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Lawrence: Trump, Fearing Mueller And A Democratic House, Campaigns On Fear | The Last Word | MSNBC

"Am I A Baby?’: Ari Melber And Katy Tur On Trump’s Deepest Wound | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC"

MSNBC
Published on Oct 31, 2018

Donald Trump is running scared in the final days of the 2018 campaign. Mueller is nearing the end of his investigation and if Democrats win the House, they will investigate every aspect of the Trump administration and family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9FEnMCvLEA

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Bumbling President Trump Booster Botches Mueller Smear, Implicates Own Mom | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Oct 30, 2018

Ben Collins, NBC News tech and media reporter, talks with Rachel Maddow about an apparent bizarre effort to pay women to accuse Special Counsel Robert Mueller of sexual harassment, which was revealed to Mueller and referred to the FBI for criminal investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYt7W8UiF_4

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Special Counsel Refers Scheme Targeting Mueller to FBI
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Must watch - Steve Schmidt: President Donald Trump Is 'Stoking And Inciting' Worst Among Us | All In | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Oct 29, 2018

Donald Trump is "stoking and inciting - for the purposes of political power - the worst amongst us to take action in his name," says Steve Schmidt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwxQYQB1zD0

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Steve Schmidt Calls Out Fox News For Turning Into A Deadly Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
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Democrats didn't leak Dr. Ford's letter—it was most likely the White House

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Also, if the FBI had done it, Trump and the GOP would be screaming bloody murder over it.

The leaves one single solitary source for the leak: the White House.

As soon as the FBI added the letter to Kavanaugh’s background file, it was available for White House counsel Don McGahn to review and share with whomever he liked. I submit he deliberately shared it with the press for various reasons.

First, it was reported back in August by Politico that Trump would welcome being impeached because he feels that it would backfire on Democrats, because he’d never be convicted and removed by the Senate.

“If they take the House, he wins big,” explained former Trump adviser Barry Bennett, with others hearkening back to the impeachment of ex-President Bill Clinton, who grew more popular after his impeachment in 1998. “Well-respected thinkers believe that the more extreme the Democrats go, the more middle of the road voters will gravitate to Trump,” suggested a prominent conservative who wished to remain anonymous.

Technically, the piece makes a strong point. That the Ed Whelan doppelganger theory, which suggests that Dr. Ford was absolutely telling the truth, but at the same time so was Kavanaugh because she didn’t know what she was talking about when she said she was “100 percent certain” that her attacker was Brett Kavanaugh, was so easily adopted as an uncomfortable straddling position by Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Joe Manchin shows us that similar ridiculous politically convenient positions are likely to be assumed if the Senate were to take up the conviction and removal of Trump.

The probability that both were telling the truth and that Kavanaugh simply didn't remember because of his drinking was ignored because all the witnesses who supported that argument, such his former Yale roommate Jamie Roche (who fully backed up Deborah Ramirez’s credibility), were ignored by the FBI on the orders of Don McGahn.

“As Brett’s roommate, I’m in a singular position—I saw him use words in a different way than the way he said under oath. If a person isn’t truthful about these little things, then we ought to think very seriously about whether we should tell Debby that she’s wrong or crazy.”

To the GOP, it doesn’t matter that Papadopoulos was personally authorized by Trump to illegally interact with and reach out to the Russians, and was the first to discover that they had obtained a trove of illegally hacked emails connected to Hillary Clinton, and that he not only didn’t bother to inform the FBI that he’d been made aware of a felony, but he was directed by Jeff Sessions to “find out everything he could” about them. It doesn’t matter that Paul Manafort had a Russian military intelligence officer on his payroll and was repeatedly making offers to provide a Russian gangster/oligarch with inside information on the Trump campaign. It doesn’t matter that Don Jr. had a meeting in Trump Tower with an admitted informant for the Kremlin and yet another Russian intelligence asset to attempt to illegally trade influence on U.S. policy in exchange for access to political dirt on Hillary Clinton, and that Trump dictated a covering lie about that meeting being “mostly about adoptions.” It doesn’t matter that Rick Gates had taken various proposals from an Israeli intelligence firm to influence the delegates during the nomination process and also potentially against Hillary Clinton in the general. It doesn’t matter that Michael Cohen actually did travel to Prague during the campaign, most likely to meet with Manafort’s GRU associate Konstantin Kilimnick. It doesn’t matter that Cambridge Analytica, which also used social media to influence voters after stealing the personal data of millions of Americans, also has several direct ties to Russian firms and the FSB.

None of that matters to them any more than Kavanaugh’s obvious perjury matters. The Senate is not going to remove Trump, even if Mueller gets Putin to confess on steps of the Capitol.

Secondly, the White House had already released Dr. Ford’s identity to multiple GOP operatives, including Ed Whelan, as soon as they were informed of her name by the Washington Post on Sept. 16, just before she herself came forward.

After preparing the story in which Professor Christine Blasey Ford told her story, in which she says she worrying [sic] that a drunken Kavanaugh might kill her in his attack, the Post contacted the Trump White House for comment, as is standard reporting procedure.

At that point, the Post now reports, Raj Shah, the Deputy Press Secretary who would be responsible for coordinating an official response reportedly “called a number of Trump allies to warn them about the upcoming story.”
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