Adam L Silverman says:
October 4, 2025 at 10:45 am
So I’ve just read the New Yorker piece on this:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-ivanka-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-avoided-a-criminal-indictment
Here’s what the fallout will be:
1) Vance is done. Expect a mounting call for his resignation. Followed by a resignation. His public service career is over. He’ll likely be taken care of at some white shoe law firm, but by and large he’s done.
2) AG Schneiderman will now pick this up and roll it into the investigations he’s quietly running into the Trump Organization, the campaign’s, and the transition’s activities within his jurisdiction in New York. If he hasn’t already done so.
3) Once again the Trump SoHo rears its head. This was the project done with Felix Sater (shocked, I’m shocked…). Mueller will now add this to his inquiries as part of the pattern of corruption and obstruction of justice by the President and his associates he’s investigating.
Jr. and the Princess are in more jeopardy now than 2012 when the President got his legal fixer to intervene on their behalf to get them out of trouble.
Music to my ears. I’m sick of hearing how they buy their way out of trouble. They deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ALL OF THEM.
So we’re paying for that lying woman’s travel as well? Hell naw!!
And good for Cuomo. Why the hell should we worry about Trump’s feelings when he couldn’t care less about anyone else’s feelings, including the millions of people suffering in Puerto Rico.
Anybody remember who was the senator who called a press conference to deny the report that he was one of the 10 dumbest senators? https://t.co/XqbLRmPA2z
There are certain forces in society who have an interest in not having white mass shooters labeled as terrorists. While guns are framed as a matter of constitutional rights, arms manufacturing is also a lucrative business. The gun lobby has an interest in producing more and more firearms with minimal regulation and stopping even the most moderate gun control legislation. Further, many politicians depend on millions of dollars in donations from the gun lobby have a tangible financial interest in normalizing white terrorism. In addition, policymakers who would wage war with Muslim nations also have a vested interest in making terrorism a color-coded endeavor relegated only to Islamic groups.
Michelle Obama cites lack of diversity in some parts of political landscape as reason "people don't trust politics" https://t.co/yHPoauxcOP pic.twitter.com/EuDcwJiohU
The Right want to criticize Michelle Obama because she talk about the Republicans being all white. She told the truth. Remember the picture of the Republicans when they pass the Obamacare Replace and Repeal bill and they all ran over to the White House to celebrate. They took a picture and what did you see? All white men, maybe two or three women. So Michelle Obama told the truth.
Discord between President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat is at an all-time high, spilling into public view in recent days, peaking with a NBC News report Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron” in a Pentagon meeting.
Trump was aware before Wednesday’s report that Tillerson had referred to him as a “moron” at the Pentagon this summer, a source familiar with the conversation told CNN, but it’s unclear whether Trump discussed the remark with Tillerson. Trump was not present at the Pentagon meeting.
During a hastily arranged statement Wednesday morning, Tillerson insisted he enjoys a close relationship with Trump and called him “smart.”
Though Tillerson didn’t deny calling Trump a moron, Trump tweeted: “The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews. They should issue an apology to AMERICA!”
Republicans in Congress are terrorizing America on guns.
If McConnell doesn’t take action now he’s colluding with this domestic terrorist. Legislating his JOB! WHO’s he trying to kid by ignoring decades of daily horrific gun disasters. He said “Entirely premature to be discussing about legislative solutions”. Denial, blah, blah my good buddie$ the nra. The umpteenth disgusting rollout of blockades on behalf of his benefactors, the gun manufacturers TERRORIZING America.
McConnell is a corrupt Do-Nothing unless it is for KOCH/nra. McConnell is senile and dangerous and he has to go. When he speaks on
behalf of the NRA Terrorists, McConnell is ONE man choosing against the safety of 320 million Americans. And risking our National Security. We’ve a right to feel safe on our streets and for decades GOP in Congress have serially chosen the murder of our kids over obvious, popular
and basic common sense legislation. GOP are killers and we know that now. So keep voting for “Dancing with the Stars”.
Sadly, this massacre will not change Republicans. It’s unbelievable that such a horrible tragedy wouldn’t lead sensible people to consider gun control but that’s not going to happen. We have to vote out Republicans. Period.
Russia has opened a new battlefront with NATO, according to Western military officials, by exploiting a point of vulnerability for almost all allied soldiers: their personal smartphones.
Troops, officers and government officials of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries said Russia has carried out a campaign to compromise soldiers’ smartphones. The aim, they say, is to gain operational information, gauge troop strength and intimidate soldiers.
Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings seeks proof that former HHS Secretary Tom Price wrote a check to cover his travel https://t.co/cBMSELJAlb pic.twitter.com/h3PfkL2kAn
Congress as it is will not change the gun laws…and unless this issue of gun safety is important to WeThePeople…it will not change….we have to fill the town halls….the offices…and the halls of Congress in the same manner that we did for health care…and we have to VOTE these folks out of office…that is the only way things will change…because the next mass killing is just around the corner..
Brilliant, hard-working, compassionate, self-less (and handsome) public servants; so thankful that we had the benefit of their service. Most of us can tell gold from dross; they are the former and the current office holders are the latter.
Randall Woodfin is the new mayor-elect of Birmingham. Lest Berners spin it as a win, Randall was the State Director of Hillary for America. pic.twitter.com/n5xt0kIPRR
— Hillary Warned Us (@HillaryWarnedUs) October 4, 2025
My Lord, make it so. It is incredible that this monument is well on its way to completion. May we have truth and reconciliation in its boldest, most true guise.
[…] EJI is also creating a museum called From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, which seeks to connect the history of slavery with the racial violence of the 20th century.
[….] The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin are among the models for the new memorial and museum, Stevenson told me. America’s original sin predates the atrocities that prompted those memorials, but he believes it’s not too late for the country to come to terms with the violence that has supported white supremacy across centuries. “I think we do need truth and reconciliation in America,” he said. “But truth and reconciliation are sequential. You can’t get to reconciliation until you first tell the truth.” [….]
True. I know that I will face it with deep sorrow and a need to consecrate the ground. They bore the terror and the desecration unto death, the least that I can do is to bear witness and to make sure that their stories are told to as many as possible.
Thank you for this. I’ve maintained forever that folks have greatly and willfully misinterpreted this amendment for their own selfish and cowardly reasons.
.@RepJoeKennedy: 'We can decide that one person’s right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor’s right to life.’ pic.twitter.com/EwC5SgZcDP
Julian Assange seems to be confused about the Senate Intel probe. He's not a witness in the investigation - he's a target of investigation. pic.twitter.com/PuyPS2biEk
This motherfucker is delusional, just cause some kissed his cowardly ass he thinks that he is something special that reasonable people should give heed to. Fuck him.
The Trump-Putin alliance sought to utilize a social media landscape where stories tugging at a particular narrative spread like wildfire and grew in influence like weeds to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.
Targeting on social media - which is geared to produce more organic branches than the root message itself - cannot be looked at the same way as targeting ads on traditional broadcast media channels. Russian ads on social media were not meant to overwhelm the airwaves; they were created to hit people who would pick up the lies and run with them without verifying accuracy. It’s the concentration of those people that mattered, not the battleground status of the states.
And this story is getting lost.
The Talking Heads are Wrong. Of Course Russian Ad Strategy Was Designed to Elect Trump. https://t.co/CsbtlQlp2d
The usual low down hypocritical mofo . Glad the word got out about him and hoping more revelations come quick and fast. We need to get our house in order.
55% of Puerto Ricans -almost 2 million Americans- have no drinking water. Trump dedicated a golf trophy and threw paper towel rolls at them. https://t.co/fQSLPPMaF5
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) October 4, 2025
Majority of Puerto Ricans still don’t have access to drinking water: https://t.co/26d8zOkE23 pic.twitter.com/3L0Cg2NWPp
Can you imagine that? Registering trucks? Requiring insurance for injury they caused? Licensing and testing drivers? https://t.co/sBNDjK22Y9
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 4, 2025
.@KennedyNation: "If that psychopath had…driven a truck into that crowd and killed 100 people would we be talking about truck control?" pic.twitter.com/3K00LJDScK
Where are all these hypocrite right wingers, in Congress and in the right wing media, who were loudly obsessed with Benghazi? Why aren’t they screaming and demanding a thorough investigation in the death and the wounding of these FIVE patriotic Americans serving in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces? Do they value them less than they did the 4 Americans killed in Benghazi? Or was their Benghazi outrage all about using a tragedy to score political points against President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton?
Watch complete conversation with @MichelleObama & @shondarhimes – Saturday October 7 at 8pm ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/D0IXG1wd7F https://t.co/oxVDoBthwQ
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Oh 44….you are so missed….and, things like this are the reason. A man who loves and honors his wife and, by extention, all women.
Is the Secretary of Exxon about to quit?
Our feminist President honoring his wife on the occasion of their 25 years of marriage. What a TEAM.
From a regular frontpager at Balloon Juice:
Music to my ears. I’m sick of hearing how they buy their way out of trouble. They deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. ALL OF THEM.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
THEY ARE THE PERFECT COUPLE!
Such tenderness and respect…
PRESSURE these freaks in Congress.
So we’re paying for that lying woman’s travel as well? Hell naw!!
And good for Cuomo. Why the hell should we worry about Trump’s feelings when he couldn’t care less about anyone else’s feelings, including the millions of people suffering in Puerto Rico.
GOP in Congress: Shift…your…arses. We Want To Live.
It’s on the American voter to learn the lesson before it kills more of us:
STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN.
They care about votes and tax cuts, not human lives.
Because they care about their fellow citizens.
way to maga, turd.
I am not dumb, your (sic) dumb.
lmao.
hahahahahaha….OMG!…UNbelievable
Because he is. But what does that say about Tillerson that he would stay working for a moron?
the thug is waiting for his tax cut and oil drilling contracts. his sole motive.
from the article:
There are certain forces in society who have an interest in not having white mass shooters labeled as terrorists. While guns are framed as a matter of constitutional rights, arms manufacturing is also a lucrative business. The gun lobby has an interest in producing more and more firearms with minimal regulation and stopping even the most moderate gun control legislation. Further, many politicians depend on millions of dollars in donations from the gun lobby have a tangible financial interest in normalizing white terrorism. In addition, policymakers who would wage war with Muslim nations also have a vested interest in making terrorism a color-coded endeavor relegated only to Islamic groups.
LOL.
I am outta here. I have an early Moroning.
Now then.
The trubble with Rexxon is he hasn’t got Oil Sanctions LIFTED for their buddy Putin.
Correction: The rouble with Rexxon.
The Right want to criticize Michelle Obama because she talk about the Republicans being all white. She told the truth. Remember the picture of the Republicans when they pass the Obamacare Replace and Repeal bill and they all ran over to the White House to celebrate. They took a picture and what did you see? All white men, maybe two or three women. So Michelle Obama told the truth.
America owes me an apology for DOTARD!
Discord between President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat is at an all-time high, spilling into public view in recent days, peaking with a NBC News report Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron” in a Pentagon meeting.
Trump was aware before Wednesday’s report that Tillerson had referred to him as a “moron” at the Pentagon this summer, a source familiar with the conversation told CNN, but it’s unclear whether Trump discussed the remark with Tillerson. Trump was not present at the Pentagon meeting.
During a hastily arranged statement Wednesday morning, Tillerson insisted he enjoys a close relationship with Trump and called him “smart.”
Though Tillerson didn’t deny calling Trump a moron, Trump tweeted: “The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews. They should issue an apology to AMERICA!”
ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES 10/3/17
Congressman’s emotional response to Trump Puerto Rico visit
Rep. Luiz Gutierrez calls Donald Trump’s behavior in Puerto Rico, where he lavished praise on his administration, ‘disgraceful.’
Someone that work for Trump sees that he is not a moron, but a F-ing Moron.
Republicans in Congress are terrorizing America on guns.
If McConnell doesn’t take action now he’s colluding with this domestic terrorist. Legislating his JOB! WHO’s he trying to kid by ignoring decades of daily horrific gun disasters. He said “Entirely premature to be discussing about legislative solutions”. Denial, blah, blah my good buddie$ the nra. The umpteenth disgusting rollout of blockades on behalf of his benefactors, the gun manufacturers TERRORIZING America.
McConnell is a corrupt Do-Nothing unless it is for KOCH/nra. McConnell is senile and dangerous and he has to go. When he speaks on
behalf of the NRA Terrorists, McConnell is ONE man choosing against the safety of 320 million Americans. And risking our National Security. We’ve a right to feel safe on our streets and for decades GOP in Congress have serially chosen the murder of our kids over obvious, popular
and basic common sense legislation. GOP are killers and we know that now. So keep voting for “Dancing with the Stars”.
Sadly, this massacre will not change Republicans. It’s unbelievable that such a horrible tragedy wouldn’t lead sensible people to consider gun control but that’s not going to happen. We have to vote out Republicans. Period.
more cyber attacks from Russia…
Russia has opened a new battlefront with NATO, according to Western military officials, by exploiting a point of vulnerability for almost all allied soldiers: their personal smartphones.
Troops, officers and government officials of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries said Russia has carried out a campaign to compromise soldiers’ smartphones. The aim, they say, is to gain operational information, gauge troop strength and intimidate soldiers.
If you have to stoop to tweeting that your SOS didn’t call you a moron, you need to resign.
Congress as it is will not change the gun laws…and unless this issue of gun safety is important to WeThePeople…it will not change….we have to fill the town halls….the offices…and the halls of Congress in the same manner that we did for health care…and we have to VOTE these folks out of office…that is the only way things will change…because the next mass killing is just around the corner..
GA, TODbots!
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Amen Tally. Totally agree about that damn 2nd amendment.
Brilliant, hard-working, compassionate, self-less (and handsome) public servants; so thankful that we had the benefit of their service. Most of us can tell gold from dross; they are the former and the current office holders are the latter.
Souza is throwing shade on Tillerson’s apparent spat with Trump. Go Souza!! Looking forward to buying his book about his years with the Obamas.
Moi
Neither!
He is such a thorough fraud.
Cool!
My Lord, make it so. It is incredible that this monument is well on its way to completion. May we have truth and reconciliation in its boldest, most true guise.
[Wow!]
[…] EJI is also creating a museum called From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, which seeks to connect the history of slavery with the racial violence of the 20th century.
[….] The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin are among the models for the new memorial and museum, Stevenson told me. America’s original sin predates the atrocities that prompted those memorials, but he believes it’s not too late for the country to come to terms with the violence that has supported white supremacy across centuries. “I think we do need truth and reconciliation in America,” he said. “But truth and reconciliation are sequential. You can’t get to reconciliation until you first tell the truth.” [….]
INcredible…..although this museum is essential…it would be hard to take
True. I know that I will face it with deep sorrow and a need to consecrate the ground. They bore the terror and the desecration unto death, the least that I can do is to bear witness and to make sure that their stories are told to as many as possible.
Kick his sorry ass, Mr. Jones.
The #Resistance
by
Keith Olbermann
#130
Just Nuts.
Thank you for this. I’ve maintained forever that folks have greatly and willfully misinterpreted this amendment for their own selfish and cowardly reasons.
It’s all about the money the NRA gives these GOP congressmen/women (and Bernie Sanders) so they can get re-elected.
This man will be President one day.
This!
Awwww. And they’re still so much in love. What a lovely couple! Miss them so much. Sigh.
This motherfucker is delusional, just cause some kissed his cowardly ass he thinks that he is something special that reasonable people should give heed to. Fuck him.
I’m so happy to see the Obama’s doing more public appearances. They just make me feel better.
I am so sick of 45 and his crew. They depress me something awful.
from the article
The Trump-Putin alliance sought to utilize a social media landscape where stories tugging at a particular narrative spread like wildfire and grew in influence like weeds to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.
Targeting on social media - which is geared to produce more organic branches than the root message itself - cannot be looked at the same way as targeting ads on traditional broadcast media channels. Russian ads on social media were not meant to overwhelm the airwaves; they were created to hit people who would pick up the lies and run with them without verifying accuracy. It’s the concentration of those people that mattered, not the battleground status of the states.
And this story is getting lost.
Those resources may have been cut by the abuser!
The usual low down hypocritical mofo . Glad the word got out about him and hoping more revelations come quick and fast. We need to get our house in order.
Wow!
Where are all these hypocrite right wingers, in Congress and in the right wing media, who were loudly obsessed with Benghazi? Why aren’t they screaming and demanding a thorough investigation in the death and the wounding of these FIVE patriotic Americans serving in the U.S. Army’s Special Forces? Do they value them less than they did the 4 Americans killed in Benghazi? Or was their Benghazi outrage all about using a tragedy to score political points against President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton?
If you’re a fan of Ta-nehisi Coates, I recommend listening to this. He comes in on the second half:
lol.
Can’t you just see Trump huffing at Rex to go out and deny the story? LOLOLOLzzzzz
never seen such a
manchildmanmoron in my life.New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/10/04/the-birth-of-great-minds/
On the topic of Ex-Parrots.
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/editorialcartoons/marshallramsey/s-2004719
lol @ barbara’s mantelpiece pic.
drats.