It’s May Day. There was a time that people used to look at who was standing on the balcony in Moscow to see who was in or out with the Communist Party in the USSR.
There’s a bad joke in the image, if you can find it. Anyway, now people check out the front page of the National Enquirer to see who is in or out with Trump. Apparently the print edition is running a front-page story dissing Michael Cohen. This has also led to speculation that Cohen has already flipped.
Last night the New York Times published a list of questions Robert Mueller asked the Trump team. The questions mostly relate to possible obstruction and Trump’s business ties with Russia. So this morning the Creature tweeted,
So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked†to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see…you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 1, 2018
One, the leak appears to have come from the White House, not Bob Mueller. (Update: Apparently there are grammatical errors in the questions, indicating a White House origin.) Two, although the word “collusion” may not have appeared in list, questions about cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia certainly did. For example:  “What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?†But no collusion, of course. See also Greg Sargent.
Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Israel has learned Iran is cheating on the nuclear deal, and he illustrated this with a powerpoint presentation that even the staid Business Insider calls “bizarre.” I wouldn’t trust Netanyahu as far as I could throw him, but I fear this will give Trump all the excuse he needs to cancel the deal. Iran has already said that if the U.S. pulls out (thanks, Michelle Wolf) Iran will also.
Finally, for now — the tax cut bill was supposed to be “rocket fuel” for the economy. The New York Times reports that so far, the rocket fuel has fizzled.
See also Paul Krugman.
The Israel stuff is all old, archived materials "found" in an old, dilapidated (Net's words) warehouse from long before the Iran Nuclear Deal…
Even Trump WH has had to back off and re-tense its statement ("has ==> "had).
Grammatical errors indicate it was probably Trump, himself, as the writer, though he may have 'left it out' for someone else to forward, perhaps as a ploy to trap some leaker(s)…
Do you think Republicans will EVER wise up?
CUNDgulag will have an unfair advantage, but, I think most of us will get it.
Where is gulag, anyway? He’s missing in action! You okay, gulag?
Netanyahu's propaganda show was really absurd. It shows how much Pompeo and Bolton want to Make Iran the bogeyman( also a putin goal). Look over there , there's the enemy!
I remember those aluminum tubes and tunnels of Saddam. Since we can never 'win' in Afghanistan, they need a new war to rev up their base.
“Apparently there are grammatical errors in the questions, indicating a White House origin.”
If you'd ever told me this when I was a kid, that I would be taking such a comment seriously in my future adulthood…
Today, Ty Cobb is bailing. Maybe trump can a public defender? Or maybe Mr Cohen could represent a tiny tiny fraction of Mueller questions.
Rats get the life boats
Please tell me what the "bad joke in the image" is.
thanx
aj, I think most of the fleeing rats are also on fire…
…and not just their pants!
Pic reminds me of "The Death of Stalin", which TWIL & I saw a couple weeks ago – GREAT movie! Perhaps darkest comedy I've ever seen.
I'm pleasantly surprised that MSM didn't take Bibi's infomercial for War with Iran seriously, but worried that Fox will help convince Trump that it's "real news".
Eaves – google Cyrillic Alphabet.
Next week in the Enquirer: Dr. Harold Bornstein is a quack dope pusher.