr resigned as Intelligence Committee chairman.

Trump Crumbles As Female Reporters Stand Up To His Verbal Abuse

Wiejia Jiang and Kaitlan Collins bore the brunt of Trump's ire, but their backbone scared the pathetic toddler away.

By Aliza Worthington

Once again, Trump showed that he is a thin-skinned, racist, misogynistic bully. For some reason, he felt the need to hold a press conference declaring we're leading in a metric that does not exist (lives saved, which is not a thing you can measure...) and when reporters challenged him on his myriad lies and double standards, he went into familiar Defensive Donny mode.

He turned particularly disgusting and abusive at the end, towards CBS' Weijia Jiang, when she asked him why he continues to present COVID-19 information in competitive terms with other nations.

JIANG: You've said many times that the U.S. Is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing.
TRUMP: Yes.

JIANG: Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day?

TRUMP: Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that's a question you should ask CHINA. Don't ask me. Ask CHINA that question, okay? When you ask them that question you may get a very unusual answer. Yes, behind you, please.

JIANG: Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically? That I should ask China?

TRUMP: I'm telling you. I'm not saying it specifically to anybody. I'm saying it to anybody that asks a nasty question.

JIANG: That's not a nasty question. Why does it matter?

TRUMP: Okay. Anybody else? Please, go ahead in the back. No, it's okay.

COLLINS: You pointed to me. I have two questions.

TRUMP: Next.

COLLINS: You called on me.

TRUMP: I did, and you didn't respond, and now i'm calling on the young lady in the back.

COLLINS: I just wanted to let my colleague finish.

TRUMP: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate it. Thank you very much.

BLITZER: Very, very ugly ending to that one hour appearance by the president in the Rose Garden, refusing to answer our own White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins' question and going after another reporter, several reporters in the press in that one-hour exchange.

The indomitable Jiang was absolutely right to challenge him, and kudos also to Kaitlan Collins for allowing Jiang to follow up in order to be able to call Trump out. That is the sort of solidarity the press pool needs to be showing one another all the fucking time against this monster.

And of course because he cannot handle one woman standing up to him, let alone two, he tries to punish Collins by not letting her ask her questions. When she insists, he crumbles like the weak-ass, paper-thin-skinned coward that he is and ends the presser right there.

This is what happens when you stand up to a bully and an abuser in public. They cower and retreat.

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