a collection of curious characters and interesting events
Rudy Giuliani’s goon, Lev Parnas, isn’t exactly a criminal mastermind. His lifetime career on the wrong side of the law seems to be more bumbling than brilliant. Lev has been the subject of news stories for months, but there are a few things mainstream media has missed, which are important in being able to understand what the hell is going
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When Speaker Pelosi confronted Trump and said “with you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin”, she was certainly on target, but a bit too narrowly focused. Putin is not just the president of a country at odds with America, he’s also believed to be the richest man in the world, the oligarch of all oligarchs. He’s part of an
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Back in July, the French government posted a video clip of Ivanka at the G20 summit in Japan trying to butt into a conversation between world leaders. The video went viral. FYI: The intent of holding the G20 every year is to promote global economic cooperation. The 20 countries that attend are responsible for almost all global trade. The grownups
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Another one of Trump’s cabinet members resigned from his post today. Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta, became the 13th member of Trump’s cabinet to be fired or resign. His feeble attempt to explain his secret plea deal in the Jeffrey Epstein case from 2008 proved to be his undoing. Nobody bought what he was trying to sell.
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Epstein is so screwed. Jeffrey Epstein appeared in court today to answer to federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty to the charges, and was sent back to jail to await his bail hearing, which will be held on Thursday. The sex trafficking charge is alleged to have
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They didn’t say so. Nuff said. Impeach. There’s plenty to work with.
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I’ve been watching the assorted hearings going on in Congress, and have been intrigued by what appears to me to be very careful, but deliberate, efforts by Pelosi, Nadler, and others to follow procedure to get answers to their questions many of us still have. There’s a war going on between the House of Representatives and the White House. It’s
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