Wow, Jim. If only there was something you could have done to stop #Trump while you were the head of the #FBI... Like keeping your fucking mouth shut, and not sabotaging #HillaryClinton's campaign in the days before the #2016election! Why don't you take some time to think about how different the world would have been had you just followed your own policies, and stayed in your own goddamned lane.
#MichaelCohen reads draft statement from #HopeHicks, which included a line about how this was simply an effort to stop the historic Trump movement. That statement is quite similar to what the #Trump campaign has said in response to most stories since.
Cohen sent Hicks back a draft, & said she should simply describe the allegations as untrue & depict them as an effort to distract from the FBI investigation into #HillaryClinton's email server.
"Steve Bannon is reiterating threats to weaponize the U.S. justice system against perceived MAGA enemies if Donald Trump is re-elected. 'The criminals and traitors around Biden, you should be very worried,' Bannon said Thursday on his 'War Room' podcast, explicitly naming Hillary Clinton and Christopher Wray."
"'You're a target, you are corrupt, you are a traitor to this country, the people around you, the Clinton Foundation, the crimes you had, the sexual predator husband of yours,' Bannon ranted at one point. And yet, Bannon's disturbing tirade has, thus far, elicited almost no coverage from the press. Which left me wondering: How would newsrooms react if Biden's top allies were making such overt threats to jail political opponents?"
"WELL ACTUALLY, the indiscriminate murder of civilians, including literal infants and children is OK because of the history of the area" is quite the take. 😬 #palestine#israel#hillaryclinton
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
#Pecker was asked if Bill & Hillary #Clinton's names came up. Pecker said when you run a magazine, you choose the topic of the week. Coverage of #HillaryClinton running for president that described #BillClinton as "a womanizer" was a big seller, he said. "I was running the Hillary Clinton stories, I was running Hillary as an enabler for Bill Clinton, w/respect to all the womanizing."
#Pecker was asked about being introduced to #SteveBannon, #Trump's top strategist, in Oct 2016. He recalled Trump said, "I believe you & Steve would get along really well.”
This all happened around the time of #Wikileaks email dump, after a hack of #HillaryClinton's adviser John Podesta's acct, & the Trump team used that material A LOT.
#WillCain at #FoxNews is apoplectic over #HillaryClinton's completely accurate assessment of #Trump. Cain just can't understand how anyone could claim that Trump wants to eliminate our system of #checksAndBalances, or seek retribution on his political and media enemies. It's almost as if Cain has been living on a totally different planet for the past 8 years.
India, Pakistan attempted to interfere in Canada's elections: CSIS
In the case of the 2019 election, CSIS said the Canadian government conducted what it called a "threat reduction measure" ahead of the vote, meant to "reduce the foreign interference threat posed by the Government of Pakistan."
"The situation was monitored and assessed to have effectively reduced the threat of interference," CSIS wrote.
...am, as yet, undecided regarding the potential threat of a surveillance state, as in #China, #NorthKorea, or #Russia, but things cannot continue as they are. The really stolen (from #HillaryClinton) #Election2016 in the #US should be a definite call for action.
However, ending end-to-end #encryption (#E2E) is certainly taking it way too far. There must be a society left worth fighting for.
This is one of the many reasons why #BernieSanders was such a better candidate than #HillaryClinton and her #heartless “basket of deplorables” comment. So unfortunate we didn’t elect him instead of #Trump.
The polls were clearly in Bernie‘s favor.
~ US senator slams Biden’s reported approval for more weapons to Israel – Middle East Monitor
📸 I took these photos in 2011, while Julian #Assange was in the same High Court in London where the hearing is happening today; (photos previously unreleased, now under (CC) BySa or LAL 1.3)
Today's hearing is about requesting a permission (!) to appeal (!) his extradition to the US (!) where he faces certain death in prison for his work as a journalist and publisher.
Then, he was appealing against his first extradition request (!) to Sweden...
Biden beat Dean Phillips by a much larger margin than Trump beat Haley, and he wasn’t even on the ballot.
But sure, there’s no enthusiasm there. 🙄
CNN's Abby Phillip: "As Nikki Haley put it -- I think it's actually such a smart way to put it -- maybe the first party to let go of their 80 years old might be the victor, but who's gonna be the one to move first? ... nobody wants Trump, nobody wants Biden."
[Gifted article, no paywall. The Atlantic]: Hamas Must Go. The terror group has proved again and again that it will sabotage any efforts to forge a lasting peace. By By Hillary Rodham Clinton