OLBERMANN VS. TRUMP #46: HE MADE HIS PERFECT PHONE CALL: IT'S NOT A SMOKING GUN. IT'S A FLAMETHROWER

 

Trump's recorded attempt to extort Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into falsifying his state's vote totals isn’t a Watergate Smoking Gun; it’s a Trump Smoking Flamethrower.

Mango Mussolini Goes On Twitter Rant Accuses President Obama Of Wiretapping Trump Tower

Mango Mussolini went on a twitter rant this morning accusing President Obama of being worse than Richard Nixon when he claimed that his offices in Trump tower had been wiretapped prior to November's election. Of course the orange shitgibbon offered no evidence of any wrongdoing.

The Ghosts Of Richard Nixon And Robert Bork Are Haunting America

On October 20, 1973 then President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson  to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.  Richardson refused, and resigned. His Deputy William Ruckelshaus also refused to dismiss Archibald Cox and resigned.  President Nixon then turned U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork who fired Cox.   Robert Bork would could go on to be nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

This incident would become known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

Which leads us to today and the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and the removal of acting ICE Director Daniel Ragsdale.

White House says Obama appointee ‘betrayed’ state department with letter instructing officials not to enforce president’s executive order

Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general after she told justice department lawyers not to defend his executive order banning entry for people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The White House said on Monday that Sally Yates had “betrayed” the department by refusing to enforce a legal order that was “designed to protect the citizens of the United States”.

Trump drafted in Dana Boente, US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, to replace Yates as acting attorney general. The president’s official appointee, anti-immigration hardliner Senator Jeff Sessions, is yet to be confirmed by the Senate.

Sally Yates' duty was to uphold the U.S. Constitution and not to the President. No matter which political party they belong to.




    

Washington Post Sold to Jeff Bezos of Amazon

The newspaper that broke the biggest political scandal in American history  (Watergate) which led to the resignation of a president has been sold to the founder of Amazon.  

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, has announced a move into the newspaper business, buying The Washington Post and a clutch of other publishing assets for $250m (£163 m) in cash.
The publisher, The Washington Post Company, announced the surprise deal tonight. Bezos is buying the paper and other print properties as an individual.
Washington Post Chairman and Chief Executive Donald Graham, whose family owns the paper, said it would be better served with another owner.
"I, along with Katharine Weymouth and our board of directors, decided to sell only after years of familiar newspaper-industry challenges made us wonder if there might be another owner who would be better for the Post," Graham said.

Soon after the sale Mr. Bezos will announce that the paper will now be published in an unheated warehouse in a state which has no unions and the only version available will be on the Kindle Fire.