Trump's lawyer is in deep trouble

SEARCHED AND SEIZED: F.B.I. RAIDS MICHAEL COHEN’S NEW YORK HOTEL
Law enforcement agents spent several hours at the Loews Regency hotel on Monday morning as they executed a search warrant against the president’s personal lawyer. Cohen’s attorney said they were referred by Robert Mueller.


Trump’s lawyer’s lawyer’s lawyer is gonna need a lawyer. - Rex Huppke

John Kelly must have Trump in a headlock right now to keep him from rage-tweeting about Michael Cohen. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Syria reports missile attack; U.S. denies launching strike
• Theresa May suggests UK considering military response against 'brutal' Syrian regime
• Iran's Rouhani says US 'will regret it' if it violates nuke deal
• US ambassador quit after the Trump administration wanted pressure on Vietnam to take back refugees
• President called victim of deadly Trump Tower fire a ‘crazy Jew’: report
• Trump family hotel business asked Panama president for help

Do you think we are all gonna have PTSD after Trump? - Mayday Mindy

Trump Criticizes Putin!
President Trump harshly condemned Syria and Russia for a suspected chemical attack.
Trump vowed both leaders would play a "big price" for the death toll.

Today is John Bolton's first day as Trump's national security advisor. You have about 7 hours left to dig your fallout shelter. - Jeff Tiedrich

Republican Shenanigans

• Conservative pollster: 'I think the Republicans are in deep trouble'
• Trump's top national security spokesman to leave White House
• Sketch of man who Stormy Daniels says threatened her to be released
• Interior Dept official compared Parkland students to Nazis: report 
• Republican senator urges Pruitt to 'behave'
• As elections near, many older, educated, white voters shift away from Trump's party
• Betsy DeVos implies Oklahoma teachers aren't serving their students by protesting for better education supplies
• ‘Take that down!’: Watch Fox host Howard Kurtz panic after graphic shows Fox News is least trusted network
• Scott running for Florida Senate seat in epic showdown with Nelson
• Advertisers drop conservative Trump-loving radio host Jamie Allman after he attacks Parkland student David Hogg
• South Carolina Republican puts loaded gun on table in constituent meeting

I thought it might be nice to start the show on a positive note with a special message from a special man, the host of “The 700 Club,” Mr. Pat Robertson, with a thought for the day: “There’s nothing in the Bible about mermaids. I think they're kind of half-fish and half-women. I don't think that such a creature exists.” Well, thanks, Pat. I'm glad you finally cleared the mermaid controversy up.- Jimmy Kimmel

Wow. No Sprinkler System In Trump Tower. A Man Died And Six Injured. Isn't That Illegal?
The apartment destroyed by a raging fire in New York's Trump Tower that killed a resident and injured six firefighters had no sprinkler system, authorities said. Firefighters remained at the scene Sunday, cleaning up after the blaze and trying to determine its cause. The fire broke out shortly after 5 p.m.


Trump got his wish, he killed someone on Fifth Avenue yesterday. - ItsMeCathi tweet

Spinner Spinning Manafort
Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone suggested that special counsel Robert Mueller is wasting his time investigating and charging former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, claiming he'll never plead guilty to the charges leveled against him. In a wide-ranging interview with CBS Miami, Stone called Manafort "feisty and combative" adding that he's "not going to roll over on this president."



Outraged ppl screaming that Scott Pruitt is too corrupt to run the EPA don't seem to realize that Scott Pruitt was hired exclusively to corrupt the EPA.  - John Fugelsang

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Imagine if Hillary owned a gaudy tower in NYC and never installed sprinklers and there was a fire and someone died. Fox News would be losing its mind...Congressmen would be falling all over each other in a mad dash to hold hearings. - Jeff Tiedrich


Rock The Voter News

• Lynch says Comey didn't raise objections over handling of Clinton investigation
• Hillary Clinton tells women that living their intentions is 'the best form of revenge'

I have South In Mah Mouth

Jeff Sessions Continues The 24th Year Of Investigating Hillary Clinton For Something
The Justice Department will appoint a U.S. attorney to oversee the release of documents related to the FBI’s 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton amid Republican complaints — including from President Donald Trump — that the DOJ is slow-walking their release.






Hillary said that when Putin heard Angela Merkel was scared of dogs, he brought one to a meeting with her. Which explains why at his next meeting with Trump, Putin will bring a treadmill.- Jimmy Fallon

FACT: Hillary Clinton’s lawyer’s office was not raided today. - Kaivon Shroff

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Business/Tech News

• GOP tax law will add $1.9 trillion to debt: CBO
• ‘We’ll make it up to them’: Trump offers vague assurance to US farmers worried about China tariffs
• Larry Kudlow is still clueless after six days at work: ‘I don’t know if we’ll have tariffs or not’
• Slammed by Trump, Amazon's Jeff Bezos Chooses Silence
• Trump’s Vegas hotel has stronger code of ethics than White House — and bars managers from hiring relatives
• Journalism School Backlash Against Media Giant Sinclair Grows

Ten bucks says Eric Trump's job is to sit in a basement buying up all the cheapened stocks every time his dad publicly attacks another US business. - John Fugelsang

The Whole Lot Of Them Are Bullies
After the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine pranked then-candidate Donald Trump, Trump's lawyer. Michael Cohen,  allegedly called up Harvard student Tom Waddick and said he would have him expelled.




This place will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. -Theodore Roosevelt

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Odd News

• Topless protester lunges at comedian; judge considers tossing juror
• Ancient fossil finger bone from Saudi Arabia could challenge theory of modern migration
• Runaway train carrying 1000 passengers rolls for miles in India
• Truck ends up submerged after boat launching fail
• Resort blasts 'stupid' tourists for throwing carrots at alligator

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General Lee surrendered to General Grant, Appomattox, today 1865. A more accurate painting would have shown General Lee with mud  covering his uniform and boots.

Peace.

Another win for Trump!

Trump says he didn't know about payment to Stormy Daniels
President Trump said Thursday that he did not know his personal lawyer had made a $130,000 payment days before the 2016 presidential election to a pornographic movie actress who had accused Trump of engaging in a consensual affair.
Asked whether he was aware of the payment to Stormy Daniels, Trump offered a one-word response: “No.” He spoke during an Air Force One flight from an event in West Virginia to Washington.



I do hope Trump can get in some golf this weekend. He deserves a break after a hard week spent misunderstanding how the Post Office works, misunderstanding how trade wars work, and leading our country to glorious victory over an imaginary caravan full of imaginary Guatemalans.- Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And 'Media Influencers'
• China says its relations with Russia are at "the best level in history" 
• US Hits Russian Oligarchs And Officials With Sanctions Over Election Interference
• Russian spy poisoning: Sergei Skripal 'improving rapidly'
• Trump now has same Central American migrant problem as Obama
• Sessions orders 'zero tolerance' policy at Southwest border

Mexico agrees to pay for Trump's psychiatric care. - Andy Borowitz

Life After Presidential Power:
TODAY:
1. Pres. Lula de Silva of Brazil begins prison term of 12 Years.
2. Pres. Jacob Zuma Of South Africa is appearing in Court to be charged with 16 Counts Of Corruption.
3. Pres. Park Geun-hye Of South Korea is jailed for 24 Yrs for Corruption.
- Donald B Kipkorir

Mueller is collecting Seychelles at the seashore.

Mueller Connects Mercenary Mogul To Putin In The Seychelles Of All Places! This Is Going To Make A Great Movie.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year, when he described a meeting in Seychelles with a Russian financier close to Vladimir Putin as a casual chance encounter “over a beer,” sources tell ABC News.

This meme is one year old.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.- Mark Twain


Republican Shenanigans

• Mueller moved to seize three bank accounts during Manafort investigation
• 'Tired of being told no,' Trump freezes out chief of staff John Kelly
• GOP senator on tariff threat: Hopefully Trump is blowing off steam because ‘this is nuts’
• No sign Blake Farenthold has paid back $84,000 in taxpayer money as he vowed
• Ex-Sinclair staffer: Trump wouldn't be in the Oval Office if it weren't for Sinclair
• Ace Hardware Quietly Drops Laura Ingraham's Show
• Trump: I 'probably' won't attend White House Correspondents' Dinner
• Agent on Pruitt security detail reassigned after telling EPA chief he couldn't use siren for non-emergencies: report
• PETA calling for Trump Jr.'s deportation in billboard campaign
• Georgia sheriff boasts of 'one jail and 356 cemeteries,' warns 'if you kill someone, we might kill you back'
• Huckabee: Hillary campaigning for Democrats 'is like having Jeffrey Dahmer do the ribbon cutting at a restaurant opening'

The ultimate justice will be if Bob Mueller extends the same compassion to Trump that Trump extends to others.- Tea Pain

A Conservative Survivor Of The Parkland Massacre Meets With NRA Collaborator 
A conservative survivor of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in February that killed 17 people says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas assured him the Second Amendment "won't be touched" amid renewed debate on gun control.

Hahahahhahahaha. Trump To Meet With Evangelicals
Several Evangelical Christian leaders are planning a sit-down with President Trump in June over allegations that his lawyer paid an adult film star $130,000 in 2016 for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.




Hey kids. I'm in my 60s. You've never lived in an America where the rich paid their fair share. I have. Let me tell you what that was like:
* We built new schools
* We built new highways
* We cut the poverty rate
* We lead the world in technology
* WE WENT TO THE F*CKING MOON
-Jeff Tiedrich

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Yes, John (Yosemite Sam) Bolton is the new National Security advisor, even though Trump hates his mustache. Probably because tickles when John’s kissing his ass. - Bette Midler


Rock The Voter News

• Michelle Obama Likens President Trump to a Negligent Parent Who Lets Their Kids 'Eat Candy All Day'
• 'I don't want to be president.' Michelle Obama says she's not running in 2020
• Bernie's Criticisms Don't Mean Democrats Are in Disarray

Did you get any orders? Nope, but I'll call Ivanka, she'll know.

The Pentagon Has No F*cking Idea About Border Deployment
A day after President Donald Trump authorized his administration to work with governors on deploying the National Guard to help secure the southern border, the Pentagon had few answers Thursday about how the call-up would take place or how many Guardsmen could be involved.



Canadians Planning to Swarm Over Northern Border While National Guard Not Looking - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Amazon slides after Trump says he'll take a 'very serious look' at policy changes related to the company
• President Trump Wants to Hit Chinese Goods With $100 Billion in New Tariffs
• Kudlow: 'We are not in a trade war'
• South Korean prosecutors raid Samsung Electronics unit over alleged union sabotage
• Elon Musk warns that AI could become an 'immortal dictator'

Instead of sending the National Guard to the Mexican border, I think Blabbermouth Don should send them to fix up Puerto Rico. - Stephen King

Zuckerberg Deletes His Facebook Messages To Recipients
Thursday night, tech news website TechCrunch reported that messages from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had conspicuously disappeared from recipients’ inboxes.
The next day, Facebook explained this is not a bug or a coverup — but rather a new feature it plans to roll out to all users in the future.





''He who opens а school door, closes а prison.'' - Victor Hugo

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Odd News

• An Obsolete Law Prohibits SpaceX From Broadcasting Videos From Space
• 'Luxury Space Hotel' to Launch in 2021
• Queen Mary allowing guests to stay in 'notoriously haunted' room
• Goats rescued after daring climb onto Pennsylvania bridge
• Man cleans truck, finds $50,000 Powerball ticket
• Canadian man 'pardoned' by hotel after flock of seagulls trashed his room

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The Stairway to Heaven. Oahu. Hawaii.

Peace.

Rex Tillerson spent 12 million on consultant fees

Rex Tillerson's $12 million army of consultants. 
The cost-cutting former Secretary of State had grand ambitions for a department 'redesign,' but its clearest impact is a huge bill for consultants, some of whom charged more than $300 an hour.


Tillerson’s biggest accomplishment was calling Trump a f*cking moron. - Scott Dworkin

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Mexican senators unanimously approve resolution to halt cooperation with US after Trump attacks
• Oregon governor: I'll say no if Trump asks me to deploy National Guard troops to Mexico border
• More than 500 pregnant women in ICE detention, after reversal of Obama policy
• Russian spy poisoning: Yulia Skripal 'getting stronger daily'
• Report: Britain believes it has found Russian lab that made nerve agent used in Salisbury attack
• Trump gets testy as national security team warns of risks of Syria withdrawal
• North Korea could nuke the US as early as July 23, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense

There's new information about Donald Trump and the Russia investigation. According to The Washington Post, last month special counsel Robert Mueller told the president's lawyers he was a subject of the investigation but not the target of the investigation. Which is kind of like when the principal at your school says, “I got my eye on you, mister.” - Jimmy Kimmel

Mexico Assured That US Troops Won't Commit Mass Shootings
Mexico's top diplomat said Wednesday he received assurances from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that National Guard troops deployed to the border will only act in a supporting role.

"Pew! Pew! Pew! Take that, you dirty Guatemalans!"
— Trump, in his bathrobe, playing with his plastic army men while watching Fox and Friends -Jeff Tiedrich


Republican Shenanigans

• Rex Tillerson's $12 million army of consultants
• Republicans Warn Trump a Trade War Risks Party's Chances in November
• John Bolton's connections to Cambridge Analytica may be raising red flags in the White House
• Nunes presses FBI for new Trump-Russia document
• It's not looking good for EPA chief Scott Pruitt
• Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
• Ben Carson ally Armstrong Williams: Stormy should be silenced because she’s a sex worker and bad ‘role model’
• GOP state candidate refuses to apologize for calling Parkland student a "communist pig"
• The Atlantic fires conservative writer after audio reveals he called for death penalty for women who get abortion
• Sean Hannity Reportedly Trashed Colleague Shepard Smith to Trump: POTUS 'Was Eating it Up'

Fuming Rachel Maddow Spends Entire Show Just Pointing Wildly At Picture Of Putin - The Onion

Dear God, Mandatory Photos Of Trump At The Post Office?
Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) is planning to introduce legislation that will mandate that post offices of the U.S. Postal Service display photos of the president and the vice president.









"It is an extraordinary spectacle to see the president reduced to LegalZoom, I think, to get who's going to represent him." - Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's Chief Legal Analyst

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Apparently, Bernie Is Still Mad That Democrats Chose Hillary
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed the Democratic Party's platform at an event in Mississippi on Wednesday, saying it had been a "failure."
“The business model, if you like, of the Democratic Party for the last 15 years or so has been a failure,”



It takes some serious chutzpah for Bernie Sanders to say Obama was just a "charismatic leader" who was substantively a failure.
Like, buy a mirror. - Jacqui Oesterblad

Rock The Voter News

• An Illinois town just banned assault weapons. The penalty if you keep one? Up to $1000 a day
• No, Barack Obama did not flee the country because of criminal activity
• Fox News Melts Down After Hillary Clinton Mocks Them For 'Trying To Impeach Me'
• Michelle Obama Headlines Women's Leadership Conference
• Florida DNC official resigns after 'colored people' remark
• Bernie Sanders Faces Backlash for Criticizing Obama on Anniversary of MLK Assassination

Hillary Clinton just called the Russian president a world-class misogynist. When Trump heard that, he was like, "Wait, he gives massages too?"- Jimmy Fallon

Joe Scarborough Cleverly Compares Actor To Lawn Boy Instead Of Lawn Jockey
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Thursday dismissed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s possible bid for the presidency and compared the actor to a “lawn boy.”

Good news, guys. There was a caravan of Canadians on their way toward the United States and our porous northern border... but I stopped them by tweeting at them.

You probably didn't even hear about it... but it happened... I did it... you're welcome.

(please clap)- The Hoarse Whisperer

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Business/Tech News

• Trump Says Nafta Deal May Come 'Fairly Soon' But US in No Rush
• Kremlin Calls Facebook's Removal Of Russian Pages And Ads Censorship
• Chinese Tariff Threats Rattle Airplane Giant Boeing
• Twitter claims more progress on squeezing terrorist content
• Virgin Galactic completes first rocket-powered, supersonic flight of its new spacecraft, Unity

This is your reminder that 62 million Americans voted for a reality star who can't name the 3 branches of government.
And 74 million voted against him. - John Fugelsang

Scientists Call For Boycott Of Killer Robots
At least 50 artificial intelligence (AI) scientists from around the world called for a boycott of a South Korean university over concerns it was working with a defense company to research autonomous weapons, or "killer robots."






Happy birthday to Sybil Ludington, a forgotten heroine of the Revolutionary War.  In 1777, at the age of 16, she rode to alert folks of coming British forces. Ludington rode 40 miles in the dark in one night, more than twice the distance of Revere & was much younger. - Matthew Dowd

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Odd News

• Bowhead whales in the Arctic communicate by relentlessly singing haunting jazz-like songs
• Saudi Arabia's Vegan Prince Will Bring an Animated Aquarium to Riyadh As the Kingdom Tries to Modernize
• Substantial Lack Of Phosphorus In The Universe Makes Finding Alien Life Unlikely
• Marsbee - Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration | NASA
• Sonic asks customers not to smoke pot in the drive-through
• Two men arrested for smuggling live birds in hair curlers

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Is that you, Angry Bird?

Peace.