CNN reporting now. There's a draft Executive Order to drop (some?) Russian sanctions.

[NightWatcher]

This comes days ahead of a call between trump and his daddy Putin.

He's paying back Putin in his first week in office


Will update as I find more confirmation beyond "numerous D.C. Sources", but it sounds par for the course.

[Ilsa]

1. I guess he thought we wouldn't notice.

Can anyone do anything about this?

[NightWatcher]

2. That's why Bannon is attacking the media and trump is trying to distract

Prepare for something insane today to attract media focus.

[dalton99a]

16. Exactly. There is a method behind the madness.

Trump is a world-class con man and master of the technique

[ginnyinWI]

27. Maybe those around him have a method, but DT

is a natural distraction, so obsessed is he with his ego. While he's focusing on his belly button, the others will run the gov't into trouble.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

5. Congress needs to impeach him now

He's out of control.

[Amishman]

24. Need to be very specific about what grounds

Removing sanctions, trying to build his wall, targeting undocumented immigrants; these are all things that are within his Constitutional authority. And they are exactly what he promised to do. Screaming to impeach him for these things just make us look like children having a tantrum.

Conflict of interest or insanity are the only avenues I see, and both are very difficult due to the lack of prior examples.

[meow2u3]

31. How about abuse of office?

In his first week, he's been signing EO's left and right, some of them patently illegal and even unconstitutional.

[democratisphere]

3. Kiss Putin''s and Russia's ass while insulting and alienating Mexico our important

border and economic neighbor. He must go.

[Cha]

4. No, russia didn't help dump get in office.. blotus isn't putin's

pet Trojan horse.

[tavernier]

25. Maybe not,

but you can bet Putin would have done, if he didn't think Americans would be stupid enough to actually vote for Trump.

He underestimated us.

[Bob Loblaw]

6. If any phone conversations

in this country should be recorded, it would be President Biff's call with Putin.

[Ohioblue22]

7. time for президент trumpsky to get on his knees

[Frogg]

8. When it all comes out...

We are going to stand together and make sure the f'ing kgop repukes do not wriggle and slime their way out of this...they hung their asses on this orange beast and they are not going to walk away from this one...

[SticksnStones]

9. Rachel was reporting on that same topic last night.

Epic opening twenty minutes on her program!

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

[watoos]

10. What happened to the thread from Rachel's show?

There was a thread up here last night about the Russian mole we had who got outed, who Putin tossed in jail and is trying him for cyber espionage. Where is that story, it's gone. It's all related. The purging of the senior state department officials will make it easier for Trump to remove the Russian sanctions.

Anyone know why the Maddow link, story line is gone? Was it bogus? It sounded real to me and damn earth shattering.

Someone needs to bring that post back to the front page.

[MBS]

13. one relevant thread here:

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1016175584

(Maybe not the one you had in mind, but at least similar?)

[leftynyc]

11. He can't do that without congress

where he will have plenty of pushback from his own party. The degenerate is about to find out his very limited powers when it comes to the the power of the purse.

[LisaL]

12. Republican congress will fall over and play dead.

We can't count on them to stop Trump.

[leftynyc]

14. I'm not sure about that

You even have that imbecile Chaffetz refusing to schedule and investigation on donnie's fantasy voter fraud. Chaffetz - who spent untold millions investigating benghazi 7 times. Two no votes would definitely be Graham and McCain and I think that's all we need in the senate.

[LisaL]

15. But they got the money for the wall.

[leftynyc]

22. So what?

Border control is something they've always been fighting for. Most republicans HATE russia.

[Vinca]

17. Time to pay the piper. Or, in Trump's case, the banker.

[lark]

18. There's a proposal in the Senate to stop this.

It requires Congressional approval to remove any sanctions on Russia. They need to pass this today, but McTurtle will probably try to delay it so his bud can do what he wants, regardless of the horrible impact on us and the world.

[world wide wally]

29. Don't ever count on McCain doing the right thing

Maybe he was once a hero, but he has been a first class coward since the days of W

[annabanana]

19. Lord, Lord.. We are all getting

sold down the river...

[mountain grammy]

20. Oh, yeah, that's right. He is the puppet.

Who knew?

[avebury]

21. If he does then people need to make #traitortrump trend

so heavily that he can't hide from it.

[Turbineguy]

23. He drops the sanctions

Putin will drop him.

[ginnyinWI]

26. heading down the road to treason?

In the first month? Wouldn't that be something.

[bdamomma]

28. K&r

[bdamomma]

30. K&R