The leading Republican running for Paul Ryan’s seat is a white nationalist

By Carter Sherman Apr 11, 2018

 

A white nationalist is now the frontrunner in the GOP primary in Paul Ryan's district.

Longshot candidate and self-described “pro-white” politician Paul Nehlen is now the leading Republican to take over Ryan’s Wisconsin seat now that Ryan, the current Speaker of the House, is not running for reelection.

Nehlen incited international outrage in February, when he tweeted a photo of Prince Harry’s fiancée Meghan Markle with an image of a dark-skinned, prehistoric human known as “Cheddar Man.”

(Markle’s mother is black.) Alongside the image, Nehlen tweeted, “Honey, does this tie make my face look pale?”

That racist tweet prompted Twitter to permanently ban Nehlen, though it wasn’t the first time he’d drawn criticism on the platform. In January, he posted a list of his critics and claimed most of them were Jewish. He’s also used the hashtag #ItsOkayToBeWhite, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which dubbed Nehlen an “outrage artist.”

Read: Paul Ryan stepping down is a gift to House Democrats ahead of the midterms

Finding Pleasure In The World Starting To Collapse On Trump

Posted by Rude One

Resident Donald Trump, an angry, rotten tangerine on top of a sack of dead hogs, spoke out yesterday about FBI raid of the home, office, and hotel room (whuh?) of his lawyer, Michael Cohen. You might know Cohen as "That motherfucker? Fuck him." Cohen is like Roy Cohn except less charming in the same way that a rabid bear is less charming than a cobra.

Speaking before he surrounded himself with military leaders to pretend to be their commander, Trump went off on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and anyone who wasn't a citizen of Trump World before the filthy swamp of Washington, DC tainted their virgin white garments. "So I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys," Trump started, ignoring the fact that "they" is actually "we," as in employees of the Justice Department and thus the federal government. "I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now — and actually, much more than that. You could say it was right after I won the nomination, it started," he continued. You want to tell him about the Benghazi investigations? Or that for years he accused President Obama of being born in another country? Bitch, shit's just getting good. We're not even at the climax yet.

The raid was bullshit, Trump said. "[I]t’s a disgrace. It’s, frankly, a real disgrace. It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for." The idea that a search warrant, signed off on by a judge and handled by a Trump-appointed US Attorney, is an "attack on our country" means that Trump couldn't give a happy monkey fuck about our country except in how much l'etat c'est Trump.

He was on a ranting tear. He attacked the investigators, calling them all "Democrats or a couple of Republicans that worked for President Obama." He wondered why no Hillary: "[T]hey’re not looking at the Hillary Clinton — the horrible things that she did and all of the crimes that were committed. They’re not looking at all of the things that happened that everybody is very angry about, I can tell you, from the Republican side, and I think even the independent side."

Think about that for a second. He wants to know why they're not investigating someone who isn't in government anymore, who was thoroughly investigated, and about whom an investigation is still percolating even though there isn't a goddamn thing to investigate except how stolen emails got to the Trump campaign. But, mostly, think about how disgustingly self-pitying that is. "Why aren't you looking into this thing the man on the TV told me is bad when he told me I am good?" Trump is saying. "Why you no believe man in TV? I like man in TV. And other man in TV. And pretty lady in TV."

Then the mental breakdown of the cornered rat started to occur as his brain just started to dump shit in random bursts of words. Seriously, this is the resident of the goddamn United States, and he's like a skeevy john trying to explain to cops that they shouldn't arrest him when there are murderers out there: "[T]hey don’t even bother looking. And the other side is where there are crimes, and those crimes are obvious. Lies, under oath, all over the place. Emails that are knocked out, that are acid-washed and deleted. Nobody has ever seen — 33,000 emails are deleted after getting a subpoena for Congress, and nobody bothers looking at that."

Goddamn, you want this to be more satisfying, doncha? Shouldn't we be rejoicing a bit, texting our friends gifs of people saying, "Nice" or "Oh, hell, yeah." Except for every little bit of celebration, we think, "But what if, after all this, the dickhole gets away with it?" For every delicious bit of schadenfreude, we wonder how long it'll take to clean up the shitpile he'll leave behind. Yeah, it's stomach-churning and hard to find pleasurable.

And yet...

"The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of Resident Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the publisher of The National Enquirer’s role in silencing one of the women." That's right. According to the New York Times, the raid was about Trump's wandering dick and everything his pathetic thug-wannabe lawyer tried to do to shut women up about his dick.

So while Trump was ranting about "They found no collusion whatsoever with Russia. The reason they found it is there was no collusion at all. No collusion," the Southern District of New York, led by a Rudy Giuliani crony, had the FBI tear up Cohen's shit because of suspicion that Trump and Cohen were lying about something to do with Trump's adulterous dick. Russia may have little to do with this particular raid.

So Donald Trump may end up being crushed by walls made of pussy.

Michael Cohen may be wrecked by women he and his boss tried to wreck.

Ah, there it is. There's that satisfaction I was looking for.

Veteran Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Says Trump's FBI Outburst Shows Resident 'Knows He's Trapped'

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/veteran-watergate-journalist-carl-bernstein-says-trumps-fbi-outburst-shows 

The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump

By The Editorial Board

The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.

 

April 10, 2018

Why don’t we take a step back and contemplate what Americans, and the world, are witnessing?

Early Monday morning, F.B.I. agents raided the New York office, home and hotel room of the personal lawyer for the resident of the United States. They seized evidence of possible federal crimes — including bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations related to payoffs made to women, including a porn actress, who say they had affairs with the resident before he took office and were paid off and intimidated into silence.

That evening the resident surrounded himself with the top American military officials and launched unbidden into a tirade against the top American law enforcement officials — officials of his own government — accusing them of “an attack on our country.”

Oh, also: The Times reported Monday evening that investigators were examining a $150,000 donation to the resident’s personal foundation from a Ukrainian steel magnate, given during the American presidential campaign in exchange for a 20 minute video appearance.

Meanwhile, the resident’s former campaign chairman is under indictment, and his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. His son-in-law and other associates are also under investigation.

This is your resident, ladies and gentlemen. This is how Donald Trump does business, and these are the kinds of people he surrounds himself with.

Mr. Trump has spent his career in the company of developers and celebrities, and also of grifters, cons, sharks, goons and crooks. He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, he’s gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado. 

Those methods may be proving to have their limits when they are applied from the Oval Office. 

Though Republican leaders in Congress still keep a cowardly silence, Mr. Trump now has real reason to be afraid. A raid on a lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day; it means that multiple government officials, and a federal judge, had reason to believe they’d find evidence of a crime there and that they didn’t trust the lawyer not to destroy that evidence.

On Monday, when he appeared with his national security team, Mr. Trump, whose motto could be, “The buck stops anywhere but here,” angrily blamed everyone he could think of for the “unfairness” of an investigation that has already consumed the first year of his residency, yet is only now starting to heat up. He said Attorney General Jeff Sessions made “a very terrible mistake” by recusing himself from overseeing the investigation — the implication being that a more loyal attorney general would have obstructed justice and blocked the investigation. He complained about the “horrible things” that Hillary Clinton did “and all of the crimes that were committed.” He called the A-team of investigators from the office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, “the most biased group of people.” As for Mr. Mueller himself, “we’ll see what happens,” Mr. Trump said. “Many people have said, ‘You should fire him.’”

In fact, the raids on the premises used by Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, were conducted by the public corruption unit of the federal attorney’s office in Manhattan, and at the request not of the special counsel’s team, but under a search warrant that investigators in New York obtained following a referral by Mr. Mueller, who first consulted with the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. To sum up, a Republican-appointed former F.B.I. director consulted with a Republican-appointed deputy attorney general, who then authorized a referral to an F.B.I. field office not known for its anti-Trump bias. 

Deep state, indeed.

Mr. Trump also railed against the authorities who, he said, “broke into” Mr. Cohen’s office. 

“Attorney-client privilege is dead!” the resident tweeted early Tuesday morning, during what was presumably his executive time. He was wrong. The privilege is one of the most sacrosanct in the American legal system, but it does not protect communications in furtherance of a crime. Anyway, one might ask, if this is all a big witch hunt and Mr. Trump has nothing illegal or untoward to hide, why does he care about the privilege in the first place?

The answer, of course, is that he has a lot to hide.

This wasn’t even the first early-morning raid of a close Trump associate. That distinction goes to Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman and Russian oligarch-whisperer, who now faces a slate of federal charges long enough to land him in prison for the rest of his life. And what of Mr. Cohen? He’s already been cut loose by his law firm, and when the charges start rolling in, he’ll likely get the same treatment from Mr. Trump.

Among the grotesqueries that faded into the background of Mr. Trump’s carnival of misgovernment during the past 24 hours was that Monday’s meeting was ostensibly called to discuss a matter of global significance: a reported chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians. Mr. Trump instead made it about him, with his narcissistic and self-pitying claim that the investigation represented an attack on the country “in a true sense.”

No, Mr. Trump — a true attack on America is what happened on, say, Sept. 11, 2001. Remember that one? Thousands of people lost their lives. Your response was to point out that the fall of the twin towers meant your building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan. Of course, that also wasn’t true.

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The Unbelievable Trump

Fox Host Laura Ingraham Announces ‘Vacation’ Amid Growing Backlash

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/laura-ingraham-announces-vacation-insulting-high-schooler-article-1.3905220

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-host-laura-ingraham-announces-vacation-amid-growing-backlash

Most Americans think Trump will lose in 2020

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-poll-most-americans-think-trump-will-lose-in-2020/ar-AAvfV88

A racist White House doesn't want to talk about police shootings, because of course not

By Hunter 

This is my I'm not talking to you face.

On Wednesday the Baghdad Bob of the White House, played at the moment by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, until Donald Trump realizes that she, like Sean Spicer, does not actually possess the power to bend reality itself to fit his daily whims, was asked about the latest public developments in the ongoing series of police shootings of unarmed black American men.

Her answer was, ahem, widely noted.

“Certainly, a terrible incident. This is something that is a local matter. And that's something that we feel should be left up to the local authorities at this point in time,” Sanders replied.

Then Ryan asked Sanders about the lingering case of Eric Garner, the New York man who cried out “I can't breathe” in 2014 while in a chokehold administered by New York City police despite the department prohibiting the practice. [...]

“I'm not aware of any specific action. Once again, these will be local matters that should be left up to the local authorities,” Sanders said.

While this notion, that the videotaped nationwide evidence of black American men and boys facing death at the hands of police departments in situations and with a frequency that are not even remotely matched by similar incidents against white Americans, is a "local matter" for each police department and not worthy of the attention of the resident—while that is a roundly offensive notion, to be sure, you may take some comfort in remembering that everything Sarah Huckabee Sanders says is a lie to begin with. Her statements are not policy; her statements are merely the daily whistling of the wind.

To be sure, what Sanders means is that the administration is going to continue to refuse all meaningful comment on such police violence. This is to be expected.

First, Donald is a racist whose own history of demonizing non-white persons as “rapists” or guilty-no-matter-what-investigators-say is well known.

Second, his administration is a shipwreck of old, lower-tier Republican racists elevated into unexpected positions of power; each of them, like Jeff Sessions, has worked to expand police power and reduce police accountability as matter of actual policy.

Third, Donald does not want to talk about police shootings because saying anything even the slightest bit reasonable would give his core base of very shouty and distinctly white-nationalist infused supporters an election-year tummyache; the White House garbage fire faces a choice of saying what those supporters want Donald to say, which is that police should be executing more Americans for cheaper reasons, or shutting the hell up.

And Sarah Huckabee Sanders and anyone else still hoping for a career after Team Garbage Fire is very, very, very much of the hope that Donald will keep his mouth shut.

Trump’s Lawyer Raised Prospect Of Pardons For Flynn And Manafort

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/politics/trump-pardon-michael-flynn-paul-manafort-john-dowd.html

Trump ends a temporary immigrant status for several thousand Liberians

By Michael D. Shear

The New York Times

WASHINGTON — resident Donald Trump said Tuesday that several thousand Liberians who have been living in the United States under a temporary immigrant status will have one year to return to their country or they will face deportation.

The resident said in a memo to the secretary of state that he was formally ending a program that has allowed Liberian immigrants to remain in the United States and work legally since 1999, when then-President Bill Clinton established it in response to conditions in the country after a civil war.

More than 800,000 Liberians were displaced by the war and fled the country. Some sought refuge in the United States.

The program, known as Deferred Enforced Departure, has been renewed for Liberians since, giving the immigrants the ability to remain in the United States without fear of deportation. But in the memo, Trump cited the improved conditions in Liberia as evidence that the program was no longer needed.

“Liberia is no longer experiencing armed conflict and has made significant progress in restoring stability and democratic governance,” Trump wrote. “Liberia has also concluded reconstruction from prior conflicts, which has contributed significantly to an environment that is able to handle adequately the return of its nationals.”

Advocates for Liberians in the United States had urged Trump to simply extend the protections.

Members of Congress from Minnesota, which has the largest Liberian population in the country, wrote a letter to Trump this month to echo those requests.

“Many of these people have been in our state for decades, and they are an important part of our communities, where they serve as business owners, teachers and health care workers,” the lawmakers wrote, asking for an extension of the program.

On Tuesday, Emira Woods, a Liberian-American advocate for immigrants, described the resident’s decision as a mixed bag. She noted the year that Liberians have before facing deportation, but said ending the program would force them to abandon lives in the United States. “Many of these Liberians had children in the United States,” she said.

The Deferred Enforced Departure program for Liberians was scheduled to expire Saturday. Though he declined to renew the program, Trump ordered what he called an “orderly transition” so that Liberians living in the United States could get their affairs in order before returning to Liberia. That period will extend for 12 months, Trump wrote.

The decision about the Liberian program mirrors the actions the Trump administration has taken toward other, larger groups of immigrants in the United States. Since taking office, the resident has ended temporary protected status for certain immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, arguing that conditions have improved significantly in those countries.

The Black Hole

Here Are Some Of The Best Signs From The March For Our Lives Demonstrations

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/march-for-our-lives-here-are-some-of-the-best-signs-from-the-demonstrations.html

Maxine Waters On Impeachment: We Can't Wait For 2020

"We cannot wait" for the 2020 elections to do something about Donald Trump, says Rep. Maxine Waters. "It is too dangerous."

Fucking Hell, John Bolton Again?

Posted by Rude One

Now that our goddamn resident, Donald Trump, has appointed John Bolton, one of the most war-mongering, cruelest, dumbest dick holes, to be National Security Adviser, I ought to write something about his terrible career.

Except I already fucking did that back in 2005, when Undersecretary of State Bolton was nominated to be ambassador to the United Nations, a position he got a recess appointment for until he was whipped out of public service and became that fuckin' guy with the stupid mustache polluting the airwaves with violent and hateful rhetoric.

So here ya go, gathered for your clicking convenience.

John Bolton, Another Motherfucker for America, where you can read about Bolton's belief that presidents should not have to respond to subpoenas, something you know Trump loves about him, as well as his attempt to get a woman fired from the DOJ for taking a leave while pregnant.

Part 2: John Bolton, Another Motherfucker for America, where you can read how Bolton was fiending for war with Iraq during the mid-1990s.

John Bolton Acid Flashback - The Age of Not Giving a Shit, where you can read a 1999 interview where Bolton out-crazied Bill O'Reilly by saying that the United States shouldn't intervene to stop the Serbs from committing genocide in Kosovo.

John Bolton, Crazy Man, where you can read what a total shitheel Bolton was to people working for him.

Here we are, 13 years later, and it's not like he's fuckin' mellowed since getting paid almost exclusively from Fox "news" and nutzoid think tanks. So, of course, Trump chose him. He saw Bolton on the TV.

Crazy meets crazy, and we're all fucked.

No Requiems For A Terrorist In Austin

Posted by Rude One

When Anthony Stephan House picked up the package that was left on his front porch in Austin, Texas, on March 2, he pulled away some paper that allowed for an electric circuit to be completed, and the current caused the bomb inside to explode. House likely lost his hands immediately from the shockwave while the shrapnel that was packed into the bomb tore through him, severing arteries, embedding in bone, slicing organs. This is not to mention the additional fragments of broken windows and pieces of the porch. Just before picking up the bomb, House had sent his 8 year-old daughter back into their home to brush her teeth. Had he not done that, had he not been being a good dad, the girl would have been ripped up, too, probably dead.

I think about Draylen Mason, the 17 year old musician and student who leaped in front of his mom after she opened the package in her kitchen with a knife. Mason must have known that something was wrong with the box on the table, and he protected her, getting the full impact of the bomb in a contained area. It would have torn him to pieces, and he died instantly. His mom is in the hospital. Imagine what she saw. Imagine her helplessness.

And I think about the three other victims, all severely wounded, probably from the nails that the terrorist packed into the bombs to achieve maximum pain and destruction.

Let's be absolutely clear:

Mark Conditt, the bomber, is a fucking terrorist, as surely as anyone from al Qaeda or ISIS or whatever spooky Muslim group you want to invoke is. When I hear Austin's Chief of Police describe Conditt's video confession as "the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point," I don't give a fuck because he's a fucking terrorist. The deranged shit blew himself up at the end. You know what we'd call him in other circumstances? A suicide bomber. Fuck him. Fuck his pain. Fuck his personal life. Fuck his challenges. Fuck his outcry.

Now we're treated to descriptions of Conditt as "the quiet, socially awkward oldest child of a devout Christian family that held Bible study groups in their white clapboard house, where an American flag hangs from the front porch." Oh, so he was a Christian terrorist, right? Shouldn't we be asking every Christian if they condemn Conditt? 'Cause "devout Christian" can mean crazy-ass fundamentalist, especially if they belonged to a sect that held secret meetings in a private home. Fuckin' hell, that's just a sleeper cell, and Conditt got activated. He was home-schooled, and that's suspicious as hell, isn't it? Maybe we should be dragging in his parents and ask them what the connection with Amway is. Is Amway really just a cover organization for a cult of Christian terrorists? Is their Ponzi-scheme of shitty personal care products covering up for a coming coordinated attack on others in this country? What about the town of Pflugerville? It sure seems like we should be raiding all the churches there to see what they might be hiding, especially Conditt's Austin Stone Community Church.

Another home-schooled student described the pasty terrorist as someone who "loved to think and argue and turn things over and figure out what was really going on." Have they questioned him and other home-schoolers about what they figured out? Have they rounded them up and beaten them until they gave up information on other terrorists?

Or maybe, just maybe, we should think about humanizing all terrorists in order to understand what drove them to violence. Maybe that would actually do more to make us mitigate terrorism, no matter where it comes from. Every terrorist is troubled. Every terrorist is challenged. Every terrorist has to go through a personal journey to get to the point where they want to kill others. We should try to figure all this out without demonizing the demographic group the terrorist comes from.

But we should never forget that, no matter who they are, they are still fucking terrorists, and we should call them as such, whether they're named Nidal Hassan or Dylan Roof or Nikolas Cruz or this fucking Conditt.

Face it, people...a Russian spy traitor is in the White House!

Former CIA Director John Brennan says it is possible the Russians 'have something' on the resident, and he also believes the country's future is in jeopardy as Trump 'continues his antics.'



Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., discusses the resident's phone call with Vladimir Putin and says there is no good reason why Trump won't confront Putin.



Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call, a source familiar with the resident's thinking said.

Dear God, I Hate This Stupid Mother Fucker.

By Franz

I hate his constant infantile need for attention—like a baby shitting himself and flinging it at the walls, rejoicing in his ability to make others suffer for his actions.

 

I hate how transparently and debilitatingly narcissistic he is, exhibiting a lack of empathy most associated with bona fide sociopaths.

 

I hate that he can’t talk without his mouth forming the shape of a distended prolapsed asshole.

 

I hate that the fucking resident of the United States spells like a 3rd grader who got hit in the head with the goddamn shovel.

 

I hate that millions of Americans have to suffer because his transparent compensation for his micro-penis is more important to him than actual leadership.

 

I hate the constant, tedious, immature bragging—like a 71 year old slob who won’t stop reminding you he once fucked the prom queen in his Trans Am, as if we give a shit.

 

I hate the way he constantly holds his stupid face with his chin raised like he ordered the “Mussolini for Douchebags” home kit.

 

I hate the way he crosses his arms in meetings with the body language of a four-year-old in time out.

 

I hate his fake teeth, fake hair, fake tan, fake marriage, fake life, and fake residency.

 

I hate his complete lack of chivalry or affection as he walks ahead of his wife and kid—a kid that he’s likely unfortunately turning into the same kind of broken, unloved piece of shit he is.

 

I hate that he’s a chauvinist, racist, homophobic, bigot, and isn’t remotely ashamed of it.

 

I hate his stupid long red ties that don’t make his Christmas twinkle light penis any bigger.

 

I hate his insipid, intrusive alpha male handshake, like a fucking baby orangutan beating its chest in the zoo.

 

I hate that he constantly blathers "no collusion, no collusion" like a macaw with Tourettes.  

 

I hate that he clearly can’t fucking read. Watching him mumble his way through a teleprompter is like watching a bulldog on Quaaludes try to do math.

 

I hate that he could dick whip the statue of the Virgin Mary in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and the “religious right” would still make excuses for him.

 

I hate that he’s turned the West Wing into a glorified Klan rally.

 

I hate that he has the verbal finesse of a used car salesman with a fake GED.

 

I hate that he has admitted to grabbing pussies, defamed a Gold Star family, demeaned a war hero, praised Nazis as “very fine people,” extra-maritally banged a porn star and paid her off to keep her mouth shut, made fun of the physically handicapped, admitted to obstruction of justice, became a blatant puppet of the Kremlin—all on television—and this idiocratic country still saw fit to reward him with the high office once held by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama.

 

I hate that he’s nothing but an over-glorified psychologically handicapped Internet troll—and not even a good one.

 

I hate that he couldn’t pass a junior high quiz about what the ADA actually is, or does.

 

I hate that he lies like most people breathe.

 

I hate that his dead bird’s nest of ridiculous hair has no actual origin point—it just sits there like an embarrassed and confused tumbleweed.

 

I hate that his ascendance revealed without any reasonable question that nearly 40% of this country is still virulently racist.

 

I hate that he thinks a vainglorious $50 million parade is a better way to honor the troops than by increasing the VA budget by $50 million.

 

I hate that he takes credit for everything good Barack Obama did for this country, but takes responsibility for nothing bad.

 

I hate that if (not when) he meets with Kim Jong Un, Trump will be the one with the more ridiculous hairdo.

 

I hate his fucking face.

 

I hate his fucking voice.

 

I hate that he’ll be long dead and gone when this country finally purges itself of his existence the way Germany shits on the memory of Adolf Hitler.

 

I hate that he’s too deranged and ignorant to ever understand how truly reviled, hated, embarrassing, and disgusting morally upright and sane people know he is.

 

I hate that he has turned the residency of the United States of America into a Fox News reality show.

 

I hate that he fucking exists.

 

Cross posted at The Rogue Left

Space Captain Trump

Russia and Putin are fiercely dangerous to our democracy. Putin has something very big on Trump, which has rendered him an impotent toady. These two facts are obvious. This is the biggest, scariest story in the world. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.

Tweet, minutes ago, from Tony Schwartz, who wrote The Art of the Deal for Trump:

Russia and Putin are fiercely dangerous to our democracy. Putin has something very big on Trump, which has rendered him an impotent toady. These two facts are obvious. This is the biggest, scariest story in the world. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.

— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) March 15, 2018

Trump fires Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State

Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nation’s top diplomat, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate negotiations with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.

Trump last Friday asked Tillerson to step aside, and the embattled diplomat cut short a trip to Africa on Monday to return to Washington.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ousts-tillerson-will-replace-him-as-secretary-of-state-with-cia-chief-pompeo/ar-BBKaaqF