Daily Archives: July 1, 2017

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 134

Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

The cognitive deficits of our popular vote losing President start the day off with his idiocy yet again on full display as his moronic Twitter tirades continue, meet the team of miscreants representing our Loser-in-Chief’s legal woes, how Trump’s profound ignorance is going to cost him, more on Trump’s latest addition to his Ministry of Propaganda, Trump’s growing Russia scandal is implicating more of his administration – making it appear that he and his entire administration are illegitimate, questioning why the media won’t cover Trump’s Syrian War Crimes and much more.

Trump Twitter Wars Continue: New Attack on MSNBC for Firing Greta Van Susteren article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-twitter-wars-continue-attack-154333413.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

The diminishing mental capacity of our dimwitted dip shit again on full display as his moronic Twitter tirades continue.

President Trump slams CNN as ‘garbage journalism’ article from AOL News. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/01/president-trump-slams-cnn-as-garbage-journalism/23011617/

Our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator’s Twitter tantrums continued with his duplicitous war on the truth.

‘Dumb as a rock Mika’: Donald Trump back on attack against Morning Joe hosts article from The Guardian. –
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/01/donald-trump-mika-brzezinski-joe-scarborough-twitter-fight

Yes, another Twitter tantrum from our impotent man-boy occupying the White House…he’s been busy showing everyone why he’s our illegitimate, minority-elect President.

Meet Trump’s legal team article from The Week. –
http://theweek.com/articles/709086/meet-trumps-legal-team

Meet the scrappy shysters representing our Loser-in-Chief:

“The president has assembled an unusual group of scrappy lawyers to defend him in the Russia investigation. Here’s everything you need to know:

Who is heading the team?
Marc E. Kasowitz, the president’s longtime personal lawyer and his go-to guy for legal battles over the past 15 years. When special counsel Robert Mueller put the Russia investigation into high gear, Trump initially tried to hire at least four of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, with high-profile attorneys including former Solicitor General Ted Olson. But they all refused, according to a Yahoo News report, with the lawyers citing the difficulty of representing the mercurial Trump, who has a history of not paying bills. As one lawyer put it, “The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen.” So Trump has turned to his old buddy to defend him from the most dangerous legal challenge of his life. Kasowitz, 64, makes for a “peculiar choice” to handle a major investigation and possible impeachment, a lawyer who is familiar with Kasowitz’s work told The Washington Post. “He is not a white-collar lawyer. He is a bulldog civil litigator. You want someone who [Mueller] is going to respect. You don’t go in there with your hair on fire.”

What is Kasowitz’s background?
The founding partner of Kasowitz Benson Torres, Kasowitz specializes in complex financial litigation — which is how he first met Trump. In 2001, the real estate mogul retained the $1,500-an-hour lawyer to represent him in an Atlantic City casino bankruptcy case. Kasowitz has since gone to court to protect Trump’s sealed divorce records from being opened; unsuccessfully defended Trump University from a fraud lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and represented him amid allegations of sexual assault. “Trump has always favored scrappy lawyers and street fighters,” says Trump biographer Timothy O’Brien, who has personally faced off against Kasowitz. “Kasowitz fits that profile.”

How does Kasowitz operate?
Described as one of the toughest lawyers in Manhattan, Kasowitz goes on the attack against his clients’ accusers. When Bill O’Reilly, another of his clients, was accused of sexual harassment by several Fox News colleagues, Kasowitz claimed that the TV host had “been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination…unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America.” And when Trump sued writer O’Brien for challenging the real estate mogul’s claim to be a billionaire in his 2005 biography, Kasowitz appeared at one of O’Brien’s book readings — filming the event while using audience “plants” to goad the author into making damaging statements, says O’Brien. “It’s just a trench fight with them,” says Roddy Boyd, another reporter who has battled with Kasowitz. “It’s brutal stuff.”

Who else is on the team?
Former prosecutor John Dowd, a veteran white-collar lawyer known for his work on the Keating Five scandal, will bring some Washington expertise to the team. But on TV at least, the public face of Trump’s Russia defense squad now appears to be Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for evangelical Christian groups and a conservative talk show regular. Sekulow serves as chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), a Christian-based nonprofit founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, and has argued 12 religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court. Sekulow, 61, was born to a Reform Jewish family in Brooklyn, and only became a Messianic Jew — or a “Jew for Jesus” — after attending Atlanta Baptist College. He has also defended organizations like the militant anti-abortion Operation Rescue…”

White House threats to Joe Scarborough may have violated three criminal laws article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-threats-to-joe-scarborough-b04a5dfbe715

Threatening blackmail – especially as president – is indefensible and always a crime.

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