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Trump Says He Is Considering Pardoning Ex-Adviser Michael Flynn

Trump accused the FBI of losing Flynn’s “records.” Attorney General William Barr recently ordered a review Flynn’s criminal case.

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he is “strongly considering” pardoning his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, suggesting that Flynn was unfairly targeted and prosecuted.

“So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has ‘lost’ the records of General Michael Flynn,” Trump tweeted. “How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!”

Trump, whose complaint was fired off within minutes of several other unrelated complaints and concerns, didn’t expand on what he meant by Flynn’s missing records. Continue reading.

Twitter flags video retweeted by President Trump as ‘manipulated media’

Washington Post logoIt’s the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos

Twitter applied its new “manipulated media” label for the first time on Sunday to a deceptively edited video of former vice president Joe Biden. The video was shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by President Trump.

The video was the first test of a new policy the social media company implemented March 5 to label tweets that contain manipulated or synthetic media, ranging from edited videos to more sophisticated examples known as “deepfakes” that can fabricate events that never happened.

In this case, the altered video of Biden — who has surged to the front of the Democratic presidential race to face Trump in November — is based on a speech he gave Saturday in Kansas City, Mo. It was then shared on Twitter by Scavino, only edited to make it appear as if Biden inadvertently endorsed Trump for reelection.

Maxine Waters: There are L.A. gangsters with ‘more integrity’ than Trump

‘This guy is a street player,’ Waters says of the president on ‘Desus & Mero’

Rep. Maxine Waters made her debut Thursday night on Showtime’s “Desus & Mero” late night show and (characteristically) didn’t hold back as she criticized President Donald Trump.

“This guy is a street player,” Waters said. “He’s a guy that has conned folks. He’s flirted with gangsters.”

Waters, who leads the House Financial Services Committee, was one of the first Democrats to call for Trump’s impeachment and has been a vocal Trump critic throughout his presidency. Continue reading.

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The president wrestled with one of Jesus’ key commandments ― to love your enemies ― at an event traditionally used to promote unity.

In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave his followers a set of counterintuitive teachings, telling them that the meek will inherit the earth, to be glad when people persecute them, to turn the other cheek and, most importantly, to love their enemies.

President Donald Trump, a self-described Presbyterian, is having a tough time following that last command.

During Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, Trump used his time at the lectern to condemn the impeachment proceedings, rally for his own reelection and disparage the sincerity of his opponents’ faith. The president’s speech at the Washington Hilton hotel was a jarring departure from the tone set by other speakers at an annual event that traditionally seeks to promote bipartisanship and unity. Continue reading.

Critics recoil at ‘thin-skinned’ Trump’s meandering, off-the-wall impeachment press conference: ‘Can we all acknowledge this speech is a bit whacked?’

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump, following his acquittal on two articles of impeachment on Wednesday, lambasted Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats during a rambling post-impeachment press conference the following day. And he is being slammed in plenty of reactions on social media.

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Trump demeans Adam Schiff and mocks Purple Heart recipient Lt. Col. Vindman

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Trump slathers praise on Mitch McConnell, who gets a standing ovation

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Journalist Jonathan Capehart tweeted, “Live look at the East Room of the White House”—and tweeted an image depicting destruction. And @phipho mocked Trump by depicting an image of a dog.  Continue reading.

Donald Trump just awarded Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are his 9 most appalling comments about women

AlterNet logoIf the planet manages to survive the stupidity of its dominant species, future generations will look back in astonishment on the fact that American businesses paid tens of millions of dollars each year to a swinish, cigar-smoking hatemonger who spewed stupidity, misogyny, racism, and fear to a coast-to-coast radio audience of troglodytes who prided themselves on being Dittoheads, unable to think for themselves, and perfectly content to let Rush “think” for them.

I decided to round up a sampling of Limbaugh’s views on women. What I found wasn’t pretty.

For instance, here’s Rush imagining that women secretly want to be sexually harassed. “The sexual harassment crowd,” he said. “They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them.” Continue reading.

Lawyers for Trump and Stormy Daniels face off in court over libel suit

Federal appeals judges heard arguments in Daniels’ effort to revive a lawsuit she filed over a hard-hitting Trump tweet.

Lawyers for the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and President Donald Trump squared off before a federal appeals court on Tuesday over Daniels’ effort to revive a libel lawsuit she filed over a hard-hitting Trump tweet that appeared to call her a liar.

In the Twitter message, Trump accused Daniels of “a total con job” for claiming that she was threatened by an unknown man in a casino parking lot in 2011— an episode she has suggested was an act of intimidation aimed at hushing up her contention that she and Trump had a sexual encounter several years earlier.

U.S. District Court Judge James Otero, based in Los Angeles, threw out the suit in 2018, ruling that Trump’s tweet amounted to “rhetorical hyperbole” and not an assertion of fact. Otero ordered Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to pay Trump nearly $300,000 in legal fees and sanctions under a Texas law aimed at discouraging lawsuits intended to silence participants in political disputes. Continue reading.

Cowardice and guilt: Republican senators finally hint Trump may have done something wrong — in the most shameful way possible

AlterNet logoOn the day it became clear a majority of the Senate would allow the trial of the president to close without hearing from a single witness, Republicans who found themselves protecting Donald Trump started making a surprising admission.

Trump, of all people, might have done something wrong.

The revelations started with Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, whose pending retirement gave him more independence than many of his colleagues to break with the president. But on Thursday night, he revealed that he would join most other Republicans in a vote to block the Senate from hearing witnesses, most notably former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Continue reading.

Charities steered $65M to Trump lawyer Sekulow and family

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rented $80-a-month mailbox a block away from the White House.

The Pennsylvania Avenue box appears to be the sole physical location of the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, a for-profit corporation co-owned by Sekulow. The firm has no website and is not listed in national legal directories. The District of Columbia Bar has no record of it, and no attorneys list it as their employer.

But Sekulow, 63, is registered as chief counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit Christian legal advocacy group based in an expansive Capitol Hill row house a short walk from the Senate chamber. Continue reading.

E. Jean Carroll, who says Trump raped, her seeks his DNA to test against sample from her dress

Carroll’s attorneys served notice to a Trump attorney for Trump to submit a sample March 2 for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then had the black wool coat-style dress tested. A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four contributors, at least one of them male. Continue reading.