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Trump Ordered White House Lawyer To Convince AG Jeff Sessions From Recusing Himself From Russian Probe

Without a doubt, this revelation moves the Trump White House closer and closer to a charge of obstruction of justice.

Trump wanted an Attorney General who would “protect” him.

Why would an innocent person need to be protected?

From The New York Times:

President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House’s top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s associates had helped a Russian campaign to disrupt the 2016 election.

Public pressure was building for Mr. Sessions, who had been a senior member of the Trump campaign, to step aside. But the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, carried out the president’s orders and lobbied Mr. Sessions to remain in charge of the inquiry, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him. Mr. Trump said he had expected his top law enforcement official to safeguard him the way he believed Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general, had done for his brother John F. Kennedy and Eric H. Holder Jr. had for Barack Obama.

Mr. Trump then asked, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” He was referring to his former personal lawyer and fixer, who had been Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top aide during the investigations into communist activity in the 1950s and died in 1986.

The report goes on to say that just days before FBI Director James Comey was fired, aides for Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked congressional staffers if they had dirt on Comey. Clearly, there was a thought to try and smear the FBI director.

The extremely-nonpartisan Associated Press has now corroborated this story.

Not to be heavyhanded but it bears repeating – the Attorney General does not serve to protect the president.

It is the Attorney General’s job to enforce the laws of the United States.

There’s irony in Trump’s call for his own “Roy Cohn” given Trump’s own disloyalty to the infamous attorney once he was diagnosed with AIDS.

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Donald “I Have The Best Words” Trump: I Don’t Talk To Steve Bannon – “That’s Just A Misnomer”

Donald “I Have The Best Words” Trump told reporters today that he no longer talks to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“I don’t talk to him. I don’t talk to him. That’s just a misnomer,” Trump told the press during a meeting with Republican senators at the White House.

Dictionary’s twitter account got sassy:

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Ellen DeGeneres To Eric Trump: I Don’t Have Time For ‘Deep State’ With My Gay Agenda Meetings

Ellen DeGeneres was recently surprised to see her name was trending on Twitter and, unfortunately, it wasn’t because of her new game show “Ellen’s Game of Games.”

No, it was due to Eric Trump – officially the dumbest Trump – pondering if Ellen was a member of the political conspiracy known as the “Deep State.”

Ellen addressed Eric’s concerns in her monologue today after first trying to figure out who Eric is (“Which one is Eric? Did he kill the elephant or the cheetah?”).

“I just wanna say, Eric, I am honored that you think that I’m powerful enough to be part of a government conspiracy,” said Ellen. “I am sorry to disappoint you, I am not part of the Deep State. Even if somebody wanted me to be involved, I don’t have that kind of time. I’ve got my gay agenda meetings on Mondays. I’ve got on Wednesday Beyoncé and I host an illuminati brunch. And then Portia and I on the weekends are desperately trying to have a baby so I can’t. I don’t have time.”

DeGeneres did, however, point to the most logical cause as to why she would show up in Eric’s Twitter feed:

“It could be a conspiracy or it could be because your sister Ivanka follows me on Twitter, and your sister Tiffany follows me on Twitter, and maybe you should follow me,” she said. “I mean, because I post a lot of cute videos.”

Watch below.

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Report: Serious Concern Inside The White House For Trump’s Mental Capacity

Michael Wolff, author of the upcoming Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, has penned a new column for The Hollywood Reporter today sharing more insight from his book set for a January 9 release.

Just a snack from the tasty piece:

There was, after the abrupt Scaramucci meltdown, hardly any effort inside the West Wing to disguise the sense of ludicrousness and anger felt by every member of the senior staff toward Trump’s family and Trump himself. It became almost a kind of competition to demystify Trump. For Rex Tillerson, he was a moron. For Gary Cohn, he was dumb as shit. For H.R. McMaster, he was a hopeless idiot. For Steve Bannon, he had lost his mind.

Everybody was painfully aware of the increasing pace of his repetitions. It used to be inside of 30 minutes he’d repeat, word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories — now it was within 10 minutes. Indeed, many of his tweets were the product of his repetitions — he just couldn’t stop saying something.

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Steve Bannon was openly handicapping a 33.3 percent chance of impeachment, a 33.3 percent chance of resignation in the shadow of the 25th amendment and a 33.3 percent chance that he might limp to the finish line on the strength of liberal arrogance and weakness.

Donald Trump’s small staff of factotums, advisors and family began, on Jan. 20, 2017, an experience that none of them, by any right or logic, thought they would — or, in many cases, should — have, being part of a Trump presidency. Hoping for the best, with their personal futures as well as the country’s future depending on it, my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all — 100 percent — came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.

At Mar-a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made-up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.

While most folks are focused on the wild and wacky doings at the White House, I think the most worrisome information coming from the book is that everyone around Trump knows he’s unfit for the presidency.

Another new revelation in the book: Mark Corallo, spokesman for Trump’s lawyers, quit his job telling friends privately that the discussion he witnessed on Air Force One as Team Trump figured out a response to the news that Don Jr. had hosted a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian government attorney constituted obstruction of justice.

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Trump Attempts To Block Publication Of Behind-The-Scenes White House Exposé

It comes as no surprise that Donald Trump is attempting to block the publication of the explosive, upcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by journalist Michael Wolff.

From The Washington Post:

The legal notice — addressed to author Michael Wolff and the president of the book’s publisher — said Trump’s lawyers were pursuing possible charges including libel in connection with the forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

The letter by Beverly Hills-based attorney Charles J. Harder demanded the publisher, Henry Holt and Co., “immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book” or excerpts and summaries of its contents. The lawyers also seek a full copy of the book as part of their investigation.

The latest twist in the showdown came after lawyers accused Bannon of breaching a confidentiality agreement and Trump denounced his former aide as a self-aggrandizing political charlatan who has “lost his mind.”

It’s worth noting that Wolff has already made public he has hours and hours of recorded interviews with the folks he interviewed including Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.

Trump has also reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to his former chief strategist Steve Bannon in regard to numerous inflammatory statements he made to Wolff in the book. Trump claims Bannon breached a nondisclosure agreement in speaking with Wolff.

I’ve already ordered my copy of the book due out January 9.

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News Round-Up: January 3, 2018

Some news items you might have missed:

• Actor and fitness model Lony Pizarro (above) proves not every shirtless pic happens at the beach or in a bathroom 🙂

• Looks like actress Ellen Page and gf Emm Portner heard some wedding bells recently. #Congrats

• Kenneth-in-the-212’s “Wrestle Wednesdays” are plenty reason to get through the week 😉

• The ISIS executioner who beheaded gay men has been captured in Iraq

• Eric Trump, attempting to retake the mantle of “Dumbest Trump,” accused out talk show host Ellen DeGeneres of being a part of the “Deep State” conspiracy. You know, that “Deep State” thing about elected government officials – which Ellen is not…?

• A gay couple in Houston was kicked out of their Uber at 4AM by their driver after exchanging a sweet kiss.

• It’s no wonder the guys over at NewNowNext are suddenly rugby fans. Who knew sports could be so much fun?

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Tweet Of The Day

Openly gay Virginia weatherman Blaine Stewart had a little fun with his forecast last night as the east coast prepped for a huge snow dump coming their way.

Check out his tweet above as he gets a bit cheeky about the number of inches folks were about to receive.

Stewart later rethought his tweet and deleted it, but of course, nothing on the internet ever truly disappears 🙂

(h/t Instinct)

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“Will & Grace” Find Themselves Dating The Same Man In New Episode

Other than a so-so holiday episode, NBC’s Will & Grace has been on hiatus since early November.

But this Thursday the sitcom makes its return as Will and Grace find themselves dating the same man!

And just to make things even more fun, the object of their affection is played by Nick Offerman – Megan Mullally’s real-life husband.

Watch the teaser below and make sure to tune in this Thursday at 8PM on NBC.

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White House: Steve Bannon “Not Only Lost His Job, He Lost His Mind”

File this under “Infighting is funny.”

The White House has quickly issued this statement regarding Steve Bannon’s quoted statements in Michael Wolff’s upcoming behind-the-scenes look at the Trump presidency, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

From the parody Twitter account of “President Bannon:”