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Trump’s Longtime Personal Lawyer Admits To Paying Porn Star $130,000

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and porn accountant, Michael Cohen

Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and go-to “fix-it” guy, said on Tuesday that he personally paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn star Stormy Daniels who had claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump.

What a mensch. He pays his buddy/client’s prostitution bill just to be nice.

From The New York Times:

In the most detailed explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, Mr. Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said he was not reimbursed for the payment.

“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement to The New York Times. “The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone.”

He declined to answer several follow-up questions, including whether Mr. Trump had been aware that Mr. Cohen made the payment, why he made the payment or whether he had made similar payments to other people over the years.

Mr. Cohen has previously said that Mr. Trump has denied an affair with Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels. She has said the affair took place soon after Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, gave birth to the couple’s son, Barron.

Note that there was no reason given as to why Cohen wrote the $130,000 check.

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Vice President Mike Pence’s Bold-Faced Lie On Military Pay During #TrumpShutdown

Check out Vice President Mike Pence’s bold-faced lie speaking to US troops in Syria today.

“I’m sure you’re all aware of what’s happening in Washington, D.C. Despite bipartisan support for a budget resolution, a minority in the Senate has decided to play politics with military pay. But you deserve better.

“You and your families shouldn’t have to worry for one minute about whether you’re going to get paid as you serve in the uniform of the United States. The President, the Vice President, and the American people are not going to put up with it.”

During her time on the Senate floor yesterday, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri specifically introduced a measure to ensure payment to military service members during the shutdown.

GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shut it down with his own objection on record.

Let’s go to the video tape.

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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Report: Donald Trump Personally Ordered Bannon To Curtail His House Intel Committee Testimony

Donald Trump (L), Steve Bannon (R)

According to Foreign Policy, Donald Trump himself ordered Steve Bannon to refuse to answer questions before a House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday:

Trump acted to limit Bannon’s testimony based on legal advice provided by Uttam Dhillon, a deputy White House counsel, who concluded that the administration might have legitimate executive privilege claims to restrict testimony by Bannon and other current and former aides to the president, according to these same sources.

But Dhillon has also concluded that Bannon and other current and former Trump administration officials do not have legitimate claims to executive privilege when it comes to providing information or testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller, according to the sources.

Personally, I’m not sure executive privilege really applies to any questions from the campaign or the transition period after the election since Trump was not president yet. If you’re not the “executive,” then you have no executive privilege.

Several outlets have reported that Bannon has agreed to be open and transparent with Robert Mueller’s investigators in exchange for avoiding testimony before a grand jury.

We shall see…

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Donald Trump Cracks The 2,000 Mark In Terms Of Lies/Misleading Statements In One Year

Ding, ding, ding – in just under a year Donald Trump has managed to tell over 2,000 false or misleading claims to the American people.

You know how the Trumpster loves to hear he’s broken records 😉

The Washington Post has been tracking his progress from Day One in the White House:

With just 10 days before he finishes his first year as president, Trump has made 2,001 false or misleading claims in 355 days, according to our database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. That’s an average of more than 5.6 claims a day.

When we started this project, originally aimed at the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. At that pace, it appeared unlikely the president would break 2,000 in a year. But the longer the president has been in the job, the more frequently he touts an assortment of exaggerated, dubious or false claims. (Our full interactive graphic can be found here.)

As regular readers know, the president has a tendency to repeat himself — often. There are now nearly 70 claims that he has repeated three or more times.

Check out this video for Trump’s Top 10 Lies.

Much more at the WaPo.

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White House: Trump’s Round Of Golf Are “Relationship Building” Time To Further His Agenda

Even though he’s played more golf in his first year than any other president, it’s the White House spin that Donald Trump’s time on the golf course has been valuable for “relationship building.”

Reporter: “Can you tell me the biggest single thing the president has accomplished for the American people during his time on the golf course?”

Sarah Sanders: “Developing deeper and better relationships with members of Congress”

I wonder how long it took the geniuses in the press office to think that up?

According to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it’s really only the press that has an issue with his 91 golf trips.

When asked about the transparency issue of non-confirmation of rounds of golf, Sanders pivoted back to the predictable claim that Trump enjoyed one of the “most successful first years in office” of any president.

I’m guessing that’s kinda like “passing the most legislation” since Truman lie?

Watch below.

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Liar: Trump Boasts “Most Bills Signed Into Law” By First Year President, Actually Lags Behind Modern Presidents

For weeks now, Donald Trump has bragged that he has signed more bills into law of any president in modern times, going back as far as Eisenhower.

But the fact is Trump has signed the fewest bills into law by this point in any modern president’s first year.

The President sits in last place with 96 bills signed into law by his 343rd day in office (today).

That’s 25 fewer than President Obama, 6 fewer than President George W. Bush and not even half as many as presidents Bill Clinton (208):

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NBC News Fact-Checks Donald Trump’s Biggest Lies Of 2017

God love NBC News who fact-checks Donald Trump’s “biggest falsehoods and lies” of 2017 in this minute and a half video.

I love that the tweet ends “so far…”

It was a tough job, don’t you know? How to choose which lies to feature – there were so many.

Watch below.

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US Ambassador To Netherlands Lies To Reporter About Something He Said On Video 15 Seconds Earlier

Donald Trump’s newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands turns in a truly farcical performance here as he flip-flops within seconds on his own statements on camera.

A reporter asked Ambassador Pete Hoekstra about comments he made ON THE RECORD regarding conditions in the Netherlands like ‘no-go’ zones in the Netherlands, and cars and politicians being burned.

Hoekstra demonstrably denies ever saying these things, calling the very idea ‘fake news.’

Then the reporter shows video of Hoekstra saying exactly that.

Err, umm, what had had happened was…

Hoekstra then says he didn’t call those statements ‘fake news’ – just minutes after saying those exact words.

I think the technical term here is called “stepping on your own dick.”

Another winning choice by Donald Trump.

p.s. Hoekstra just happens to be anti-LGBT, btw…

Watch below.

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Trump Announces Full Day Of “Meetings And Working The Phones;” Soon After Arrives At Trump Golf Course

Donald Trump hates for people to think he plays golf instead of working as our president.

The fact of the matter is Trump has now spent 77 days since taking office playing golf.

Which explains why there was a little waffling on Trump’s schedule for today per the White House.

At 6:51AM, the White House staff told the press pool that this would be a “low-key” day.

But just minutes later, clearly Trump didn’t like the message that sent, the WH staff corrected that statement saying “the press” would have a low-key day, but the Trumpster would have a “full schedule of meetings and phone calls.”

Trump even tweeted it out for the world to see.

But at 9:26AM Trump arrived at Trump International Golf Club in Florida to play golf.

As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t have a problem with a president playing golf occasionally.

But Trump spent much of the past 8 years criticizing President Obama for playing golf EVER.

And, on the campaign trail, Trump often told his followers there wouldn’t be time for golf because he’d be so busy working on behalf of the American people.

Hypocrisy is so confusing, isn’t it?

The Washington Post has composed this handy-dandy graphic showing when and where Trump visited his properties and golf courses.

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Corey Lewandoski: My Memory Has Been ‘Refreshed’ Regarding Russia Emails From Carter Page

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who months ago claimed he’d never met campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, now says his memory has been “refreshed” about knowing Page.

Via Politico:

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of their ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked he former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.

During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, Lewandowski maintained that he scarcely knew Page, whom he described as a “low-level volunteer” in the Trump campaign.

“To the best of my recollection, I don’t know Carter Page. To the best of my knowledge, Carter Page … had no formal role in the campaign,” Lewandowski said. The former Trump campaign manager had similarly told Fox News in March that he “never met Carter Page.”

Lewandowski, who’d previously rebuffed questions about whether he knew of Page’s planned Moscow trip, acknowledged after being challenged that he had been aware and had communicated with Page about the trip.

“My memory has been refreshed,” Lewandowski said, while noting that the exchange came just prior to him exiting the campaign and so “there were many other things on my mind.”