looks like the unnamed "high ranking campaign official" who Papadopolous kept talking to about Russian contacts is Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager before Manafort.

 

https://twitter.com/maxbergmann/status/925089186117570560

 

Everyone else is saying it's manafort.

The hottest of takes, courtesy of the WSJ opinion pages

 

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/begging-your-p...dent-1509302308

Edited October 30, 20178 yr by StrangeSox

notably from yesterday.

One of the key witnesses against Manafort is....Manafort's lawyer.

 

hfs, Mueller got a judge to find a waiver of Manafort's attorney-client privilege under the crime-fraud exception https://t.co/LVhKZxfG9L

— Popehat (@Popehat) October 30, 2017

 

Hard to overstate how big and unusual and aggressive that is. Mueller ain't playing beanbag.

— Popehat (@Popehat) October 30, 2017

 

One of the key witnesses against Manafort is....Manafort's lawyer.

 

hfs, Mueller got a judge to find a waiver of Manafort's attorney-client privilege under the crime-fraud exception https://t.co/LVhKZxfG9L

— Popehat (@Popehat) October 30, 2017

 

Hard to overstate how big and unusual and aggressive that is. Mueller ain't playing beanbag.

— Popehat (@Popehat) October 30, 2017

 

Yeah, he's f***ed.

Upstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments

http://wapo.st/2iMViss

 

Good look inside the White House today based on 20 sources.

Yeah but dont you know this is all linked to someone who isnt the president???

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ups...m=.bd8d7a53baf6

 

Donnie sad. Bigly sad.

For how much the moron in chief tweets, you’d think he knows they don’t expire or disappear. You can’t claim you didn’t know someone when you had him in your inner circle and actually made public comments about him. You just look even dumber.

The obsession with Fox News is fascinating to me. I saw more tweets yesterday about Fox News than I did the indictments. Meanwhile, every tweet about them gives them more publicity. Every "look at what crazy Tomi Lahren said now!" video just adds to her followers. They can't pay for this type of free pub.

 

Meanwhile, 25% of the country uses TMZ as their one and only news source, maybe that's just as big of a problem?

Kelly is a Lost Cause Confederate apologist and refuses to apologize for slandering rep. Waters

Kelly is a Lost Cause Confederate apologist and refuses to apologize for slandering rep. Waters

 

The "sane" one in the room.

The "sane" one in the room.

 

Back when he was head of DHS, he advocated for allowing "somewhere between 0 and 1" refugees into the country a year and helped kick off the disgusting actions ICE and CBP have been taking this year. He's just as awful as everyone else in the administration.

Sigh, this really is the longest “Aristocrats” act of all time.

 

The obsession with Fox News is fascinating to me. I saw more tweets yesterday about Fox News than I did the indictments. Meanwhile, every tweet about them gives them more publicity. Every "look at what crazy Tomi Lahren said now!" video just adds to her followers. They can't pay for this type of free pub.

 

Meanwhile, 25% of the country uses TMZ as their one and only news source, maybe that's just as big of a problem?

 

I think this is a bit disingenous to as why people are focusing on fox. It's not "ha, look at the stupid people!"

 

Fox, and specifically fox and friends and then hannity, have become a tell for what Trump will start tweeting angrily about. Everyone knows the president watches it, and so when major news around the investigation into the president drops and they are covering emojis it just underscores that dynamic. It is for all intents and purposes state media with Trump in office.

I think this is a bit disingenous to as why people are focusing on fox. It's not "ha, look at the stupid people!"

 

Fox, and specifically fox and friends and then hannity, have become a tell for what Trump will start tweeting angrily about. Everyone knows the president watches it, and so when major news around the investigation into the president drops and they are covering emojis it just underscores that dynamic. It is for all intents and purposes state media with Trump in office.

He literally live tweets fox and friends every morning. Its pretty pathetic.

Trump is melting like the Wicked Witch of the West. Love the tweet with the low level volunteer coffee boy at the table with Trump and Sessions.

Edited October 31, 20178 yr by Dick Allen

I hate lost cause-ism so much. If nothing else, for how it so effectively promotes those who were wrong to heroes and those who were right to after thoughts.

 

There were southerners, slaves and free, who went to fight for union and should be lionized for their conviction and bravery. Generals like Winfield Scott (well-known, for sure, but less for his civil war decision to fight for union) to George Henry Thomas who fought for the north and became excommunicated from his family for it.

 

John Logan isn't revered enough. He fought for the right side, he fought for right values in office post civil war. We have Logan Circle and statue in grant park, but he's not at the tip of the tongue.

 

History-erasing lost causers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates had a pretty good twitter thread (ugh) this morning laying out just how wrong Kelly's ideas on the Confederacy, slavery and compromise are and how pervasive white supremacist ideology can be. Starts here:

 

https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/925289478943633408

 

Regarding John Kelly's creationist theorizing on Lee and the Civil War, its worth pointing out a few things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 31, 2017

 

Edited October 31, 20178 yr by StrangeSox

I think this is a bit disingenous to as why people are focusing on fox. It's not "ha, look at the stupid people!"

 

Fox, and specifically fox and friends and then hannity, have become a tell for what Trump will start tweeting angrily about. Everyone knows the president watches it, and so when major news around the investigation into the president drops and they are covering emojis it just underscores that dynamic. It is for all intents and purposes state media with Trump in office.

 

I understand the state media point, but there is a good portion of "ha, look at the stupid people!" too.

 

It's crazy because all it does is help Trump and his narratives of everyone and the media being against us. I guess it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

He literally live tweets fox and friends every morning. Its pretty pathetic.

 

That's because he can't think of the tweets himself, he needs the boob tube to give him ideas.

I understand the state media point, but there is a good portion of "ha, look at the stupid people!" too.

 

It's crazy because all it does is help Trump and his narratives of everyone and the media being against us. I guess it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

 

Every criticism of Trump or Fox news apparently helps trump. But his approval rating before monday dropped to 32%.

It's also people pointing out where a substantial portion of the country gets their (dis)information from. Conservative media has spent decades hammering home the idea that you cannot trust anyone but them. Everyone else is part of a grand conspiracy who's lying to you, who is an enemy that must be crushed and defeated.

 

Trumpism is the end result of that ideological push that goes back at least as far as the Birchers and has now taken over a substantial portion of the GOP.

Trump, who lies more than anyone, also accuses others of lying more than anyone. I hope his shtick catches up to him.

Edited October 31, 20178 yr by Dick Allen

Now the White House Press Secretary is peddling Lost Cause propaganda

 

Sanders: “If some individuals had been willing to come to some compromises on different things, [Civil War] may not have occurred.” pic.twitter.com/KiQQmEDv0R

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) October 31, 2017