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NY Post Editorial: “Donald Trump Jr. Is An Idiot”

Donald Trump Jr.

Whoa.

From the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post:

We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot.

In the heat of your father’s presidential campaign, a bozo British publicist emails you to set up a sit-down with a “Russian government attorney” promising “documents and information” to “incriminate Hillary” courtesy of the “Crown prosecutor of Russia” as “part of” the Russian government’s “support” for Dad — and you eagerly take the meeting.

“If it’s what you say I love it,” wrote Junior. As if the government of former KGB spymaster Vladimir Putin would do anything so clumsy. (Our former colleague Kyle Smith put it nicely: “Don Jr. is why Nigerian email scammers keep trying their luck.”)

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Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. As were Junior’s shifting, incomplete accounts of the meeting under days of Times questioning.

Democrats and the media are frothing to find something criminal in it all, with the most unhinged talking treason. What it clearly was was criminally stupid.

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Stephen Colbert Connects The Dots In Trump Jr.’s RussiaGate Scandal

Utilizing The Late Show‘s “weapon of mass clarification, the Figure-It-Out-a-Tron, Stephen Colbert connects the dots of the current Donald Trump Jr. RussiaGate revelations.

How are former campaign aide Carter Page, former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “Russian government attorney” Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, his billionaire dad Aras Agalarov, and Russian President Putin connected?

Colbert shows you in this concise, clearly understandable visual. Watch below.

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Trump Tweets He’s Not Watching TV After Watching Reporter On TV Say He’s Watching A Lot Of TV

At 9:09 AM this morning on MSNBC, the Washington Post‘s Philip Rucker reported that President Trump has been watching a lot of TV news the last few days to take in scandal coverage.

At 9:39 AM, Trump tweeted this:

But he’s not watching TV…

Right.

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News Round-Up: July 11, 2017

Wayne Skivington (via Instagram)

Some news items you may have missed:

• Cirque du Soleil Zumanity performer & super-dad Wayne Skivington (above) gets his workout on with his adorable son.

• Vice President Pence is putting some space between himself and Donald Trump Jr.:”The Vice President was not aware of the meeting. He is not focused on stories about the campaign, particularly stories about the time before he joined the ticket.”

• Nearly two-thirds of American LGBTs feel less safe under President Trump.

• A much-rumored reboot of the Showtime series The L Word is officially in the works.

• True Blood star Nelsan Ellis died of heart failure due to alcohol withdrawal complications, and his family wants folks to know in an effort to save others.

• You have to stop, drop and scroll down to watch this awesome father of a 14-year-old transgender boy, Ashur, in Texas.

Ken Ballard speaks movingly about his son who has attempted suicide twice while coming to terms with being transgender and the anxiety about telling his parents and being accepted. Fortunately, Ashur is now living his authentic self and his parents love him unconditionally.

“I would rather have my son be alive than bury my daughter,” says Ken.

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President Trump: “My Son Is A High-Quality Person”

Donald Trump Jr.

In the aftermath of revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian attorney expecting “incriminating” information about Hillary Clinton at the height of the presidential campaign, President Trump issued this statement in defense of his eldest son:

“My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency.”

Note regarding “transparency” – Trump Jr. only released his emails because he was made aware the New York Times had the emails and was about to release them.

President Trump didn’t tweet or say this statement himself but had it read to reporters by White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders during an off-camera briefing.

Sanders followed up the president’s statement by informing reporters they need to refer further questions about Junior to his newly-hired lawyer.

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Out Athlete Simon Dunn: LGBT Community Is “Selfish” To Want Athletes To Come Out

Simon Dunn (via Instagram)

Speaking to the London Evening Standard, retired out Olympic bobsledder Simon Dunn says it’s “selfish” for the LGBT community to want LGBT athletes to come out.

“Everybody’s coming out is personal and in their own time. It is selfish for our community to expect someone to do it because of their public profile. Given the sporting culture, coming out could seriously affect their career.

I myself was already out when I joined the Australian [bobsleigh] team, but from my own experiences I can understand why someone wouldn’t come out, let alone someone earning and risking millions of pounds.”

I wasn’t exactly welcome within my team growing up. It’s not the easiest road to take.

And also growing up I’d learnt to believe gay men have no place in the sporting world and it took me a very long time to dispel those beliefs.”

The 29-year-old Australian was the first out athlete to represent his country at the Olympics.

Since retiring from bobsleigh, he has moved to London where he plays amateur rugby with the LGBT-inclusive team, the King’s Cross Steelers.

Despite Dunn’s concerns, several athletes including UK Olympic diver Tom Daley, Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy and rugby league player Keegan Hirst have all come out in recent years and seen no discernible impact on their careers.

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Human Rights Campaign Launches $26 Million “HRC Rising” To Combat Trump/Pence Agenda

The Human Rights Campaign has announced the launch of HRC Rising, a $26 million investment in opposing the Trump/Pence agenda:

HRC President Chad Griffin announced the organization would be going on offense with an investment of $26 million coast-to-coast: “It’s not enough to resist the hateful policies and attacks coming from the Trump-Pence regime — we’ve got to accelerate the pace of progress toward full equality and secure protections for LGBTQ people in states and communities across the country.”

In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, HRC will make an especially strong, early push to organize against the Trump-Pence agenda and support pro-equality candidates in coming elections. Staff and volunteers will work with state and local organizations and partners in coalition to bolster efforts to advance equality, defend the LGBTQ community against attacks, and deliver wins for pro-equality candidates in order to lay the groundwork for future legislative victories.

More info about HRC Rising here.

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Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Email Chain With “Russian Government Attorney” Promising Dirt On Hillary

Donald Trump Jr.

Holy collusion, Batman!

After being told that the New York Times had his emails and were preparing to release them, he jumped and released himself.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out what he says constitutes the email exchanges involved in his June 9, 2016, meeting with a “Russian government attorney” that promised to provide incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.

In other words, Junior attended a meeting that he was told would be with a Russian operative who was offering dirt on his dad’s opponent.

From the New York Times:

The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The documents “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father,” read the email, written by a trusted intermediary, who added, “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

If the future president’s elder son was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of a continuing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign — he gave no indication.

He replied within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”

Four days later, after a flurry of emails, the intermediary wrote back, proposing a meeting in New York on Thursday with a “Russian government attorney.”

Donald Trump Jr. agreed, adding that he would most likely bring along “Paul Manafort (campaign boss)” and “my brother-in-law,” Jared Kushner, now one of the president’s closest White House advisers.

On June 9, the Russian lawyer was sitting in the younger Mr. Trump’s office on the 25th floor of Trump Tower, just one level below the office of the future president.

The emails reference “the crown prosecutor of Russia.” The NY Times clarifies:

There is no such title as crown prosecutor in Russia — the Crown Prosecution Service is a British term — but the equivalent in Russia is the prosecutor general of Russia.

That office is held by Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, a Putin appointee who is known to be close to Ms. Veselnitskaya.

Natalia Veselnitskaya was the Russian attorney Junior, Manafort and Kushner met with on June 6, 2016.

Below are the images of emails the Don Jr. tweeted out today. Click the images to enlarge.