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August 31, 2018

Bette Midler to Trump about Dem Violence: "What are we going to do-Throw our PBS tote bags at them?"

@BetteMidler

Now Trump’s saying Democrats are going to be “violent” if they win big in November? What are we going to do? Throw our PBS tote bags at them?




https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1035193309939957761
August 31, 2018

Ohr says Christopher Steele told him Russian intelligence believed it had Trump "over a barrel"

Ohr says Christopher Steele told him Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump "over a barrel”


WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.

The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.

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Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had said that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting. It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele had been directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s research dossier.

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https://apnews.com/4ac772445073491aa7d3ca9e558e0144
https://twitter.com/jpaceDC/status/1035551086541725697
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1035555808178782208

August 30, 2018

Trump protege arrested & charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees

BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, California for threats they say he made to The Boston Globe following their recent editorial about the press.





https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1035175513046896640
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1035166357925580800
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1035167781635981314
August 30, 2018

McCain vs. Trump

August 30, 2018

Carl Bernstein's Awesome Reply To Trump: "I stand by my reporting"

Carl Bernstein

@carlbernstein
.@realdonaIdtrump- I have spent my life as a journalist bringing the truth to light, through administrations of both parties. No taunt will diminish my commitment to that mission, which is the essential role of a free press. @CNN stands by its story, and I stand by my reporting.


7:22 PM - Aug 29, 2018


https://www.mediaite.com/online/carl-bernstein-responds-to-trumps-twitter-attack-no-taunt-will-diminish-my-efforts-to-bring-the-truth-to-light/
https://twitter.com/carlbernstein/status/1034989702036828160

August 30, 2018

CNN Scorches Trump & Defends Carl Berstein

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
· 1h
CNN is being torn apart from within based on their being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit the mistake. Sloppy @carlbernstein, a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over the country! Fake News


CNN Communications

@CNNPR
Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news. And we report when people in power tell lies. CNN stands by our reporting and our reporters. There may be many fools in this story but @carlbernstein is not one of them.

4:44 PM - Aug 29, 2018





https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1034949979759108097
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rips-veteran-reporter-carl-bernstein-as-sloppy-over-cnn-report-thinks-like-a-degenerate-fool/

August 29, 2018

DEMS: 'YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT' WE'RE GETTING HIS TAX RETURNS

Democrats Are Going To Get Trump’s Tax Returns If They Win The House
“You’re damn right,” one Democrat said.

By Paul Blumenthal

If Democrats win control of the House in November they will finally have the votes to force an issue they’ve been hammering for nearly two years: Making President Donald Trump disclose his tax returns.

Since Trump took office, Democrats have forced 11 votes in the House of Representatives to require that the IRS hand over Trump’s returns. These votes all failed because only one member of the Republican majority joined the Democrats in their request. If Democrats win 217 or more seats in the November election ― which they have a 74 percent chance to do, according to the polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight ― they will have enough votes to get these documents.

“You’re damn right” Democrats will vote to get Trump’s tax returns if they win a majority in November, said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.).





https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns-democrats-house_us_5b8706b9e4b0511db3d453b6

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