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Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus, Don McGahn, James Burnham, Josh Raffel.

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What’s sort of extra hilarious is that that’s a California DMV office, not a polling place.

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All the target audience would ever notice is the brown skin and big yellow text.

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You and your so called “facts”

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It’d be even better if that’s a KTLA story on online DMV appointments and how much time it can save you from waiting in lines.

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Yes, our polling places are garages and senior centers and the like.

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White House counsel Don McGahn and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus have hired a prominent white collar attorney in Washington to advise them on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, which reportedly is turning its focus to decisions made in the White House related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

An unnamed source told Law360 that William Burck, a partner at the firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has been brought on by both McGahn and Priebus.

Burck is a former assistant U.S. attorney and was a deputy counsel to President George W. Bush, according to the Law360 report. He also defended former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell ® in a high-profile corruption case that went to the Supreme Court, where McDonnell’s convictions were overturned.

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It’s hard to tell the trolling from the cucking nowadays.

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Here’s the clip from the Russian panel show (via @JuilaDavisNews, creator of RussiaLies.com):

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Jeez all you liberals are just so mad about Trump winning. Sad!

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The House Intelligence Committee’s Republican staff has sent a series of subpoenas to the FBI related to the bureau’s involvement with Steele’s investigation. Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Kimberly Strassel, a reliable unfiltered conduit for congressional Republicans, contains the talking points that are likely to dominate the new line of defense. Republicans, Strassel writes, believe “documents might show the FBI played a central role in ginning up the fake dossier on Mr. Trump.” Since James Comey ran the FBI until recently, this charge would, they hope, prove Comey was biased against Trump.
[…]
Working from the premise that Steele’s dossier is discredited, Republicans hope to attach Comey to it, and thereby sink his reputation. But it’s possible their argument will do something else entirely: They might prove Steele was right after all.

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Thus we creep closer to the foreordained endstate of Western civilization.

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(CNN) - President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, has refused a new request to appear as a witness before the Senate intelligence committee, a congressional source tells CNN.

Flynn first declined to comply with a Senate subpoena in May, asserting his Fifth Amendment rights. More recently, the committee has reiterated its request and Flynn has declined again, the source said.
[…]
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has said the committee has ruled out considering Flynn’s request for immunity to testify before the committee.

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Might be a stretch or premature to put this here, but.

As a top official in President Donald Trump’s transition team, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn actively promoted a private-sector scheme to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the Middle East known informally in the transition as the “Marshall Plan.” But he did not publicly disclose that backers of the plan had paid him at least $25,000.

Flynn communicated during the transition with the backers of the for-profit plan, billed as a way of strengthening ties between the U.S. and Arab allies looking to develop nuclear power capability. Meanwhile, the Trump adviser expressed his support for the plan with people inside the transition —and discussed its merits with others beyond Trump Tower, according to sources within and close to the Trump team at that time.

Flynn’s consulting work for the company has been previously reported, but not the extent of his involvement during the Trump transition, nor the full amount he was paid for it.

Cross-posted in the Scandal thread.

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WASHINGTON — Michael G. Flynn, the son of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is a subject of the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign, according to four current and former government officials.

The inquiry into Flynn is focused at least in part on his work with his father’s lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, three of the officials said. It’s unclear when the focus on Flynn began.
[…]
A former business associate of Michael Flynn’s said the younger Flynn had a heavy hand in the day-to-day operations of Flynn Intel Group and served as his father’s chief of staff. Those responsibilities included attending meetings with his father and communicating with prospective clients, the former business associate said.

Several legal experts with knowledge of the investigation have told NBC News they believe Mueller, following a classic prosecutorial playbook, is seeking to compel key players, including Flynn and Manafort, to tell what they know about any possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Mueller has brought onto his team a federal prosecutor known for convincing subjects to turn on associates. Any potential criminal liability for Michael G. Flynn could put added pressure on his father, these legal experts said.
[…]
The younger Flynn worked closely with his father, whose connections to foreign governments, including Russia and Turkey, have been a subject of federal and congressional investigations.

Michael G. Flynn accompanied his father, for instance, on a trip to Moscow in December 2015 for the elder Flynn to deliver a paid speech at a gala for the state-sponsored Russian television network RT. He can be seen in video from an associated event.

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