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1. 2 days ago on Gary Markstein

   If throwing Donald Trump in prison starts a second Civil War, we’ll just have to win that one, too.

   The same morons that couldn’t last 5 minutes wearing a mask inside and completely fell apart when Applebee’s shut down for 2 weeks in the pandemic. And they think they can rough it during a war?

   Imagine dying for Donald Trump. What a cheap god to sell yourself to. At least Helen of Troy was hot.

2. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   When Mueller’s prosecutors appeared in court, in February 2019, they implied that the most troubling evidence they had uncovered implicated Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman. This wasn’t a surprising admission. Throughout their filings, Mueller’s team referred to Manafort’s Kyiv-based aide-de-camp, Konstantin Kilimnik, as an active Russian agent. Manafort had clearly spoken with Kilimnik during the campaign, and had even passed confidential campaign information to him, with the understanding that the documents would ultimately arrive in the hands of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

   The Senate Select Committee’s Aug. 2020 report on Russian interference fills in the gaps. It reports that Manafort and Kilimnik talked almost daily during the campaign. They communicated through encrypted technologies set to automatically erase their correspondence; they spoke using code words and shared access to an email account. It’s worth pausing on these facts: The chairman of the Trump campaign was in daily contact with a Russian agent, constantly sharing confidential information with him. That alone makes for one of the worst scandals in American political history.

   When Manafort—with a pardon dangling in front of him—brazenly lied to prosecutors, he helped save Trump from having to confront this damming story. He wasn’t the only Trump associate to obstruct justice. (The committee has referred five Trump aides and supporters to the Justice Department for possibly providing false testimony.) By undermining investigators, Trump’s cronies rendered Mueller’s report a hash lacking a firm conclusion. They helped detonate the charge of collusion, letting it die well ahead of the 2020 election.

   And, of course, in one of the most corrupt moves in U.S. presidential history, Trump later pardoned Manafort, his confederate in collusion.

3. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   The Mueller report, which Robert Mueller unequivocally stated did not exonerate Trump, cited at least 10 instances in which Trump likely committed obstruction of justice. In addition, the report detailed “multiple links between Trump Campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government.” Further, a subsequent bipartisan Senate report firmly established collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, noting that former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort shared internal polling data with Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik.

   Michael Flynn, had lied to Vice President-elect Mike Pence about details of his communications with Russia’s ambassador, making him potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail. The Times, meanwhile, broke the news that Donald Trump Jr. had agreed to a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer compromising information about Hillary Clinton and that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.

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4. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   DOJ charges Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, associate of Steve Bannon, in $1 billion fraud

   Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ Faces Legal and Financial Turmoil Amid Disclosures of Russian Funding

   Every con accusation is a confession.

5. 2 days ago on Dana Summers

   Spilled my coffee this morning. Thanks, Joe.

6. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   Alleged China-Fighter Donald Trump Has Secret Chinese Bank Account — nymag.com/intelligencer

7. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   Does this rival the estimated $5.4 million Trump had flowing into a strange lease at a Trump-owned property during his presidency? From China!!!!

   Does this rival the $15.8 million penthouse sold to a “Chinese-American businesswoman named Xiao Yan Chen” at one of his Manhattan buildings shortly after Trump became president? She’s From China!!!!

   Maybe it rivals the kind of prospective money Trump could make with the 38 new trademarks he magically got fast-tracked about 60 days into his presidency. From Chi – - you get it.

   Not to mention his secret bank accounts there as well.

8. 3 days ago on Mike Lester

   That’s not the case here. They were legitimate comments that disproved the misrepresentations in the comics, one from a medical journal. Flat out censorship.

   Thanks for your reply however.

9. 4 days ago on Mike Beckom

   Yeah, don’t get me started on prescott bush, granpappy bush thought ol’ hitler had some good ideas.

10. 4 days ago on Mike Beckom

    Guess I’m jaded, doesn’t surprise me at all. We’ve had trump, flynn, stone and countless others as russian assets for years.