Equifax (EFX.N) said in September that hackers stole personal data it had collected on some 143 million Americans. Richard Cordray, then the CFPB director, authorized an investigation that month, said former officials familiar with the probe. But Cordray resigned in November and was replaced by Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget chief, who was once quite vocal about eliminating the agency. … Read More
Space X Launches
BREAKING: SpaceX’s massive Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. pic.twitter.com/onXcW9Kloo — NBC News (@NBCNews) February 6, 2018 This is insane…. BREAKING: SpaceX successfully lands two Falcon Heavy boosters simultaneously after rocket launch – https://t.co/kdrUxk2XiK pic.twitter.com/0JV8xRciqm — NBC News (@NBCNews) February 6, 2018 The rocket is built by SpaceX, the game-changing company helmed by … Read More
Trump Supporters Believe And Spread “Junk News” More Than Everybody
Trump supporters are among the most prolific social media users spreading fake news and conspiracy content, according to new research from Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Research Project, which has been studying disinformation campaigns globally since 2014. The group’s new findings are based on study of more than 13,000 Twitter accounts representing politically diverse viewpoints, including just under 2,000 pro-Trump accounts—which were identified … Read More
Republican Support Of Failed Nunes Memo Shows Their Cowardice
Sure, Nunes loved his memo. And Trump loved it because Nunes was doing his bidding. But where were the principled Republicans? Nowhere. Michael Gersen: With the blessing of Republican leaders, the lickspittle wing of the GOP is now firmly in charge. The existence of reckless partisans such as Nunes is hardly surprising. The nearly uniform cowardice among elected Republicans is … Read More
FEMA Response To Puerto Rico Even Worse That We Thought
In November, The Associated Press found that after Hurricane Maria, FEMA awarded more than $30 million in contracts for emergency tarps and plastic sheeting to a company that never delivered the needed supplies to Puerto Rico. And now this: The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food. Thirty … Read More
Trump’s Lawyers Think Trump Shouldn’t Submit To Mueller Interview
Yes, well… I don’t think you need a legal degree to come to this conclusion. Trump, who wouldn’t know the truth if it landed in his pants, would perjure himself. Greg Sargeant points out the real fear: President Trump’s lawyers are urging him to avoid an interview with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III because he is a pathological liar … Read More
Volatile Dow
After plunging a few hundred points on Friday, the Dow dropped a record-breaking 1175 points yesterday. That the most points, but fortunately, the 4.6% drop was not the highest percentage-wise. All in all, 1 trillion dollars in net worth was lost. It probably was a correction, but it raised fresh anxieties among Americans who have seen their retirement savings and household … Read More
Trump: Democrats Were Treasonous For Not Applauding Me At The State Of The Union
Yesterday Trump called out Democrats’ behavior at his speech last week, where he received much less applause. “They were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘Treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not,” Trump said, adding, “Can we call that treason? Why not.” Today, the White House had to issue a statement saying that Trump was being “tongue in … Read More
Nunes Forced To Admit Central Point Of His Memo Was… Er…. Wrong
Yesterday, Devin Nunes and the slapstick co-conspirators who hoped to bring down the FBI and Justice Department with a 4-page memo were foiled by their own incompetence. Nunes and company hinged the entirety of their hopes on stating that the FBI failed to disclose the political origins of the Trump-Russia dossier, used to secure the initial FISA warrant on a … Read More
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The news this week was dominated by the Devin Nunes memo, which, following high drama and despite calls to withhold it from US intelligence leaders including Trump appointee Christopher Wray, was released on Friday. Trump suffered no consequences for making highly classified information public, nor for pushing out Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, almost assuring he will irreverently … Read More
The Nunes Memo: It’s Here — Is It “Worse Than Watergate”?
10:30 am – Trump is expected to approved the release of the memo reports said last night, but he’s not going to have the White House release it. That will be left to the House Intel Committee. Reports say that Trump was warned last night by Chief of Staff Jon Kelly that the memo isn’t the huge thing that Trump thinks it … Read More
The Nunes Memo: Will It Be Released Today?
JUST IN: President Trump has read the FISA memo, as delivered to the White House, multiple White House officials tell @NBCNews — NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 1, 2018 Trump told people he would release it (it was heard on an open mic as he was leaving the State of the Union speech. The memo supposedly implicates the FBI in its … Read More
Two Developments In Trump Russia Scandal
CNN was on a roll last night, breaking two stories — first, the smaller one: (1) The right wing and Fox News have been making much of emails between two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The two were having an illicit affair, but more importantly, their emails to each other show a strong anti-Trump bias. When Mueller found out … Read More
Obstruction Related To Trump Tower Meeting
And the hits keep on coming for the Trump team. Let’s go back to July 2017, only 7 months ago, but 7 years in Trump scandal time. I wrote on July 11: With a few days off for breathless recovery, the Trump-Russia collusion scandal has been a steady stream of bombshells. A big one dropped yesterday: Donald Trump Jr (a … Read More