Not surprising
Prosecutors believe that American Media Inc. acted more as a political supporter than as a news organization as it helped Michael Cohen prevent embarrassing coverage of Trump https://t.co/xtXXQmgRmJ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 21, 2018
This is the week where it became impossible to laugh off the idea that Russia has "kompromat" on Trumphttps://t.co/zNAbOivWHv pic.twitter.com/a6ZDthDv3k
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 20, 2018
Biggest impact of Helsinki so far: the big wigs and respectable folk are starting to think Putin has something on Trump. https://t.co/yKAC4c77RM via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 20, 2018
Former CIA senior analyst Ned Price: “Vladimir Putin has leverage over Donald Trump and as we saw this week, he’s going to exact that any way he can.” https://t.co/PziKMmdbmr
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 21, 2018
Does Putin have kompromat on Trump?
It is WAY worse than that.
Trump is trapped in a massive system of compromise and corruption that he fears and barely understands. https://t.co/BX0EkefLPg pic.twitter.com/eXOgTJ3F76
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) July 21, 2018
A reminder that the idea of any"kompromat" anyone has on Trump has to be financial or legal because his personal life already contains enough to bring down entire generations of other politicians. https://t.co/XAjow2YBLN
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 20, 2018
Pelosi and Schumer move closer to a “kompromat” theory of Donald Trump: https://t.co/m38Jtf0a2a pic.twitter.com/IxwRFpNNi9
— Slate (@Slate) July 18, 2018
Ask: WHY would the President be afraid?? Looking for somebody to give me a reasoned response against the analysis that it’s kompromat. I’m hoping there is one. https://t.co/TftAAuCM3u
— Steven L. Hall (@StevenLHall1) July 21, 2018
Multiple outlets (MSNBC, CNN, Buzzfeed) are now reporting that the Trump/Cohen tape was deemed privileged by the special master but then Trump's team waived the privilege, supporting my change-the-topic-from-Russia theory. 1/ https://t.co/5nSgr8Q3vK
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 21, 2018
UPDATE: The Cohen-Trump tapes seized by FBI were among the items shielded by attorney-client privilege. But it was Trump side that waived the privilege, not Cohen. Not sure I understand this strategy; seems to have backfired on WH.
— Anthony Cormier (@a_cormier_) July 21, 2018
"The (Cohen) tapes matter, but not as much as what is happening with Russia and I don't think the timing of the tapes is a mere coincidence. The President would rather have his playmate peccadillos in the air than have Russia on your mind. … Don't fall for it." – @ChrisCuomo pic.twitter.com/LpzYFGWLxt
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) July 21, 2018
So many lies, so little time.
1. The FBI had a search warrant.
2. A judge approved the search warrant.
3. No office was “broken into”
4. The subject of search said the FBI was professional and courteous.Everyone knows you’re lying.
So why lie, Duplicitous Don? https://t.co/uh7bbXMMR2— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) July 21, 2018
After learning about the tape, the Times approached Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer. They chose not to assert attorney-client privilege over the recording. https://t.co/2bhGqWxuvf
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 21, 2018
When I texted with Michael Cohen earlier today, he declined several opportunities I gave him to disagree with the way friends were characterizing his thinking. https://t.co/6kx1UMex8s
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 21, 2018
Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman on the possibility of the existence of a Trump-Cohen tape: “Tapes are always the strongest kind of evidence. To hear the president contradict his previous public statements really matters.”https://t.co/AdqWEp2Lhs
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 21, 2018
Nonwhites report more problems voting than whites in the US https://t.co/F1Hord0LeC pic.twitter.com/BlViUdKEqx
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 19, 2018
It’s no coincidence that black and Latinx voters are more likely than white folks to report problems at the polls. People of color are disproportionately impacted by voter suppression tactics. @Eugene_Scott reports. https://t.co/ZdY9HwahCZ
— America Votes (@AmericaVotes) July 19, 2018
Two weeks before his inauguration, Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that Putin had personally ordered cyberattacks to sway the election. He has since publicly questioned it. https://t.co/mcjP2Ce2w3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2018
Two weeks before his inauguration, Trump was shown the raw intelligence data proving Putin’s direct role in attacking the 2016 election to help him win. @Lawrence just revealed that @nytimes is reporting this bombshell. It turns all of Trump’s denials into coverups.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 19, 2018
WaPo: “House Republicans plan to vote Thursday on a spending bill that excludes new money for election security grants to states, provoking a furious reaction from Democrats amid a national controversy over Russian election interference.” https://t.co/6O8PnBG1ud
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 19, 2018
Lawmakers started chanting "U-S-A" on the House floor after Rep. Steny Hoyer called for more election security funding to protect future elections from foreign meddling https://t.co/vYdc4vTZyT pic.twitter.com/SNE0I4Upx3
— CNN (@CNN) July 19, 2018
Last week House Democrats called for $1.4 billion in funding for cybersecurity and election security. House Republicans refused to support it. #VoteThemOut https://t.co/BjWROIMcUn
— Swing Left (@swingleft) July 18, 2018
He has said this frequently so I’ll call it a lie – he should know the truth by now.
Clarification: Trump was able to win the election despite losing the popular vote because he clinched narrow wins in key swing states. The Electoral College worked in his favor because it places more weight on swing states and props up smaller states. https://t.co/YVrbEBZJbh
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 17, 2018
update 12/16/18:
NRA spending surged in 2016. And now we have to wonder what kind of influence Russia might have had with the NRA. https://t.co/edmgx2snwM
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 16, 2018
The NRA has more ties to Russian agents than previously known, our latest investigation shows https://t.co/WcQ9cY3MDP
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 17, 2018
The court papers charging Maria Butina with being a Russian agent cite an email in which she says the NRA is “the largest sponsor of the elections to the US congress” https://t.co/Uyjdu56ec3
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 21, 2018
Mariia Butina, a Russian national, has been charged with acting as a surreptitious Russian agent and establishing a secret back channel with the GOP through the NRA.
More likely to come on this; no wonder GOP members of HPSCI refused our request to bring her and others in. https://t.co/UWhoxHz3lr
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 16, 2018
The arrest of Russian National Maria Butina shows at least two things:
1. The Russians used the @NRA to influence US elections. Some questions are did NRA officials know and what did the influence consist of?
2. Another FU to @realDonaldTrump by the US @TheJusticeDept. https://t.co/20rBHujhpA
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 16, 2018
Butina with Jim Porter of the NRA. pic.twitter.com/l6DCK4tcHB
— Justin (@JNova__) July 16, 2018
Wisconsin's Republican Governor @ScottWalker took a boatload of money from a Russian oligarch and affected Maria Butina in a way that will "remain in my memory forever."#GrandOldPutinParty#TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/vVKrC6IAym
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) July 16, 2018
FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson wrote that Butina was attempting to “establish a ‘back channel’ communication for representatives of the Government of Russia.” https://t.co/slReTHs5Eg
— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) July 16, 2018
Here's video we previously uncovered of Trump speaking in 2015 to now indicted Russian national Maria Butina—and telling her that he'd likely drop sanctions against Putin https://t.co/6nJ0YjFGkw
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) July 16, 2018
Why didn't GOP Senators want to question a Russian spy who was trying to establish a back channel with the Kremlin? The American people deserve an answer. https://t.co/d9PcNHXxWX
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 16, 2018
Friends. I have been saying this for awhile. NRA & Russia. NRA ran ads against HRC on Benghazi, not guns, Benghazi. Also @BetoORourke is going to beat @tedcruz (my other favorite hobby horse). https://t.co/NZLJeYjDZ1
— Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) July 16, 2018
WE
TOLD
YOUhttps://t.co/LIppQ1vh2Ohttps://t.co/6yYNrx5PyV
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 16, 2018
A judge decides alleged spy Mariia Butina, also known as Maria, should be held in jail until at least her next court appearance. Her attorney argued the Russian national is not a flight risk. https://t.co/r3fHGKw6Ap pic.twitter.com/uVMBZRlWa1
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 17, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Dana Rohrbacher and Democrat Greg Meeks were the congressional delegation referenced in the charges against alleged Russian spy Maria Butina. https://t.co/7p5IC59gLy
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 17, 2018
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) says he’s not sure whether he’s the congressman mentioned in Monday’s indictment of a Russian gun-rights activist for acting as an unregistered agent of the Kremlin — but he's sure the charge against the woman is “bogus” https://t.co/a9YSEUJ0Tf
— POLITICO (@politico) July 17, 2018
He won’t stick to the real issues so he doesn’t offend his friend Putin. Here’s more on the server issue.
Why Trump's "Where's the server?" is the wrong questionhttps://t.co/iGU8A5ysNB
— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2018
It seems more and more likely that Putin has something on Trump. I can’t explain Trump’s anti-American, pro-Russian behavior otherwise.
It’s also clear Republicans won’t hold him accountable. Sure, a few will issue statements but not will pass bills to keep him in check. Some of the statements don’t even mention Trump by name because the authors are cowards. Trump won’t listen to his own staff or Congress. He’ll listen to Putin.
A fact check of the Trump-Putin news conference https://t.co/HZ49vt8Eaw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 17, 2018
"As he did after white supremacists beat their opponents in Charlottesville, Mr. Trump reached in Helsinki for a kind of moral equivalence."@MarkLandler >https://t.co/F7yW6DTCKe
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) July 16, 2018
This is basically Trump’s Charlottesville speech saga repeated in international relations: everyone told him to criticize one side, every other president would have criticized that one side, instead he improvised criticism of “both sides,” it triggered a rare bipartisan outcry.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2018
And, so far, action by *none* of them.
(Waiting / hoping to be proven wrong about this.) https://t.co/DEuZ5cqjsA
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 16, 2018
"In any other administration, there would be resignations" https://t.co/JhPuXb3YQm
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 16, 2018
The 21 most disturbing lines from Donald Trump's press conference with Vladimir Putin https://t.co/95HnGxJNFi pic.twitter.com/h8t5mc3mNy
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 16, 2018
So sad. These are the heirs to Americans who took on the most powerful King & military in the world to create a country & they don’t have the courage to tell their boss to act like an American. https://t.co/jJKrGOhD71
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 16, 2018
"I just have no words. As press in this room, we are all sitting in here speechless and stunned. Trump cast doubt over the U.S. intelligence community and endorsed Putin’s denial" writes @jonathanvswan from Helsinki https://t.co/Ul4MPunwAS
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) July 16, 2018
The White House had planned for Trump to “push Putin” at today’s presser, thinking any confrontational approach would come as a surprise and “make him look good,” one official said.
“Obviously, it didn’t happen,” the official said. @PeterWSJ https://t.co/YnWAMo4lNE
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) July 16, 2018
His statements—and his loyalties—were crystal clear. Nobody could have misinterpreted how much he sided with Putin over America. https://t.co/3Ld9m1lu6J
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 16, 2018
See the “Behind the scenes” section for White House reaction
A US ambassador tells @eliselabottcnn that “Putin is very happy tonight but we are all in shock.” (The ambassador did not want their country disclosed publicly)
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July 16, 2018
White House officials are openly admitting they don’t know how to respond to questions about President Trump’s press conference. Asked if anyone from the administration will resign over the president’s remarks, a senior White House official quipped, “Good question.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 16, 2018
Corrected? Like Charlottesville? Other than providing cover to Rs, why ask Trump to make a ritualistic apology when it was clear today, as in Charlottesville, that he said exactly what he meant the first time-and it's those sentiments that will govern his behavior going forward? https://t.co/q7huQrtJHj
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 16, 2018
Trump repeats that the Mueller probe is responsible for trouble in the Russian-American relationship, not Russia’s intervention in the election: “The probe is a disaster for our country. It’s kept us separated."
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 16, 2018
Everyone is numb and in shock. We can’t believe what we just witnessed, but for me it’s this simple: The President of the United States openly colluded with Putin to undermine our democracy.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 16, 2018
Even his own crew. https://t.co/al25mIvH5e
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 16, 2018
I guess doing the show and just being honest wasn’t an option. https://t.co/UuinUn8pyW
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 16, 2018
The verdict in Finland pic.twitter.com/qMboN6S2r6
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) July 16, 2018
Here’s how the White House is spinning the Helsinki summit, per talking points sent to Capitol Hill: pic.twitter.com/VWyruOBNIL
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) July 17, 2018
Sad!