HUFFINGTON POST   ---   09/11/2018

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants to know if Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has a gambling problem.

“Have you ever sought treatment for a gambling addiction?” Whitehouse asks pointedly as part of a series of questions submitted this week about Kavanaugh’s unexplained personal debts.

In 2016, Kavanaugh reported credit card and personal loan debts of between $60,000 and $200,000. The Trump White House said these debts were the result of Kavanaugh buying baseball tickets for friends who later paid him back, as well as some spending on home improvements. The 2016 debts did not appear on Kavanaugh’s 2017 disclosure form because they were either entirely paid off or fell below the reporting threshold. Kavanaugh also reported between $60,000 and $200,000 in debt in 2006.

The fact that Kavanaugh accrued such high debts through baseball tickets attracted notice, but surprisingly, not a single senator asked him about the issue during his televised judiciary committee hearings last week. 

“Senators have limited time for questioning,” Rich Davidson, Whitehouse’s spokesman, said in an email. “Senator Whitehouse would have touched on many of these issues if he had additional time.”

Whitehouse is now asking about them in writing, and Kavanaugh will have to answer ? although not on camera. In addition to the baseball tickets, Whitehouse is asking Kavanaugh about his membership at an expensive country club, whether he regularly plays poker and how he paid for his house.

Whitehouse’s gambling questions stem, in part, from a publicly disclosed email from 2001 where Kavanaugh apologizes to his friends for “growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice” on a weekend vacation in the Chesapeake Bay.

Revenge is a dish best served "cold"

Or, so, the mafia code of conduct suggests

Looks like it worked this week

In the wake of John McCain's demise

The week-long display of public pagentry

For this man, leading up to today's burial at the Naval Academy

McCain planned to have george bush + barack obama as speakers

He had specifically not invited the president

He had specifically not invited his 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin

It was all a full-frontal public rebuke to the president + trumpism!

The icing on the cake occurred yesterday

At his memorial in the Washington Cathedral

His daughter Meghan intoned -

The “America of John McCain has no need to be made great again

because it was always great.”

Yes, from his grave, as his body lay "cold"

John McCain gave Trump the "shiv" he so richly deserved

Let's hope & pray this will "jump-start" this nation back

Into the "regular order" that John so fervently wanted re-established

Grandfather Frederick is already turning in his grave!

Father Fred is just "dead"!

Donald Trump has been a disappointment to the aforementioned two gentlemen, to say the least!

He had everything handed to him.  He had everything going for him.  His grandfather kicked things off by making a fortune - (via the Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush).  He had his father's, Fred, rolodex, political contacts + huge lines of credit!  Fred once sent over a suit case filled with $3.5-million in cash to one of Donald's failing casinos in Atlantic City - (ostensibly to "buy" more gambling chips for Donnie) - but in reality was used to cover a delinquent "mortgage" payment on that particular casino.

In 1994 Donald's net worth was minus $1-billion.  5 Chinese investors came in to "rescue" him by buying up one of His vacant, nonperforming West-End properties.

In 2006 Trump lent his "gilded" brand name --- TRUMP --- to 2 shady Russian investors --- Tevfik Arif & Felix Sater --- for a 46-story condo complex - The Soho - (with views of the Hudson River).  Trump wasn't required to put any money into the deal but would acquire management rights & profits that therein ensued.  Basically, this project, like Trump's original building - Trump Tower - put up in 1982 --- was nothing more than a money laundering scheme.  Only 16% of the units were eventually purchased & the units had to be purchased with all cash for no banks would extend loans on any Trump-related real estate.  The property eventually ended up with new owners in 2010.

Perhaps, the final straw in this tawdry tale is Trump Org.'s CFO - Chief Finance Officer --- Andrew Weisselberg, who has been with Trump properties since the 1970's - who, this week, was given full immunity to cooperate with the Mueller Russia probe.  Weisselberg knows every

Michael Cohen is no longer "mouthing" off in the media.  He's been quiet for about 3-weeks now.  That's ALWAYS a sign an indicted individual is cooperating with the prosecutor.  Michael has a lot of information to reveal about Trump - going back years!  He knows where all of the bodies are buried.  He knows about all of Russian financial connections with Trump and how "leveraged" Trump is to the Russian "Mafia"-State!

 

More to the point, Cohen can shine a bright light on the "scuttle-but" that took place in the Trump campaign in June-2016 just prior to the infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Manafort, Kushner & Trump, Jr. & the Russian lady-lawyer & the Russian-American lobbyist.  The purpose of that meeting was to get "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.  Cohen can go into the fine details as to who in the White House knew ahead of time about this meeting - including whether the president himself knew in advance.

Paul Manafort is likely to get convicted sometime this week by the Alexandria, Virginia jury.  He's facing 18-counts against him.  He's also set for a second trial in September.  In all likelihood Mr. Manafort is facing several hundred years of prison time.  Unless he's a vampire, he will not emerge alive from such a stint in the state penal system.

He may be a tough guy, but he's got a wife and two daughters.  He himself is 70-years old.  Trump could pardon him but Manafort would be facing the same charges under New York state law and would be, again, found criminally liable.  Trump's pardon would do him no good under this scenario.

So, if I were Manafort, I'd be getting pretty close to "flipping" out - after the trial just held wherein his lawyers did not call any supporting witnesses for Manafort, nor did they call Manafort to the

On May 19, 1977 - In the 3rd of 4 interviews with David Frost, Nixon remarked:  Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.  This remark was made within the context of national security but it is disturbing nonetheless.

Donald Trump has acted like this ALL ALONG --- ever since assuming office.  Nixon, at least, confined it to a narrowly-defined scope - such as National Security.

Nixon also said that in any event, the country couldn't afford having the president being in the dock of the United States Senate for six months.  So, there can never be an impeachment in the future in this country without a president voluntarily impeaching himself. I have impeached myself. That speaks for itself.

To which DAVID FROST inquired:  How do you mean "I have impeached myself"?

To which NIXON replied:  By RESIGNING. That was a voluntary impeachment.

So, there you have it, the blue print for Donald Trump.

All he needs to do, to avoid "actual" impeachment - is to just RESIGN --- thereby impeaching HIMSELF - and thereby saving the House of Representatives the trouble of having to do so.

And also spare the country of having an acting president sitting in the dock of the United States Senate for 6-months - something that probably would not be feasible for a major world power such as the United States.l

Case solved.  We can all go home now!

Just kidding!   Knowing Trump, it'll be either of two scenarios  ---  feet first, or head first!

When you see a 90-foot wall of water coming straight at you on the beach, you best get "right with jesus" and get your affairs in order summarily!

Donald J. Trump is standing on a "shifting" landscape --- the kind of landscape that precedes an 8.0 earthquake.  Apparently, he is not picking up on the obvious "cues" that abound that reveal all too-clearly the total tenuousness of his entire presidential administration.

Over 30 indictments thus far.  That includes 12 Russian military intelligence personnel.  His campaign manager, Paul Manafort is immersed in the 1st of 2 trials he faces this summer!  It seems that Mr. Manafort - wundho made tens-of-millions of dollars from the Russian-aligned former Ukranian president, Viktor Yunukovych - forgot to tell his accounts that his income was derived from "overseas" - an oversight that is a serious federal crime.  So, things are not going particularly well for Mr. Manafort --- convictions are likely in both.  

Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has all but flipped and will cooperate with Mueller's Russia probe.  The FBI has well over 100 tape recordings of him and Trump.  Stomy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, now has 3 more women as his clients.  And on top of all of this --- Mueller's team has subpoenaed Trump Organizations chief financial officer --- Allen Weisselberg --- who just happens to have prepared all of Trump's tax returns and who also knows where every dollar coming in has come from and where every dollar going out is going to!  It goes without saying that much of Trump's income came from Russians and Ukranians & Kazahkstanians.

Nixon "cashed" his check back in July-1973 when former White House aide Alexander Butterfield testified on Monday, July 16, 1973 in front of the Senate Select Committee for the Watergate Hearing that - yes - the White House had, in fact, a voice-activated taping system to record conversations involving President Nixon and his subordinates and other officials.

Well, boys & girls, fast-forward to 2018 and lo + behold we now have another sitting U.S. president who was recorded that will become pivotal in an ongoing investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.  

Now, Nixon had "reams" of tapes, one of which turned out to be the "smoking gun" --- the June 23, 1972 conversation Nixon had with his Chief of Staff, H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman -  about how best to handle the break-in of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters by Republican operatives working for and on behalf of the Nixon White House.

Nixon's Chief Of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman made the following suggestion to Nixon:

"That the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters -[The CIA Dir.] call Pat Gray [The FBI Dir.] and just say, “Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don’t want you to go any further on it.” That’s not an unusual development,…"

As Nixon further said on the tape of June 23, 1972

"“the President believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again. And, ah because these people are plugging for, for keeps and that they should call the FBI in and say that we wish for the country, don’t go any further into this case, period!"

The release of the tape was ordered by the Supreme Court on July 24, 1974, in a case known as United States v. Nixon. The court’s decision was unanimous.

West flies east to helsinki

East flies east to meet tinki-winki

West trashes europe then flees to rinky-dinky

East awaits west and will wreak helblinki

Trump lies from west to east

Putin lies from east to west

Helsinki will spawn forth a new disease

Rinky-dinky rules the day like a summer's breeze

Mendacity and audacity is endless capacity

Sagacity and scarcity can't hold with alacrity

Pomposity and verbosity flattens all with finality

Trumposity and donald-catastrophe is all but a technicality

Vladi takes Donnie by the arm & cooos

Sweet american - come talk a walk among the trees

Donnie entones back to Puti - sugar, let's take off our shoes

And slip away - steal away - like a sweet summer's breeze

The two push thru the french doors and down the lawn

Make their way quickly to the edge of the estate

Taking a path into the woods - disappear like a pair of fawn

With Putin's hand clapsed around trump's - as they make their escape

Then all is quiet - all is clear - all is as it was

Night fall comes - then morning light breaks the darkness

Out come staggering trump + putin - feeling the buzz

And one can hear the Donald supplicate to Puti with snarkness

You didn't have to be so rough - so - off the cuff

But, Puti, sweetie, know that I will not let you down

And I'll always remember our time together on the ground

The whole time together and not one single frown

Puti, give me something to remember - yes, your sweet Russian lips

Oh, Vladi - take me - I am all yours - reach for my hips

Trump, you're my American muffin - I'm your Russian lovin'

I own you - you're my little American puffinstuffin

Puti, give me something to remember - yes, you

Donald Trump didn't leave for his Europrean (Trump World Tour) before "slapping" yet another TARIFF on China!

This one for a puny $200-billion!   Yeah, that'll "grease the skids", Donnie Boy - say goodbye to selling any of your pork bellies & soy beans, red state farmers!!!  China will retaliate with tariffs on those farm products.  China is perhaps the biggest market for those items!   But, they can now turn to Brazil for those same items - and "stick" it to Trump & the red state Trump voters!

Then, upon arriving in Belgium for the NATO summit - without skipping a beat - he rips into Germany for their joint project with Russia on a gas pipeline to bring Russian gas to Europe.  He accuses Germany of being a "captive" of the Russians.  (Talk about the pot calling the kettle black - whooooeeee!)

He then castigates NATO members for being "dead beats" on paying their fair share of NATO expenses.  Never mind the fact that a good chunk of their payment "in-kind" stems precisely by their provision of forward bases for the U.S. military and the fact that many of NATO's members directly border the Russian state.  And The Europeans do have a fund that goes toward the financing of the NATO organization. This whole thing is pure "shit" on Trump's part.

Trump will then embark onward to Great Britain - but not London. It seems that a 20-foot tall "baby trump" blimp is hovering directly over Parliament - something that Trump-Dump simply cannot abide or handle.  So he'll skip London altogether and make courtesy calls to P.M. Theresa May's country estate @ checquers & another one at Windsor Castle - Queen Elizabeth. Then again, she may be absent and out "riding". What a fucking weeney!  Only gonnorhea is more unpopular in Great Britain than Trump!

If Kim Jong Un Is "Rocket-Man" ---  Vladimir Putin Has To Be "Jock-It" Man!

As In Las Year's G20 Summit In Europe Where Trump Met With Putin 3-Times, 2 Of Which Were In Total "Private", Save For An American & Russian Translator

Trump & His "Boner" Bro' -- Putin -- Will ONCE AGAIN Meet In Total "Private" - (This Time With Just 1 Translator Present - The Russian ) -- Somewhere In Helsinki  --  (Maybe Have A Few Drinki-Winki's & Mix Company With Some Nordic Lights Ladies)

This Is A Recipe For Total, Fucking Disaster!  Trump Would Sell His Own Mother Down The River If It Meant "Closing A Deal"!

We Know That It Is Vladimir Putin Who Calls The Tune -- We Have A U.S. President That Is Nothing More Than A "Sock Puppet" In The Service Of A Russian Strong Man Hell-Bent On Re-Establishing The Era Of The Russian Czars

Trump Supporters - You Might As Well Start Putting Putin Bumper Stickers On Your Car In Place Of The Confederate Flag & Posters Of The Kremlin Lit Up At Night Up On Your Bedroom Wall!

Trump Has Already Given Away Most Of The Store ---  Acquiescing To The Russian Acquisition Of Crimea, No More Joint Exercises In South Korea, Disparaging Remarks Of NATO, Turning A Blind's Eye On Ukraine, Not Acknowledging Russian Meddling In The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Downplaying The European Union And Openly Supporting BREXIT! --- Letting Russian Run All Over Syria

Trump Is Putin's Poodle.  

Hell, I Bet Trump Wears The Same After-Shave Lotion That Putin Wears --- "Moscow Knights" - & "Knights" Is Spelled --- Knights!

Trump Will Look Longingly Into Putin's Eyes And Whisper --- "Please, Vladi, Pretty Please Vladi, Oh Sweetie --- Promise Me You Won't Interfere Anymore In Our U.S. Elections, Ok, My Big Daddy Man