Geoffrey Berman, the US Atty who signed off on the Michael Cohen search warrants, is:
* A Republican
* A
@realdonaldtrump
appointee
* A max individual donor to Trump's '16 general election campaign
* A former Rudy Giuliani law partner
Since
@realdonaldtrump
today returned to mocking John Kerry's 2015 bike accident, a reminder:
* 10/1968: Trump's purported bone spurs result in Vietnam medical deferment
* 1/1969: Kerry involved in multiple fire fights in Mekong Delta. Is unofficially credited with 20 enemy kills
Paul Newman was born on this day in 1925. We once FOIA'd his military records and got back this magnificent portrait taken after the future star joined the Navy in 1943. He was 19.
The masked "Umbrella Man" who instigated a wave of violence in Minneapolis following George Floyd's killing has been identified by cops as Mitchell Wesley Carlson, a 32-y-o member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang (and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys prison gang)
In hour-long flogging, federal judge excoriates “copyright troll” lawyer Richard Liebowitz as inveterate liar who sought to “intentionally deceive the court”
Our annual reminder that
@realdonaldtrump
, billionaire son of New York City, donated NOTHING to 9/11 charities formed to aid the families of fallen cops, firefighters, and other rescue workers. Yes,
#NeverForget
Cops: Gunman pointed 9mm pistol at victims after being called a "denim chicken" Fans of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" explode with laughter cc:
@RMcElhenney
@GlennHowerton
@FeitsBarstool
For some reason,
@realdonaldtrump
today again claimed his father was born in Germany. Fred Trump was born on October 11, 1905 in his family's apartment at 539 East 177 Street in the Bronx:
Thank God these private equity guys, lawyers, and assorted tycoons limit their criminality to college admission schemes. Imagine if such illegality spilled over into the business world.
The Parnas/Fruman indictment makes clear that the feds have monitored their communications dating back to mid-2018. So those conspirators "known and unknown" should be worried.
Stone paid Davis--a two-time felon--$7000 via "Stop the Steal," his shady 527 group. Mueller & Co. have been following the $$ spent by this org and Stone’s super PAC (both of which are now defunct)...
Mueller & Co. investigated for 675 days and could not reach a legal conclusion re: Trump and obstruction. But AG Barr and his team took less than 48 hours to determine that the evidence gathered was not sufficient to establish that Trump committed a crime? Yeah, makes sense.
While only his wife, Felicity Huffman, was charged today, actor William H. Macy sure seems to have known about the plot to cheat his kids into college
#Shameless
@JasonLeopold
FYI: The Smoking Gun obtained/unearthed the Trump FBI memo from a source, not via FOIA. It was posted to TSG in May 1997, one month after the site's launch.
You could look it up:
Carlson's rap sheet includes arrests for disorderly conduct, domestic assault, making terroristic threats, and fleeing police. He is pictured below in a mug shot and a photo taken in late-June
.
@realdonaldtrump
says: "Study the late Joseph McCarthy, because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby! Rigged Witch Hunt!"
We're the "U.S. reporter" referenced in para 45b of new Russian hacking indictment. "Victim 1" is former Clinton campaign worker Sarah Hamilton. We first exposed the Guccifer 2.0/DC Leaks connection on 8/12/16:
Like
@realDonaldTrump
says, these L.A. homeless encampments are out of control. Oops, sorry, this is actually a photo of just some of the trash left behind by Trump fans who attended last night’s rally in N.J.
Questioning Liebowitz’s “fitness to practice,” Judge Cathy Seibel announced this AM she has referred his actions to the Grievance Committee for review and possible professional sanctions
It's a safe bet that Freidman flipped months ago and provided some of that sweet probable cause that helped secure the various Michael Cohen search warrants...
The Taxi King flips. Michael Cohen’s business partner avoids large tax penalties and prison time by agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors targeting Cohen.
.
@TheNotoriousMMA
was arrested today on strong-armed robbery and criminal mischief charges for allegedly smashing a fan's phone outside a Miami Beach hotel. Here's his mug shot just snapped at the Miami-Dade jail⬇️
One day, you're sitting with your feet up on a desk in Nancy Pelosi's office. Next day, you're behind bars in an Arkansas county jail facing federal felony charges. Yes, insurrectionist Richard Barnett fucked around & found out